I can't recommend this book to anyone. The author clearly has an axe to grind. The book is designed to make troubled inner-city kids think that Jewish people are cool. They are cool by the way. The problem, as I see it, is that inner-city kids don't need to have their moral beliefs trashed to make them think that.

The author, who I believe is Debbie Schlussel, doesn't seem to understand that. I think inner-city kids need positive role models and for me the "Howard Stern approach" is not the right way to go.

Just my 2 cents.

First, A person should be able to read a preview with ease. I am not impressed with small tiny print.

Second, Anyone on Earth could choose words at random and type them for anyone to see. What I was able to make out through squinting my eyes in your first sentence, seemed to be a jumble of words with very little flow and less meaning.

Third, You have a hype of yourself that is unreasonable. You are more Kathy Lee Gifford like then Stern/Chapelle. You wannabe. P.S. if you want me to delete this post, to save you face-hey-just ley me know-LOL

I was invited to comment here yet could not get my comments up-is this the way you people sell books?

'Jew Girl' may not be the easiest book to read, but at least it should be open for the yeah or naysayers!

Yesterday I forced myself to watch the Oprah Winfrey show because I was curious to see how she handled James Frey whose "A Million Little Pieces" has been in the news recently. Having read EminemsRevenge's "Jew Girl" over the winter break, I was surprised that Ms Winfrey has not yet tapped this author for her book club yet!

"Jew Girl" is an intricate and difficult read, a "vigorously vulgar" and "throat grabbing read" as author Lisa Zaran states on the back cover blurb, but it is a lot more than that. The characters seem like refugees from a Charles Dickens novel transported through time to modern day NYC, and I had to keep reminding myself that this was a novel and not a non-fictional story, and once I got by the stylistic obfuscations that are an obvious homage to James Joyce--I was awestruck at how EminemsRevenge has captured the psyche of the people in post-9/11 NYC!

A hundred years from now Oprah Winfrey may be a footnote in history and James Frey a lot less than that, but I have a sneaking suspicion that "Jew Girl" might be one of the classics that is required reason for any student interested in the way people really think & feel after the tragedy that recreated America.

Jew Girl is a little hard to follow in the very beginning of the story however once I got through the first few pages, I found that the author has created captivating and identifiable characters.

Note: Eminemsrevenge should be easy with the fonts, because sometimes the words tend to run together. Love the after-word, and the glossary, nice touch.

A fully endowed story about culture in New York. A dance of the vernacular of now and a way to see things from a perspective somewhat familiar, but organically real. this book breathes and allows the reader to feel as if they are there in the streets, the smells and the overall sentiment of a real slice of New York.

Where this book is better than fiction is not the story at all but the way the author is pointing a direction to let everyone see the "truths" we hid behind so that it does not have to make us feel bad. But like anything swept under a rug long enough, it eventually stinks and someone has to pay the price. This book asks me, are we paying the price? Are we even awake?

I have to reread it again because the message I got from it was just that profound but done in the tapestry of the experiences of people very much like someone you'd know.

A read that would make any weekend not be the same afterward.

John Moseley