Life's Too F***ing Short

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Editor : Anne Furniss

Product Details

Author : Janet Street-Porter
Format : Illustrated
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9781844005864
Number of Pages : 160
Product Group : Book
Publication Date : 2008-01-04
Publisher : Quadrille Publishing Limited

ASIN : 1844005860

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Editorial Reviews

Review

Regardless of your view of JSP, this is a hugely entertaining read from a hugely ballsy woman who, crucially, knows how to laugh at herself and takes no nonsense from anyone --THE OBSERVER, 20th January 2008

How to live lifee to the full while kicking out the (Word removed), JS-P style - straight from the mouth of the lady herself. **** (out of 5) --HEAT magazine, 9th February 2008

In print her forthrightness works to hilarious effect. More importantly, she does actually talk a lot of sense. --BIG ISSUE, 4th February 2008

from Marie Claire APRIL 2008

(mail of the month) - following an excerpt from the book :-
THE RULES ACCORDING TO JANET gave me a much needed kick up the arse. Just after New Year, I was sacked and was feeling incredibly insecure. To my mind, I was old (33), unemployed, unmarried, fat and ugly. After reading Janet..., I was literally laughing at myself for being so pitiful. I soon realised that I will get a better job, I'm gorgeous and in my prime, my boyfriend is a wonderful person with whom i have a fantastic relationship and that I shoudl be grateful. There are so many terrible things happening to women all over the world that life is, indeed, far too short short to worry about the small stuff.
MARIE CLAIRE reader

Product Description

Janet Street Porter has a unique view on life and this is no ordinary 21st Century survival guide. Drawing on the experiences of her fascinating life and incredibly successful career Janet Street Porter dispenses advice and tips on how to live life to the full, get what you want, do the things you crave, achieve more, feel happier and healthier and most importantly live the life you want to lead. Janet s philosophy is to believe in yourself totally to get out of bed every morning and tell yourself you re bloody brilliant to put yourself first at all times. In Life's Too F***ing Short she shows how we can successfully combine work, relationships, fitness, health, shopping, buying and preparing food for our self and others without spending a fortune, using up valuable time and making unnecessary effort. This book is the sum total of Janet's life's experiences, she proves that there are plenty of ways to get exactly what we want from life and feel better about who we are. Divided into eleven chapters, Janet focuses on why life is too f***ing short to spend hours cooking the way chefs tell us to; believe what men tell us; talk to people who are boring; spend £100 on face cream; diet; spend it in the same dreary job; shop for clothes that won t work; put up wallpaper; have a set of rules you can t live up to. Life s Too F***ing Short is here to help us clear away the (Word removed) and start again.

Synopsis

""Life's Too F***ing Short"" is an indispensable guide for women to surviving in the 21st century, which enables you to have a fulfilling and successful life without spending a fortune or passing a load of exams. It will show you how to combine work, relationships, friends, fashion, health, shopping, cooking etc without using up valuable time you could spend enjoying yourself. Janet's mantra is to tell yourself every day 'I'm bloody brilliant'! She shows how you can do everything from building a successful career and looking good, to meeting and keeping friends without making unnecessary effort or setting yourself unrealistic goals.Once you've read this book, you'll realise there are plenty of things you can kiss goodbye to for ever. Life's too short to: start a complicated diet; talk to a friend who bores the arse off you; take the pips out of grapes and papayas; stay in the same dreary job for years; concoct a face pack; sew curtains; do the ironing; drive miles to buy hand made pasta; believe that Joan Collins just uses great face cream or think that you'll ever look like a picture in a fashion magazine if you buy that GBP500 dress.The list is endless, and this book will just get you started. It's a new philosophy - that to succeed in life and be happy you must put yourself first at all times.

About the Author

Janet Street Porter has had a successful career in journalism and broadcasting spanning decades. In the 1970s she was on the Daily Mail, London Evening Standard and LBC. From 1988-1994 she was BBC Head of Youth and Entertainment Features and has devised, produced and presented many TV programmes. She has appeared on three series of C4's F Word and presented ITV2's Deadline in 2007. Janet has been editor of the Independent on Sunday and is now editor at large for the Independent. She has been president of the Ramblers Association. She has published two volumes of autobiography, Baggage and Fall Out. She is well known for her strong views and fearless expression of them.

Customer Reviews

So it's not just me....Thank F*** for that! (2008-08-25)

It's about time! After a deluge of tepid, psycho-babble tomes, along comes a cogent, refreshing slab of common sense. I was beginning to think it was just me getting cantankerous at 36. It's like having a wise, eccentric auntie tell you what you already-suspect-you-might-be-starting-to-almost-realise; but kicking you up the arse as she does it!Read it in one sitting. So gripped I didn't even get round to putting my feet up, or turning on the 'proper' reading light. Who cares? As Janet says, 'rules are made to be broken! Wahey! Thanks Janet!

Good fun read (2008-08-22)

I was attracted to this book by the design and layout which is really interesting. It is a kick up the ass for anyone feeling downtrodden and also provides cookery tips - what more could you ask for!

An ok light hearted read (2008-08-05)

I bought this book for a bit of light holiday reading and was attracted by the title and write up as I thought it would be quite a funny book. I have mixed views about it. It does offer some no nonsense viewpoints which act as a good reminder about certain things but then seemed to trail off into some very strange parts about food exercise etc. that didn't seem to fit with the rest of the book and were very basic. Ok for a light read but not as good or as funny as I hoped it would be.

Absolute Rubbish (2008-07-28)

This was the most boring book I have ever read, in fact I did not finish the book because it became so boring.Janet Street Porter is an intelligent women however this does not show in this book.The contents of this book we know already, nothing new.

What a sell out! (2008-07-16)

I was thoroughly looking forward to a rollocking good read as I'm quite a fan of JSP's particular brand of philosophy. However, having made disparaging remarks about health, beauty and fitness gurus and journalists, Ms SP goes on to present us with her own 'expertise' on how to eat healthily (all fresh fruit and veg, limited bread and potatoes etc - heard it all before!), exercise (not to lose weight, you understand, but you've still got to do an hour a day, albeit in shifts: she's apparently unconcerned about exercising too seriously, but is happy to do sit-ups to The Archers!)and eliminate eye bags. Oh please! This so smacks of just another self-help book along the lines of those she dismisses as utter rubbish - except that in this case the person writing it has no credentials in her subject matter whatsoever! As an example, there is a section on how damaging and generally useless 'cranky' diets are, yet at the bottom of the spread is an illustration of a whole week's eating plan: I was at a complete loss to fathom from the text whether the illustrated diet was one of the 'cranky' eating regimes she was slating, or whether it was her own recommended weekly intake! In short, JSP has totally sold out - which is hardly the action I would have expected of a woman who openly savages anyone trying to make a(dishonestly) fast buck. In my view this is sheer hypocrisy. Oh, and one final thing: who the hell sub-edited this book? Speaking here as a fellow author (and erstwhile sub editor), although Ms JP could be forgiven for not having a full grasp of grammar, it should not have escaped the attention of any sub worth his or her salt that 'its' when use in the context of a possessive pronoun (eg 'its own style') should NOT carry an apostrophe. This error recurs throughout the book. Anything to say about that, Lynne Truss?

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