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    hey, im reading this book called 'strip city' has anyone heard of it? its by lily burana. im on the the 3rd chapter, and its addicting,witty and funny.

    its about an ex stripper now journalist/writer who is now going to live her fantasy to go on a strip trip..traveling across the u.s.a stripping in different clubs. (you know, that idea sounds kind of interesting now that it was brought to me...)

    if u have any spare time. pick it up

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    hehe...i wanna do that too...unfortunately it's a long way for me...
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    I read that i loved it.

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    Yup...I've read it to. It was decent and interesting. I'm sure there's better!!

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    Great book! I just finished it a few weeks ago. I loved her writing style. She really drew me in to the story.

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    I read it before I danced and then again after I'd been at it for about a year... my favorite chapter is the one about the seedy Manhattan peep show she worked at when she moved away from home. Lady's got some balls on her, that's for sure.
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    I also read that recently! It was a great book. Call me sappy, but I loved her telling of how she met her husband.

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    I loved that book. I read it from cover to cover. I worked at one of the clubs she visited, and know a dancer she referenced from that book. She was on her nation wide strip club tour in 1997 and I started dancing in 1998.

    It is cool to know that she has her details accurate. The club I worked was Shotgun Willies in Billings, Montana. The dancer she called "Stormy" is a lady I've worked with on a couple of occasions. That was not the stage name the girl used, but her description of Stormy was spot on for another dancer by the stage name of "Bucky" as in Bucking Bronco. That chick was one of a kind!

    I also find it funny that the club was too intimidating for her to work in, but she was happy to visit as a customer. Bah! I've worked in much seedier places than that. The club was just really blue collar with lots of bikers and truckers.

    Anyhow, I reading a book called "Candy Girl" By Cody Diablo. I'm having a harder time getting into it despite having some expierence in the clubs in Minneapolis (as a customer, not working).


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    Yea i read it and loved it! I came by the book in the strangest way though; my friend was on an anthropological trip in Guatamala and he was looking for something to read in english and he found this book in a shop in a tiny village in the middle of no where.

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    ^^ Hehehe.

    I think I just ordered it on Amazon... I'm glad you all liked it... I'm tired of ordering bad books on there.
    If you think school is hard, try being stupid.

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    Paris,

    Let us know if "Candy Girl" gets any better...

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    See, I think you just have to have a certain kind of humor to really like "Candy Girl". Not judging anybody else's senses of humor here, mind you, but I absolutely LOVED "Candy Girl" - and at the same time, I can see why it wouldn't appeal to everyone. Diablo is just my kind of person.

    I also worship Lily Burana, for whatever it's worth. Probably read "Strip City" 3 times total. ("Bare", By Elizabeth Eaves, on the other hand, I wouldn't recommend to anyone.)
    "Before I conceived you, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were here an hour, I would die for you. This is the miracle of life." -- Maureen Hawkins

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    I loved the book & realize she had a lot of exceptional good luck in her dance career, getting to work at some top tier/safe clubs during the peak $$$ years. Her physical size also gave her a lot of immunity from harrassment, or so it seems (she sounds to be about 6 feet tall, and bulletproof. LOL)
    Would recommend the book to any dancer starting out. If you're not smart enough to follow her lead, don't bother-

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    I read it about 3 years ago and loved it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by RoseWhite
    See, I think you just have to have a certain kind of humor to really like "Candy Girl". Not judging anybody else's senses of humor here, mind you, but I absolutely LOVED "Candy Girl" - and at the same time, I can see why it wouldn't appeal to everyone. Diablo is just my kind of person.

    I also worship Lily Burana, for whatever it's worth. Probably read "Strip City" 3 times total. ("Bare", By Elizabeth Eaves, on the other hand, I wouldn't recommend to anyone.)
    ill check out candy girl as soon as im done reading strip city.

    why wudnt u reccomnd BARE? i rented it from the library and only read a few pages so i dont know much about it yet...?

