Title: 4... 3.... 2.....
Product review: In retrospect, the most impressive thing about this book was the author's ability to get as grise an eminence as Joan Didion - whose neurasthenic "Play It As It Lays" was clearly a stylistic influence here - to provide a front-cover blurb.It starts out genuinely creepy, with a clinically sharp eye for the grotesqueries of bodybuilding fashion and steroid abuse. But it quickly becomes apparent that Arnoldi has only one effective shot in her posing routine. And the ending is so ludicrous that it wipes out any residual good will still remaining.Samuel W. Fussell's memoir "Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder" covers this same ground for more thoroughly and interestingly. And it's still available on Amazon.
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