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"You were expecting War and Peace? One of the more memorable true-life soap operas of our times -- in which a married man has a romance with a teenager who also prostitutes herself, and prevails on her to shoot his wife (non-fatally, it turned out) -- is retold by the former teen, dubbed the Long Island Lolita by New York tabloids. As one might expect, the tale is both titillating and pathetically sad, with the women suffering and the man becoming a brief tinhorn celebrity. One can't help thinking Amy Fisher has yet to meet a person who hasn't used her: neither her assistant author nor her publishers bothered to tell her "Lyin' Eyes" isn't on the _Hotel California_ album, though she says in the very first sentence of the book that the Eagles are her favorite band and later talks about the song at length. Apparently no one is interested in making her look anything but her worst."
David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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"I found this book to leave me thinking about how Amy was thinking at that age I am now 28, but when I was 16 I think I would have done the same thing in some sick sort of way, when you think you love someone as Amy thought she loved Joey, you find yourself willing to do anything to hold on to that romance. Amy was so much younger than Joey that it was easy for Joey to play Amy the way he did, he had been around, lived the life of a teen, he knew what to say to her, he made her feel good and she looked up to him, Amy and her father had a poor relationship, so that made Joey look even better he was someone she could call a father figure and he was also her lover. Now I think Amy was thinking of only one think when she walked up to Joeys house that day and shoot his wife Mary Joe, she was thinking Joey and I are going to be together now he loves me and she never thought about being caught going to jail, or worse than that kill someone. She was thinking about Joey, how much she wanted to please him and how much she loved him, he said we would be together forever if something were to happen to Mary Joe, going through her mind. So she shot her and where was Joey, not by Amys side, he gives the police her name and piture, the man she thought loved her and would always be there betrayed her..that has to be an awful feeling, here you shot this mans wife, became his sex toy and became a prostitute for him done all the things that Joey loves Mr. Wonderful, and he turns you in to the police himself, he lies about everything the motel nights, the boathouse, prostitution, drugs everything people knew about him he lied about and made people believe him, but when he was jailed for having sex with Amy before she was 16 was great, people were starting to see what a scum bag Joey really was."
Terrie Whitlock, Resident Scholar
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Our unique search engine provides a wealth of detail about books by breaking them down into many different literary elements, all of which are searchable (click here).
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Romance
Yes
Kind of romance:
- discovery about a lover
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Kids:
- trouble in high school
- boozing
- seducing/being seduced
- first sexual experience
job/profession:
- prostitute
Gender/Class story?
- woman's story
Job/profession/poverty story
Yes
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- adultery
Ethnic/regional/gender
Yes
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
- 20's-30's
Biography of famous person?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- American (!)
How sensitive is this person?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 1 (None)
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
Century:
- 1980's-Present
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Book makes you feel?
- depressed
- thoughtful
Is book humorous?
Yes
If humorous, kind of humor
- eccentric personalities
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript. of nude males (the big P)
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- actual description of hetero sex
Unusual Style:
- a lot of stream of consciousness
Writer's slant towards subject:
- neutral
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of nearly entire life
Autobiography?
Yes
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more dialog than descript
- little dialog
A LOT of info about personal vices?
Yes
Lot of titilating info about love life?
Yes
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 76%-100% of book
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