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    1. Strip City - Real Winner!
    2. Candy Girl - This girl -CANNOT- write. She makes the fricken DUMBEST similies and metaphors. Seriously, anyone, I dare ya open to a random page and pick the first similie or metaphor and post it. I did this for a whole day and couldn't find a good one.

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    Yes, I've read Strip City, and I met Lily Burana four years ago when she was doing a book tour. She was lovely. She's since done a 180 on her years in the sex industry. I can't say I disagree with much of what she has to say in hindsight.

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    Great interview! Thanks for posting it, smartcookie.
    "Before I conceived you, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were here an hour, I would die for you. This is the miracle of life." -- Maureen Hawkins

    "I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you the truth, I thought it would be more like getting a cat." -- Anne Lamott

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    Thanks for the interview link smartcookie. I had read this book a few years back as a customer searching for insight regarding stripper motivation. At the time I was spending time escaping into the stripclub environment to hang out with a dancer I clicked with. A lot of what she wrote about, and discusses at the end of the interview, resonated with what I was feeling and doing. In some ways that book helped me keep my head screwed on straight.

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    she used to be on another stripper board (the nighmare one before this one)years ago. we exchanged some emails. she seemed way cool then. and of course i read the book.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lilithmorrigan
    Seriously, anyone, I dare ya open to a random page and pick the first similie or metaphor and post it.
    Ok, gauntlet thrown!

    P. 152, after interview with peep show manager: "I agreed, but I neglected to ask if I'd be able to see every Tom, Dick and Harry as they tooled like Bonobo monkeys on the opposite side of the booth."

    Matter of preference, I'm sure, but one person's "fricken DUMBEST similies and metaphors" can be another's laugh-out-loud funny bone stimulator. To me, the phrase "tooling like Bonobo monkeys" conveys perfectly the image - hell, the very gestalt - of the activities of a bunch of peep show pervs. I'd post more excerpts, but that's just what happened to come up randomly.

    Not saying that my sense of humor is better than anyone else's AT ALL, I'm just saying that she suits me. Yes, she leans heavily on the incongruous and hyperbolic, but again, to me, that's where the hilarity ensues. As for her general ability to write, well, if that's inability, may *I* be blessed with such shortcomings. Her lack of talent got her a screenplay ("Juno") in production. To each her own, and vive la difference.

    All that said, I do think that "Strip City" has a lot more depth and maturity and overall insight than "Candy Girl". If I had to pick only one, it'd definitely be "Strip City". I just feel a certain allegiance to Diablo Cody, since her book really helped me to take the plunge into stripping after contemplating it idly for years. It was nice to read a narrative from someone who felt like as much of a misfit in the strip-club world as I did. Plus, while Lily makes me chuckle here and there, Diablo - in book and in blog - regularly makes me piss my pants.

    But who the hell am I to endorse her? Take it from a real expert: "Diablo Cody is to stripping what Chuck Klosterman is to pop culture and Sarah Vowell is to American history - an off-kilter visionary cynical enough to trust and talented enough to blister all that her mighty pen touches. Candy Girl is fiendishly funny, muscle-car fast, and frighteningly - and I do mean frighteningly - accurate. Lock up your daughters and get your lighters in the air, for Candy Girl proves Diablo to be a writer of rock-star caliber." -- Lily Burana
    "Before I conceived you, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were here an hour, I would die for you. This is the miracle of life." -- Maureen Hawkins

    "I just can't get over how much babies cry. I really had no idea what I was getting into. To tell you the truth, I thought it would be more like getting a cat." -- Anne Lamott

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    Quote Originally Posted by velvet
    she used to be on another stripper board (the nighmare one before this one)years ago. we exchanged some emails. she seemed way cool then. and of course i read the book.
    Yep, "tinydancer".

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    one of my favorites!! she is an amazing writer. i'm so glad someone else is reading it. i think every dancer should

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