On Your Own [Hardcover]

Brooke Shields (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

YA Brooke Shields may not have been a typical teen, but she has written a book that will appeal to typical teenage girls. In beauty book format (lots of glossy pictures, black-and-white and color photos, exercises, diet and makeup how-to's), On Your Own also includes advice on dating, studying and career. The main message is caution, organization, planning and being responsible.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 220 pages
• Publisher: Villard; 1st edition (May 12, 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394544609
• ISBN-13: 978-0394544601
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #205,314 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful!, August 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: On Your Own (Hardcover)

This is one of the funniest books I've ever read. With such catchy phrases as 'Worry is the sleep thief" and "I'd rather be overweight than smoke", who wouldn't want to read this? Actually, it made Brooke Shields look almost like a down to earth person while at the same time reminding us that one should never re-wear any of those styles from the 80's. I wonder if Brooke still uses the same beauty rituals now as she did then-

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The real "Last American Virgin" holds forth, August 18, 2005

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Vibiana (Kansas, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: On Your Own (Hardcover)

Brooke Shields and I are the same age. I read this book when it came out, when Brooke and I were both twenty, but unlike Brooke, I was not studying at Princeton. I was graduating from a secretarial school and getting my first job. Therefore, a lot of the advice about the horrors of dorm life went right over my working-class head.

She does have some good things to say and some good advice to give. It's just that the idea of a twenty-year-old gracing us with the wisdom of her accumulated years is a bit of a scream.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Empty message and hype, July 3, 2010

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notAyesperson "Always in search of good books" (somewhere, kansas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: On Your Own (Hardcover)

I read this when it first came out. The theme of the book is to save yourself for marriage and preserve your virginity for oh so long. IMO this is no guarantee of successfully obtaining or retaining a viable mate. Women who abstain for sex for too long outside of nuns are usually very cranky and unhappy. Even Brooke went on to say how she wished she had not waited so long in having sex for the first time many years after this book in effect contradicting herself. The whole sex/virginity thing is overrated anyway. This is nothing more than empty hype of saving yourself for marriage.