Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s "Learned" Hardcover – September 30, 2014
Author: Visit Amazon’s Lena Dunham Page | ISBN: 081299499X
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- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Random House (September 30, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 081299499X
- ISBN-13: 978-0812994995
- Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1.1 x 8.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Before reading this book, I thought Lena Dunham could do no wrong. I love all three seasons of Girls, I’ve bought magazines I’d never previously read simply because she graced their covers, and I’ve read all of her online essays. This book is, however, too much Lena. While there are flashes of brilliance in the book, like the essays on the hard-to-define rape she suffered, the teacher who tried to sexually abuse her, and the struggles she’s had with being taken seriously by male execs in Hollywood, the majority of the book is filled with musings about her life that are simply boring. I get that Lena believes that standing up and telling your story is the bravest thing anyone can do, but your story has to be interesting in order to be worthy of being published. That’s where this book has gone wrong–the publisher clearly thought that anything written by Lena would be lapped up by readers. With each individual essay, her editors clearly didn’t step back and ask, ‘Is this really worth publishing?’. If they had, the book would be about two-thirds shorter.
The title is also misleading, as Lena does not appear to have learned very much, or rather, she doesn’t take much interest in imparting her knowledge to her readers. This book has primarily taught me that Lena Dunham is excruciatingly self-obsessed and lacking virtually any self-awareness. She appears to believe that her musings on virtually anything are nothing short of brilliant, no matter how dull and irrelevant the subject matter. The reprinting of several pages of her food diary is perhaps the best illustration of this –a verbatim regurgitation of what she ate for about a week while she was allegedly on a ‘diet’ (it’s really just a pretty standard day’s eating for most people) is supposed to communicate what exactly?
In an essay collection written by Lena Dunham self-confessional navel-gazing is elevated to a new art form. What other kind of follow- up should we expect from an artist who has made a name for herself by being defiantly naked in her show “Girls,” which is written, produced, and directed by under-30 Dunham? I have never seen more than a few clips from “Girls” and her short film, “Tiny Furniture.”
David Sedaris, one of my favorite writers, recommended her book on his book tour. After reading it, I want a refund.This book’s tittle is ostensibly an ironic nod to Helen Gurley Brown’s “Sex and the Single Girl,” and advice manifesto from Cosmo’s editor, which Dunham mentions as being an oddly inspiring read when she picked up a copy in a secondhand store. Dunham’s essays begin and end with sex. in the middle there is sex, and then sprinkled generously with more sex throughout.
Sex, and heartbreak, and love, and falling for the wrong guy, and breaking up with the wrong guy, and getting dumped by the wrong guy you thought was Mr. Right is something, granted, that most women will relate to. But Dunham seems to wallow in “learning experiences” of the sexual variety with undue delight, and every good, bad, and awful detail of assignations with commentary follows.
Bad sex is bad enough. But rehashing it and giving it a second life is just…eewww. The content of these essays do not make a book, and it should come with a bar of soap because you will feel dirty after reading it.
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