Knocked Up : Confessions of an Unlikely Mother-to-Be [Import] [Paperback]

Rebecca Eckler (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday Canada, Limited (2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385660375
• ISBN-13: 978-0385660372
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,568,168 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Makes You Feel Good - About Yourself, December 28, 2007

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dryhrdy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Knocked Up : Confessions of an Unlikely Mother-to-Be (Paperback)

I bought this book when I became unexpectedly pregnant myself, and was surprised that someone would not only admit, but not actually realize how much of an immature and irresponsible child they are. Yes, parts of it were funny and honest. Yes, I could identify with some things she was feeling. But I was also angered at most of it. I worked nine months (as a waitress) of my pregnancy. She started her maternity leave early because she could "no longer sit at a computer", at home. Her main concern about smoking was that people would judge her. She scheduled a cesarean because she didn't feel like getting a pap smear. She hired a nanny WHILE she was on maternity leave. I am almost ten years younger than the author was at the time of her pregnancy, and she made me feel like I am doing one heck of a job as a parent. That's the best thing about this book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars makes joan crawford look sympathetic, March 21, 2005

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Lori - See all my reviews

This review is from: Knocked Up : Confessions of an Unlikely Mother-to-Be (Paperback)

I seriously cannot believe that anyone not related to Ms. Eckler would give this piece of crap more than one star. As a new mother, reading her newspaper column regarding pregnancy made me so incredulous that someone could actually be so unrealistic and lacking in any maternal fibre that I cancelled my subscription. This woman cannot write. She is incredibly vain, shallow and selfish to the point that she requires therapy (and not the retail kind). A total waste of time and money. Yuck.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This is so terrible it defies description, June 2, 2004

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Stacy Shaw (Montreal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Knocked Up : Confessions of an Unlikely Mother-to-Be (Paperback)

I have never written an amazon review though I am an amazon addict. I felt compelled to write a review of this book because I feel this book is an indictment of the entire Canadian publishing industry, the Canadian media, and the utterly self-important and know-nothing marketing scene in Toronto, which has promoted the bejesus out of a book which is as patently awful as the sky is blue on a clear day. By all objective standards, Miss Eckler cannot write or even express clear thoughts. I will not comment on her many pathologies, which are evident in this book (which I received as a present from a naive but well-meaning friend oblivious to this woman's monstrous idiocy).