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Dork Whore: My Travels Through Asia as a Twenty-Year-Old Pseudo-Virgin Paperback – March 6, 2007

4.3 out of 5 stars 27 ratings

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Newly discharged from Israeli military duty and in search of "emotio-physical release after three years of puke-green uniforms," 20-year-old Bahr backpacked from Bangkok to Saigon to Delhi in order to experience life as well as (less successfully) find a proper lover. "My poonani has become my own personal Gaza Strip," she notes in this witty though uneven memoir, "unable to get past the partial penetration stage." However, when Bahr sets out with a fellow Israeli named Boaz, whom she met in a Tel-Aviv Backpacker Store, she's already been deflowered indifferently by a Moroccan paratrooper. In Bangkok, Boaz deserts her, and Bahr befriends another Israeli from her flight, Yoni, who is intent on visiting a brothel, where the narrator is hit by a banana catapulted from the dancer's vagina. Bowel problems plague our narrator, from Bangkok to Delhi, and from time to time she does let slip a few touching details of her life, such as the breakup of her parents' marriage and her brother's retardation. Bahr (an actress who has appeared in Curb Your Enthusiasm and Cable Guy) tries to ingratiate herself with the reader with her sarcastic digs at herself and others, but she offers little by way of description or history about the places she's actually visiting. (Mar.)
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"Girl meets boy, girl meets another boy, and girl meets another boy…my kind of book! Dork Whore is hilarious. It’s like listening to a drunk friend tell you all the embarrassing stuff she’ll regret the next day."—Chelsea Handler, author of My Horizontal Life  “Much about Ms. Bahr can be learned in her gracefully titled memoir, Dork Whore: My Travels Through Asia as a Twenty-Year-Old Pseudo-Virgin (Bloomsbury). The subtitle cannot be fully explained here, nor can her unpleasant experience in the audience at a Bangkok sex show, nor her exquisitely detailed gastrointestinal troubles, nor her repeated attempts to bring to an end her pseudo-virginal status."—New York Times
 
“Bahr has a flair for the self-deprecating wisecrack, a trick that keeps this quick memoir moving.”—
Kirkus Review
 
“Witty…touching details.”—
Publishers Weekly
 
“Like Bruch Chatwin with a vagina, Paul Theroux with a sense of humor, Iris Bahr takes an external and internal journey that is exotic, unique, singular, personal, intimate, honest, exciting, wildly funny, smart, and strangely arousing”—Larry Charles, director of
Borat and producer of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury USA (March 6, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1596912340
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1596912342
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.59 x 0.61 x 8.25 inches
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