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No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel |  | Author: Janice Dickinson
Publisher: ReganBooks,U.S.
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 87998
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 400
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0060566175
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.92092
EAN: 9780060566173
ASIN: 0060566175
Publication Date: December 4, 2003
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 oh the eighties... March 1, 2004
laura cross
12 out of 19 found this review helpful
janice dickinson...a drunk and drug addict who screwed stallone and played long time drug buddy to the eighties greatest sacrificial lamb gia carangi. but that's not all. brjanice is an articulate mother who realises mistakes she has made but openly admits the fun she had making them in this book.brrevealing and funny, this is one womans account of her life less ordinary.
Excellent Read June 22, 2006
Lisa Marsh (uk)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
What a life this women has had. An excellent read, hard to put down, read it by the next day.
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br /I always thought she was a bit batty but after reading this I understand her, and I like her. She rocks ...
An amazing read! January 17, 2008
MadonnaRagu (London, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I took this book with me on a holiday abroad. It was a magical read - I had to stop myself from reading the whole book in one go. I wanted to savour it, day after day.
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br /The supermodels, the drugs, the sex, the celebrities, the 70s and the 80s - it's all there.
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br /Well-written, gripping and emotional.
br /Janice is an amazing woman.
br /Highly recommended!
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 Gloriously Fast Past March 9, 2005
Ella (London, Europe)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Janice Dickinson's autobiography is a candid look at the bitchy, high-octane world of high fashion. Starting with her blue-collar upbringing in Florida, growing up with an sexually abusive father a damaged mother, Janice's life story is certainly worthy book-material. From her unhappy childhood to her tedious beginnings in the modelling world in Manhattan, her life was an uphill struggle. Soon catching the wave of change, breaking the mould with her dark-looks and boyish figure, Janice was never going to be your typical All-American girl next door. And her story is definately more exciting than anything the girl next door could tell you anyway. pDickinson's story moves at lightening speed, from boyfriend to boyfriend, designer to designer. Sometimes it's hard to keep track, which I suppose is perfectly apt - as this writing style mimics the very speed and pace that her career and life travelled at at that time. From the glamourous foreign locations to the heady excess of Studio 54, Janice paints a fantasty world of almost ludicrous proportions. Except that it's not a fantasy world at all - it all happened, and Janice recalls each event with glorious detail and candour. Her honesty and confidence is very refreshing, making such a nice change from the usual sychophantic memiors that fill the shelves.pMy only complaint is with the last section of the book, covering the 1990s. Janice is very vague and seems to completetly rush throught these years, with major marriages and realtionships over and done with in a matter of pages. But hey, who really cares about those years anyway? We all what to read about Janice in her prime, in the 70s and 80s, when cocaine and platform shoes were practically a legal requirement.pSome may find Dickinson too much to take (she is a tad irritating at times), but I can forgive her for it, because she makes up for it with her brutal honesty and humour.pA must read
DO believe the hype... June 19, 2005
L. Challis (Lincs, UK)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
...surrounding self-proclaimed "World's First Supermodel" Janice Dickinson.brAs all previous evidence suggests, she IS quite the bitch. She is self-absorbed, emotionally unstable, demanding and erratic. However, she is also woman enough to admit all of the above and indeed revel in both her flaws and her perfections in equal measure.pShe has certainly lead a remarkable life, escaping an abusive childhood home to light the way in the absurdly glamorous and destructive world of high fashion in the 70s and 80s. Inhabiting a precarious world of ridiculous excess, Dickinson threw herself into everything with almost frenzied dedication, resulting in a trail-blazing career in modelling, numerous high-profile train-wreck relationships and the obligatory coke'n'booze addictions.pShe is, as another reviewer observed, irritating at times. But on the whole this autobiography offers a mile-a-minute ride with numerous laughs, and moments which are cringe-inducing and sometimes unexpectedly touching.
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