I really loved that book. Very entertaining!

Jameson's memoirs from childhood to marriage detailing how she became one of the most famous and successful pornstars along the way. I did enjoy reading this but there's a part of me that doesn't believe a lot of the stuff she says happened because it sounds so cliched. Plus it was kind of disconcerting that she referred to her vagina as her ding-ding. Not because she's a pornstar but because she's a grown woman for pete's sake!

I initially thought it might be interesting reading about one of the top celebrities in the industry but it became really boring and redundant pretty early on. I felt bad for her in some parts, but in others, I just wanted to walk away from the book. The book lacked any real depth and the narrative was pretty basic and uninteresting.

The start of the decline of Mr Strauss, on his way to becoming the most 'lad' lad ever with that utter nonsense "Game" was it? (forgive me if I misunderstood the premises for that one, I wouldn't know, since I wouldn't be caught dead with the crap). This one does not give me that problem. The steps down from the almost surreal stories of 'The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band' and (much more so) 'The Long Hard Road Out of Hell' to full-blown sensationalism does.

I'm sure this is an honest story, but a couple of things occurred to me; yes, life as a porn star is as ugly and horrible as I thought, and no, I'm really not all that interested in reading about that.

I haven't actually finished just tapped out. There is no chronological order which is confusing since there's no intros or anything. And for a "cautionary tale" that's not necessarily pro porn, there's far too many naked and flattering pics.

Fascinating.

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For anyone who doesn't know (I think most of us do though) Jenna Jameson is a very famous porn star. How to...Make Love Like A Porn Star is her autobiography filled with tales from her childhood that was filled with rape, abuse, and more. The book is also about her transformation from an awkward teenager to being a beautiful woman and porn star. If all of this makes you uncomfortable then feel free to not read the rest of this review.

So I actually bought this book for my friend last Christmas and after she read it she let me borrow it. Yey for book friends! I needed a read for the autobiography genre in the Insane Genre Challenge, so I thought why not? This book was definitely interesting to say the least.

Okay, let's be adults here. I've watched porn. I'm well over 18 years old, I've watched porn, I've watched porn with Jenna Jameson in it, and I don't have anything against porn. If you do, then this may not be the book for you since we get all sorts of details about the porn industry. DETAILS.

When I say details, I mean details. Some parts are very graphic in nature and extremely descriptive. Just to warn you! Also there are some triggers to keep in mind in case you are sensitive to those: rape, abuse, and addiction being a few.

Other than the interesting tidbits we get about porn behind the scenes we get a lot of Jenna Jameson's life story. It was really fascinating to read about all the things that Jenna went through in her childhood, teen years, and young adulthood. Let me just say, Jenna has been through a lot of shit. There are a lot of shocking things in the book and there are some very interesting parts about people she has dated/slept with. Including some celebrities! The part with Marilyn Manson was quite hilarious I might add.

Overall How to...Make Love Like A Porn Star is a pretty good read. A little bit raunchy of course, but there is a lot more to it than that and it's all incredibly fascinating. After reading the book I really believe that Jenna Jameson is not only a beautiful and intriguing person, but also a fighter who never gave up on what she wanted to achieve. Kudos to her!

I recommend this book to anyone who loves autobiographies and to anyone interested in what goes on behind the scenes in the porn industry.

I always wonder if Neil Strauss got a kick out of writing how to give good blowjobs or not.

Jameson discusses the exchange between her and Marilyn Manson in this book. In Manson's autobiography, also ghostwritten by Strauss, he talks about their relationship (if you can call it that), too. I picked up both without knowing about their relationship to each other or who ghost wrote it at the time so I got a kick out of that.

Definitely made me appreciate porn, Jameson, and her creation of Vivid Entertainment a lot more, too.

I think I got this free on the iTunes book, so I gave it a whirl. Ok, first off, I like reading biographies because good or bad, you learn the world through their eyes. Howeve, my bullshit meter was off the chart here. I don't believe 90%of what was written. That makes me distrust you. Lose my trust, lose my interest. Glad I finished it and now can delete it off my iBooks.

Too many lies for me.

An entertaining autobiography that focuses somewhat more on her personal life, rather than on her professional life. Though Jenna Jameson has undoubtedly led a wild and eventful life, the neverending string of bad life choices and extremely dysfunctional relationships became a little exasperating to read about after a while. Nevertheless, it's quite fascinating to follow her through her triumphs and tragedies. The book was published 20 years ago and has a "happily ever after" ending, but a quick look at her current Wikipedia page shows that her rollercoaster lifestyle is still as bumpy as ever...

I'm only a third of the way through this book, but it's amazing. Neil Strauss is an amazing writer. (He is a writer for Rolling Stone magazine and also "co-authored" Marilyn Manson's "autobiography," in case you didn't note my sarcasm, you don't really think Jenna Jameson or Marilyn Manson could write their own biographies with only "help" from Mr. Strauss, do you? If you do, hit yourself upside the head with hardcover versions of either one of those books.)
Anyway, this book is funny and poignant. I guess bitter-sweet, although cliched is the best description.

Reading this on the bus in San Francisco was a hoot with all the full page color photos of the author.

My biggest take away in 2008 after reading this and Traci Lords and Linda Lovelace's memoirs is that not all women who are abused go into porn but a majority of famous women in porn have lived through physical and sexual abuse. It's more correlation than causation but it's interesting to me.