Bitch Goddess
by Robert Rodi

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Book Review: "We're having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave..."
Summary: 2 Stars

Alas and alack, not so with BITCH GODDESS. I don't know what happened, but this pill is a placebo and doesn't work the cooldown cure. Rodi strings together a series of interviews, emails, memos, answering machine messages, scripts, newspaper and magazine articles to tell the story of Viola Chute, cult movie actress turned recent TV star (à la Joan Collins, it looks like) and her ghost writer. It's difficult to tell whether we are meant to admire Viola or dispise her but certainly just about everybody in the book can't stand her. As depicted by Rodi she's not all that bad. It's the things that people say about her that are awful and perhaps that's the point. Rodi reaches a little too far for shock value and there are some not-so-funny or effective references using scatological humor that miss the mark. Rodi seemed to have found his pace near the end of the book and I got a couple of laughs-a-page but not enough to justify reading this. I hate to slam a book but this one's a clunker. Heigh-ho or sigh: take your pick.

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