The Sex Doctors in the Basement: True Stories from a Semi-Celebrity Childhood

by Molly Jong-Fast

Book Overview

What do you do when Grandpa is a commie who lives in Connecticut with his secretary/wife, and Grandaunt Kitty has just decided at the age of eighty-five that she is no longer a lesbian? How do you... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140006144X
• ISBN13: 9781400061440
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Villard Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Fun entertaining quick read!

This is a sassy interesting book and a fun entertaining quick read. Molly is a great storyteller. I found it the perfect summer read on a hot, humid afternoon when I wanted to hide in the air-conditioned house. I saw a lot of my own child in Molly. I'm the mother of a teenager who had acquired the same adolescent drug problems; she too was kicked out of the best schools on the East Side and then proudly became a successful graduate of drug rehab at 16 years old, and slowly making her way thru college sober. I loved molly's witty take on life in Manhattan for teens with issues. I just need to add how wrong the comments were from that bitter angry reader. Sounds like she needs a little psychotherapy to get over her anger, probably just a jealous unpublished 30 year old.

Keep it Coming Molly!!

I was pleasantly surprised after my sister made me read "Normal Girl." I never thought I'd actually get into "chic-lit," but Molly's voice is so clear and concise that I eagerly anticipated the publication of Sex Doctors, her followup. Sex Doctors is even better than her prior work and I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to get inside a new york socialite's head and still find her endearing. Keep it coming Molly, great job! PS - Molly really captures the audience during her readings (she's basically a stand-up comic on a book tour).

Molly Jong-Fast has found her voice !

Sex Doctors was an amazing read. I read it cover to cover in 24 hours, absorbing every page with an intense hunger to get a peek inside the head and thoughts of the semi-famous Molly Jong-Fast. In the book, Molly is sweet, loving, spoiled, bratty, snide, sentimental, and strong! She was born into a life of fame (well, semi-fame), and all that comes with it, and tells the tale with such ease and witt. Being a fan of both mother and daughter's work, this book puts many puzzle pieces into place. Sometimes while reading you want to smack her silly, sometimes you want to hug her and do a happy dance with her. I'm waiting, impatiently, (ha!) for the next book.

Light-hearted, spirited and funny....

If you read Jong-Fast's book in the light-hearted, spirited and funny vein in which it's written, you will find it just that. In her take on a memoir (at 26-years-old) Jong-Fast's Sex Doctors in the Basement is as good as its catchy title suggests by a writer who does not take herself, her famous literary legacy, or her upbringing - filled with therapists and celebrities - so seriously.