Oh Gross!
Written: Mar 30 '05
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Pros: Makes a great diet aid.
Cons: Could bring on diabetes just through reading.
The Bottom Line: I'm sad and embarrassed for this woman and yet terribly annoyed that she got published at all. Don't read this.
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| Darkmistress's Full Review: |
Candy & Me is a great deterrent to over indulging, but that’s about all it’s good for.
That’s the short review. Now for the long review.
Candy & Me is the saga of one woman’s obsession with all types of candy except chocolate. She waxes poetic about how she has sought out and devoured as much candy as humanly possible. Let me rephrase that. More candy than is humanly possible. In the beginning of the book she discusses how, as a child, she used to eat cups of powdered sugar when her parents were out. She had a deal with her brother that for every cup of sugar she ate he got to stay up an extra half hour. After a while he gave up counting because she would eat cup after cup of sugar.
This is disgusting. is it not? I have binged in my time and I can’t imagine the amounts of sugar she ingested and why she doesn’t have diabetes, heart disease, panic attacks and weigh over 300 pounds. She mentions these problems and immediately dismisses them saying she doesn’t want to talk about it. Why not? This is a serious issue. Why aren’t you tremendously obese? Did you spend hours in the gym working off the literal pounds of candy you couldn’t resist eating in one sitting? Toward the end of the book she finds an online source for some candy she couldn’t find any place else so she places an order for 5 pounds plus 5 pounds of another candy to fulfill a minimum order requirement. Her now husband convinces her to cancel the order because, though she plans on having him take it to work and dole it out sensibly, he’s worried about what will happen the day the order arrives. Think about that. Ten pounds of candy in a day. The very thought of that makes me feel over sugared.
The next thing I found very bothersome about Candy & Me is the utter lack of a point. She would launch into a story about an ex-boyfriend or teaching English overseas only to search for ways to bring it back around to candy (there was a type of candy she could only find in that country.) There’s also no lesson here. She doesn’t reach any great epiphany at the end. She does keep saying that she believes she ate lots of candy to replace the "sweetness" she felt was missing in her life …
And I don’t believe that because she had every break anyone could ask for short of being born a minor royal. She grew up in DC with opportunities aplenty. She went to Harvard. She held a job teaching English in one of the former Eastern Block countries. She stumbled into internet jobs before they became a big thing and got to ride that from go. She worked for iPublish (which is probably the only reason she got this piece of junk published.) She found a man who loves her. Ok, her parents marriage failed, but on her scale, if that’s missing sweetness in your life, I should be consuming about 30 pounds of raw sugar daily. If I were her I would have been embarrassed to admit most of what’s in this book.
I will give it this. A few days ago somebody brought in a large bowl of candy and left it on the table at work. I ended up sitting, unattended, in front of it over the course of several lunches. The memory of all the sugar she ate left me so queasy that overindulgence wasn’t a problem. So for that I give it a little credit. If you’re on a diet and want some avoidance help, you’ll want this. Otherwise, use your reading time for something good. Something with a point.
Recommended:
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