The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World’s Most Elegant Woman
- ISBN13: 9781599215235
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Chanel is credited not simply with giving us the little black dress and boxy jackets, but popularising pants for women and easy, practical clothes that allowed women a chic freedom they’d never known before. In her strong-headed, elegant, opinionated, passionate, entirely French way, Coco Chanel helped bring women into the modern era, and because of this she was the only person in fashion to be named “Time” magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century…. More >>
The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World’s Most Elegant Woman
This was one of the worst books I have ever read. The author’s writing style was very boring, incoherent and had very lame attempts at humor. Definitely not worth the $13, such a time waster, Save your money and buy something better.
Rating: 1 / 5
I’ve read lots of books and there are several I’ve considered sending back to the publisher- “Gospel According to Coco Chanel” is one of those books. Don’t waste your time or money reading this interpretation of what KK thinks she knows/understands about Chanel and attempts to regurgitate it in a manner that is supposed to be humorous, but falls flat. Not what I expected. Disappointing.
Rating: 2 / 5
The author is intelligent & witty enough but there doesn’t seem to be enough content to really fill this book. It’s really aimless and a bit repetitive. I am really disappointed in it and probably won’t finish it.
Rating: 2 / 5
If you are looking for a meaty biography on Coco, this isn’t it. To be fair, the book delivers exactly what is promised in the title. The author presents her version of the history of Coco Chanel and what she thinks of as Coco’s life lessons.
Here are the problems I had with the book:
1. The first half of the book tells the story of Coco’s life in a logical sequence. The second half of the book begins jumping forward and backwards in Coco’s life in order to illustrate “gospel lessons”. This can be frustrating and starts to feel somewhat haphazard.
2. I didn’t always agree with the author’s analysis of of how a particular “Coco anecdote” supported a particular life lesson.
What I liked:
1. The author presented biographical information on Coco that I have never read before. Only a Coco-fanatic would have located some of this info.
All in all, this is fun chick-lit, not a substantial read. Get it at a low price point and enjoy it for what it is.
Rating: 3 / 5
Sorry, I love Coco but this book was pretty dull. I don’t feel I walked away with any other knowledge about her that I already didn’t know. No “life lessons” here. Glad I bought it at Amazon for a good price, if I had bought it at regular price I would not have been happy.
Rating: 2 / 5