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| Simply Irresistible: Unleash Your Inner Siren and Mesmerize Any Man, with Help from the Most Famous--and Infamous--Women in History | 
 enlarge | Author: Ellen T. White
Publisher: Running Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 16210
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 264
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7 x 1.2
ISBN: 076242673X
Dewey Decimal Number: 305
EAN: 9780762426737
ASIN: 076242673X
Publication Date: December 24, 2007
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 Lush & Lovely ~Simply Irresistible May 29, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Ellen T. White has scored with her lovely book "Simply Irresistible". The 264 page book is both a pleasure to look at and read. White begins by helping the reader identify their inner siren. The classic sirens are: Goddess, Companion, Sex Kitten, Competitor, and Mother. She uses a famous women in history as a case study to illustrate each. Marilyn Monroe, for example, is a classic Sex Kitten. White describes the behavior, clothes, attitude etc. Marilyn used to captivate her male audience that are typical of the "Sex Kitten" siren.
After you have identified your style, White suggests you personalize your style and make it your own. She gives more case studies of women who have magnetized with their unique traits. Tips on putting your best foot forward, building your power base, making yourself so unforgettable....
The allure of many well known and lesser known women throughout history is covered. Jackie Kennedy Onasis, Coco Chanel, Cleopatra, Clare Booth Luce, Zelda Fitzgerald, Camilla Bowles and many others.
Interspersed throughout the book are beautiful photos and illustrations. An index and resource section are included at the back.
Lovely read!
~ Lee Mellott
An irresistible and empowering book May 14, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Once in awhile a book comes along that empowers you to feel good about yourself, and helps give you that extra nudge that you want to become the person you desire to be. What women does not want to be irresistible to the man of their choice. Through example of life story after life story this book tells many tales of a variety of different women and the power they held over the men that they were with.
You don't have to be the most attractive, the best dressed, or the best anything to hold a man captive. You simply need to promote your best qualities be it a muse, a mother figure, a companion, or even a sex kitten to really attract a man. I like that it is suggested that you really just need to agument the best qualities that you already have and use those to your advantage.
She uses many examples of a variety of different women such as Mata Hari, Queen Elizabeth II, the Duchess of Windsor, Carol Lombard to name just a few. Each of these women are unique, just as each one of are. Through reading this book you will feel that you are unique and a special person completely capable of finding and holding that special person in your life.
 Very mixed on this book May 26, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
As a summer read, I can recommend this title. However, in the beginning the author describes the book as her thesis on Sirens. That prepared me to expect a different kind of book, a more academic approach, which it was not.
Some of White's Sirens are favorites of mine: Monroe (in spite of her untimely death), Garbo to name a couple. Some were unknown to me, the French courtesans for example. Still others I had to wonder at her choice such as Edith Piaf who's ending was very sad. I think a Siren is someone who succeeds to the end. It is the men who are dashed upon the rocks by the Siren song not the Sirens. Two that should have been included: Audrey and Katherine Hepburn. I believe the "never complain, never explain" quote belongs to Katherine H. not the Siren White credits.
Writing style: I was disappointed. As the book wore on I became a bit bored. The writing was random, sloppy and didn't have much direction. Her "girlfriend" speak comes off as decidedly not Siren.
To sum up, the subject matter and idea of a book on Sirens is excellent just not executed terribly well by the author. I did enjoy the art. If you don't read it cover to cover like I did it can be entertaining.
 Perfect for women who never learned to flirt February 27, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is easy reading with many indepth insights. If you like history and interesting stories to learn from then this book is for you. It is also wonderful for women wanting to learn how to embrace their powers of flirtation.
BUY THIS BOOK: I am a Seductress Expert!!! May 10, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am a great voyager of female seductress' throughout all of History and I have significantly studied and explored these women and their intoxicating seductive abilities, beginning with Eve, the very first seductress. But for her, Adam would not have given-up his power and control of all of Planet Earth. What these women of History have to offer and to convey to women of Today's world, is priceless. Over and over again, History demonstrates to the 21st Century woman that the ability to keep a man seduced has little or nothing to do with physical beauty and everything to do with a woman's intellect, wit and an inner-spirit which glows with eroticism. While it is certainly true that men are visual, what will captivate a man for a moment, does not keep him for an eternity. Like Judge Judy preaches: "Pretty is for now, but dumb is forever." I am happy and thrilled to share this History of seduction with you; to show you how a Man's World is only so, because women are the driving force and the foundation of it.
