Reddit reviews Modelland

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Modelland by Tyra Banks

From amazon:

No one gets in without being asked. And with her untamable hair, large forehead, and gawky body, Tookie De La Crème isn’t expecting an invitation. Modelland—the exclusive, mysterious place on top of the mountain—never dares to make an appearance in her dreams.

But someone has plans for Tookie. Before she can blink her mismatched eyes, Tookie finds herself in the very place every girl in the world obsesses about. And three unlikely girls have joined her.

Only seven extraordinary young women become Intoxibellas each year. Famous. Worshipped. Magical. What happens to those who don’t make it? Well, no one really speaks of that. Some things are better left unsaid.

Thrown into a world where she doesn’t seem to belong, Tookie glimpses a future that could be hers—if she survives the beastly Catwalk Corridor and terrifying Thigh-High Boot Camp. Along the way, she learns all about friendship, courage, laughter and what it feels like to start to believe in yourself.

When you enter the fantastical world of Modelland, you'll see that Tookie was inspired by Tyra’s life as a supermodel. All those crazy and wild adventures Tookie has with her friends? Some of them were ripped straight from the headlines of Tyra’s life! Tyra knows all about beauty and fashion and fierceness, and she shares everything here in MODELLAND. It’s fun, zany, and 100 bazillion-percent Tyra.

Wanting not to read books that glorify rape is not a simple matter of my taste. It's not about me, it's about those members of our community who have had the experience and being empathetic to them. Most the time, misogyny in a book we read is something to be understood and discussed, just as we would feminist works, pro- or anti-gay sentiments, etc.. But the glorification of rape is where I draw the line of being in bad taste and bad for the community, and I have absolutely no problem doing so. Anyone who doesn't agree is probably best off in another book club.

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To answer your question, I try to actively mitigate the influence of my taste through the selection process and by having other active mods. But let's be realistic—I started the subreddit, selected by fiat the first few books to get it up and running, am one of the more active members, recruited the mod team, helped design the CSS, am part of the final book selection process most months, and deal with the modqueue and enforcing our few rules. Some of my taste is going to come through.

It's the nature of a political system that there will be some personal influence on what we read—but there's nothing stopping you or anyone else campaigning for a book, or even starting your own SF book club. (Hell, if you do I'll even help advertise it here.) There are plenty of books that I have wanted to read but have never been selected. I've nominated a book almost every month this year, yet only three of them were selected.

I don't think we mods have ever by fiat decided that we wouldn't read a book that was clearly the front-runner except in one case, when the top-voted submission was Modelland by Tyra Banks. There have been times where, due to reddit's vote fuzzing, it's not clear which book got the top votes, in which case we have to make a decision ourselves. We do that based on what we think would make for the best discussion, and we do it through consensus.

If you'd like a thorough discussion on our selection process, I'd recommend reading the wiki page about it and this comment. I'd rather not re-hash what I've already written, but I'm happy to answer questions that those links bring up.

576 pages and aimed at the Young Adult demo... good luck with that, Tyra. amazon link

Now we only need Modellandmore.com!

http://www.amazon.com/Modelland-Tyra-Banks/dp/038574059X

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Apropos of nothing, it should be fundamentally obvious to all that the Warner Archive Collection has been doing a fair amount of influencing. -------->

In exchange for this campaign, Warner Brothers has made the CW a wholly-owned subsidiary of /r/movies, inc. Expect an America's Next Top Model theme, complete with cafe press and Amazon Affiliate links to Tyra Banks' Modelland early next week.

We tried to get parking spots on the lot but not even we wield that kind of power yet. We're working on our Smizes, though, so wish us luck.