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Aug 03, 2011

Shanti rated it:

I have a weakness for bookstores. I like to judge a book by the cover and the first two pages. Had I judged one of my favorite books, Of Human Bondage, by the first 100 pages, I’d never have gotten through. It was the raving review of the friend who loaned it to me that helped me persevere.

In SFO airport, I stopped by the bookstore before heading to security check. I had an itch to spend $15 I suppose. I picked up this book Skinny Bitch and thought it had to be the most extreme attit More...

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Jan 27, 2008

Michelle rated it:

I only read this book(or tried to read this book) because my best friend said it was AMAZING! I can't even begin to tell you how wrong she was. This book represents all that is wrong in the world of food. These two authors aren't teaching you how to eat right, they are teaching you to be anorexic (If you look at the sample menus they equate to aprroximately 700 calories/day-that is ridiculous!). The only reason this book got so much press was because Posh was photographed carrying it. The s More...

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Dec 27, 2007

Kristin added it

my lovely, trim, glamorous little sister received this book as a Christmas gift this year. its suspicious cover and title got the better of me, and i tore through the text in no more than two hours and needing a paper bag to breathe into. it was almost exactly what i expected. the emotionally and mentally abusive text - replete with cussing and pejoratives at least 4x per page - is nothing more than an obvious promotion of veganism. while i haven't anything against choosing to eat however one wo More...

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Jan 11, 2008

Jamie rated it:

I think I liked French Women Don't Get Fat, better, simply because I'm not sure I would like either of these girls. Granted, I'm already not a meat-eater, and they do bring about some interesting points, etc. I would LOVE to stop wearing leather and drinking milk, eating butter and cheese, I even tried, inspired by this book (not to stop wearing leather, baby steps...)but to be vegan. Here's what I found: I'd rather not eat. Ie: I'd rather starve myself. I never felt full, and, unless I had More...

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Nov 25, 2007

Kim rated it:

Brilliant marketing. I don't exactly know what compelled me to buy this book, since I don't diet and I don't read chick lit. (Some reviewers surmise from the book's cover and sassy tone that Skinny Bitch is targeted to a chick lit market.) I kept seeing the book on forays to Borders, where I seek periodic respite from my high-decibel children and ideas for coping more gracefully when I'm back in the fray. When I picked it up one evening and opened it to a section on aspartame (a vice I have sinc More...

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Dec 23, 2008

Sam rated it:

I began reading this for a bookgroup and stopped half-way through. It's complete crap. I've been vegetarian for years and know a lot about where my food comes from. These women's assertations are not only wrong in many instances but they are inconsistent and absurd. They are strongly against the eating of meat or processed foods. However, they strongly advocate the "fake meat" products available which ARE a highly processed food. This book is pop culture at its worst and has nothing to More...

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Dec 02, 2007

Kelly rated it:

This book provides an excellent representation of the problems with American culture convincing women to declare war on their bodies. Chapter 1: "Healthy =skinny. Unhealthy = fat." No, I don't think that obesity is acceptable, but at 5' 10" women should weigh more than 120 lbs if they want to be considered healthy. And one of these authors has a degree in Holistic Nutrition? Oh wait, they're both models.
There are a few valuable facts, but you have to dig them out from More...

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Mar 12, 2008

Bells added it

back away from the ice cream! Drop your hands and move away from the "moose knuckle bear fudge" !! I repeat, BACK THE HELL OFF!

HEY! Put down that second bag of chips! You don't need it! Hell, you didn't need the first bag, either. Let's go for a nice brisk walk, eh?

Do NOT stop at the drive thru! All Ronald McDonald wants to give you is a huge crapper and maybe a nice "Cardiac Surprise"! Step on the gas, bitch! Be gone!

I imagine this book to More...

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Oct 21, 2008

Sarah rated it:

One of my best friends went vegan after reading this book, so I wanted to give it a look. (As you'll see, I don't like this book, but her successful lifestyle change is a real inspiration nonetheless.) While there are a lot of good arguments for going vegan, and while many of those arguments appear in this book, I couldn't connect with this narrative for several reasons. First, the loose, general use of the word "farmer" as part of the corporate machine keeping poison in our food was o More...

