- ISBN13: 9780061374005
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Celebrity journalist Amelia Stone is the quintessential Hollywood party girl: she stays out late, rubs shoulders (and occasionally more) with celebrities, and ingests copious amounts of cocaine. But after losing her job, her friends, and much of her mind, Amelia makes the drastic decision to end her drug abuse. Once sober, she’s hired by a big-name magazine to write a column detailing her wild adventures and she starts seeing the man who could be her Mr. Right. … More >>
Party Girl: A Novel
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The worst book I’ve ever read… a cut-rate version of every other drug-induced, self-obsessed rant disguised as a “journey.” Pick up Augusten Burroughs or David Sedaris to read a quality walk down memory lane. This book by clueless David is only good for ripping out a page, rollling it, and doing a line with it. Rating: 1 / 5
Anna David’s novel is like a cross between great chick lit (“Bridget Jones’ Diary” and “Sex in the City”) and tales of addiction (“Permanent Midnight” or the infamous “A Million Little Pieces”).
I got my hands on a preview copy and I found it to be a gripping read, at times lascivious and at times harrowing. Perfect summer book. Rating: 4 / 5
Annas story of Amilia Stone is so real and funny its uncanny. I live in the world she writes about and i can tell you Anna has “got it right”. the only thing she has added is phenomenal humor and a certain kind if insight that i can only describe as philosophically bright. How to be be in it but not of it.
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loves it Rating: 5 / 5
Party Girl is about a 30 year old woman who does a lot of coke. She has two cats who she NEVER calls by name. However, her friend Adam has Doris the dog. Amelia works for a celebrity magazine in between doing her drugs (until she gets fired for doing coke at work). She indulges in a lot of questionable behavior which other people think is fascinating. However, she overdoes it one night and is taken to the hospital, where her loving (but divorced) parents come to the rescue, and her dad immediately pays for her rehab. Rehab is very uneventful, Amelia appears to sail through her 30 days totally taking it all in, and being completely renovated. Although now she and everyone else appear to be constantly smoking. I feel sorry for those poor no-name cats.
She then is paid to write articles about her past party behavior, although the publishers don’t know that it is past. However, she continues to behave in her selfish, self-absorbed manner. Friends point this out to her, and she doesn’t argue, but she doesn’t change either. Amelia relapses, and then quickly has her epiphany to change and everything is then very quickly perfect. She knows now that the reason she did drugs was because of her extreme insecurity, which gave her a sense of entitlement, which led to her drug use and bad behavior. She does not go into any background on the cause of her insecurity, or why insecurity, unquestionably causes, across the board, a sense of entitlement. Nor does she give much info on her 100 page list of people toward which she has resentments. She just writes up her list and looks for her responsibility in the resentment she holds.
The book does not go deep, it’s not fun, it’s not interesting. It’s as though the author only wrote about what she thought superficial party readers wanted to know. Rating: 1 / 5
The way Anna david captures you in her novel/auto is amazing. I originally just bought the book because it was written by her, and it turned out to be a good book to buy. Rating: 5 / 5