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Advanced Sex Tips for Girls: This Time It's Personal

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Cynthia Heimel has done it again. I have been a fan ever since the original Sex Tips For Girls, and she just keeps getting better.

While this book is every bit as funny as her earlier books (maybe funnier), it also has an element of soulfulness beyond what we've seen from her before, which makes it even more wonderful than I was expecting.

Highly recommended!

Cynthia Heimel makes me snicker knowingly right out loud in public. She's wise, witty, pointed, and pulls no punches. Oh, and did I mention that she's funny? Especially her alter ego, Problem Lady?

I recognized people I know on almost every page of this book. I may force my boyfriend to read it. If it doesn't terrify him, it will almost definitely give us lots to talk about.

Cynthia Heimel's latest is long overdue: it's sort of a sequel to her 1983 Sex Tips for Girls and sort of a sequel to her other books -- part of the ongoing series of observations and gags and wisdom and wit and goofiness that is her body of work. In this new book she's as hysterical as ever, but some of the humor is heightened (or deepened) by more genuine pain than her earlier stuff. Somehow she manages to get through the most difficult moments -- the implosion of a marriage, the death of a wonderful dog -- with her voice intact, and her head battered but unbowed.

Problem Lady -- always a high point -- returns.

Cynthia Heimel writes the way real women I know talk about sex, love, relationships, marriage, and yes, dogs. I think she's as insightful and hilarious as ever. Like the original Sex Tips For Girls, her essays make me admire her attitude and aspire to her fabulousness.

I've loved Cynthia Heimel ever since someone brought a copy of _Sex Tips for Girls_ to a party and all the women ended up in a bedroom, reading it out loud. Since then, I've owned multiple copies of all her books because I keep giving them away.

This new book is a gift. It's funny, it's poignant, it's kooky. This book has the same clear-eyed, hilarious and moving view of relationships you find in her other books. It's pure Heimel.

...but this collection is sparse compared to earlier books. I finished this one in less than one hour, and in hindsight would not have splurged on a hardcover edition. But everyone should read Heimel - I'd give 5 stars to all her other books.

Once upon a time this author was brilliant and I would have done almost anything to read her in print. No longer fresh, she rests upon her laurels and seems rather bitter for it.

This book, a collection of essays interspersed with mock advice columns, wasn't (to me) QUITE the hard-hitting, poignant & outrageous material I've grown to expect from Heimel, but it was still a witty & fast read. She seems to be holding back this time, not sharing the miniutiae of her life as much, & dwelling heavily on her love of dogs, a mindset I personally don't share, though it's interesting get that viewpoint. Though a little less fresh than her earlier books, it's worth a look to get at least some feel for where Heimel is at this point in her life. Didn't come away feeling like my brain-cells were being realigned...but it's still worth a shot.

Product is exactly as described, received promptly and product is used and the pages have become slightly discolored. I am satisfied.

Cynthia Heimel is hilarious, humane and a great observer.
Every book she has produced is outstanding and I recommend any of them highly.