Product Description

"Life's Too F***ing Short" is an indispensable guide for women to surviving in the 21st century, which enables you to have a fulfilling and successful life without spending a fortune or passing a load of exams. It will show you how to combine work, relationships, friends, fashion, health, shopping, cooking etc without using up valuable time you could spend enjoying yourself. Janet's mantra is to tell yourself every day 'I'm bloody brilliant'! She shows how you can do everything from building a successful career and looking good, to meeting and keeping friends without making unnecessary effort or setting yourself unrealistic goals.Once you've read this book, you'll realise there are plenty of things you can kiss goodbye to for ever. Life's too short to: start a complicated diet - talk to a friend who bores the arse off you - take the pips out of grapes and papayas - stay in the same dreary job for years - concoct a face pack - sew curtains - do the ironing - drive miles to buy hand made pasta - believe that Joan Collins just uses great face cream or think that you'll ever look like a picture in a fashion magazine if you buy that GBP500 dress. The list is endless, and this book will just get you started. It's a new philosophy - that to succeed in life and be happy you must put yourself first at all times.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7190 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-02
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
Regardless of your view of JSP, this is a hugely entertaining read from a hugely ballsy woman who, crucially, knows how to laugh at herself and takes no nonsense from anyone. --THE OBSERVER, 20th January 2008

How to live lifee to the full while kicking out the (Word removed), JS-P style - straight from the mouth of the lady herself. **** (out of 5) --HEAT magazine, 9th February 2008

In print her forthrightness works to hilarious effect. More importantly, she does actually talk a lot of sense. --BIG ISSUE, 4th February 2008

from Marie Claire APRIL 2008
(mail of the month) - following an excerpt from the book :-
THE RULES ACCORDING TO JANET gave me a much needed kick up the arse. Just after New Year, I was sacked and was feeling incredibly insecure. To my mind, I was old (33), unemployed, unmarried, fat and ugly. After reading Janet..., I was literally laughing at myself for being so pitiful. I soon realised that I will get a better job, I'm gorgeous and in my prime, my boyfriend is a wonderful person with whom i have a fantastic relationship and that I shoudl be grateful. There are so many terrible things happening to women all over the world that life is, indeed, far too short short to worry about the small stuff.
MARIE CLAIRE reader

About the Author
Janet Street Porter has had a successful career in journalism and broadcasting spanning decades. In the 1970s she was on the Daily Mail, London Evening Standard and LBC. From 1988-1994 she was BBC Head of Youth and Entertainment Features and has devised, produced and presented many TV programmes. She has appeared on three series of C4's F Word and presented ITV2's Deadline in 2007. Janet has been editor of the Independent on Sunday and is now editor at large for the Independent. She has been president of the Ramblers Association. Her two volumes of autobiography, Baggage and Fall Out, were published by Headline. She is well known for her strong views and fearless expression of them.

Customer Reviews

She calls a spade a spade
I devoured this book in about a day and a half, not difficult as it's easily readable and fun. It is certainly not in the usual style of most self help books; JSP is no patronising therapist or analyst, and I think she would wholly disapprove of too much navel-gazing. She delivers her no-nonsense take on life in a loud, punchy, entertaining way - a sort of short sharp shock treatment! The JSP we all know and love is very evident; slightly scary, ball-breaking, arrogant, ambitious and bossy. But it is very clear that there is another side to Janet, a hugely likeable, self-deprecating, practical, intelligent woman; a realist, with a deep appreciation of life's simple pleasures. She comes across as someone who is at peace with herself, and she does this by NOT trying to be all things to all men(or women) and she wants us to learn to do the same - to listen more to ourselves and less to other people. Did it help me? Well, being 42 with two marriages, three kids and a succession of unfulfilling crappy jobs under my belt, this book didn't actually teach me anything I didn't already know, but it did reinforce much of what I've already learnt the hard way. If I'd read this 20 years ago however, I might have saved myself many years of wasted mental energy on things and people that didn't matter. Once you've read the whole book keep it by your bed, or in your loo for many years to come so that you can dip in and out at random. A few paragraphs of wisdom JSP style will help you focus on what really matters, sort the wheat from the chaff in your life, and go forth with more confidence in yourself.

Common sense makes a comeback!
I found this book a good antidote to the myriad of self help books out there which want you to follow a complicated regime. JSP advocates following your instinct and not conforming to what other people think you should be. Buy the things you like rather than what's fashionable. Don't spend fortunes on the latest must have beauty product because they're all rubbish. Don't follow fad diets - no woman is meant to be a size zero. It is the food section which made me give it 4 stars rather than 5. The food she says she eats is rather restrictive in that it appears to cut out wheat and dairy completely. Most nutritionists say it is not a good idea to cut out whole food groups unless you really have an allergy or serious intolerance.
That said, everything else made sense - life's too short to go to a spa, or bother with men who aren't interested in you and it's definitely too short to try and impress people either at work or in the rest of your life.
The book is amusing and gives a good insight into JSP's character and career. It is perhaps a bit too gimmicky with its layout and the different fonts, but it certainly gets the message across. A good present for someone who's self esteem needs boosting.

Great Advice!
This is a woman to listen to, Janet Street Porter knows exactly what she's talking about and truely makes good sense of everything covered in her new book from fashion to friends. Ms Porter has written a book that is honest, straight to the point and full of good, useful information to carry with you for life.
"LTFS" is funny, blunt, outrageous and I can fully recommend it highly to all.