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jenmangler's review against another edition
2.0
The line from this book that made me want to read it: "There is nothing gutsier than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman." I kept coming back to this one line throughout the book.
selfishxromance's review against another edition
4.0
Es un libro fuerte, crudo, no apto para todo el mundo. Igual me encantó porque sentí que me estaba retratando a mi al contar sus memorias, creo que de escribir algo yo, saldría una bizarreara parecida minus la yankeada because argenta pobre 4evur (?)
greta_macionyte's review against another edition
2.0
Lena Dunham geriausiai pažystama yra iš HBO serialo „Girls“. Iš esmės iki šiol nesuprantu jos fenomeno, kodėl visi taip ją giria ir ja žavisi. Galvojau, gal rasiu atsakymo jos autobiografinėje knygoje „Not That Kind of Girl“. Deja, neradau. Geriausiai šią knygą apibūdina internete perskaityta mintis „There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told“. Verčiant puslapius įsivaizdavau, kad jei šią knygą kas nors norėtų paversti scenarijumi, tai būtų vienas tų mono spektaklių kuriuos nuolat matai pašiepiamus, kai atsistoja viena moteris ir 2 valandas pasakoja savo gyvenimo istoriją ir kiekvienas įvykis yra life-changing – su daug pompastikos ir susireikšminimo… Nors L. Dunham knyga parašyta maloniu stiliumi, nemanau, kad jos istorija yra tokia ypatinga, kad turėtų būt perpasakota seriale, knygoje ir dar filmuose. http://www.jauti.lt/tarp-lentynu-v/
shelbymarie516's review against another edition
2.0
I am not sure what I was expecting. She is someone I don't necessarily like but also I don't not like her. I feel like she has been involved it different projects I just never cared to watch. I also think she's got some very open parents which is almost never good. I know everyone wants open minded people but also as a parent you need to show children love, nurture them, and set some boundaries and disciplinary standards. But that may just be my opinion.
I first really knew of her through Taylor Swift. I notice she has had some fluctuation in body image which I respect and understand that struggle. I feel her on the fear that surrounded being a middle schooler and reading about all of the eating disorders and body issues. Glad she talked about all of the foods/medicine/hormone issues that can wreak havoc. and also tonsil stones. (I was grateful this was not like a controlling mother situation with the dieting and exercise and pressure.) She does have good things to say from a world perspective on respecting your body and others. It is interesting how many people use humor as self defense but come to a point after therapy/time that they realize the darkness of things.
Some of these memoirs are truly dark but this was not so heavy. That said she was one that seemed to circulate around sexual experiences and harassment. Is this what it is like to grow up with more self absorbed, artistic parents? Truly grateful for my conservative upbringing when I read these stories.
I do not know how all of these people remember all of their crazy childhood moments. And wild moment, she talked about going to Nature's Classroom and doing the Underground Railroad and I vividly remember also doing this in fifth grade! I am of the opinion that this exercise was a well intention activity to show people how much a slave would risk for freedom. (Keep in mind this was over 15 years ago). #spoondance
I first really knew of her through Taylor Swift. I notice she has had some fluctuation in body image which I respect and understand that struggle. I feel her on the fear that surrounded being a middle schooler and reading about all of the eating disorders and body issues. Glad she talked about all of the foods/medicine/hormone issues that can wreak havoc. and also tonsil stones. (I was grateful this was not like a controlling mother situation with the dieting and exercise and pressure.) She does have good things to say from a world perspective on respecting your body and others. It is interesting how many people use humor as self defense but come to a point after therapy/time that they realize the darkness of things.
Some of these memoirs are truly dark but this was not so heavy. That said she was one that seemed to circulate around sexual experiences and harassment. Is this what it is like to grow up with more self absorbed, artistic parents? Truly grateful for my conservative upbringing when I read these stories.
I do not know how all of these people remember all of their crazy childhood moments. And wild moment, she talked about going to Nature's Classroom and doing the Underground Railroad and I vividly remember also doing this in fifth grade! I am of the opinion that this exercise was a well intention activity to show people how much a slave would risk for freedom. (Keep in mind this was over 15 years ago). #spoondance
rachd24's review against another edition
2.0
I've never seen Girls, and I don't know much about Lena Dunham, but I have heard about this book on the grapevine, and I was drawn in by the title and the blurb. All of that considered, I kind of feel like I was suckered in by false advertising. This book isn't what I was expecting, and I found it to be a pretty disappointing read throughout.
The "lessons" are perhaps just not relevant to me, because I found Dunham to be particularly unrelatable, which is a feat, as this is a work of non-fiction and I would have thought I'd have something to glean from these pages... but nope, not really. If this book were about a fictional character, I'd probably call the narrator unreliable, for the majority of the time I had no idea what the over-arching point of the book was. In fact, I've finished it, and I'm still baffled by what I've just read.
Unless you are a massive Dunham fan, and want to read this to get an insight, of sorts, into her personally, I'd say it's safe to skip this one.
Check out my full review here:
http://confessionsofabookgeek.com/2015/12/13/review-not-that-kind-of-girl/
The "lessons" are perhaps just not relevant to me, because I found Dunham to be particularly unrelatable, which is a feat, as this is a work of non-fiction and I would have thought I'd have something to glean from these pages... but nope, not really. If this book were about a fictional character, I'd probably call the narrator unreliable, for the majority of the time I had no idea what the over-arching point of the book was. In fact, I've finished it, and I'm still baffled by what I've just read.
Unless you are a massive Dunham fan, and want to read this to get an insight, of sorts, into her personally, I'd say it's safe to skip this one.
Check out my full review here:
http://confessionsofabookgeek.com/2015/12/13/review-not-that-kind-of-girl/
codergrl's review against another edition
1.0
Absolutely hated it. Didn't finish it, and never will. I really don't get how this self deprecation can be appealing to anyone. All throughout the first 2 chapters I've managed to force myself through I kept thinking "why would you share that with anyone?".
minusfigures's review against another edition
2.0
I wanted to love this book. Girls is a series that, despite me not being a privileged white New Yorker, I understand. Awkward sexual encounters? Check. Teetering on the edge of adulthood, marking my independence, making my way in the world then running back to mum when it all goes tits up? Check. The preceding happening so often my parents think they've got a six year old again? Double check. Girls feels so real; an existension of Tiny Furniture, which although technically brilliant and subtly introspective is too far removed from my general experiences to really settle in me. But Girls? Woah there. Girls took all the best parts of Tiny Furniture, all the neuroses and mistakes and agonising awkwardness, spread it out amonst a cast of flawed, irresponsible and imperfect characters and hit me straight in the groin with recognition.
So I really wanted to love Not That Kind Of Girl. I was ready. But where Girls met with face on with a kind of honesty that floored me, Not That Kind of Girl felt nauseating. Dunham presents herself as whiney, self absorbed, and painfully oblivious to anything other than herself. Her essays reveal her to be both her biggest champion and her harshest critic and I hated them because where Girls allowed me to sugar coat my feelings of recognition with the characters because they were characters, NTKoG had no room for self denial. Lena Dunham, you are awful and so am I.
So I really wanted to love Not That Kind Of Girl. I was ready. But where Girls met with face on with a kind of honesty that floored me, Not That Kind of Girl felt nauseating. Dunham presents herself as whiney, self absorbed, and painfully oblivious to anything other than herself. Her essays reveal her to be both her biggest champion and her harshest critic and I hated them because where Girls allowed me to sugar coat my feelings of recognition with the characters because they were characters, NTKoG had no room for self denial. Lena Dunham, you are awful and so am I.