by Stephanie Klein
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Marriage fit Stephanie Klein like a glove . . . but unfortunately it fit her husband like a noose. She thought she had the perfect marriage, but just like that, Klein found herself "divorced when you're firm, fashionable, and let's face it—fetching." Celebrated bloggist, photographer, and freelance writer Stephanie Klein lets it all hang out in this juicy tell-all tracing her jump back into single life following her divorce. On the dating advice of her therapist, Klein attempts to keep "a pair and a spare" of men always at hand and has lots of bawdy fun along the way. But when the anniversary of the devastating breakup from her "wasband" forces her to revisit what happened, she finds herself wanting more than her therapist's recommended gimmick to keep her emotionally safe. Straight Up and Dirty demonstrates that the true measure of success isn't what's crossed off life's to-do list. It's having the grace and fortitude to move through change, curls intact and smiling.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Great beach book!, 2008-10-28
Fun witty honest vivid characters... makes it hard to put the book down. I definitely recommend!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 enjoy the blog, enjoy the book . . . and vice versa, 2008-10-19
If you enjoy Stephanie Klein's blog, you'll enjoy her book. She uses the same style of writing in both. Before reading the book, I thought reading an entire novel written in the style of her blog would exhaust me, but it didn't. I like but don't love Klein's blog, and so I liked, but didn't love her book. It was entertaining and refreshingly honest, not just in the stories she told but about her body and mind. However, there were so many words, cute catch phrases, and one-liners possibly thrown in for shock value that sometimes the overall story in the book got a little lost. At times I wondered what exactly the point was. It seemed the book could have ended two or three chapters sooner.
In short, it's a fun story and an easy read and worth the current used price and the day or three it'll take to read.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Utterly Dreadful, 2008-10-15
By the end of this book, I couldn't stand Klein. I've read her blog and she seems likable enough there, but in this book, she whines through every page. Ms. Klein has a unique voice and flair for word crafting, but she needs to apply her talents elsewhere or rework her story so that she doesn't sound like such a sad-sack.
Death, divorce, and disillusionment happen to all of us. We're all victimized at some point in our lives. Good writers tell their stories of hardship without sounding like victims, however. Ms. Klein completely missed that mark, choosing to paint herself as the mildly flawed (but only in the charming ways) heroine who is surrounded by evil people who were out to get her. No wonder this book cost me just a few bucks here on Amazon.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Straight up crap!, 2008-07-13
What a terrible book. Klein's writing is flighty and at times very hard to follow. She tries so hard that she loses the reader. With her stupid abbreviations for words and wandering thoughts, I just couldn't stand it. Save your money.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Very enjoyable..., 2008-06-20
"Straight Up and Dirty" surprised me a bit. From what I'd heard, I was expecting a sex-filled kiss and tell, more Samantha than Bridget Jones. A quote on the back, "Klein found herself 'divorced... firm, fashionable and let's face it, fetching,' " seemed to suggest that the author was confident and man-hungry.
That kind of vanity may make a good tagline, but it is absent from the book overall. In fact I was surprised by both the author's low self-esteem and her lack of dating experience. She doesn't really do a lot of dating in the book, but instead recovers from a divorce, dates the wrong "right" guy, and gains insights through therapy. She was once fat, and has issues about her looks, ethnicity, and body. Although her lifestyle affords her access to posh places and people, she sees herself as an outsider.
The writing at times strains to be clever. Klein's wordplay could use some polish. Describing a pretentious loser at a party: "I'm sorry, since when is Nevis in the same realm as South Beach, and who says insipid? This guy was awkwords." And describing a Southern friend, "She was Austinatious: big jewelry, big breasts, big heart." At other times Klein is nonsensical, with observations like this one, "If Dulce were a scratch and sniff sticker, she'd smell like a birthday cake."
Despite these reservations, I really enjoyed the book. It's a peek into someone else's psyche and has that delicious appeal of window gazing. I don't know that I'm in any rush to read this author again, but I certainly enjoyed "Straight Up and Dirty."
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