Pipin Reloaded
Posted By Paul Kotik on 11 October 2004
It is a curious thing: Pipin Ferreras’s book The Dive neither persuades nor comforts and yet one cannot look away. This book gets itself read in one sitting, cover-to-cover; to borrow the nominal author’s phrase, it is godamn unstoppable.
The Dive was released in July, 2004 by ReganBooks, an imprint label of New York publishing giant HarperCollins. Headed by sometime Fox News Channel hostess Judith Regan, the label is noted for ghostwritten tell-alls by persons of considerable (though usually transient) celebrity. Current ReganBooks headliners include How To Make Love Like A Pornstar, by the eminently qualified Jenna Jameson, and American Soldier by General Tommy Franks. The ReganBooks brand whispers that the inside story, the skinny, the dirty lowdown is packed between the covers of each release. Most such books don’t quite deliver, and in this sense Pipin’s book is unexceptional.
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