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 enlarge | Author: Ellen T. White
Publisher: Running Press
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 10340
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 264
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7 x 1.2
ISBN: 076242673X
Dewey Decimal Number: 305
EAN: 9780762426737
ASIN: 076242673X
Publication Date: December 24, 2007
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 Lush & Lovely ~Simply Irresistible May 29, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Ellen T. White has scored with her lovely book "Simply Irresistible". The 264 page book is both a pleasure to look at and read. White begins by helping the reader identify their inner siren. The classic sirens are: Goddess, Companion, Sex Kitten, Competitor, and Mother. She uses a famous women in history as a case study to illustrate each. Marilyn Monroe, for example, is a classic Sex Kitten. White describes the behavior, clothes, attitude etc. Marilyn used to captivate her male audience that are typical of the "Sex Kitten" siren.
After you have identified your style, White suggests you personalize your style and make it your own. She gives more case studies of women who have magnetized with their unique traits. Tips on putting your best foot forward, building your power base, making yourself so unforgettable....
The allure of many well known and lesser known women throughout history is covered. Jackie Kennedy Onasis, Coco Chanel, Cleopatra, Clare Booth Luce, Zelda Fitzgerald, Camilla Bowles and many others.
Interspersed throughout the book are beautiful photos and illustrations. An index and resource section are included at the back.
Lovely read!
~ Lee Mellott
 Very mixed on this book May 26, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
As a summer read, I can recommend this title. However, in the beginning the author describes the book as her thesis on Sirens. That prepared me to expect a different kind of book, a more academic approach, which it was not.
Some of White's Sirens are favorites of mine: Monroe (in spite of her untimely death), Garbo to name a couple. Some were unknown to me, the French courtesans for example. Still others I had to wonder at her choice such as Edith Piaf who's ending was very sad. I think a Siren is someone who succeeds to the end. It is the men who are dashed upon the rocks by the Siren song not the Sirens. Two that should have been included: Audrey and Katherine Hepburn. I believe the "never complain, never explain" quote belongs to Katherine H. not the Siren White credits.
Writing style: I was disappointed. As the book wore on I became a bit bored. The writing was random, sloppy and didn't have much direction. Her "girlfriend" speak comes off as decidedly not Siren.
To sum up, the subject matter and idea of a book on Sirens is excellent just not executed terribly well by the author. I did enjoy the art. If you don't read it cover to cover like I did it can be entertaining.
 Hmmm was I reading the same book...... May 23, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
as these other reviewers? I was hoping to learn new tricks from this book but it was all basically a rehashing 'people magazine/gossipy style' of the reputations of certain girls-gone-wild women in history. Nothing you haven't already heard about them, also the captions for the pictures were annoyingly corny Mae West type quips, The author separates each femme fatale into her own category of siren which you may or may not agree with,adds 'coulda happened' anecdotes to some lives instead of real facts and just speculates on others. Not a self help book IMHO.
IRRESISTIBLE May 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Fun, entertaining, useful, and full of advice for women who want to maximize their ability to attract and affect men. This book presents accounts of women who learned how to succeed using their unique gifts of persuasion and attraction. The author categorizes and describes the seductress woman as a Companion, Competitor, Goddess, Mother, or Sex Kitten, and says that every woman has an innate ability to affect men if they learn how to develop their own persona and gifts. While being attractive is important, we have other assets to capitalize on, and to be appealing we should follow our passions, develop our talents, live fearlessly, and not be needy. The book goes through the lives of famous women who learned how to get what they want using their own unique seductress persona. Women profiled included Greta Garbo, Coco Chanel, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Nigella Lawson, Angelina Jolie, Marilyn Monroe, Edith Piaf, Lucretia Borgia, Anne Boleyn, Eva Peron, Cleopatra, Camilla Parker Bowles, Catherine the Great, and Queen Elizabeth I. These seductive women are very different from each other, yet they each have certain seductive behaviors that fall into certain categories. This book is funny and inspiring and has some good advice on developing oneself and becoming more attractive and more fulfilled as a person. Another favorite book of mine on getting yourself together is [[ASIN:097974590X THE 3:00 PM SECRET: Live Slim and Strong, Live Your Dreams]] and Five Wishes: How Answering One Simple Question Can Make Your Dreams Come True
An irresistible and empowering book May 14, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Once in awhile a book comes along that empowers you to feel good about yourself, and helps give you that extra nudge that you want to become the person you desire to be. What women does not want to be irresistible to the man of their choice. Through example of life story after life story this book tells many tales of a variety of different women and the power they held over the men that they were with.
You don't have to be the most attractive, the best dressed, or the best anything to hold a man captive. You simply need to promote your best qualities be it a muse, a mother figure, a companion, or even a sex kitten to really attract a man. I like that it is suggested that you really just need to agument the best qualities that you already have and use those to your advantage.
She uses many examples of a variety of different women such as Mata Hari, Queen Elizabeth II, the Duchess of Windsor, Carol Lombard to name just a few. Each of these women are unique, just as each one of are. Through reading this book you will feel that you are unique and a special person completely capable of finding and holding that special person in your life.
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