Queen Cleopatra was far from beautiful, despite glamorous image today. She is portrayed on ancient coins and Egyptian busts with a long hooked nose, pointed chin and wide forehead; furthermore, she was 4'9 and her figure is depicted as `potato-like' and `dumpy'...and yet Cleopatra was undoubtedly a very seductive woman. She had an enchantingly musical voice; she was clever, exuded charisma, skillful humor and shrewd wit. Cleopatra was also highly intelligent; she spoke nine languages and proved to be a shrewd politician as she was a brilliant linguist and skillful strategist. When Cleopatra needed an alliance with Rome to re-gain her throne, she cleverly had herself smuggled to Caesar rolled-up inside an oriental rug, and when the rug was unrolled, Cleopatra tumbled out at Caesar feet. It is said that Caesar was bewitched and enthralled by her intelligence and her charm, and that he became her lover that very night. Cleopatra had such an effect on Caesar, that although he continued his dalliance with other women, he reached a point where no woman could satiate him as Cleopatra had: on every level Cleopatra was able to match Caesar intellectually, sexually, cleverly. Caesar was so taken with Cleopatra, that he brought her and their son, Cesarean, to Rome. And when Caesar was betrayed and assassinated by his people, Cleopatra then turned her attention to Marc Anthony. She came to Marc Anthony in a boat that was sailed by her maids, who were dressed as sea nymphs. Cleopatra herself was dressed as Venus, the Goddess of Love. She lay-back reclined under a gold canopy, fanned by young Eunuchs in Cupid costumes. Antony, who was, pleasure-loving man, was impressed by this blatant display of luxury and seduction, just as Cleopatra had intended. Cleopatra entertained him on her barge that night, and the next night Antony invited her to supper, hoping to outdo her in magnificence. Like Caesar before him, Antony was enthralled and held spell-bound by the seeming unending display of the mysteries Cleopatra. Forgetting his responsibilities, Marc Anthony accompanied Cleopatra to Alexandria and spent the winter with her there. Cleopatra's legend and her mark was deeply creased into Imperial Rome. Wrote the Greek writer Plutarch of Cleopatra, "Plato admits four sorts of flattery, but Cleopatra had a thousand. Were Antony serious or disposed to mirth, she had at any moment some new delight or charm to meet his wishes; at every turn she was upon him, and let him escape her neither by day nor by night. She played at dice with him, drank with him, hunted with him; and when he exercised in arms, she was there to see. At night she would go rambling with him to disturb and torment people at their doors and windows, dressed like a servant-woman, for Antony also went in servant's disguise... However, the Alexandrians in general liked it all well enough, and joined good-humouredly and kindly in his frolic and play. Cleopatra was a female for all Men to wish for and to dream upon."
Mata Hari, as Queen Cleopatra before her, was no glamorous beauty as she is depicted both in on screen and in theater. Born Margaretha Gertrude Zelle, in 1905 after two failed marriages, Margaretha re-invented herself and began to win fame as an exotic Oriental-style dancer. It was at this time that she took the stage name Mata Hari, which translates as "Eye of the Dawn" in Malay. Mata Hari's hair was thin and fine and her face pock-marked from scars, her body sallow and squat, and while she was not known for being remarkably beautiful, her spirit was overflowing with eroticism and Mata Hari never-the-less expelled self-confidence and poise and she was candidly Promiscuous and flirtatious; openly flaunting her painted and bejeweled body with a mystique that captivated both her audiences and the public and Mata Hari was an overnight success from the debut of her act at the Musee Guimet on March 13, 1905. Mata Hari posed as a princess from Java of priestly Indian birth, pretending to have been initiated into the art of sacred Indian dance since childhood. In those days it was quite easy for someone possessing a flamboyant personality to invent a character and present it as fact with a good chance of success due to the limits of telecommunications available at the time. She behaved like a goddess and was photographed numerous times during her career in either scant clothing or gloriously nude; and Mata Hari brought her carefree provocative style to the stage in her act, which led to wide acclaim. Mata Hari became a successful courtesan and had relationships with many high-ranking military officers, politicians and others in influential positions in many countries, including France, Russia and Germany. Her relationships and liaisons with powerful men took her across international borders frequently, she began to be seen by some as a wanton and promiscuous woman, and perhaps a dangerous seductress. Even today popular imagination is fired by the idea of an exotic dancer working as a lethal double agent, using her powers of seduction to extract military secrets from her many lovers. This image has made Mata Hari an enduring archetype of the femme fatale. Mata Hari is mentioned in "Like It or Not", a song from Madonna: "Cleopatra had her way, Mata Hari too. Whether they were good or bad, is strictly up to you. You can't have the femme without the fatale." Mata Hari is mentioned in the song "Genius" by Warren Zevon: "Mata Hari had a house in France, where she worked on all her secret plans; Men were falling for her sight unseen, she was a genius."
Truly, the sway and genius behind seducing a man, comes FROM YOUR MIND and IN YOUR CONFIDENCE---and has little to do with a perfect figure and a beautiful face.
Article Copyright 2007 by Nannette LaRee Hernandez
Nannette LaRee Hernandez
Authoress: 'Creative Screwing: a woman's guide to becoming an erotic enchantress of superlustful sex'
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