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Oct 18, 2009

Kathrynn rated it:

Funny, at first. I took the crass method of delivery to be humorous, in-your-face, no-holds-barred satire. The writing style reminded me of the website "Smart Bitches Love Trashy Books." The authors' outline ingredients--approved by the FDA--in our food that are known (KNOWN!) to be bad for us. Case in point, Aspartame--the sweetener in some diet sodas--turns into formaldehyde inside our bodies. How gross is that? Did you know Aspartame was denied approval 8 times? Founder of As More...

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May 24, 2008

Alexandra rated it:

This book changed my life. I was a vegetarian before I read it, and it made me understand my body and the vitamins and nutrients that I need to function. It is loaded with motivation and information. Anyone who wants to sit around bitching about the "language" ..is a complete moron. I mean, really? Why would you pick up a book titled "skinny bitch"...and then complain about the language?...

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Jul 02, 2008

Elyssa rated it:

I want to give this book 2.5 stars because I had an equal love/hate relationship with it. Let me start by saying that I was VERY resistant to reading this book. For one thing, I found (and still find) the title to be really offensive. Since I am interested in health and wellness and so many people in my family and workplace recommended it, I gave it a try.

I'll start with what I liked about it:

1) It's a really quick read and the info is easy to grasp.

2) The au More...

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Sep 15, 2007

Lilly rated it:

"Perhaps you have a lumpy ass because you are preserving your fat cells with diet soda."

"So coffee equals fat cells. P.S. It also makes your breath smell like ass."

"If you'd drag your cankles to a health food store..."

"You want to be a Skinny Bitch, not a scrawny bitch."

What not to love?????

The book sounds brainless (and, let's admit, that's part of what got me to pick it up). On the final pag More...

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Jan 02, 2009

Sarah Dee rated it:

These girls are potty mouths. I'm only barely through Chapter 3 and so far I am very intrigued. These girls know their stuff--it does definitely make you think about what you're eating.

And I LOVE cursing. Here are a few of the sentences I picked up within the first couple of chapters that really caught my attention:

1. Coffee is for pussies.
2. Say goodbye to soda and hello to a sweet ass.
3. In Chapter 11, we provide an "acceptable junk food" l More...

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Dec 12, 2008

Laurie rated it:

This book wasn't written to piss anyone off but boy has it ever. Some people that cling to their beloved meat have written some pretty rotten things about these ladies view. #1 the book doesn't advocate being anorexic or anything of the sort so come on...each days calories are far sufficient! Remember it is a book about health, the calories are going to be less than 3k b/c there are very few woman who need that kind of calorie intake. This diet doesn't condone BK food ok so get with the prog More...

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Nov 10, 2008

Rachel rated it:

Well! I bought this book based on the reviews at amazon.com about a year ago. I wanted to preview it and possibly pass it along to my non-vegan friends if it turned out to be any good. Well, I flipped through it when it got here and was unimpressed and never read it.

Then I saw an article in the PCRM (Physician's Commmittee for Responsible Medicine) magazine, saying that one of the Skinny Bitches was giving talks to White House staffers in Washington, and it really put a favorable sp More...

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Oct 11, 2008

Annalisa rated it:

If I were to write a nutrition book, I would be encouraging without offending. But we all know with diet if you get an inch, you take the excuse and run. We want people to tell us it's ok to be unhealthy. These girls don't excuse anything. They are tough and mean, like drill sergeants ripping away all unhealthy vices, getting you to conform to their health code with fear. And like all good sergeants, they do it with offensive language. They even admit they picked the catchy title to sell books. More...

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Jul 01, 2008

Dawn rated it:

I read this book while sitting at Barnes and Noble (I refuse to buy it because I secretly hate it.) But I went ahead and read it because I had heard a bit about it and I was curious. Then I thought, huh, that's not worth writing a review about. But then I read a bunch of OTHER people's reviews about it, and now I feel like I kind of get it. All these other reviews were like (read in a high-pitched whiny voice): "Wahh, these authors are sneaky because they didn't tellll me it was a book abo More...

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Apr 27, 2008

Janet rated it:

If there was a negative 100 star, I'd give it.

Normally I would never consider even looking at this book much less bringing it home but in a very brief moment of fat induced self loathing (and lack of room on our library shelves) I said, "What the hey?" Miss-Take!!! I knew it would be a bunch of annoying B-S and I think I was mainly interested to see what these two stick figure twits had to say. What a freakin' joke.

