Carolina Gynning

The best fact: it's written as though the author has some grave ADHD issues.

The worst fact: it's written as though the author has some grave ADHD issues.

Carolina Gynning writes of her growing pains, her becoming a model with international partying, her partaking in the Swedish version of TV-show "Big Brother" and her desire to be taken seriously as an artist.

Throughout the book she litters her words of wisdom. She wants to be taken seriously and writes of her snogging Calum Best. She writes of feminism in a great way, then writes about her flaws, her ups and what she likes in life. She rants about being beaten up, about winning "Big Brother", of her men. Of her family.

It's all very wishy-washy, as though Gynning really needed an editor. She had a contributor, but I don't know what that person really did for this book. It's scattered, leaving a quite manic impression.

In its defense, it is entertaining. Gynning's many adventures as a young model are quite funny at times. All in all, reading this book is like watching an episode of "Sex and The City": they may aspire to be something more than entertaining, but quite rarely is - still, there is an oomph behind the surface that lingers. In Gynning's case, this is her unconscious fight for feminism.… (mehr)

One of the worst books I've ever read. It's true.

I actually liked her first one, "Ego Girl", because it was ADHD in the best and worst sense of the term; Gynning was all over the place and extremely honest, which really made for some funny, laughable, interesting and tragic anecdotes. One could understand her.

This book, however, is filled with contradictions, stories repeated, blatherings between her and a psychic about her previous lives which - of course - are all interesting and larger than life; why can't people who claim to have lived past lives simply say "I used to be a farmer. Did regular farmer's stuff. Nothing more than that." but claim to be Napoleon in some sense?

Gynning retells stories of her mother's mother, and I've no idea why, really.

There's a Q&A section at the end of the book that seems to be taken from her blog.

While her prior autobiography struck me as interesting, this one recounts a lot of her career in TV, which bored me. Her writing is filled with wordings that are apparently - all too apparently - construed to make her seem intelligent and cunning, which all ends up with a structure not too far fallen from that of the Harlequin novel: it's all "And her hard times were forgotten by all but herself, those tragic years..."

Writing about yourself in the third person is ludicrous, but if that wasn't enough, she does it after almost every chapter, in italics. Yes, in italics. To emphasize. Yes. EMPHASIZE the IMPORTANT STUFF.

I wish I could forget all of this. Don't ever buy it. I paid 37:50 SKR (appx. 6 USD) for this, and I wish I could get every Crown back.… (mehr)