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08-06-2006, 12:01 AM
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"Pledged"
What is everyone's opinion on the book "Pledged"? I am about to start reading it, and I figure it is a very biased and stereotypical book. What do you guys think? Has anyone read it?
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08-06-2006, 12:09 AM
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I did a search for threads about the book:
http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/se...1&pp=25&page=2
This book has been discussed alot here, since it was published awhile ago.
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08-06-2006, 01:38 AM
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thanks!
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08-14-2006, 12:11 AM
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I looked at the 1st few pages but I didn't understand what I was reading.
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08-14-2006, 12:15 AM
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Even the writer herself -she's so beautiful by the way- posted in this forum about the book.
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08-14-2006, 02:31 AM
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I just read the book last week actually.
In many respects it strikes me as honest, but I have some strong issues with it and the movitation of the author.
What bothered me most was the chapter in which ritual secrets were revealed. I did not read it all- out of respect I skipped ahead once I realized what that chapter was about- but I fail to see how revealing the meanings of sorority names and rituals did anything to contribute to what the author was trying to do.
For anyone on this forum who is an initiated Greek member, you know as well as I that there are no deep and dark secrets in ritual or in the meanings of our letters. But still those meanings are sacred for a reason.
And when the author of this book revealed many of those secrets, I lost respect for the entire book. The author is clearly a very intelligent person- so I have to assume that she only revealed ritual information out of spite since it added no value to the message of her book.
I also did not care for the chapter toward the end where she purported to tell sororities how to run their affairs. That came off preachy and, again, added nothing to the value of the stories she told.
Overall the stories were fairly reflective of what I know to be true for certain sorority girls- but hardly reflective of them at large, and certainly not of the women I dated in college.
All I will say is that at Georgia and Texas, the top sororities do NOT have men spending the night in the house or members smoking pot on a daily basis etc. etc. I practically needed an Act of Congress just to check out the room of girlfriends I had in college, and I sure as hell never spent the night up there- nor did my fraternity brothers.
So I would hardly call those 4 girls a representative group of sorority life. In terms of the eating disorders and internal pressures to conform- yes it was accurate.
But in many ways that was not an accurate book, and the author took her chances- as so many Greek expose writers have- to imply there are far more sinister goings-on than is really the case.
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08-14-2006, 06:36 AM
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Even the writer herself -she's so beautiful by the way- posted in this forum about the book.
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Ummmm... have you seen her without professional makeup? Not so much. And you obviously haven't spent any time around sorority women to see REAL beautiful women.
Whether or not that was really her is debateable.
Anyway, there's no sense rehashing it here, guys, bump one of the other threads.
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08-14-2006, 09:10 AM
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Ummmm... have you seen her without professional makeup? Not so much. And you obviously haven't spent any time around sorority women to see REAL beautiful women.
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Oh Dani, admit it. You're just intimidated by her hotness.
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08-14-2006, 09:12 AM
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Oh Dani, admit it. You're just intimidated by her hotness.
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08-14-2006, 09:24 AM
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(slight hijack)
Alexandra Robbins was on The Colbert Report last week talking about her new book.
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08-14-2006, 09:26 AM
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Stressed: The Secret Life of Overachievers
Is that the one? I saw it in B&N a little while ago, don't know if it's new or not.
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08-14-2006, 09:28 AM
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That's the one. It came out a couple weeks ago, I think.
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08-14-2006, 09:29 AM
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Yes. It was in the Children's section. She follows around a bunch of middle and high school students who are on sports teams or clubs and have to balance that with their school work. Fascinating.
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08-14-2006, 09:31 AM
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Stressed: The Secret Life of Overachievers
Is that the one? I saw it in B&N a little while ago, don't know if it's new or not.
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Not very original with her titles, is she??
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08-14-2006, 09:38 AM
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When you're just hot or are that good of a reporter, silly things like creativity and originality really just don't seem to matter.
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