If you are a real woman and live in a real More...

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Dec 17, 2009

Kristen rated it:

I picked this up while hanging out at B&N... I was intrigued by the cover and what new crazy "diet plan" these sassy girls had to offer. I figured it would be stupid.

aside from the bad language, this was A GREAT BOOK! I read the whole thing in about 2 hours. I recommend this to anyone trying to get healthier - whether they are looking to be skinny or not!

the chapter on MEAT & treatment of animals made me cry & I am going to be a vegetarian from now on. WHAT? More...

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Oct 13, 2007

Erika rated it:

Shut-up!

Okay there are some interesting and helpful facts, and the tone is sometimes witty, and quite humurous, but their soapboxes are in a height competition with their horses.
And the brash comments... UHHH, a little brashness can be clever and quite amusing, but these skinny bitches are drowning in it.

When I finshed the book I was basically determined never to eat again, and convinced that everything I was doing was ridiculous. (and I am a healthy, thin, consc More...

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Apr 08, 2009

Rita rated it:

Why oh why did I read this book. I read up to 100 pages.. then the book was due and I couldn't renew it. If you want to be a strict vegan and say bye bye to chai, coffee, and wine...then read this book.

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May 23, 2011

April rated it:

Who would have thought these ladies would win me over? I picked up this book a few years ago and was totally turned off. In the first place, the authors - 2 former models - completely talk down to you, calling you a fat pig who has to move your lazy ass. In the second place, their solution for weight loss means going vegan. Two strikes for me.

Now that I have actually gone vegan, I decided to give the popular book another chance. This time, I knew to expect the sass and so it did More...

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Feb 09, 2009

Katie rated it:

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Jan 29, 2008

Jane rated it:

I thought this was going to be a funny satire on how to starve yourself skinny by subsisting on cigarettes and caffeine, a good technique I've used in the past. ha ha. It's actually made me think twice about the food I eat, where it comes from, and the industries that promote those foods. If I had known from the start that it was about vegans, I never would have read this book but I'm glad that I have.

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Jun 23, 2008

Deborah427 rated it:

I picked this book up not knowing what I was in for. Holy moly. There were a few pages I just could not bring myself to read. This book is for anyone who is thinking about becoming a vegetarian, vegan or if you just want to know exactly what is being put in your food. Super quick read. It can be a bit crass, but I do recommend it. You'll be amazed at what these authors dug up.

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Jan 31, 2009

Lisa rated it:

The popularity of this heinous piece of garbage sickens and disheartens me. The fact that the vulgar languange was contrived for shock value to generate sales makes it no less vile. I will say this without any qualification: If you consider yourself a "smart" woman and think this book is funny, helpful, and intelligent, the entire world needs to re-think "smart". It's about as "smart" as a fart in the face.

And their expose of slaughterhouses? Read Temple More...

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May 16, 2009

C.liddelle.a rated it:

So far I love it. It's obvious this book pushes people to be vegan, so of course, like politics you're likely to only hear one side of the story- take it for it's face value.

While I agree that we don't need to eat meat to be healthy, that animal torture is wrong and that dairy consumption is unnatural I don't think that just because someone tells you that, you should believe them. Luckily there are about 20 pages of sources in the back of this book so a smart person would research f More...

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Jun 25, 2010

Beth rated it:

Uh, I don't think so. There is some really great information in this book, but I just cannot endorse a book that tells me that fasting for up to 10 days is a great idea (!), waiting until you are RAVENOUS - not to mention nauseous- is the way to go, and that processed vegan foods are just great. There are a few factual oddities too.

Also, let us not overlook the authors' assumption that if you are overweight, you must have a crappy life, dead-end job, and no man. Ridiculous. The auth More...

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Aug 27, 2010

PlatKat rated it:

Written in a brazenly aggressive tone, this book reads like a mouthy older sister who knows what's good for you and won't shut up until you admit it. The word "bitch" is in the title, so I wasn't surprised to see phrases like "a list that'll make your nipples hard" and "so good your pubes will fall out". In fact, the conversational style made it an exceptionally easy and enjoyable read one Sunday afternoon.

However, writing this way comes with a certain More...

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