Anti-Aging - I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman (Vintage)

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 814.54 EAN: 9780307276827 ISBN: 0307276821 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 160 Publication Date: 2008-04-08 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: 2008-04-08 Studio: Vintage
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: I Feel Bad About My Neck: and other thoughts on being a woman Comment: Excellent book! I got the book and the audio. I started to read the book and it seemed a little slow in capturing my interest... but I was going to read it any way. Then I had to travel so I took the audio... And let me tell you... it was wondrful. You just have to hear her talking. You have to hear her as she expresses herself on each of the issues she talks about. These are issues I and perhaps other women have forgotten about in years but today laugh or cry about. This book has a mixture of humor, aging, comedy; women's health blended in a memoir about Nora Ephron. You can read the book but you don't really know where she would place the pitch, pace and power of her words until you can hear her. Its like having her talk to you herself. Both book and audio are great. I recommend it... especially if you were born from 1950 on and if you have had a chance to either live in New York or just visit it from time to time... you will enjoy it! Customer Rating: Summary: I Feel Bad Abput My Neck Comment: I didn't care for the attitude of book. It was a quick read and I did laugh at some of Ephron's stories but overall it wasn't I book I liked much. Customer Rating: Summary: She Needs To Feel Bad About More Than Her Neck! Comment: She should feel bad about wasting the readers' time with trite drivel. Don't waste your precious time. Customer Rating: Summary: A Quick Read Comment: This book strikes me as "funny but uneven." Its intended audience--and there are many of us--are "women of a certain age." Ephron sets as her target our private thoughts as we watch ourselves age, and some of her observations hit spot-on with her usual delightful humor. It is a short collection (137 pp.) of her essays, originally written as articles for Harper's Bazaar, the New Yorker, O, Vogue, etc. . . . so that's what it reads like. Why I gave the book four stars instead of five is because, in some articles, Ephron's wit seems a little forced or predictable. I like a laugh to sneak up on me, to catch me unawares, but too many times I could see hers coming. Nonetheless, she has some great chapters: about maintenance (when did manicures become indispensible?), failing sight (she can no longer read the telephone book or a restaurant menu), rapture (where she extols the ecstasy of reading), a description of her life in 3,500 words or less (brilliant!), and things she wished that she had known earlier ("if the shoe doesn't fit in the store, it's never going to"). Her last chapter is on death, which the reader is not expecting--but it fits right into her topic and it is a mostly serious and thoughtful piece. She ends that chapter and her book with the single word "goodbye." I hope she doesn't mean it . . . Customer Rating: Summary: I Feel Bad About My Neck Comment: Having a bad day? Need to laugh out loud? Buy this and keep it on hand when you need a smile. Nora's done it again. She's a fine writer, and gets better at humor each time. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself. Ephron chronicles her life as an obsessed cook, passionate city dweller, and hapless parent. But mostly she speaks frankly and uproariously about life as a woman of a certain age. Utterly courageous, uproariously funny, and unexpectedly moving in its truth telling, I Feel Bad About My Neck is a scrumptious, irresistible treat of a book, full of truths, laugh out loud moments that will appeal to readers of all ages.