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For this book, author Diane Conway approached a police officer, a waitress, a politician, a lawyer, a cab driver, and many others, and asked them each the same question: "What would you do if you had no fear?" The results, chronicled in this book, were both surprising and enlightening. Her respondents told her their secrets, their long-hidden dreams, and their fears. Their dreams included quitting mind-numbing jobs, applying to medical school, buying tickets to South America, finding true love, quitting drinking, or having an affair. The distance between dreaming and doing, according to Conway, is surprisingly short. In What Would You Do If You Had No Fear? her fresh voice and "Studs Terkel in drag persona" challenge readers to stop, open their hearts, and truly live. Included are self-tests, quizzes, growth exercises, and inspiring quotes for realizing one's fear-free potential.
Customer Reviews:
Loved It.......2007-01-13
Just what I needed to refocus and prioritize after 20 years in the same job. This was an instant sabbatical for me. Gave me the energy boost I needed to move forward.
a better way to challenge yourself!.......2006-05-16
This book is fantastic in pushing us all to our very limits, posing the best of the best "what if" questions, and ecouraging us to act on them! So much fun to read, dream, and answer with action-- what would you do if you had no fear???
What would You do I you had no fear?.......2005-09-24
A light delightful read that offers hope to those who feel caught in a life of few choices. It's a basic follow-your-heart advice manual which also questions how much one depends on money for happiness.
Inspiration: yes; Substance: no.......2005-06-30
A magazine article prompted me to buy this book. Conway's humor's engaging, and the anecdotes are inspiring. But the book stops there.
Each section is headed with an aspect of the title's question:
*What would you do [if you had no fear]?
*Who would you be [if you had no fear]?
*Where would you go [if you had no fear]?
Your answers are likely to be:
...I would do/make/be/write/create ____, if I had ____.
...I would go to ____, except that I don't have _____.
...I would be a ____, if I'd ever gotten to ____ like I wanted to, all those years ago before ____.
And you are left hanging with your answers. Conway does inspire you to rekindle your desires, but she doesn't help you deal with the rationalizations standing in your way.
[For that, honestly, I'd suggest Laura Berman Fortgang's "Living Your Best Life."]
Conway often alludes to what occurs in her seminars. So the reader (or at least this reader) is left to wonder whether the seminars have the same content as the book, or whether they have more meat to them--and if so, why isn't that in this book?
Inspirational!.......2004-12-12
This book gives hope and inspiration to many who wish to change or break through a fear. I enjoyed every story and could in some way relate to them all. Ms. Conway has a refreshing and witty way of writing and look forward to her next book!! I recommend this as a gift to someone that needs a little boost.
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This is an interactive book about moral choices for children 6-12. There are 25 stories about moral dilemmas and the reader is asked what he or she would do in that situation. Each story is also followed by thought questions which stimulate great discussions both in the home and in the classroom. The stories are fun for the kids to read and they get them thinking and talking about important moral issues. The book has received excellent reviews and is a wonderful resource for both the home and the classroom.
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Good questions but provide no answers.......2007-09-12
The book provides thought provoking questions for kids but answers are not provided in the book. Although I know the right answers I don't the right way to explain it to my kid. Its very important for kids to understand what makes the correct answer "correct". The book is more useful for teachers, but its rather incomplete for parents like me.
Excellent for all ages.......2007-09-11
We have children ranging from 6-11 who all love this book. It has become part of our dinner ritual to choose a story and take turns responding to the ethical challenges.
Kids and parents will love this book.......2000-07-17
This book is such a wonderful way to open up dialogue with yourchildren. They love to tell you what they would do and you get theopportunity to share your values at the same time. I really think this is a wonderful way to talk to your kids about peer pressure and right and wrong so they are prepared to make good decisions when the challenges actually arrive. I highly recommend this book to all parents.
A great book to help teach children decision making........1999-10-10
I really enjoyed this book. There is no right, nor wrong answer. The situations that the child needs to made a decision about, are real life, and believable. I have reccomended this book to all of my teacher friends. Thank you Ms. Humphrey
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- Wonderful rhythmic zoo book!
