Now, I love me some Gilmore Girls, so when a friend recommended this book, I bought it in 0.4 seconds ($2.99 on my Kindle? Yes, please.) I didn’t even need to read the tagline – “An unauthorized Gilmore Girls gabfest” – to know that I needed this book in my life. A gabfest about the Gilmore Girls? An unauthorized one, at that! I felt like I was breaking the rules. Like I was entering some private, exclusive club.
Okay, that’s a little far fetched, I know. This is a book of short essays written by several different people examining all aspects of the show. The chapters tackle topics such as mother-daughter relationships, the role of food, small-town life, father figures, Stars Hollow, and the role of sex in the Gilmore girls’ lives.
Some of the essays were a bit much for my tastes. It was almost as if some of these authors were writing these papers for their Women’s Studies classes and seemed just a teensy bit over-thought. I mean, come on kids. It’s a TV show. However, there were some really great essays. I really loved the one about how food is used as a metaphor throughout the series and the essay on how the three main men in Rory’s life – Luke, Richard, and Christopher – each play a pivotal role in forming a cohesive father figure? Genius. Bonus points for including graphs in that chapter!
It was a good, fast, read that (mostly) held my interest. If you are a fan of the show, I recommend it, but if you’ve never seen or don’t care to analyze a TV show, you’ll probably not miss this one.
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It sounds like a fun read. I’ve never seen the Gilmore girls, but your review made me think about how much I loved the Babysitter’s Club growing up- it’s like being invited into a world that is complex and interesting. Though sometimes I wonder if I reread the babysitters if I would still find them interesting?…did you ever reread them? I’ll miss this one because I have so many to reads, but it sounds pretty good all things considered…:)
This is awesome! As a huge fan of GG, I think this would be very interesting. I could totally see how some of the essays would be over-thinking the fact that it is a TV show at the end of the day, but there were so many great themes throughout the series that I’m glad someone made a book out of other people’s opinions! Thanks for the great recommendation.
And downloaded!
Sold! I was waiting for someone cool to recommend this book to me. Now it’s my turn to be cool and tell you about The Big Year. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1053810/
Have you seen it? It’s about birders, and it’s pretty funny. I don’t think people who aren’t at least a little obsessed with birds would find it very funny at all, but most bird people should get a few good chuckles out of it. The movie isn’t so much about birds, it’s more about bird-nerds. My favorite scene, I think, is when Tim Blake Nelson’s character says ”I think I broke my arm!”, and Owen Wilson’s character says ”Shh shut up” because he’s trying to identify a bird call. Let me find you a trailer in case you haven’t seen it…
The trailer doesn’t do the movie justice at all and it doesn’t even mention birds more than a couple of times (really weird), but here it is anyway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCBAP2wId5M
Perfect review….I haven’t finished yet as that is my “little doses at a time” book.
THis —->”It was almost as if some of these authors were writing these papers for their Women’s Studies classes”
However, that is one of the things that makes it perfect for me. I was an English major and obsessed with Pop Culture and advertising and also took Women’s studies. Let’s just say I did a number of papers dissecting TV shows, magazines and what have you.,
There is a new show debuted last night by the creator of Gilmore Girls….”Emily” is in it and so far it appears to have a certain promise but …in a way it is like Gilmore Girls ..um…next generation? ENTIRELY different subjet matter etc but sososo many similariies.
I’m a spectator for now. I’ll let you know if I become a fan.
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