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Now
that she's taken her leave, she only appears every
so often if it means promotion, pretty much like Don
Henley would only sing with The Eagles again if he
could play his own songs in "Hell Freezes Over."
Lately Munn, a goddess in her own mind, will do
whatever it takes to be famous. Creating a dance
song, starring in a sitcom, patenting her own bra,
dressing in wacky costumes, starring in movies,
engaging in an embarrassing stint on "The Daily
Show," and whatever else can get the job done. And
like every other celebrity and pseudo-celebrity,
she's written a novel. Well, not so much written as
co-wrote, and probably dictated a
novel that promotes her own sense of grandeur, and
brings down all of the people who helped bring her
to stardom. She even makes light of a trusted family
friend who died a miserable death. This woman who
once dressed in skimpy costumes to grab ratings now
proclaims she was forced in to doing so in
interviews. "Suck It, Wonder Woman!" reads like a
poorly written blog from a petty freshman at a high
school looking to spite her tormentors. The entire
Introduction is based around Olivia sticking her
tongue out at people who crossed her and calling
them assholes. It's basically "Look where I am! Now
who's laughing?! Nyah!" And it only gets worse from
there. Deep down Olivia is a gorgeous woman in the
body of a repressed, insecure, under-achieving, and
utterly juvenile little girl whose own attempts at
stardom are not so much based around ambition, but
about being in the spotlight as much as possible
just to show everyone she could do it. And that's
not a hero. That's barely someone worthy of a center
stage.
If
she wasn't good looking, she'd be on Youtube in
front of a grainy camera begging people to subscribe
to her channel. "Suck It, Wonder Woman!" isn't so
much a chronicle of her life or memoir as it is a
handbook to the awesomeness that is Munn. There are
pictures of her from her fans, fan art, pictures of
herself as famous women, name dropping like nobody's
business, hints thrown around at potential
opportunities that are so blatant it's pathetic (Excerpt:
"Note to agents: If you’re reading this book, you
should know that you are actually resistible. And
everyone can tell you have issues with your height.
Your facial hair and scented candles do not distract
us."), and even looks back at her stint on
"Attack of the Show," she recalls with a patronizing
tone that's hard to ignore.
Most of "Suck It
Wonder Woman!" revolves around Olivia riffing on her
Asian family that we've seen Margaret Cho do a
thousand times since she started in comedy. From the
accents, to the jabs at their heritage, Munn comes
off as a Cho wannabe. The rest of the "memoir" reads
like a god forsaken online blog (as stated in the
aforementioned paragraphs) and is just damn filler
that should be on a blogspot account. At least Roger
Ebert had the good sense to know not all personal
stories are worthy of books. "The
Sweetest Moments in Geek History! Of All Time!" is
Olivia chronicling her favorite geeks for pages on
end seemingly starting a comic bit for her future in
stand-up (good luck), "Star Wars Can Totally Help
You in Life" is another riff on Olivia's love for
"Star Wars"... answer this geeks: Is it worth the
price for you as a possible conversation starter for
Munn at Comic Con yet? "Random True Story #1" is
about her boyfriend who wanted to suck dick.
Literally.
It's all just so pointless and absolutely unfunny.
I have nothing against
Munn personally, because in the world of people like
Heidi Montag, and Joan Rivers, she's the lesser of
those evils, but books like this only serve to add
as a tool for self-promotion for someone who has
probably never read a book in the last two years,
while other writers out there with something to say
and something to offer the literary world are still
self-publishing and banging down agents doors asking
for a chance. Do you really want to spend money on
"chapters" like "The Ten Major Points of Olivia
Munn’s 2024 Presidential Campaign Platform," "What
to Do When The Robots Invade (Yes, When!)," and just
an endless string of chapters that do nothing but
promote Olivia and don't let us get inside? And to
get to the good stuff you have to trudge through
about five or six chapters to get to gems like "I
Did It All for the Love of Pie" which Munn
recollects as her shining moment of being the hot
girl who didn't adhere to the clichés of being a hot
girl thanks to her love of pie while on "Attack of
the Show." But tidbits like that are scant and few,
and don't help to reduce the time wasted on a
pointless waste of paper that talks about dating
zombies and includes a conversation on Twitter.
Maybe somewhere deep
down Olivia Munn is a sad and insecure woman who is
afraid to really let loose on how she feels and what
she thinks of herself. Perhaps she thinks it's too
sad or depressing to show her fans her real wounds
and personal scars. Or worse, maybe she's just
nothing but a hot girl with nothing to say like
every other bubble head on the internet with their
own blog accounts. Either way, it's not worth the
price of this book to find out and ponder on that
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