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What Would You Do If You Lived at the Zoo? (A Peekaboo Book)
Nancy White Carlstrom
Manufacturer: Little Brown & Co (Juv)
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Wonderful rhythmic zoo book!.......1998-07-24
My 2 1/2 year old son should be the reviewer of this book. He has requested it from the library at least 4 times and he loves to read it to himself. It's got a great rhythm, and wonderful pictures of lots of different animals. "Would you dip with the otter? Dippidah dippidah!"
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How important is winning, and does it really matter how we win? What do you think determines a person's "worth" -- how much money he or she has? Can you have lots of friends and still be lonely? When other people are telling you what to do, how do you decide what is right for you?
In this sequel to her popular first book, IF YOU HAD TO CHOOSE, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?, psychologist Sandra McLeod Humphrey encourages parents and teachers to talk to children about values and to help them formulate their own personal value system in the face of peer pressure, even when following their own conscience means going it alone. Children can easily identify with the twenty-six scenarios presented, and the questions at the end of each chapter encourage productive, in-depth discussions about the moral choices suggested by each story. Kids will enjoy reading through each short situation and then deciding what they would do.
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- Interesting Collection of gender/anatomy issues
- Daring, Funny, Thought-Provoking!
- So-so
- 1 great, some good, many mediocre, a few lousy
- A shallow book
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Dick for a Day: What Would You Do If You Had One?
Fiona Giles
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Men's Lives (7th Edition)
ASIN: 0679773533
Release Date: 1997-02-25 |
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This is one wacky premise for a book: ask 50 or so women writers what they would do if they had a--ahem, you know, what the title says. What's fascinating--to a guy anyway, at least to one who's trying to imagine what it would be like to be a woman trying to imagine what it would be like to be a guy--is how many of these pieces aren't about sex; they're about power. According to this book, many bright, creative women believe the "Y" chromosome still confers awesome social leverage and means, in the words of one entry, "passwords, perks, and pertinent information I had never even dreamed of." Haven't the "engendered" politics of the past generation put a big dent in all of this? Fortunately, there is another side here too, put most succinctly in the words of crime novelist Patricia Cornwell: "I'd live just as I do now. I suppose that's the best thing you can say, as I guess it means you don't need one, because it really has nothing much to do with adventure and strength."
Book Description
Not since Kafka's Gregor Samsa awoke to discover that he'd turned into a cockroach has literature addressed such a traumatic transformation. In order to compile
Dick for a Day, scholar and feminist Fiona Giles approached hundreds of well-known writers, poets, artists, actresses, and academics and asked them to express what they might feel if they abruptly found themselves genitally altered.
From Terry McMillan to Jennifer Blowdryer, from Patricia Cornwell to Linda Sexton Gray, we find unexpected answers: hygienic, erotic, metaphysical, and even spiritual. By turns playful and sociologically profound,
Dick for a Day is a milestone in sophisticated humor and feminist literature.
Customer Reviews:
Interesting Collection of gender/anatomy issues.......2002-02-23
52 women and 2 men wrote pieces for Fiona Giles discussing how having a penis for 24 hours might help them understand males, men, and masculinity. What Giles has collected are 17 art pieces ranging from drawings to photos and 37 written piece ranging from short essays to poetry to short stories. Among the contributors are Pat Califia whose essay addresses stereotypes and what "phallic envy" may really be about, Jane Yolen's modern fairtale, "Ask Isadora" advice column by Isadora Alman. Some of the pieces are funny, some are nasty bits of revenge, and a few are even quite insightful. I'm sure something in it will offend everyone but I also think everyone can finding it amusing and moving. Now when we have the reverse experiment?
Daring, Funny, Thought-Provoking!.......2001-09-02
OK, a few of the selections are boring. But the entire premise is fascinating, and this book makes readers think outside the box. As a woman, I felt validated by some of the writings, identified with some, was saddened by the truth of some ("The Pricks in Physics: A Historical Fantasy"), laughed out loud at some, was uncomfortable with some. Only a few left me unaffected. Isn't that one of the highest goals of a book, to stimulate thinking?
