Product Description

Janet Street Porter has a unique view on life and this is no ordinary 21st Century survival guide. Drawing on the experiences of her fascinating life and incredibly successful career Janet Street Porter dispenses advice and tips on how to live life to the full, get what you want, do the things you crave, achieve more, feel happier and healthier and most importantly live the life you want to lead. Janet s philosophy is to believe in yourself totally to get out of bed every morning and tell yourself you re bloody brilliant to put yourself first at all times. In Life's Too F***ing Short she shows how we can successfully combine work, relationships, fitness, health, shopping, buying and preparing food for our self and others without spending a fortune, using up valuable time and making unnecessary effort. This book is the sum total of Janet's life's experiences, she proves that there are plenty of ways to get exactly what we want from life and feel better about who we are. Divided into eleven chapters, Janet focuses on why life is too f***ing short to spend hours cooking the way chefs tell us to; believe what men tell us; talk to people who are boring; spend £100 on face cream; diet; spend it in the same dreary job; shop for clothes that won t work; put up wallpaper; have a set of rules you can t live up to. Life s Too F***ing Short is here to help us clear away the (Word removed) and start again.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1964 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-04
• 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. She has published two volumes of autobiography, Baggage and Fall Out. She is well known for her strong views and fearless expression of them.

Customer Reviews

Unimpressed
I scanned through this book in about half an hour. I like JSP, and admire what she has done in her career, but I thought this book was truly unworthy of her considerable talents. I felt it was simply a money making exercise.

Anyone over the age of 40 will not learn anything new. You realise after about age 25 that all the face creams advertising a makeover to become Nicole Kidman's twin are lies, and that nothing over the counter will make any difference to the way you look. You begin to see that all those Bimbo beauty analysts behind the counters really believe all that beauty pseudobabble, but now you realise that they also believe in tooth fairies. Having spent years trawling through the London beau monde hairdressing salons in my youth my favourite is a now mobile hairdresser in Gloucestershire. And not putting my age on my CV will really not fool anyone when I tell them I read Chemistry at Cambridge in the mid 70s. And as for including recipes - well, pleeeeease.....!!

I heard Esther Rantzen on Marcus Brigstocke's programme a couple of days ago and although not a fan, I couldn't help thinking how much more interesting her take on JSP's idea would be and how in her case, I really would learn something new. I'm sure she wouldn't insult our intelligence by including recipes!

Thank god I read the book in Waterstones and chose not to buy!

So it's not just me....Thank F*** for that!
It's about time! After a deluge of tepid, psycho-babble tomes, along comes a cogent, refreshing slab of common sense. I was beginning to think it was just me getting cantankerous at 36. It's like having a wise, eccentric auntie tell you what you already-suspect-you-might-be-starting-to-almost-realise; but kicking you up the arse as she does it!
Read it in one sitting. So gripped I didn't even get round to putting my feet up, or turning on the 'proper' reading light. Who cares? As Janet says, 'rules are made to be broken! Wahey! Thanks Janet!

Good fun read
I was attracted to this book by the design and layout which is really interesting. It is a kick up the ass for anyone feeling downtrodden and also provides cookery tips - what more could you ask for!