Just about everybody is aware of Diablo Cody today, thanks to the success and kudos that came with her screenwriting of the film Juno. The same wit and charm evidenced in Juno comes through in Candy Girl, Cody's memoir of the year she spent as an exotic dancer. The book is both fascinating and repulsive. When she describes her job working in a booth at Sex World, a Minneapolis XXX-rated book store, you can't help but go EWWWWWWWW. So gross. Too graphic in parts. But, I have to admit that I couldn't put it down. And, I did love her opening lines, "Nobody comes to Minnesota to take their clothes off, at least as far as I know. This ain't no nightclub. Here in the woebegone upper country, Jack Frost is a liberal, rangy sadist with ice crystals in his soul patch." Love those lines.
Definately not a book that you'd want to share with your mother. But, put it a plain brown wrapper, take it on vacation, and you're bound to have some fun. Especially if you have a couple of pops and then start reading passages aloud to your partner.
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