So-so.......2000-06-16
I bought this book partly out of shock value, and I kept it on my coffee table for probably a year. Most visitors who came to my house spent at least a few minutes with a story or two. There are some gems here (Adequate Dick, 1-800-yor-dick, and a few others) but many of these stories are sadly dull. Perhaps 50 women was too many to ask, as many of them had the same things to say. Most certainly an entertaining read and a great conversation piece, but at the same time it's little more than brain candy and mostly forgettable.
1 great, some good, many mediocre, a few lousy.......1998-04-23
Let me just say something about the best of the lot. Senator Sin's 1-800-yor-dick. Even though it reads like a female view of what is would be like to have one - hey, that is the purpose to the book...is it not? - I howled at the Senator's escapades. The price of the book is almost (not quite) worth this one poem. And I do think the book cover is clever and all...But, better luck on a second coming.
A shallow book.......1997-08-12
Dick for a Day seemed to be five different repeating themes: 1. This is a dumb idea and I won't contribute (usually 1 or 2 sentences saying this). 2. Man Bashing, why men do this and women either don't need to or want to but feel they can't because they are not "equipped". 3. A light exploration of sex from the other side, with another woman, or man, or dildo, or masturbation, a few are interesting, but most are shallow and boring. 4. A brief justification for a gay/lesbian lifestyle, I have nothing against gays, but I see nothing in it either. 5. I'd call the written equivalent of modern art, hard to read, understand, follow, or simply see if there is a message in the "art". Dick for a Day was a diverting 3 hour read, but I'd suggest getting it from the library, not wasting $12 on the book
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These inspiring true stories tell of men and women who dared to look inward, damned the risks, and learned to love. Asking the question, "What would you do for love if you had no fear?" Diane Conway took to the streets, interviewing ordinary people about the crazy things they did for love. Drawn to Conway’s warmth, emotional honesty, and outrageous, heartfelt humor, they told her their secrets, their fears, and their adventures on the road to love — and the often extraordinary results. Chronicled in the book, the stories are surprising, romantic, and sometimes heartbreaking. Self-tests, quizzes, growth exercises, and practical tips along with Conway's fresh voice challenges readers to open their hearts and just go for it.
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Facing & overcoming obstacles........2006-09-24
Diane Conway paints a picture, and shares her life lessons. Jam packed with with autobiographical references that many women will relate to.
So Inspiring.......2006-05-16
I once considered myself to be the most fearful lover ever-- I've been hurt badly before and never seem to have recovered. This book really opened my eyes to all that I am missing out on, and was incredibly inspirational for me. All of Part II is about loving and learning, and this really hit home for me-- I am now changing my "loving and hurting" attitude to a "loving and learning" one! This book is incredibly inspirational and is changing my love life! I would recommend this book to anyone, though, as all of these stories are hilarious and a great read even for those not scared of love!
Great Love Book!.......2006-05-16
I was laughing out loud at this collection of testimonies to fearless love! I even got my boyfriend to read some of the stories, and then caught him totally engrossed in the book when I got home from work early yesterday! There are so many endearing tales of love presented here, genuine and truthful in each unique situation. Conway really presents an excellent array of answers to her question "what would you do for love if you had no fear?" Her "Love Challenges" add a fun dimension to the book, too! Any person lacking experience with fearless love will love this book. Any person well-experienced in fearless love will also love this book!
I loved this book.......2006-05-11
Diane Conway's book made me laugh out loud and it made me have one of those good old fashioned crying jags. If you have ever had one of "those" relationships read this book. It gave me the hope the anyone can make a turnaround and have the realtionship of thier dreams--no matter how old or young we may be.
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Resentment can break down trust and intimacy within your marriage, hindering the growth of your relationship. With this in mind, Mark Luciano and Father Christopher Merris have developed a Bible-based, twelve-step plan that helps each partner move beyond resentment. These twelve steps, adapted for Troubled Couples Anonymous, work with interactive exercises and personal stories to encourage and motivate you as you learn how to overcome resentment and restore genuine, lasting health to your marriage.
