How many of you saw 'Juno'? Most of you? Good. Now how many of you liked it? All of you? Very good (don't worry if you didn't - I'll just never talk you again, that's alright, isn't it?). Well, this is by the woman who wrote 'Juno' (her name's Diablo Cody - well, not really, but it's an awesome pen name, don't you think?).
It's actually the first book she wrote, having spent years blogging and working in journalism, and is a memoir of her time as a stripper. Yes, really. She tells us how she went from a copy typist in an advertising agency to a full-time stripper and what it was like.
Quite apart from the voyeuristic thrill of finding out what stripping is like from the stripper's point of view, this is an incredibly readable book in its own right. The way of talking that made Juno herself such an entertaining character clearly owed a lot to Cody's own personality. The book reads rather like Juno has grown up and is telling you how she felt about stripping.
I'm not going to go into gory detail in this review, partly because I don't want to spoil it for you and partly because, well, there might be kids reading this! Shame on you for wanting to hear about what happens in Sexworld and how much hookers earn! If that sentence intrigued you at all, you should definitely read this.
If it didn't - what is wrong with you? Have you no human curiosity? Anyway, you should still read it, because it's fun, cool and occasionally very touching. I wouldn't say I identified with Cody (in fact, we're probably as different as people get), but I did come away with the strong impression that she'd be pretty fun to hang out with.
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