The Bad Girl's Guide to Getting What You Want [Paperback]

Cameron Tuttle (Author), Susannah Bettag (Illustrator)

Book Description

Series: Bad Girl's | Publication Date: October 1, 2000

This hilarious follow-up to the wildly popular Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road is the ultimate guide to getting itanything and everythingin Bad Girl style. Delayed gratification is a thing of the past with this inspired collection of tips and tricks for scoring love, fame, money, power, parking spaces, and other essentials. With sure-fire schemes for everything from free food and airline miles to insider lingo for paving pesky resume gaps, The Bad Girl's Guide to Getting What You Want shows how to fake it fabulously. But spin and strategy are just the beginningthe truth can be an even more wicked weapon. Learn the secrets of men's hair, the landlord's Achilles' heel, and the maitre d's darkest desires, and the dream date, great apartment, and best table are yours! Racy bad-girl confessions and edgy illustrations make this indispensable volume even dishier. Ethics are overratedit's the results that count! Pack this sassy package in your purse and knowing what you want is as good as getting it.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Deep down, every woman wants to be a Bad Girl. But after living a life of sweetness and light, it's sometimes difficult to stray from the path. Cameron Tuttle (author of the riotously funny Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road) points the way in The Bad Girl's Guide to Getting What You Want. Tuttle offers up tips to help even the saintliest soul find her inner Bad Girl--and then use that power to get better dates (date yourself for a while first, until you're ready to dive in the dating pool); a better job (don't just settle for job satisfaction, aim for "job jubilation, job nirvana, job titillation"); and better parking (pray to Gladys, the universal parking goddess). With its sassy, iced-lavender cover--just the right size to slip into your purse--the Guide is jam-packed with practical and not-so-practical-but-funny advice, including excellent answers to one of life's most pressing questions: What do you do with old bridesmaid dresses? "Drench with ketchup and dress up as Carrie for Halloween"; "Sew into board bags for your snowboard and surfboard"; and, best of all, "Make your bridesmaids wear them in your wedding." Remember: it's great to be a girl, but it's even better to be a Bad Girl. --Sunny "Bad Girl" Delaney

About the Author

Cameron Tuttle is a freelance writer in San Francisco, California. Since writing this book, she rarely ventures outside.

Susannah Bettag is a woman with an on-the-edge humor that has made her a fav with magazines like Seventeen and Ms. She lives in San Francisco.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books; First Edition edition (October 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811828964
• ISBN-13: 978-0811828963
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 4.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (79 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #790,949 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Cameron Tuttle is known for her wit, humor, and books with pink covers. The author of the bestselling Bad Girl's Guides, she is now working on the third novel in a Young Adult series that began with "Paisley Hanover Acts Out," published in 2009.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely, and Funny.... If you get it, June 16, 2002

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Ashley - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bad Girl's Guide to Getting What You Want (Paperback)

You either get Cameron Tuttle's books and her brand of humor or you don't, Personally I love her books. The Bad Girl's Guide To Getting What You Want, is my favorite of hers. There's good solid advice, but theres also tons of fun and badness without making you want to puke in the book.

This book isn't supposed to be a survival guide, it's supposed to help you realize what you want and then show you that you've got all that you need right in your bad girl self.The book does this by covering major aspects of life clarifying them with humor and showing you different ways to get through [bad] stuff- Like job interviews. Overall I think this book is great for anyone who goes at a life with a sense of humor but not really for those who are looking for a new spiritual outlook or some sort revelation on what it is to be a woman.

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars On being the anti-Barbie, February 23, 2001

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Gina (Northern California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bad Girl's Guide to Getting What You Want (Paperback)

Whimsical, engaging, flirtatious, this book is less a how-to guide for achieving what you want than a manifesto on treating yourself right. Sure, this book boasts a lot of tips and tricks (many of them hilarious), and some smart advice about jobs and career (e.g. treating your job interview like a TV talk-show appearance). But underlying the specific ideas for "scoring love, fame, money, power, parking spaces and other essentials" is an important message about prioritizing your own happiness. Aim high, dream big, ask for what you want, be happy with yourself before you get into a relationship (of any sort) - these are the real lessons this book has to offer.

As an aside, some women may find troubling Cameron Tuttle's implication that being a bad girl means having a certain approach to sex, e.g. her "Are you a bad girl" quiz: "The last time I got naked with a stranger I was [at 35,000 feet];" "How do you spell relief during a stressfull work day? [o-r-g-a-s-m-s];" "My favorite form of multi-tasking is [faking not having an orgasm in spinning class]." This characterization contradicts the otherwise-clear, empowering theme of the book: that there are an infinite number of ways of being a high-attitude, sassy, and fearless Bad Girl.

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats!, March 15, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Bad Girl's Guide to Getting What You Want (Paperback)

I really do laugh out loud every time I open this book. It is packed with hilarious stuff. Crazy, witty, wild bad girl advice about managing your life, your career, your relationships--all with bad girl style. The kind of stuff that makes you pick up your phone and call your sister in Boston to read her an excerpt just to hear her laugh. It's a fun read cover to cover, and also great to leave lying around the house for those moments when you need a laugh. Since reading her books, I've given Cameron Tuttle's bad girl's guides (both this and the Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road) as gifts to my mom (she loves it), my sister (ditto), and all of my bad girl friends. Do yourself a favor and buy this book!