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

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In this sequel to Sex Tips for Girls, Heimel offers her sardonic advice and wry observations on the difficulties of being a woman during the past 40 years. Thirty-two short chapters cover topics as varied as men's preference for bitchy women, Heimel's delight in discovering feminism, eating out of frustration, and trying testosterone patches. Several chapters deal with her close connection with her many dogs, including the "beagle-ish" Homer, who had "no pedigree at all, just essence of K-9, which, if you ask me, is at least next to godliness." Heimel has a knack for choosing snappy cover titles and for poking fun at male behavior, and here she reveals much of her personal life. Some readers will find her sex tips hilarious and sassy. Others will consider them frivolous, vulgar, and full of anger. A suitable purchase for larger public libraries. Ilse Heidmann, Olympia, WA
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Merrill Markoe author of It's My F---ing Birthday [This] book is so funny, smart, and hilariously enraged that I cannot recommend it too highly. Well, I guess I could. But I don't know where that would get us exactly. -- Review

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Fireside; First Paper edition (January 7, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 068485645X
• ISBN-13: 978-0684856452
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #740,808 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious and true. And did I mention hilarious?, January 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Advanced Sex Tips for Girls: This Time It's Personal (Hardcover)

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!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How does she do it?, January 17, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Advanced Sex Tips for Girls: This Time It's Personal (Hardcover)

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.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious and then something else, too!, February 21, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Advanced Sex Tips for Girls: This Time It's Personal (Hardcover)

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.