Exploring the Challenges of Being a Woman in Today's Society: A Reflection on I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron

Patricia Huion: Good start to talk about unpleasant topics such as aging, death, physical downgrading.
Makes you smile with recognition. Reading group material.

United States on Dec 07, 2023

ANNE REED: Humorous book about everyday life situations

United States on Oct 15, 2023

Bryan Abrahamse: Lots of laughs!

Canada on Oct 02, 2023

Kindle Customer: Even though I’m not yet as old as Nora, I felt her commentary on aging really hit home. I felt like I was following along with her inner thoughts- the ones so many of us have but don’t voice. And I appreciate her honesty and realistic evaluation of life. Now off I go to find some expensive creams and oils that definitely will work ;)

United States on Sep 10, 2023

A. Mcclintock: I have just discovered this remarkable woman...I read the whole book in two days...then I discovered her son had made a documentary about her which I watched straight after.
The last chapter of the book was unsettling and made me try to live each day to the fullest while we can
I'm so sorry she had gone on ahead.....she was something else!

United Kingdom on Jul 18, 2023

bérénice bruzzo: Very funny, entertaining and easy to read.

France on Jun 08, 2023

Rob Cheshire: So full disclosure right up front - My favourite films of all time include When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle and other films of this variety, plus, I've always known about Nora Ephron as a name in connection with those movies, but never looked any deeper or at anything else....until now. Suffice to say, I have now just ordered The Most of Nora Ephron because I have to have more of her writing. I'm so sad I'm so late to the party, this woman was clearly a super talented genius with a certain way of writing and connecting you to the things she was saying. I absolutely loved 'I Feel Bad About My Neck' I haven't stopped smiling since I finished it - what an utter joy it is. I also feel perhaps a little strange, I mean, is a guy who is in his 50's supposed to love writing like this? Hey, I don't know and I also don't care, this is a glorious book to read. It's sort of a collection of essays about elements of her life, some very random, like Cabbage Strudel.....is that a thing(?), apparently so. The way she describes things, not necessarily using a million and one words, just the phraseology and you totally get what she's talking about and you're in. I would totally...

United Kingdom on May 01, 2023

Chocolattez: Someone recommended this for book club... and I am so glad that they did.. now I want to read all her other books..she is so funny.. her comments on life so true.. i wonder tho if I would have enjoyed it as much if I were younger.. it seems to me that you have to have lived a lot of your life to truly appreciate what she says ... but maybe not.. a good read!!

United States on Apr 08, 2023

Emi Bevacqua: The Independent calls Nora Ephron "America's favourite naughty aunt" and Boris Johnson's sister sums her up thusly, "No one wrote more amusingly about the important things in women's lives - love, betrayal, heartbreak, children, parents, sex, ageing, dating, dieting,... the death of romance, death itself". I would only add to that list: happiness, and cooking.

I read this and laughed along throughout, nodding in agreement, and feeling amazed that Nora Ephron got me, so completely. She must have lived her life surrounded by women telling her their problems, stories and annoyances, if I could have I certainly would have! So humorous and relatable, so wise and yet self-deprecating. If I were lucky enough to be her friend I would have told her when I disagreed with her, that wearing black with gray hair doesn't really make you look older or sadder, and that bread in America is actually not so unbelievably delicious compared to in Europe. And I would thank her for her great advice: to write everything down, keep a journal, go see a lawyer and file the papers the minute you decide to get divorced, overtip, to never let them know, and that there are no secrets.

Nora...

United Kingdom on Jul 28, 2020

M. Galindo: My expectation for this book was lightweight humor on women's aging, so I don't think I was expecting too much. There were a few essays that I felt delivered, specifically the ones pertaining to neck, purses, maintenence, and death/dying. I even enjoyed the essays on cooking and child rearing as sort of capsules in time, so to speak. They were amusing and quick, easy reads.

I did, however, think the essays that pertained to her apartment dilemma in New York, and her life in New York overall, were limiting and pointless. Who cares what rent costs in New York for a person making in excess of $250,000, and how does that pertain to aging? And when she began to whine about her rent going up, she lost me completely. I was also not big on digs to her ex-husbands. She's divorced? Fine, lots of people are, but keep the bitterness out unless she was willing to grant equal time to her exes to let us get a glimpse of how she was in the marriage.

For this book to have made it as the "hit" it was hyped to be, Ms. Ephron should have kept it on a more generic level - something all women could relate to. But, on some levels it is amusing.

United States on Jul 03, 2007