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The Makedown

door Gitty Daneshvari

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Anna Norton used to be fat. Correction: Anna Norton used to be a fat, nerdy, overeater with low self esteem. When she moves from suburban Ohio to Manhattan at age 23, her life does a total 180. With guidance from her boss, an unlikely Fairy Godmother in the form of a chic caterer and excellent cook, Anna loses all the weight and--though still not quite Kate Moss--finally drops her inferiority complex, brushes the crumbs off her skirt, and enters the world of feeling good, looking good, and...finally having sex. When Anna meets Ben, the man of her dreams (and of every other person's dreams who isn't blind) she almost can't believe she is dating the Ken Doll. Deep down, she is still the chubby nerd who wrote in a diary called Hello Fatty. But not everything is perfect; her hot boyfriend is a huge flirt, and every leggy blond who crosses his path is a threat to Anna. She just can't escape the feeling that Ben is way out of her league and that everyone thinks she is dating up and he's dating down. It gets so bad, she decides she will do anything to make these women go away. Enter the Makedown. The reverse makeover. As Anna was made up, so will Ben be made down. Where she went from shabby to chic, he will go from prince to frog. Anna will sabotage his hotness for the sake of her own sanity, and to bring this man into more of what she considers her own league. Enter Nair to induce premature balding, Sears catalogs to inspire bad dressing, and secret additions of cream to her cooking and SKOR bars in granola bar wrappers to induce weight gain. Hilarity ensues, but in the end, Anna must find out if Ben's makedown will save their relationship, or end it.… (meer)
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Oh, where or where to begin?

I loved loved loved this book!

Yes, I did! Yes, I did!

So, I am going to try my hardest not to go on and on about how absolutely hilarious this book is. What I am worried about is… you know when a friend tells you that a movie is so super funny? And, then you go and see that movie and you’re expecting to fall out of your seat from laughter? It ends up being a funny movie, but not like you would have died if you hadn’t seen it… and, yeah, it was funny… but, not the funniest movie you ever saw. That’s what I am worried about. So, I’m not going to tell you, even though I really want to, that this book made me laugh so hard that my stomach hurt. It feels weird to be laughing aloud, by yourself, at 2am in bed. Very weird, indeed.



The book has a great premise, a Cinderella story heroine (aka Anna) transforms after she finally meets her FG (Fairy Godmother). Anna meets the hottest man on the planet, Ben. Despite her drastic transformation, she is still what most would consider average to above average in the looks department. Like all good fairy tales, Anna ends up capturing Ben’s heart. What she didn’t count on was what the aftermath would be of being the girlfriend of New York’s hottest bachelor with women throwing themselves at him. So, like all logical and sane women would do, she decides to give him a “Makedown”… you know….. fattening him up, putting nair in his shampoo, having him grow a beard. After Ben goes from hero to zero, Anna must deal with the aftermath of her deviousness.



The characters in this book are all characters that I could envision and understand. Daneshvari did an excellent job in her character development and descriptions. You almost find that you have a soft spot for all of the characters in the book (except for John). Now, I haven’t told you much that the book cover doesn’t give you. That’s on purpose. I want you to pick up the book when it is released in February 2009 and judge it for yourself. All of my laughs came out of the unexpected and I want you to have yours.



Gitty is a terrific author and is also the author of School of Fear which is soon to be a major motion picture for Warner Brothers. By the way, isn’t she just stunningly gorgeous? When I get my FG, I am going to ask to look like her!



ON SHER’S “OUT OF TEN SCALE:”

Well, for the genre… Fiction-Comedy-Chick Lit: I give this book a 10 out of 10! Wow, that’s two in a row for me this week! I seriously just loved the story and hope, hope, hope that it gets picked up for a movie. ( )
  ANovelMenagerie | Mar 19, 2009 |
For the first hundred pages of the book, Anna is fat and self-loathing. She is teased and shunned everywhere she goes, and writes hateful diary entries to herself in a book called Dear Fatty. When she goes to New York City to jump-start her life, she meets the Fairy Godmother she'd been searching for all those years. Janice, a caterer, hires Anna and puts her to work walking all over New York to gather ingredients. Janice also starts Anna on healthy eating and water, plus buys her clothes so she'll feel better about herself in the meantime.

