Helpful Score: 6
I couldn't get past the first few pages. The language of the main character drove me nuts... too many exclamation points and sentences ending as questions.
the story seemed interesting, I just couldn't get past the language.
the story seemed interesting, I just couldn't get past the language.
Helpful Score: 6
This book is okay. Interesting enough that I could continue to read if I have time but easily able to put it down. Fun little insights into the industry and definitely more chicklit than erotic. If you miss this one, you're not missing much. I probably won't read Diary of a Married Call Girl.
Helpful Score: 5
hilarious! the secret journal of a neurotic high class upper east side prostitute as she grapples with her impending matrimony... also lots of helpful tidbits for wannabes ;)
Helpful Score: 4
Very fun. funny, smart and edgy. Very frank, straightforward, and probably somewhat controversial
Helpful Score: 3
Delightful and free narrative! Perfect chick lit!
Helpful Score: 2
I had trouble staying interested with this book. I wanted to like it but it just seemed to ramble on and on and I never really got a feel for the characters. It was like reading a diary that you found on the street and you have no idea who anyone is. Nor really care.
Helpful Score: 1
A fun read about a bad girl's secrets and the complications she finds between making love and making money.
Helpful Score: 1
I have always been intrigued by the world of high price call girls. Especially in the light of the recent Spitzer scandal, this was a perfect read. Tracy Quan keeps the reader engaged the whole time, laughing, anxious and more. Love it and would recommend it to everyone.
Helpful Score: 1
Totally amusing story of a call girl in New York City.
From Booklist
Quan, who put her career as an elite Manhattan prostitute on hold to become a writer, is the author of a popular salon.com column chronicling the adventures of fictional call girl Nancy Chan. Those biweekly installments grew into this reality-based novel. Nancy's central dilemma, hashed out in her diary and with her shrink, Dr. Wendy, is whether to give up hooking when she becomes engaged to her sweet Wall Street-whiz boyfriend, Matt. Her two best friends (and colleagues), Allison and Jasmine, offer little support on this front. Jasmine is firmly against marriage, and Allison, who is 30 going on 19, is too obsessed with her own problems (including her foray into the sex workers' activist movement) to be of any help. The descriptions of Nancy's "dates" read like soft porn, but Quan does pose some interesting questions about gender and sexuality and a certain brand of "sex-positive" feminism (represented by writers like Camille Paglia and Susie Bright). But the main point here is to be erotic and playful. Quan manages both in a book that makes perfect beach reading. Beth Warrell
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Quan, who put her career as an elite Manhattan prostitute on hold to become a writer, is the author of a popular salon.com column chronicling the adventures of fictional call girl Nancy Chan. Those biweekly installments grew into this reality-based novel. Nancy's central dilemma, hashed out in her diary and with her shrink, Dr. Wendy, is whether to give up hooking when she becomes engaged to her sweet Wall Street-whiz boyfriend, Matt. Her two best friends (and colleagues), Allison and Jasmine, offer little support on this front. Jasmine is firmly against marriage, and Allison, who is 30 going on 19, is too obsessed with her own problems (including her foray into the sex workers' activist movement) to be of any help. The descriptions of Nancy's "dates" read like soft porn, but Quan does pose some interesting questions about gender and sexuality and a certain brand of "sex-positive" feminism (represented by writers like Camille Paglia and Susie Bright). But the main point here is to be erotic and playful. Quan manages both in a book that makes perfect beach reading. Beth Warrell
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
I just could not get into this book. Two of the characters' names sounded very similar, which was confusing, and the protagonist didn't seem very likeable. I wanted to like this book but can't get into it.
Really not what I was expecting. I was hoping for better. It's not a bad book, it's just really not that great either. I have always been fascinated by prostitution and I thought this book would be a great, titillating read. It fell flat in my opinion. Nancy doesn't impress me and her friends leave a lot to be desired.
This was OK. Not as good as I expected. It was hard to stay into this one.
Great book fast fun read.you learn something new everyday.
This is a great book fun read hard to put down and at times really funny and other times kinda sad .I would recommend this book for sure
This book is as brainless as "Sex and the City." I certainly wish that I didn't get the book from paperbackswap, I could have checked it out from the library. The novel is written by a former call girl. The main character, Nancy, has a finace that knows nothing of her being a call girl. I find that repulsive. She sleeps with loads of men for money while at the same time pretends to be true to her fiance. I am not speaking against the occupation of a call girl so much as to her keeping it a secret from her fiance.
Interesting book. Based on the Tracy Quan column on Salon.com
Very fun, easy, beach read.
