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(More customer reviews)I was expecting this book to be a quick read about a young woman chasing after a movie star. I was pleasantly surprised to instead read a thoughtful, engaging, and sometimes heartbreaking story about pop culture, the Internet, and the people we all know (maybe you're one of them) who are a little too invested in both.
The book takes you through the life of the author's blog, starting with Brokeback Mountain and ending with Heath Ledger's death. Despite the title, though, it's not a book about Jake Gyllenhaal and the author doesn't shy away from acknowledging her larger personal interests in writing the blog. The book is laugh-out-loud funny in places and entertaining throughout. It's also brutally honest about the celebrities and the fans involved, though it artfully stays above being a gossipy tell-all.
For anyone who knows anyone (or is someone) who loves pop culture, is part of an online community, or even is just feeling lost about their direction in life, this book has a lot of insight to offer. It's also for any celebrity who has ever turned down a fan for an autograph. This story proves you really never know who's doing the asking (or why). Highly recommended.
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I'm Stalking JakeIt was a standard-issue celebrity crush.It was 2006, Brokeback Mountain was inspiring critical acclaim and late night talk show jokes alike--and there was Becky Heineke, thinking Jake Gyllenhaal was looking pretty good.She was twenty-four, two years out of college, and had nothing better to do ... which is how she wound up joining a girl she'd never met to write a blog called Jake Watch.Over the blog's nineteen-month run, there were movie premieres, a movie script, a legitimately stupid Internet rumor (accidental), one highly unsuccessful presidential campaign, a lost puggle, and a T-shirt business that may or may not have violated international copyright laws.But Jake Watch also aged its two writers more than its life span might suggest. While countless books have been written about celebrities, blogs, and the impact of the Internet on our changing culture, there hasn't, until now, been a book that exemplifies their influence on the first generation to grow up obsessed with all three.I'm Stalking Jake! is a memoir unique to the age in which it was written, a comedy about the drama of growing up and reaching out in the era of Internet addiction and celebrity infatuation.
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