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Gawker Book Club: "Falling Out of Fashion"

KatieNYC — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:09:43 EDT

What this needs is a good car chase. or for one of the main characters to pull off their face to reveal the fact that they, are in fact, the villain, Scooby-style.

There just isn't enough of that going on in books these days!

KatieNYC

Gawker Book Club: "Falling Out of Fashion"

Trackback — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:45:11 EDT

Reader Christopher is either excited or repulsed by the following news: Hilary Swank has signed on to produce a movie version of the spectacularly bad Falling Out of Fashion, the first (and hopefully only) novel by Karen Yampolsky, the former executive assistant of Jane Pratt.

Trackback

Gawker Book Club: "Falling Out of Fashion"

KarenUhOh — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:37:42 EST

A gunfight would have definitely picked it up.

KarenUhOh

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LittleShirleyBeans — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:42:12 EST

usually, when something is really stupid, it feels like ive lost brain cells while experiencing it, but this is so bad, it actually feels like ive gained a chromosome.

LittleShirleyBeans

Gawker Book Club: "Falling Out of Fashion"

htotheomo — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:55:20 EST

@metalhead: If she could write about it as her pimp, her pimp was well-known, and she could market it: yes. I think this explains the cycle.

Thanks for all of the mental imagery.

htotheomo

Gawker Book Club: "Falling Out of Fashion"

IvyLeagueMetalhead — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:28:05 EST

@htotheomo: But would she pee on him?

IvyLeagueMetalhead

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htotheomo — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:22:42 EST

How much of a narcissist are you when you write a book about you through your boss's eyes?

Even though she was a few years my junior, in her early thirties, she had a wise, motherly way about her, which contradicted her hip, petite, girlish looks.

Wow. She and Eric Schaeffer should hook up - they have the same pubisher.

htotheomo

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Little Mintz Sunshine — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:08:36 EST

"Oh, shit," I said.

That pretty much sums it up.

Little Mintz Sunshine

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Bill Brasky — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:45:43 EST

ok, so I fucking get it. Magazines have "beauty closets" and "fashion closets" but they don't have "common sense closets" or "closets where you can go to get the skills that will allow you to write a book without using the phrase doe eyes".

Bill Brasky

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sven — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:22:28 EST

Of course it's Jauretsi.

sven

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Midge — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:18:19 EST

But Scholastic Scope gave it an A+.

Midge

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chip — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:17:21 EST

"Rosario, her blue hair matted in all directions." [ed: Jauretsi? Is that you?] or is that Gigi Guerra?

chip

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mediahohoho — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:10:43 EST

Jilling off.

mediahohoho

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tete rouge — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:08:51 EST

I just perked up my lunch all over the floor.

tete rouge

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Sally Tomato — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:04:52 EST

It reads like she had her 12 year old niece ghostwriting it.

Sally Tomato

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Honoria Glossop — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:55:06 EST

wow. you had me at "matted in all directions."

Honoria Glossop

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Elaine Chow — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:54:36 EST

Casey was in my office looking me up and down with her big brown doe eyes...

Sounds like the start of something porny. If only.

Elaine Chow