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It only takes one person willing to change to save a marriag.......1998-01-26
This book, If Only You Would change, by Mark Luciano & Christopher Merris provides valuable tools for anyone caught in what seems to be a hopeless relationship. It will not help you fix the other person but will allow you to gain strength within yourself and to grow beyond a fixation with the other person's character defects. Based strongly on the Twelve Step program it pulls no punches in its approach to the "real problems" and solutions. Both partners do not have to be involved in the program for the relationship to gain greatly and perhaps be saved from divorce. The book also could be used to counsel couples heading into marriage relationships. It is a must for all counsellors, pastors, and married couples.
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What would you do if you suddenly woke up a woman?
The bestselling Dick for a Day: What Would You Do If You Had One? was an unprecedented crossover phenomenon, tickling humor fans, impressing gender studies buffs, and winning over readers of all ages. Now, in the interest of equality and fairness, editor Fiona Giles turns the tables, recruiting a varied stable of Y-chromosomed word-smiths to wax playful, erotic, and philosophic about how they would react if they suddenly discovered they had become distinctly female for a day. "Unlike its predecessor," Giles tells us in her introduction, "for this collection it turned out that a day just wasn't enough!"
Among this collection's brave contributors are alternative press darling Jonathan Ames, acclaimed novelist Rick Moody, premier British poet Jeremy Reed, Nerve founder Rufus Griscom, and rising star Justin Chin. Many of the contributions are comic, some are cautionary, and others are downright strange; but each, at its core, pays homage to women and their sexuality. Beyond the hilarious leaps of imagination and cleverly spun conceits, Chick for a Day's chief revelation is the way physical transformation into a woman encourages greater insights into the mind and spirit of both sexes.
Alternately outrageous and profound, Chick for a Day is an eclectic, unique tribute, loaded with eye-opening reading for men, women -- and everyone in between.
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social experiment or literature.......2006-05-16
If you read all the 'reviews' above as well as the 'reveiws' from the two literary review publishers at the top, you will see that no one really has an easy time with this book. I found it on the whole to be a kind of literary bordello since most of the writers couldn't resist including a lot of sex. But the real merit of this book may be not on a literary level. It weighs heavier really as a kind of social experiement -asking males in a male-dominated world to take on a female identity. One mark of how seemingly universally awkward it was is that perhaps the author with the biggest reputation in the collection ends up having a dog perform sex on 'herself'. Confusion or wild creativity? Art over editorial directive? Or wanting to one up the idea of a male taking on a female identity by exercizing the authorial consternation of trying to be even more outre? The majority of the offerings do reflect however that the authors were putting a lot of serious thought in to how to carry off the assignment well, with a high level of craft, and to deliver something satisfying. But this isn't a book that is going to meet with an easy acceptance, not in the societies we currently occupy. The editor professes to see a largely comic bent to the writings. Kirkus review pompously says there is no profundity -like who bequeathed masterful profundidty perception to Kirkus review? By playing the sex and joke cards more often than not, the authors reveal that they are more interested in pandering to what they percieve as the market for this kind of material, so I guess my biggest criticism would be that its weakness is mostly that the authors err on the side of wanting to be entertaining which does not by any means equal out to being good storytellers. Maybe the book can be said to fail on literary merits but it succeeds without much parallel in exposing an uneasiness that is all-pervasive about gender -who controls it, who gets to establish its valuations, who has a right to represent it and in what ways. So the stories may really be more like exercizes in literary discomfort, both on the parts of the authors and certainly the majority of the readers. If you are looking for insightful philosphy about gender this book is, for the most part, the wrong place, there is a torrent of that from academia. And it is that large and continuous output of theory, research, philosphy and social study without which this book most probably would not have been possible. So if you want to read this book do so to find out where we as a society can not quite seem to be comfortably. As both the controllers of our consumption of gender and as those who have to live gender out amongst ourselves. It is profound on that level. And the why of it is left as enough mystery to make this book art. It is out of print. That is just as much proof.
Transgender literature for the intellectual.......2003-02-03
I found this to be a highly literate collection of poems and essays. That is both the book's strength and its biggest weakness. On the one hand, the contributors are experienced, talented authors who know how to write. On the other, especially with the essays, there is less emphasis on story and plot than stories familiar to readers who frequent internet transgender literature sites. I kept waiting for one story that had a memorable character or plot twist. By the end, I was still waiting.
how depressing.......2002-12-10
Is this really how men see us? Almost without exception, the protagonists saw their female bodies as "other" and objectified them. They were either turned on by their bodies or disgusted by them. Only one author seemed to actually identify with the woman had had become, having the realization: "Hey! I'm still a human being! women are actually human beings!" Well, duh.
