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Beautiful and thought-provoking

Revisado: 05-30-24

It's difficult to say too much about this book without throwing in spoilers. It is an adventure in "what-if", and the chronicle of a woman looking for something more. It also prompted me to look into history that I had never heard about (Otto Lilienthal was a fascinating individual), but that is just how my brain operates. Joe Fassler has written an amazing book, and Leanne Woodward does an excellent job of narration!

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"The secret to success is..."

Revisado: 05-14-22

"Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made" - George Burns (and others).

I recognize this book was written in 1999, so I'm giving the author a little leeway for that since some of the more overused tactics in the book wouldn't have been at the time.

That being said: there are a few very useful techniques in this book (complementing people behind their backs, for example). The vast majority of the 92 tips though truly amount to "how to fake sincerity convincingly". This would actually make a very good handbook for con artists. Well, and then the one technique - forced partnering, which the author calls "the premature 'we'" - which is used extensively by rapists and other predators.

Really, I'd say the best benefit of this book is to give honest people an idea of what red flags to look for to indicate that someone is trying to con them.

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Powerful and vulnerable

Revisado: 01-06-22

I've been reading Marci Warhaft's work on fitness, body image, and the mythology and disinformation in the "fitness" industry for years. I had no idea of the levels of personal struggle that built her expertise.

In "The Good Stripper", Marci takes her decades of pain, trauma, and abuse - abuse from others, and from herself - and sets it out for us to see. Most importantly, she doesn't take the oh-so-common narrative path of "I did it, so what's your excuse" (which is a key point in the book), or continue down the path of abuse. Instead, the book is about learning to love herself, every single part of herself, and to recognize that the scars she bears can help her guide others.

I first read the Kindle version of this book, which was extremely moving. When I found out that Marci had done her own narration for the audiobook, I picked it up right away. Hearing her tell her story in her own voice brought it even more vividly to life.

This is NOT a comfortable book to listen to, but the level of vulnerability she shows makes it immensely powerful.

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