Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties Audiobook

" Loved! If you liked Zelda (Zelda Fitzgerald's bio), you'll love this. I found these ladies utterly relatable and the book reads more like a novel than a biography. Of course, as is my usual criticism, I would have loved to see more pictures. "

" It's like reading Entertainment Weekly in the 1920s-- brain candy mixed with literature and history. Yum! "

" One of my all-time favorite books about Bohemian life in the early 20th century. I read this my Freshman year of college, and I think it partially informed my choice of becoming an art major. "

" Another great from Marion Meade. I couldn't keep my nose out of Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase and now I have eaten up this bio of 4 women writers in the Roaring 20's. Vincent was my favorite by far ;) These women were scandolous even by todays standards!! Completely reccomended~! "

" I went back and forth on my feelings about this book, frankly. The information about the four women authors (Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna Ferber, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Dorothy Parker), was interesting indeed, but the choppy pace of the book made it difficult to keep things straight. The book is organized by year through the decade of the 1920s and finishes with the year 1930, and follows the lives of these four authors through the times. I learned a lot I didn't know about the writers' private lives, and Meade presented a great deal of information gained from excellent research. However, I'd suggest that the reader know something about these women before reading the book, as the author assumes a great deal of understanding by the reader. "

" Not a bad read, I just lost steam about midway through. "

" This is a kind of sensational story of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edna Ferber (how I wound up with it and I thought she got totally shafted), Dorothy Parker, and Zelda Fitzgerald. It is all the gossip/wild tales/drinking of the ladies of the 20s in NYC. "

" Great overview of these women's lives in the '20s. Entertaining and (hopefully) factual. "

" I really enjoyed reading about these women writers. Dorothy's depression, Edna St. Vincent's ego, Zelda's journal writings used uncredited by her husband and swept under the rug... "

" Ok, it's really between a 2 and a 3... the writing is dull, and were I not fascinated by the time period it's unlikely I would have made it through the book. "

" Four famous flappers living large in New York between World Wars. "

" Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Zelda Fitzgerald. I am not a reader 'of ;nonfiction, but this book was a pleasure to read. Dorothy Parker and "Vincent's" personalities shone. I have added all these ladies to my summer reading list. "

" A light, intertwined dance over a decade in the lives of several artistic women in the 1920s. "

" Very interesting book. Can be slow at times, but super cool to get some back story on infamous writers. "

" I LOVED this book about the lives of 4 female American writers throughout the 1920s (mainly in New York) - Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna Ferber, and Edna St. Vincent Mallay. I gobbled it up and regretted when it came to an end. I wanted it to keep on going. "

" Dear god it's amazing they were able to accomplish anything considering all the booze, drugs, and sex that went on. "

" So very dry! Sucks all the fun out of the Jazz Age. The writers I imagined having spunk and sass in their step were actually just a bunch of self obsessed, pretentious old hags concerned with status and gossip. Oh well, I'll always have Clara Bow. "

" I just love reading about different creative tribes that spring up every generation or so: the bloomsbury group, the algonquin round table, the shelley's and Lord Byron, etc... "

" A disappointingly dry and dull account of the lives of the Fitzgeralds, Dorothy Parker, et. al. Perhaps this author should have let her writing run a little wild. . . . "

" Occasionally the author decides that she needs to take the tone of the witty gossip but it just came across as annoying and flippant. "

" I actually never finished this book because I couldn't deal with the way dorothy parker was referred to as "dottie"... "