Driving Under the Affluence Mass Market Paperback – January 1, 1997

Thank goodness I spent a few cents on it. Not a good read at all.

Fun read

I found this book at 'The Dollar Tree',and quickly laid down a buck for it.I found the author egotistical,meanspirited,selfcentered,and never the blame for anything.She only saw the bad in people ,and was quick to find everbody's flaws and/or weaknessess.Her gay stereo/arch types bothered me as an attempt to either control or condemn people.I wanted to do her right away.

I admit it. I didn't-no, wait, couldn't finish it. Rare is the book that can bore me so much as to have to quit after the second chapter. One of the worst books I've ever tried to read. Julia, we thank you for Close Encounters, but use your pen to write those checks to the IRS, and nothing more. Total trash, dish about the vain eccentricities of people you couldn't give a rat's posterior about, all in Phillips' wish-I-could be-a-female-Tom Wolfe/Jack Kerouac/Tom Robbins style. Suspect conclusions on reality abound, just awful, inconsequential, unclever observations on larger life, obviously due to the fact that she lives in Hollywood, where for better or worse, nothing is real.

For those interested in the life of a Very successful movie producer! Phillips is Honest about her Hollywood life, from her drug use, to her very wise insight into producing Hit Films! (Close Encounters of the Third Kind,etc)

The title is the only thing I found in this book that was worth reading. I couldn't finish [email protected]