True story of a girl fresh from the Sunset Strip scene in Hollywood. The grunge scene took over and left her hair band crowd in the dust. Where to go? What to do? It was as if a three year long party had just been broken up and no one remembered where they lived. Everyone was left with an identity crisis. Those who turned to drugs found themselves spinning out of control, especially Amy's friend Birdie. The Sunset Strip girls migrated into the mainstream L.A. club scene and took over the V.I.P. rooms. Read about lots of run-ins with 1990's stars like Anna Nicole Smith, Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson, among many others. What happened inside the clubs? Read about the insane nights of young twenty-somethings on the loose in Los Angeles. When Amy became overwhelmed by L.A., she headed for Aspen, Colorado. Read about the total chaos inside the closed doors of Aspen ski lodges, where cocaine was king. The death of a close friend caused her to sink into an ugly depression. Will she turn to drugs to comfort herself? Confetti Covered Quicksand is the story of a girl in Los Angeles, trying to survive on her looks and struggling with her identity. It is about using drugs and alcohol to cover up pain and humiliation. Can she find happiness in the emptiest, numbest city in the world?
Review: A TRUE LIFE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS...WITH HARDER DRUGS
This book is the follow up to The Sunset Strip Diaries, which was a great read as well. It starts out with the ending of the hair band scene, and tells about what happened to the people Amy once knew. It goes on to detail the true story of her adventures after that scene- which are once again both disturbing and fascinating at the same time. She becomes a nanny for a British family, then moves into a big party house; she tries pulling one of her friends away from the clutches of some Heidi Fleiss employees, her roommate is running from a sugar daddy and needs to hide, there are girls going missing at the strip club her friends work at, etc etc etc- it is sheer insanity and to read it was like eating a big ol' bowl of ice cream: delicious. I felt bad for her and her friends in many instances, but it was awesome to spy on these people via the book. There were several celebrity run-ins mentioned, such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt LeBlanc, etc.- made it really fun to read.
She ends up moving to Aspen to get out of L.A., and I found that scene to be quite interesting as well; great details throughout the book. There is a death of one of the main characters, which apparently really did happen, and it is pretty shocking. These L.A. chicks led really wild lives. Reading it is like you are talking to a friend, you feel like you know the author personally, which I liked.
This book reminds me of a 'Less Than Zero' crossed with a 'I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell' type of book. There are lots of funny stories, but it is also kind of a melancholy commentary on the lives of a group of people living in L.A. in the mid-1990's.
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Review: A TRUE LIFE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS...WITH HARDER DRUGS
This book is the follow up to The Sunset Strip Diaries, which was a great read as well. It starts out with the ending of the hair band scene, and tells about what happened to the people Amy once knew. It goes on to detail the true story of her adventures after that scene- which are once again both disturbing and fascinating at the same time. She becomes a nanny for a British family, then moves into a big party house; she tries pulling one of her friends away from the clutches of some Heidi Fleiss employees, her roommate is running from a sugar daddy and needs to hide, there are girls going missing at the strip club her friends work at, etc etc etc- it is sheer insanity and to read it was like eating a big ol' bowl of ice cream: delicious. I felt bad for her and her friends in many instances, but it was awesome to spy on these people via the book. There were several celebrity run-ins mentioned, such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt LeBlanc, etc.- made it really fun to read.
She ends up moving to Aspen to get out of L.A., and I found that scene to be quite interesting as well; great details throughout the book. There is a death of one of the main characters, which apparently really did happen, and it is pretty shocking. These L.A. chicks led really wild lives. Reading it is like you are talking to a friend, you feel like you know the author personally, which I liked.
This book reminds me of a 'Less Than Zero' crossed with a 'I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell' type of book. There are lots of funny stories, but it is also kind of a melancholy commentary on the lives of a group of people living in L.A. in the mid-1990's.
