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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:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 21714
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 264
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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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It’s said if you want to succeed, watch successful people and do what they do. Simply Irresistible is a humorous manual of case studies that show how the greatest sirens of history did what they did and got what they wanted, nearly all the time. Our role models-many of whom are still weaving their charms today- include Eva Peron, Greta Garbo, Coco Chanel, Nigella Lawson, Angelina Jolie, Edith Piaf, Lucretia Borgia, Anne Boleyn, Mata Hari, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Simply Irresistible gives practical, sexy, and sometimes downright outrageous advice on modern seduction. It exalts the siren archetypes of the Companion, Competitor, Goddess, Mother, and Sex Kitten. The cheeky histories of the iconic real-life women are paired with a fun array of quizzes, quotes, photos, tongue-in-cheek captions, and personal stories of triumph and tragedy. (Mata Hari and Anne Boleyn were, after all, both executed.) The wisdom of these famous sirens is fleshed out with the contributions of everyday, lesser known charismatic women. The conclusion? All women have an inner siren-the ability to bring men to their knees-just waiting to come out. Now they’ll know how.
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 It's just great! January 3, 2008
27 out of 32 found this review helpful
This book is beautiful and so much fun to read. I found it enchanting, sophisticated, and very savvy when talking about these fabulous women. Unlike all those wordy thesis' about men are from Mars, etc., the author makes all her big, important points without psychoanalytic pretentions and gets to the heart of the matter much more quickly and succinctly. It's the first book that made me want to play the "game".
Hilarious and True January 5, 2008
24 out of 27 found this review helpful
From the get-go this book made me laugh and was full of surprising, even startling, insights that chipped away at my (I suppose) hardened perspectives. The historical examples are entertaining, educational -- some even shocking -- but we also get the author's funny personal examples, which I especially loved. The author gives pointers like a wise and successful girlfriend who cares and can see things you don't. I gave a copy to a friend at work (it's a gorgeous gift) who reported back: "It's like a Bible."
 not quite April 29, 2008
16 out of 21 found this review helpful
If you would like a more accurate and in depth look at "sirens" in history, I recommend Seductress, by Dr. Betsy Prioleau. Past that, I have a problem with female self-help writers who offer the questionable examples of Wallis Simpson, Pamela Harriman and Mata Hari as paragons to be learned from. Wallis never did anything with her talents or gifts and was basically a gilded nursemaid and nanny to a royal wimp-(by the way, they were both Nazi sympathizers), Pamela-who described herself as a "backroom girl" who "didn't even particularly enjoy going to bed with men" was, more often than not, on the receiving end of much emotional abuse from the difficult men she played submissive geisha to- who also either returned to their wives or/and were unfaithful to her, and Mata Hari, according to Prioleau: "slept with faceless soldiers for peanuts, and concocted her secret agent yarn to get attention and improve business...(she)fooled nobody and cooperated fully in the national witch-hunt for women who renounced domestic responsibilities. During the war(WW1),with the combined threat of women in the workplace and the need for maternal succor and sacrifice, antidomestic sirens involved in politics were targeted as spies and demonized. Hence the myth of the double agent ball breaker in black satin." "She was eaten alive by every man in her path...her true love jilted her...")She was caught in the knots of her own clumsy lies and "hired a lawyer with no experience and blundered her way into a death sentence."
Far more inspiring and fabulous examples of triumphant sirens are found in Prioleau's study, many who, despite lack of beauty and youth, took no prisoners, got the men everyone wanted and triumphed against all odds. "Victimhood", Prioleau observes, "no matter how stylish, did not belong in the Siren's repertoire. Grand Horizontals preferred conquest, victory parades, and the spoils of war."
This is a pleasant, feel-good read, but by no means does it tell women anything they didn't already know. The only advice herein worth hearing again is: LOVE YOURSELF, and be happily fulfilled on your own so you do not cling or chase or need men to complete yourself. Truth 101.
Absolutely Fabulous! January 9, 2008
15 out of 22 found this review helpful
Absolutely Fabulous!
Highly recommended women of all ages. It's never too late to become the siren you want to be. Dive into this book and find out how so many others did!
A great study guide indeed March 27, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
After reading this book I feel my siren skills needs some much brushing up. This is was a fun and enjoyable read. I tore into it and finished it within 2 days. All the women selected were fasinating case studies and there is definitely something to be said about becoming an unique or an irresistable woman. One thing that has often been repeated to me by my male friends that it is often a woman's attitude and or confidence that capture their attention and I think much of that is reflected in this book. Highly, highly recommended.
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