And a horrifying number of the authors actually idenfied as rapists.
This left me feeling depressed at the spiritual integrity of this intelligent group of men. Maybe I should work on becoming a lesbian.
It teaches.......2001-11-19
Despite what some other reviewers have written, this book does deal with the subject matter (the perspectives of male writers on the gender identity of women)-- and in most cases, it does so with a great deal of respect.
Upon receiving this book, I immediately threw out the cover art. ^_^ I was ready to read something a bit more thoughtful than the cover art implies, and I found the art to be a distraction. With that out of the way, I was able to enjoy some fascinating short stories and essays written by authors I have never encountered before.
I read this book over the course of several mornings, so I was able to muse upon the points raised in the more thoughtful stories. At the same time, I read Jack Chalker's "The Identity Matrix", which I discovered added depth to Ms. Giles' collection. Taken as a whole, I find that my experiences with these two books have expanded my awareness of the issues women must deal with in Western society. I believe that I learned some valuable lessons, particularly from the Brain Bouldrey story "Monster" and Rick Moody's offering. I name those two because they stand out in recent memory-- but almost all of the stories raised points worth pondering.
Of course, there were a few "brain candy" stories, too-- the ones that seemed to deal mostly with wish-fulfillment and sensual pleasures. But these stories only served to illustrate the points made by other writers in the book. ^_^ It became really obvious which writers were comfortable with exploring the concept of the feminine-- and which ones were more interested in women as objects. As the author notes in her foreword, the majority of the writers were very respectful and thoughtful in regard to feminine identity-- and, I would add, *without* disrespecting their own gender. That was one thing that made this book most enjoyable-- the writers really seemed to think before they wrote.
Overall, I would recommend this book as an enjoyable read and a good starting point for discussions of gender identity. I try to limit my collection of books (makes moving easier), but this is one book that I plan to keep for a while longer, as a source of "food for thought". For those who complained that it objectifies or disrespects women, I respectfully reply, "You get out of it what you put into it."
Useless.......2000-07-05
I was hoping this book would have careful, thoughtful and interesting stories from men who would ponder life for one day as a woman. Instead, it is a collection of stories and poems of lame content and items of little interest to the subject matter. Very few of the stories actually DEAL with people transformed into what can be considered physically normal females! I was looking for gender based stories dealing with issue of how men think life would be as women. Perhaps the author would do better to ellicit help from transgendered men who spend the majority of their lives dreaming of what life would be like as a woman and could provide insightful stories of how men can really think of life as women and provide some respectful insight that women could review and discuss. I was horribly disappointed in this book and overall, it was probably the second worst book I have read in my distinguished reading career.
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What Would You Do If...?: A Safety Game for You and Your Child
Jeanne Ebert
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Great item!.......2007-07-15
If you are trying to teach children about the danger of certain situations without having them afraid to leave their room, then this is the book. We made this into a question and answer "game" with rewards for well thought out responses. Even after a period of time, our children respond with thought to how they would handle any of the given scenerios.
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- What would you do If? 101 Five-Minute Devotions
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What Would You Do If...?: Fun and Creative Ways to Teach Your Kids Spiritual Values
Greg Johnson
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What would you do If? 101 Five-Minute Devotions.......2000-05-09
This book is an excellent tool to use to talk to your kids about everything from being a follower, and doing what "everyone else does", getting in trouble just for the attention,peer pressure, and just about any other scenario that would come up in everyday life. Honesty, lying, acceptance of those that are "different", respecting others' property, gossiping, using money wisely, consequences of actions.,etc. All are done in short segments and biblically based with a daily scripture to back up whatever the given topic is. All are true-to-life situations and presented in a way to be thought-provoking. Intended for the 6-12 age group. This book is the best I have seen for a devotional type book that kids look forward to, and won't cause (as many) moans and groans.
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