Confetti Covered Quicksand
True story of a girl fresh from the Sunset Strip scene in Hollywood. The grunge scene took over and left her hair band crowd in the dust. Where to go? What to do? It was as if a three year long party had just been broken up and no one remembered where they lived. Everyone was left with an identity crisis. Those who turned to drugs found themselves spinning out of control, especially Amy's friend Birdie. The Sunset Strip girls migrated into the mainstream L.A. club scene and took over the V.I.P. rooms. Read about lots of run-ins with 1990's stars like Anna Nicole Smith, Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson, among many others. What happened inside the clubs? Read about the insane nights of young twenty-somethings on the loose in Los Angeles. When Amy became overwhelmed by L.A., she headed for Aspen, Colorado. Read about the total chaos inside the closed doors of Aspen ski lodges, where cocaine was king. The death of a close friend caused her to sink into an ugly depression. Will she turn to drugs to comfort herself? Confetti Covered Quicksand is the story of a girl in Los Angeles, trying to survive on her looks and struggling with her identity. It is about using drugs and alcohol to cover up pain and humiliation. Can she find happiness in the emptiest, numbest city in the world?
Review: A TRUE LIFE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS...WITH HARDER DRUGS
This book is the follow up to The Sunset Strip Diaries, which was a great read as well. It starts out with the ending of the hair band scene, and tells about what happened to the people Amy once knew. It goes on to detail the true story of her adventures after that scene- which are once again both disturbing and fascinating at the same time. She becomes a nanny for a British family, then moves into a big party house; she tries pulling one of her friends away from the clutches of some Heidi Fleiss employees, her roommate is running from a sugar daddy and needs to hide, there are girls going missing at the strip club her friends work at, etc etc etc- it is sheer insanity and to read it was like eating a big ol' bowl of ice cream: delicious. I felt bad for her and her friends in many instances, but it was awesome to spy on these people via the book. There were several celebrity run-ins mentioned, such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt LeBlanc, etc.- made it really fun to read.
She ends up moving to Aspen to get out of L.A., and I found that scene to be quite interesting as well; great details throughout the book. There is a death of one of the main characters, which apparently really did happen, and it is pretty shocking. These L.A. chicks led really wild lives. Reading it is like you are talking to a friend, you feel like you know the author personally, which I liked.
This book reminds me of a 'Less Than Zero' crossed with a 'I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell' type of book. There are lots of funny stories, but it is also kind of a melancholy commentary on the lives of a group of people living in L.A. in the mid-1990's.
Review: A TRUE LIFE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS...WITH HARDER DRUGS
This book is the follow up to The Sunset Strip Diaries, which was a great read as well. It starts out with the ending of the hair band scene, and tells about what happened to the people Amy once knew. It goes on to detail the true story of her adventures after that scene- which are once again both disturbing and fascinating at the same time. She becomes a nanny for a British family, then moves into a big party house; she tries pulling one of her friends away from the clutches of some Heidi Fleiss employees, her roommate is running from a sugar daddy and needs to hide, there are girls going missing at the strip club her friends work at, etc etc etc- it is sheer insanity and to read it was like eating a big ol' bowl of ice cream: delicious. I felt bad for her and her friends in many instances, but it was awesome to spy on these people via the book. There were several celebrity run-ins mentioned, such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt LeBlanc, etc.- made it really fun to read.
She ends up moving to Aspen to get out of L.A., and I found that scene to be quite interesting as well; great details throughout the book. There is a death of one of the main characters, which apparently really did happen, and it is pretty shocking. These L.A. chicks led really wild lives. Reading it is like you are talking to a friend, you feel like you know the author personally, which I liked.
This book reminds me of a 'Less Than Zero' crossed with a 'I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell' type of book. There are lots of funny stories, but it is also kind of a melancholy commentary on the lives of a group of people living in L.A. in the mid-1990's.
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940013130098 |
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| Publisher: | Estep & Fitzgerald |
| Publication date: | 07/21/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 276 |
| Sales rank: | 871,693 |
| File size: | 183 KB |
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