Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper
Decreed by David Letterman (tongue in cheek) on CBS TV's The Late Show to be the pick of "Dave's Book Club 2006," Candy Girl is the story of a young writer who dared to bare it all as a stripper. At the age of twenty-four, Diablo Cody decided there had to be more to life than typing copy at an ad agency. She soon managed to find inspiration from a most unlikely source-- amateur night at the seedy Skyway Lounge. While she doesn't take home the prize that night, Diablo discovers to her surprise the act of stripping is an absolute thrill.
This is Diablo's captivating fish-out-of-water story of her yearlong walk on the wild side, from quiet gentlemen's clubs to multilevel sex palaces and glassed-in peep shows. In witty prose she gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at this industry through a writer's keen eye, chronicling her descent into the skin trade and the effect it had on her self-image and her relationship with her now husband.
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I wonder how many people went back to read Cody's memoir after seeing Juno. Count me as one.
I enjoyed Juno even with all the goofy language use. But I got real tired of cutesy metaphors and literary "jazz 'ems up". Underneath all of that, it was a decent story about about Cody's year as a stripper. What started out as a whim on Amateur Night become an experiment in the stripper...er, entertainer world.
Cody reccounts the different strippers she meets, the different bars she works at, etc. This was a super quick read and pretty entertaining although her stint at Sex World in the Dollhouse seems a little....disgusting. But hey, that's just me
I enjoyed Juno even with all the goofy language use. But I got real tired of cutesy metaphors and literary "jazz 'ems up". Underneath all of that, it was a decent story about about Cody's year as a stripper. What started out as a whim on Amateur Night become an experiment in the stripper...er, entertainer world.
Cody reccounts the different strippers she meets, the different bars she works at, etc. This was a super quick read and pretty entertaining although her stint at Sex World in the Dollhouse seems a little....disgusting. But hey, that's just me
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