- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Talion Publishing (Jun 1 1999)
- ISBN-10: 1890916501
- ISBN-13: 978-1890916503
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 136 g
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Belly Laughs isn't exactly what I'd call it, Jun 15 2001
By Stephanie Martin - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Belly Laughs: Adventures with Celebrities and Other Unusual Characters (Paperback)
I'm disappointed in this book, I picked it up at a belly dance workshop, and figured it would be full of laughs. It's not exactly a book of funny stories, some of them are just plain weird, not funny, or didn't have anything to do with belly dancing.One of the things that disappointed me most about the book is the story telling style. Long states at the beginning that he's not trying to embellish the stories or take them over, but we constantly get little bits of Long-ese (definitions of words he uses), and somehow I don't think all these belly dancers used Long-ese a lot. It's like he's constantly trying to remind us who's writing the book. He also crams the table of contents onto two pages in small type, but has no problems putting a definition of Long-ese on the page in large type, and then devoting the entire next page to a definition of 'buckwheat.'
A lot of the stories weren't funny, or didn't have a whole lot to do with belly dancing. The last story of the book is a narrative about one belly dancer's obsession with The Artist Formerly Known as Prince. There isn't any mention of belly dance in it, other than the person who was obsessed with him saw his wife dancing. Another one deals with one belly dancer's husband accidentally eating 'funny' brownies and then driving 10 miles an hour down the road.
The book isn't a total waste though, there are a few funny and interesting stories, one about a python that farted feathers, another about how a belly dancing cousin warmed up a somber wedding, and another about a mishap a dancer had when she danced with Omar Sharif. Other than that, there's not a whole lot of really good stories. If you're really interested in sorting through the bad to find the good, then order the book. If not, try to pick one up used or see if the library has a copy.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Gratuitous Name-Dropping and Annoying Writing Style, Mar 12 2000
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Belly Laughs: Adventures with Celebrities and Other Unusual Characters (Paperback)
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.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
What a Disgrace, Jan 12 2003
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Belly Laughs: Adventures with Celebrities and Other Unusual Characters (Paperback)
This book is absolutely terrible. Maybe a couple of funny stories but overall it is an incredible waste and a torture to read.
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