Books I Recommend: The Bling Ring

 

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I got interested in the case of the Bling Ring gang when I caught the film directed by Sofia Coppola. Yes I've heard so much about it, especially on TMZ, but I wasn't interested then. When I saw the film, it piqued my curiosity that I googled, wikipediaed and read most articles about them until I reached the article "The Suspects Wore Louboutins" by Nancy Jo Sales. The article was kind of bitin so I decided to read it further. The nice thing about this book is that it just didn't cover what these teenagers did wrong, there were also insights as to what is basically happening in the society and how it behaved and evolved to where it has become now. The book won't tell you who did what, who was telling the truth and who was the pathetic liar, well to me, it was about why some people chose to rather do what they do.


My favorite lines...

Corporations are now people and people are now products, known as "brands".

Infamy wasn't what it used to be. Now it was just another kind of fame.

Everybody's living in their own reality tv show.

MILF - a designation which didn't exist until being "hot" seemed to become more important, in the gaze of pop culture, than being a mother.