27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
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A Wonderful Mess, January 23, 2005
SUMMARY: Outrageous radio personality Wendy Williams recounts some of her more colorful interviews, as well as offering her opinions on hip-hop celebrities and their baby mamas, in this witty and raucously funny tell-all/semi-autobiography.
WHY YOU'LL LIKE IT: Think of Williams as the ghetto fabulous female equivalent of Howard Stern: she asks the questions you really want the answers to, and nothing is sacred. She's utterly fearless and tactless. The section on Baby Mamas is great, but her coinage of "Negroidian" almost made me wet myself, as did her commentary on the "dirty backpack clique." Good stuff.
WHY YOU WON'T: As refreshing as her guilelessness and lack of pretense is, it sometimes borders on obscene and can become tiring. It's one thing to be tactless in some ridiculous situations, but to take pride in and practice it in ALL situations is annoying. Also, she has some real juicy tidbits about some celebrities, revealing absolutely everything...but their name. Of course it's due to legal reasons, but it is so FRUSTRATING! Have fun guessing, though.
BOTTOM LINE: It's just a heck of a book! Quick read and very funny. This is not going to win awards, and why another reviewer felt the need to preface their commentary by stating that this is not "Alice Walker or Alex Hailey" is beyond me. Of course it isn't, and no one expects it to be.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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JUICY STUFF!!, September 20, 2004
If you're a fan of Wendy and her show, then you knew that this book was coming and you knew what it was going to be about. Chock full of "gossip," Ms. Williams does a great job of putting her radio show to print. Readers will be pleased to know that all of Wendy's favorite topics are covered; from Baby Momma Drama to "How You Doin'?....." Some of Wendy's most controversial interviews are covered in the book, but I found the most interesting to be the one with Misa Hylton-Brim--Puffy's first "baby momma."
I liked the book and it was certainly a quick read, but solid Wendy fans like myself may be somewhat disappointed; you will find most if not all of what is covered within the pages to be regurgitated information. BUT--if you missed the MHB interview, you'll find it here. If you missed World's perspective on homosexuality and the music industry, you'll also find that here. And if you are one of the few remaining people on earth who did NOT hear that ridiculously raw Whitney Houston interview, all is not lost---Wendy has included it here also.
Looking forward to the next book, Wendy (will there be one?)...; but PLEASE reserve some of your future juicy gossip just for the book. That way your regular fans will get some new "scandalosity" between its pages also.
DYB
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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*****5 Stars- "Best Gossip Book on Earth!", March 4, 2006
Wendy Williams is a New York Times Best Selling Author of "Wendy's Got the Heat," a #1 Essence Bestseller and host of "The Wendy Williams Experience" Radio Show. She has returned without warning to seer through the popularity of 72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell, The Interruption of Everything by Terry McMillan and Confessions of a Video Vixen by Karrine Stefans with her latest, The Wendy William's Experience: Queen of Radio.
It is a "CELEBRITY GOSSIP- PACKED" book from a self-made multi-media celebrity icon in the radio industry whose on air personality may have evolved to form a brand of talk show radio all her own, quite historical, bold and necessary.
In her 2nd book, she's bringing candid issues to the forefront as a voice of "the people," along with relationship tips for the ladies who look up to Wendy as a big sister. Wendy talks about everybody. Wherever you are in Celebrity-ville, it seems like Wendy has found you.
Based on her prior book, it seems like many radio hosts would like to take her place, but the reigning and pioneering "Shock Gossip Diva" who holds down some of the most charismatic and memorable one-to-one celebrity interviews that everyone seems to be tuning in to listen to lately reflects on the necessity of her national radio show for developing celebrity careers and validates the fact, "It's better to be in the news, than not in the news at all" in her latest.
Despite some of the vehement backlash on the air from top celebrities during her radio interviews featured in the book, Wendy Williams doesn't seem to be the one throwing the verbal punches if you read every single interview transcript in her book. She's survived some serious whiplash from divas like Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston as caught word-for-word in her tell-all book.
She asks those honest questions that may evoke hostility and anger in guests for some reason who can't seem to bare Wendy's Heat. Her interviews seem to give a voice to concerns and rumors circulating among the off air majority of listeners. In other words, she's giving people what they want, keeping a Black owned radio station at the top and even adds that "Girly girl" flair to her persona as a fashion savvy lady which spells success, longevity and a loyal fan base that won't quit.
I would personally recommend her raw and cutting edge tell-all gossip book, "The Wendy Williams Experience," the IT book of the year. If celebrities are fearful of what she may say about them on her radio program, they should be racing to the bookstore to read every name- dropping detail and popular morsel of gossip that graces one of the most controversial books of the year only because it unleashes news on the most controversial celebrities.
Between the interviews on some of the hottest stars to grace tabloids, Wendy's open reflections on who may lead an alternative lifestyle in celebrity-ville to whose baby's daddy ain't paying child support, and which natural mamas are perpetrating leading a peaceful life to who isn't shining because they don't have any gossip or controversy to them lure readers in.
Her shock style is contagious, and most folks who read her latest, just won't be able to put her page-turning gossip bible down. It would be impossible to hold down a book of this caliber without writing expertise. Her work reads like a diary or open book journal that is more than noteworthy and to be commended. She is also very careful in some situations and responsible. Whew! Overall, the Wendy William's Experience is a well written book, entertaining, truthful, and one of Wendy's best literary works. My only suggestion is that she develop another book that further expounds on relationship tips in the future. Maybe she could call it, The Wendy William's Relationship Handbook.
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