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Product Description: With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.
Ephron chronicles her life as an obsessed cook, passionate city dweller, and hapless parent. But mostly she speaks frankly and uproariously about life as a woman of a certain age. Utterly courageous, uproariously funny, and unexpectedly moving in its truth telling, I Feel Bad About My Neck is a scrumptious, irresistible treat of a book, full of truths, laugh out loud moments that will appeal to readers of all ages. Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-06-27
I feel bad about my neck, too
Feels like I have read 20-30% of these essays already, just by being a somewhat lazy reader of the NYer. HOWEVER, these are good, pithy, funny. I felt compelled to share some of this wisdom with friends. ENJOY! Rating:
Date: 2008-06-18
Nora's neck
Honest, funny and just right for us gals who've hit the "Big M". Also a good glimpse into NY City living for someone (like me) who has never experienced it. Rating: 
Date: 2008-05-21
Good advice, from the neck down
Producer, director, and screenwriter Nora Ephron brings forth a collection of essays about dealing with the progression of age, and a few glimpses of her life. Many of the essays were previously published in various periodicals, and they're all collected here in one place. Sharp and witty, she confronts a few issues that surround her life in a slim volume written similar to a personal journal.
She introduces us with an explanation that applications of lotions and creams and botox can help fight the effects of age, but nothing short of surgery can help with the neck. In fact, the neck can't be helped with surgery at all, unless a facelift is included. Its a double whammy, which is why many older women prefer to wear turtlenecks. A humorous, but solemn essay that depicts what lengths women will go through to achieve that youthful look.
Then in a wry twist of humor, she explains her search for the perfect purse. She hates purses and considers them " ...just a big dark hole full of stuff that you spend hours fishing around for." She talks about her trip abroad with her friend to purchase the perfect "Kelly " purse. However, after they find that "perfect" purse, it begins to rain. The purse isn't waterproofed, turning a fun purchase into a lip-biting, frustrating experience.
Filled with several essays about parts of her life, loaded with her dry humor and wit, this collection is meant for women everywhere. It's packed with an assortment of defined and sparkling pieces revealing the private misery, eccentricity and powerful emotions of a woman on the edge of senior citizenhood. I will definitely be purchasing several copies for my women friends and sisters.
Armchair Interviews says: For women who want wonderful writing and stories. Rating: 
Date: 2008-05-13
Wah wah wah!
Poor Nora, such a hard life. I officially hated this book when she started calling herself fat at 126 pounds! Rating:
Date: 2008-05-12
Ahhhh, To Be Young Again.
A funny, quick read. The book will resonate more with the ever-wrinkling Baby Boomers than the Generation X, Y, Z or whatever the heck the younger age groups are being labeled nowadays. I doubt very much if my twenty-year-old self would have found most of Ms. Ephron observations to be amusing or worth my attention. However, speaking as a slowly-decaying, forty-seven-year-old male, the author's book was a wonderfully sarcastic and hilarious reproach about "the Golden Years." Well worth reading if you are old enough to remember when gas was 32 cents per gallon. |
