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But Enough About Me: A Jersey Girl's Unlikely Adventures Among the Absurdly Famous by Jancee Dunn
missmim's review against another edition
4.0
Jancee Dunn is hilarious, and wrote some of my favorite Rolling Stone musician profiles. The tone of this book reminds me a bit of a female David Sedaris, though possibly not quite as kooky and a little more relatable. Recommended for all, especially if you need a good laugh. Dunn's recollections of life as a "rock chick" are just laugh-out-loud funny.
runjuliet's review against another edition
3.0
Jancee Dunn was a writer for Rolling Stone back when I still read it and found it remotely relevant - in high school and college. Now, that kid from High School Musical 2 is on the cover. Anyhoo, I always liked her personable, sincere style on the page and thought she was pretty awesome during her stint as an MTV2 vj.* This book is a coming-of-age memoir of her Jersey adolescence and experiences as a celebrity interviewer. She's immediately endearing and funny, focusing on her quirky, tight-knit family.
She's starts veering off to chick lit land, though, mid-way through. She has a few bad boyfriends while her sisters and friends are getting married and pregnant, and wraps it up with a (re)meeting of THE GUY who offers her a walk home in the rain under his umbrella (cue Hollies song...). A bit cheesy, no? A bit like she might angling for film option, following in the footsteps of fellow RS vet Cameron Crowe? That said, she tempers the rom-com-iness with some insightful self-analysis: she's not the uber-cool rock chick, but a smart-ass dork from central Jersey and she had stop trying to be someone she wasn't. It's as if she finally heeded Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bangs in Crowe's "Almost Famous": [Rock journalists] are uncool.
On the celebrity front, she confirms that Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn are two of the best people still breathing on this planet, and that watching Brad Pitt playing air guitar in his trailer is supremely awkward.
*Remember when MTV had a channel where they showed nothing but music videos and there were no reality shows to be seen? Once it was MTV, then it was MTV2. Will they dare try MTV3?
She's starts veering off to chick lit land, though, mid-way through. She has a few bad boyfriends while her sisters and friends are getting married and pregnant, and wraps it up with a (re)meeting of THE GUY who offers her a walk home in the rain under his umbrella (cue Hollies song...). A bit cheesy, no? A bit like she might angling for film option, following in the footsteps of fellow RS vet Cameron Crowe? That said, she tempers the rom-com-iness with some insightful self-analysis: she's not the uber-cool rock chick, but a smart-ass dork from central Jersey and she had stop trying to be someone she wasn't. It's as if she finally heeded Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bangs in Crowe's "Almost Famous": [Rock journalists] are uncool.
On the celebrity front, she confirms that Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn are two of the best people still breathing on this planet, and that watching Brad Pitt playing air guitar in his trailer is supremely awkward.
*Remember when MTV had a channel where they showed nothing but music videos and there were no reality shows to be seen? Once it was MTV, then it was MTV2. Will they dare try MTV3?
maylingkuo's review against another edition
3.0
funny memoir that interestingly lends advice about how to approach interviewing celebrities. i'm not that familiar with jancee dunn, but her humor and humble perspective make this a worthwhile read. i didn't care that much to here about her love life - especially since she doesn't particular make the best choices in that department - but the wrap up in the last chapter made that journey worth taking.
meli65's review
3.0
So fun. She is an engaging writer and I loved her tales of growing up in Jersey, interviewing all kinds of really cool celebrities for Rolling Stone, and just making her way through New York (she also happens to be my age).
abookishaffair's review
2.0
I enjoyed this book, which tells the story of Jancee Dunn, a writer for Rolling Stone and a Mtv VJ. It had a lot of good tidbits about celebrity intrigue. It seemed to end really quickly, almost too quickly.
ahsimlibrarian's review
5.0
If you are looking for a delightful memoir that isn't a dysfunctional family pity party, then this is the one for you. Jancee Dunn, one-time MTV VJ and Rolling Stone reporter, writes affectionately about growing up with two younger sisters in New Jersey in the 1960's and 70's. This memoir is tender and funny and jam-packed with fantastic period detail. While she does dish on her celebrity interviews, it is her writing about family and relationships that makes this a standout.
somechelsea's review
5.0
Very, very funny - both her celebrity anecdotes (Dolly Parton's Velveeta!) and her own stories (the family cemetery plot!), and so worth the read.
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