Having It All: Love, Success, Sex, Money Even If You're Starting With Nothing
Author: Helen Gurley Brown
List Price: $15.95
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ISBN: 0671458132
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (September, 1982)
Sales Rank: 729,503
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
A Fantastic Guide to Life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This book is incredible. Reading this book was like talking to my hip girlfriend. HGB writes about finding your path in life. This book is filled with good, solid common sense advice. This is one of those books that you will refer to time & time again!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Impossible to Read
After seeing an entertaining Biography special on Helen Gurley Brown, I thought I'd track down one of her books. Unfortunately, Ms. Brown's overuse of italics and endless sentences make this book tiresome and impossible to read. She has basically sound advice, but finding her pearls of wisdom is like finding a needle in a haystack -- her nonstop jabbering over several hundred pages is a witless mess, rather than a useful guide for the modern woman.
Rating: 5 out of 5
she won't lie to you
Helen Gurley Brown has long been the bane of certain feminists, probably due to a misperception of her intent. Her message is this book is not "find-a-man, find-a-man, find-a-man," but rather "find your life," and make as much of it as you wish. the methods she proposes for carving our that life can be exhausting to contemplate, but they make you feel like you have some control over your own destiny, which is what feminists have been fighting for. so forget that she wears makeup and pretty clothes and diets rigidly, if that bothers you, and focus on the self-determination she espouses instead. great book for when you feel like a rudderless fat slob.
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