- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Black and White Publishing (25 Oct 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1845020200
- ISBN-13: 978-1845020200
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.6 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,045,036 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In the most honest diary about men, women and sex you will ever read, Anvar Khan tackles the subjects that dare not speak their name at polite dinner parties. Pretty Wild is the real deal. The diary charts sexual encounters, throwing up (as the author often has), the problems that face men and women when they get together to have sex or fall in love. All human sexual habits, desires and fetishes, all manner of odd incidents and sharp insights mark this book out as the most realistic examination ever of what people have in their heads and then do in their beds. From 'The Great Lie About How Many Men Women Really Sleep With' to the serious issue of 'Whether To Have Anal Sex With A Stranger Or Not, That Is The Question', Anvar Khan milks the sexual cow for all its worth. Neither men nor women are safe from Anvar's wit and real life experience. She'll give you advice about the men women use for sex and the men they marry and how you can differentiate between the two. And she'll explain why any self-respecting woman or, indeed, any gay man could never end up with a man who has a small penis. Award-winning journalist and broadcaster Anvar Khan knows everything there is to know about being a girl about town and then becoming the talk of it. Now you can read all about what she's done and see what she's learned from it.
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7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Appallingly written drivel,
By suburb_77 "suburb_77" (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Pretty Wild: The Most Honest Diary About Men,Women and Sex You'll Ever Read (Paperback)
If you've ever had the misfortune of encountering this irritating bloater on her fatuous (and hastily cancelled) Channel 4 programme or her equally ludicrous appearances on radio you won't be surprised that this horribly written and, frankly, absurd book has all the insight of a slightly backward first form schoolgirl. This pompous, self-important and laughably uninformed idiot attempts to shed light on sexuality (actually sub-Sunday Sport attempts at titillation) in a series of nonsensical monologues that are about as erotic as being smacked round the back of the head with a soiled nappy. She frequently sprinkles her turgid prose with words that, clearly, she doesn't understand and attempts to add a patina of erudition by adding a hokey version of psychobabble to the whole thing. How anybody published this drivel is beyond me. The. Worst. Book. Ever.
4 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Finally, an honest book about 21st century sex,
By A Customer
This review is from: Pretty Wild: The Most Honest Diary About Men,Women and Sex You'll Ever Read (Paperback)
Whilst this book will be perceived as a book primarily for women I feel that there is much for men to learn from and identify from reading it. The basic story is that of the author's personal, sexual and romantic experiences over the course of one year. The book's subtitle "the most honest diary about men, women and sex you'll ever read" is certainly lived up to as I felt rather like a voyeur, in some way complicit in the action and misadventure. The primary attraction to this book is that in it we see similarities to our own experiences and in some way by sharing the author's highs, lows and outright disasters it becomes a much more tangible read. This may not be the most intellectual book ever written but at the same time it captures how difficult it is for single professional people to find love or even just a decent shag in the modern self-obsessed city environment and in this way it is a relevant piece of literature. Indeed some parts of the book are genuinely poignant in highlighting how much control plays a part in our sexuality and how desperately isolated some people are.Having said all of this I found the book really witty and often hilarious and this is where "Pretty Wild" stands out. Much too often books concerning relationships take themselves too seriously and in doing so often alienate the reader. Anyone who has a healthy attitude to sex will be able to identify with at least one of the author's experiences. I think that many women will be tempted to relate to the sometimes cringeworthy lows of how inept men really can be and that male readers will hopefully learn something about women. At 213 pages the book is an easy read but here this becomes a plus point as you are quickly taken along for the ride at a breakneck pace and I found myself re-reading several of the chapters as the sexual content is so frank that it demands to be re-visited. Pretty Wild is everything that Bridget Jones, for instance, was not. It is a book about a woman who is in control of her sexual identity and encounters as opposed to an insipid "everywoman", desperate for approval who is not. The content of the book may shock some readers but I believe that that is part of the point, that sex is exciting and varied and sometimes shocking but that it can also be pitifully hilarious as well.
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