Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth...

by Cynthia Heimel

Book Overview

This collection is vintage Heimel and reminds us how much we truly need her to guide us through the maelstrom of our times. Where else can a woman find such expert dating advice as: "My new rule is to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871135388
• ISBN13: 9780871135384
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

I'd actually say 4 1/2 stars

I love Cynthia Heimel's work, and every time I read something by her, I end up nodding my head in agreement to just about everything she says. She is definitely on my list of authors I'd love to go have a drink or three with sometime. I can't see why anyone would think this is a "trashy book" unless they are just really opposed to feminism. I, for one, do not find the idea of women being treated as equals offensive. A lot of what is said in this book needs to be said. If she comes off as angry sometimes, it's because she's discussing a subject that she has every right to be angry about. (Although I've noticed that a lot of times when a woman is passionate about something, she is dismissed as angry.) This book is a fun read. It allows you a way to look at something that is actually a pretty serious topic with a light sense of humor. I recommend it.

Better

Very cute stories, clever writing, I laughed out loud. Ms. Heimel came of age in the 60's and 70's, but writes about the 90's for singles...or anyone who needs to commiserate about jobs, apartments, friends, dogs, relationships....I recommend this book if you could use a laugh.

It inspired Mr. John Denver to write a country love song!

I have no idea as to the merit of the actual content of the book, but the book's title inspired the great Mr. John Denver to write a country 'love' song by the same name- I have to buy it for that reason :) It seems the book's title "just cried out" to John to have a country song written around it and thus he did so- teehee. The song, along with John's intro explaining the whole thing, can be found on his Harbor Lights Concert cd- well worth your purchase!!! :D Thanks for your literary guidance John!!! ~~~Forever John~~~ Brandi in Alabama ::adding to her collection of JD related STUFF::

Funny Urban Rants

Cynthia Heimel's Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-Bye first got my attention in the bookstore because of its title (like most of her books) and the inside material, for the most part, did not disappoint. First of all, this book is funny but it is also, often, bitter in an angry urban way that can remind one of a downtown Dorothy Parker. But, to repeat, it is funny. She does not tackle any surprising issues, instead sticking to family, the battle between the sexes, feminism and L.A. (as only a New Yorker truly can) but she handles them with fresh insights and, once again, humour. A nice collection of pieces.

Hilarious book validates trashy-mouthed babes

Cynthia Heimel has written another great "just say YES" book. Yes to sex, yes to drugs, and yes to rock & roll. Heimel writes what most of us have been thinking all along...that we're not all sweet, shy, moral creatures with perfect blow-dry bobs. Some of us are wild haired, trashy-mouthed girls that just wanna have fun. Heimel tells us how to do it. Be good to your dog, like your kids but give 'em space, treat everyone well but take no crap from anybody...and if that doesn't work, drink and play pool in a smoky gin-joint until you can pick up one of the band members. Heimel's not unsentimental. She writes poignantly about women struggling to raise kids on their own and women that are beginning to hit the end of their babe years. She is giggle-to-yourself funny when writing about (and against) answering machines, fashion, and rich people. I've read all Heimel's books by now and am willing to bribe her to write another. Fix yourself a drink, get under the covers, and enjoy this trashy, funny book.