True Lies: The Book of Bad Advice

by Tamaki, Mariko

• ISBN13: 9780889614024
• ISBN10: 0889614024
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Womens Pr

Summary

The unsuspecting public is in for a treat in this book as Mariko Tamaki shares humour, sensitivity, love, joy, pain, social commentary, and complaints (about everything and everyone and all places, spaces, events, and things which irk the author). Mariko Tamaki is a risk taker. Her in-your-face humorous commentary on social life is innovative, clever, intelligent, artistic, and sweet. The sweetness comes at the reader in a subliminal way, so that it is upon reflection that the warmth from the heart washes over you. Tamaki's love of the world and the people in it shines in her work. Even as she takes pot shots at social behaviour, there lies at the core of the work a feeling of deep, soft love. One moment, you will howl with laughter until the tears run from your eyes. By the next line of True Lies, you will find yourself reflecting on the social implications of the topics Tamaki raises. Tamaki's gift as an orator and writer lies in her capacity to disarm the reader, using humour as a great leveller. She brings the reader face to face with idiosyncrasies, prejudices, conservatism, hostilities, narrowness of vision, and all of the small (and large) negative behaviours that make life difficult.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	10	(2)
Introduction	12	(4)
A Tawdry Dukes of Hazzard Tale	16	(6)
The Games We Play	22	(6)
Reasons to Give a Blow Job	28	(6)
Listen Without Prejudice	34	(11)
Cats Are Not People	45	(4)
The Great Communicators	49	(10)
These Are the Rules	59	(6)
Sometimes Psychics Let You Down	65	(5)
Within Reason	70	(7)
Angry Naked Women	77	(4)
An Open Love Letter for the Homos	81	(6)
Secretary 101	87	(5)
Do You Practice Stupid Sex?	92	(12)
The Epif-Lady vs. The Hairy Asian	104	(5)
Almost Sex	109	(8)
Titanic	117	(5)
Confessions of a Girl Who Is Not a Big Fan of BDSM	122	(7)
Dear Ms. Tamaki	129