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Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Georgia Hardstark, Karen Kilgariff
2.0
This was sooo disappointing for me. I feel like you'll think positively of this book if you already love Georgia and Karen's podcast and their specific brand of humor. This book felt written for their fans and only their fans. While listening, I couldn't help but feel like I was constantly on the outskirts of very specific inside jokes between the two narrators. And I'm sorry, but the jokes weren't even funny.
Not to mention, it felt like everything they mentioned about their lives was already talked about on the podcast or could have been easily looked up via a Google search. And this book did my least favorite thing a memoir does: turn the part of their past related to drug use and criminal activity into a quirky anecdotes meanwhile teens from minority groups are literally killed or put in jail for the same exact thing. I can't stand it when people of privilege get paid and praised for their mistakes and still think they're being sooo relatable.
This memoir (or whatever you want to call it) is for a very specific demographic. There were moments Georgia and Karen seemed self-aware and then they were just little things that reminded me that they both live in a bubble of their own experiences, and no one elses. And that's okay. Sure, they talked about being called out for language that sounded like victim-blaming and their sensationalism of murder, but they only touched the surface. I don't know, dude. These two just felt out of touch to me.
Rating: 2 stars
Not to mention, it felt like everything they mentioned about their lives was already talked about on the podcast or could have been easily looked up via a Google search. And this book did my least favorite thing a memoir does: turn the part of their past related to drug use and criminal activity into a quirky anecdotes meanwhile teens from minority groups are literally killed or put in jail for the same exact thing. I can't stand it when people of privilege get paid and praised for their mistakes and still think they're being sooo relatable.
This memoir (or whatever you want to call it) is for a very specific demographic. There were moments Georgia and Karen seemed self-aware and then they were just little things that reminded me that they both live in a bubble of their own experiences, and no one elses. And that's okay. Sure, they talked about being called out for language that sounded like victim-blaming and their sensationalism of murder, but they only touched the surface. I don't know, dude. These two just felt out of touch to me.
Rating: 2 stars