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Title: Gratuitous Name-Dropping and Annoying Writing Style
Review: I wanted to like this book. I really did. But I found Long's narrative style to be very, very annoying. Every time I was just getting comfortably settled into reading one of the anecdotes in this book, I'd get jarred out of it by one of Long's not-very-funny made-up words. I felt as if he was a child trying to call attention to himself rather than letting the stories speak for themselves.I also got annoyed with the emphasis on celebrities. Many of the stories featuring celebrities were simply not all that interesting, and would have been too weak to include in such a book if the main characters had been no-names. To me, they came across as gratuitous name-dropping.Still, it was nice to see a book that painted a realistic picture of what it's like to be a belly dancer, and some of the stories were rather funny.
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