Confessions of a Video Vixen

Topic: What do you think the defining moment for the main character is? Why? I think Karrine's defining moment was when she realized what she was doing wasn't healthy, all the drugs, sex and everything else she was doing to get ahead in the industry. This was shortly after she had her son and she went through some abuse by her boyfriends. She decided that she didn't want her son to grow up and see the type of person she was. So she decide to put all he partying aside for her son. She let her "hoeish ways" as she refers to them go so that she could make a legit name for herself. This was a drastic change for all the things she was doing before her son. So i guess I would have to say her defining moment was the birth of her son in which she remembered all the things she had been taught growing up by the people around her that expected only the best for her. This was her defining moment because this was when she realized all the potential she really had and all that she could be it she only focused on the things that would bring her long term prosperity, like school, legitimate work and taking care of her son.

Confessions of a Video Vixen

Topic: What does the writer do to engage the reader in a relationship with the book's content? Did the book come to a satisfactory closure for you? Steffans does one thing to engage her reader she tells everything she doesn't omit a single gory detail about the things she has done with different people, or she at least makes it seem like she is putting everything out there. She writes from what I consider a not caring about what other people think about her attitude, this keeps her reader entertained and interested in the context of the book. She puts herself out there and it gets her recognized for telling her story. The book came to a satisfactory closure for me it went through her life from a teenager to being a dancer in the hip-hop industry to having her son and turning her life around and living the straight and narrow. I thought that was a good way to show girls that are in the same predicament as she was that there is a better was there is another route then the one they are on now. She also gave hope to struggling women wanting to get ahead. She showed them that if a woman like her could get ahead and become someone other than just a sex symbol then they had a world of opportunities ahead of them I thought that was a great way to end the book.

Confessions of a Video Vixen

Topic: Why did you choose this book? What were you expectations? Did the book live up to you expectations? I choose Confessions of a Video Vixen because I had been hearing about Karrine Steffans and all the things she had done with all these different men in the hip-hop industry to get ahead and I was curious to know what really happened and what was made up. I didn't believe a lot of what I heard and read about her so I wanted to get her story straight from her. I expected the book to be pretty vulgar and have a lot about dirty little secrets about a lot of big name people. I also didn't expect a lot of what I heard to be true. But above it all I expected the book to be great and very interesting. The book defiantly did live up to my expectations it was very interesting. A lot of what I thought was just people saying stuff to taint her name was not made up it was true. I didn't expect her to tell as much as she did, she chose to let it all out and not hold anything back. the book really did live up and maybe even pass my expectation. I was very impressed by her ability to put it all out there and not care how it made her look in order to keep someone else from falling for the things she did and going through what she went through.

Confessions of a Video Vixen

Topic: What is the book about? Did you enjoy the book? Would you suggest this book to others? Confessions of a video vixen is a memoir/tell-all by Karrine Steffans "Superhead" a former video vixen in which she tells of her life as a teenaged runaway, becoming a stripper, being a hip-hop dancer, and prostitute in order to support herself and, later on her young son. The book is written by Steffans so it includes many details that only she and the people involved would know. She talks about her relationships with many big name rappers and hip- hop artists. She gives you an insight into the hip-hop world and all the abuse she endured. She also gives a caution to girls and women who are looking to get into the hip-hop industry whether it be as a dancer of as an entertainer. She lets her readers know that the industry isn't all glitz and glam, that so much is expected of those in the industry. I enjoyed the book a lot it was very crazy it had a lot of big names that I defiantly didn't expect to see. the book had me hooked into it from the beginning to end. I would most defiantly suggest this book to people but I would have to say if you don't like reading about drama and scandal then this isn't the book for you. Also if you are a very conservative person this isn't the book for you because so of the things she talks about are really out there.

Last book for the year.....

Book #8 title:
Confessions of a Video Vixen

Author:
Karrine Steffans

Date of Publication:
2005

Never Forget

Topic: Did the book come to a satisfactory closure? Why or Why not? If not what would you have done differently if you were the author? Never Forget didn't come to a satisfactory closure for me it just kind of abruptly ended. They start the book off with a introduction and they lay all the groundwork for the book kind of giving you what it consists of and after they tell the stories of these 82 people they just stop no closing statement or anything. I was expecting them to end with a statement from both of they authors just like it started off with but that didn't happen they went straight into the acknowledgments. If i was the author of this book I would have done several thing differently first I would have had a better structure to the stories (i.e. grouping similar ones together) maybe people that died/people that saw it happen, people that were in the building that could have died and then people that helped. This would help the book flow a little better, along with that maybe introduce the different parts with like a sub introduction that gave their opinions on what happened surrounding these type of people. That would bring them into the book cause now they don't seem very attached to the story. Then to bring the book to a close i would have something like the introduction they gave but have closing remarks about the attacks and how it have effected you life to talk and interview these people and learn these stories. In my opinion that would for me bring the book to a satisfactory closure.

Never Forget

Topic: How does this book compare to Last Man Down? Last man down was a similar type of book about 9/11 that I read last semester. the book was about a man by the name of Richard Picciotto who was a FDNY Battalion commander on duty at the time of the 9/11 terrorist attack. In Last Man Down Pasiner writes the story Picciotto tells him about 9/11 including in great detail the time Picciotto spent trapped inside the building and him watching his friend and coworker die while they were trapped. It was a great book and was very moving. Never Forget was a similar book but it didn't give the entire story from on persons point of view it created the big picture from 82 little pictures. It had similar situations from people being trapped, to people going in and saving those that they could, to people dying, to near death experiences for so many different people. It was just a moving as Last Man Down. But in my opinion Last Man Down was in comparison a better book, because it was better written, and you got a more detailed look in to the mindset and experiences of Picciotto. With Never Forget the book seemed choppy and at certain time it was hard to stay connected with the context of the book because of the chaos that when on in the book. I was expecting some of the choppiness because all of the stories were from different people but not as much as I saw in the book, most of the stories didn't connect I was expecting at least for there to be some sort of transitions between each story but their wasn't and that made it very hard to connect with the book.