Janice's plan works and Anna gets skinny. She is still just as insecure though, and it shows. When she is first asked out by Ben, she believes it's either a joke or a pity date. After some time together, she still cannot believe he actually likes her. Ben is the epitome of hotness, so much so that everywhere he goes, both women and men fall all over him. He loves the attention so he smiles back, which freaks Anna out to no end. Convinced he will leave her for someone more attractive, Anna decides to sabotage him so women will not find him as handsome.

She then starts doing the most horrid things to the poor guy, focusing on ruining his hair, clothes, and weight. As her plan finally starts to come to fruition, that's when the book gets funny: the way Ben reacts to the secret manipulation. It's hilarious. On one end, I can understand why Anna would be worried: Ben flirts with everyone, he tried to feel her up while watching a tv special about the now grown & legal Olsen twins from Full House, and wanted to watch a movie just because the actress in it, Jessica Biel, is hot. I'd probably get jealous too. I just don't think I'd handle it the way she did.

I know where Anna was coming from, I've yo-yo'ed weight-wise my entire adult life. I've hated my body and been incredibly insecure with horrible self esteem. Even so, I never once thought to write mean things to myself in a derogatory journal or be so self-destructive or selfish. I have a hard time relating to Anna or liking her because of her actions, but I can understand them, and this book is raw, honest, and screwed up ... in a way that still manages to be very entertaining. In the end, I came to respect Anna, and to really like this book. ( )
1 stem unmainstreammom | Mar 10, 2009 |
The Makedown is a very interesting book and definitely more than chick lit. I could relate to it in some ways, I could definitely weigh less than I do and I love junk food. I was very interested to see Anna's transformation from a totally socially awkward over-eater to a thin more confident women.

Before I started reading I was unsure where the book would start. Would it start right at the Makedown and hint to the past and Anna's transformation or start before that? Thankfully it starts when Anna is very young and gives snippets of her life until she graduates from college and then the story settles down and proceeds from there. So by the time the actual makedown starts we have a real sense of Anna and her hopes and fears.

I think my favorite part of the book was right up until she started dating her Mr. Wonderful, Ben (I couldn't really see his appeal beyond his physical attractiveness). Then I felt like she became a totally different person (which sometimes does happen to people) and not in a really good way. I admit it was pretty funny to read about how she tried to prevent her boyfriend from flirting and being flirted with but after awhile it did get kind of sad, though Anna did realize her mistake and tried to fix it.

Her banter and relationship with her FG (Fairy Godmother) was great. I was really interested to see how she was going to kick her junk food addiction and lose all her extra weight, some pretty drastic measures had to be taken for it to happen. I thought the book could have done without the Epilogue but besides that I thought it ended how it should have.

I would definitely suggest this book, it's funny, hopeful and a bit out of the ordinary! ( )
  mint910 | Feb 22, 2009 |
Reviewed by Sher at A Novel Menagerie
  schmadeke | Jan 11, 2009 |
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Anna Norton used to be fat. Correction: Anna Norton used to be a fat, nerdy, overeater with low self esteem. When she moves from suburban Ohio to Manhattan at age 23, her life does a total 180. With guidance from her boss, an unlikely Fairy Godmother in the form of a chic caterer and excellent cook, Anna loses all the weight and--though still not quite Kate Moss--finally drops her inferiority complex, brushes the crumbs off her skirt, and enters the world of feeling good, looking good, and...finally having sex. When Anna meets Ben, the man of her dreams (and of every other person's dreams who isn't blind) she almost can't believe she is dating the Ken Doll. Deep down, she is still the chubby nerd who wrote in a diary called Hello Fatty. But not everything is perfect; her hot boyfriend is a huge flirt, and every leggy blond who crosses his path is a threat to Anna. She just can't escape the feeling that Ben is way out of her league and that everyone thinks she is dating up and he's dating down. It gets so bad, she decides she will do anything to make these women go away. Enter the Makedown. The reverse makeover. As Anna was made up, so will Ben be made down. Where she went from shabby to chic, he will go from prince to frog. Anna will sabotage his hotness for the sake of her own sanity, and to bring this man into more of what she considers her own league. Enter Nair to induce premature balding, Sears catalogs to inspire bad dressing, and secret additions of cream to her cooking and SKOR bars in granola bar wrappers to induce weight gain. Hilarity ensues, but in the end, Anna must find out if Ben's makedown will save their relationship, or end it.

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