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 enlarge | Author: Diablo Cody
Category: Book
Buy New: $27.93
New (8) Used (10) from $14.04
Avg. Customer Rating:  86 reviews
Sales Rank: 530757
Format: Bargain Price
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.6 x 1
ASIN: B000FZDKNO
Publication Date: December 29, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 I read this in one sitting. January 14, 2006
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
I found Candy Girl at my local Barnes and Nobel and decided to take a look at it. I settled down one of their nice comfy chairs to skim through the book and maybe read a chapter or two.
I read the whole thing without even noticing what I was doing.
Diablo Cody is very, very normal. After moving in with a boyfriend she met on the internet, she gets a very, very normal job. She signs up for amateur night at a strip club, and things go from there. She starts working two jobs -- her normal job and a job as a stripper at Scheik's -- and eventually becomes a full-time stripper.
Cody's writing style makes the book very entertaining. She mentions the World Wide Waste of time (the internet) and porn shui (Having your office arranged so that it's easy to view internet porn undetected). Her descriptions of the customers and other strippers are fantastic. I laughed out loud several times while reading the book.
I highly recommend this book. It's lots of fun.
 Finished it in one setting January 13, 2006
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
At first I was a bit "over detailized" then I was all consumed!! I loved how Cody shared the back rooms of the dives she worked at. I also liked how she shared her interaction with the other strippers! I laughed out loud several times. I have already recommended this book to friends!
a geek girl tries stripping... January 10, 2006
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
she didn't come from a broken family, she wasn't traumatized. she has a good man and is fairly smart. so why did she strip? this book pretty much tells the answer, as cody, took off for a year and decided to appease her curiosity and work in the sex industry...this book is one of the funniest and well-written memoirs ever penned by a sex-industry suvivor ( so much for strippers being bimbos) the only other book i can think of that is as literate as "candy girl" is " highways and dancehalls by diane atkinson;" which the narrator talked as if she got an english degree...
though diablo passes herself as a normal, boring girl, she manages to make the life of a stripper cool. she calls the men out who comes to strip clubs as deviants ( did she really expect them to be gentleman?) and yet, she gets off on being a fantasy object...the charge she gets out of becoming a sex worker crosses over into her personal life, as her ever supportive boyfriend, jonny, stands by her side, never objecting to his woman being a sex object...ms. cody, hold onto that man with two hands....i liked the way she used pop culture references throughout the story. she is supposed to be working on screenplays...she'll probably be very successful at it...there are also many characters worth checking out in "candy girl," notably the guy who likes to lick other john's body fluids in peep show booths...whatever floats your boat... diablo cody does erotic dancers proud...
a trip out Book January 8, 2006
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
from start to finish once you read this book you are gonna be tripping off so many things that went down in the Author's world.very Honest,Funny&striaght to the Point. very good Book.
Simply Awesome January 5, 2006
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book rocked! Diablo had me laughing hysterically, even when my eyes were bugged out over some of the descriptions. Very witty, VERY funny, an awesome read. I highly recommend it!!!
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