How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale

by Jenna Jameson and Neil Strauss

Book Overview

"Captivating...a real person comes through in its page...Lively, hellacious, entertaining, sharp, feisty, and touching." --Salon.com

How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, the mega-bestselling memoir, triumphant survival story, and cautionary tale that spent over six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and rocketed adult film icon Jenna Jameson into the mainstream spotlight, is now in paperback for the very first time. Her unforgettable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060539097
• ISBN13: 9780060539092
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: It Books
• Length: 579 Pages
• Weight: 2.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A good read!

This was one of the first books I bought off of this site. I'm not a big reader but this book had me reading for hours! Soo good!

Great read.

There are a lot of sad and terrible things that happen in this book. One hell of a story, for sure.

The Porn Queen Turned Literary Genius

Jenna Jameson pours out her heart and soul in this autobiography that gives us a detailed and colorful account of her exciting life and career. I was aware of who she was from the time I saw her in a porn movie many years ago. There was something so sensual about the way she performs for the camera. If I could use the word grace about something related to porn, in my mind Jenna Jameson is the most graceful porn diva out there. To be honest I was enticed about the title and the cover when I bought the book. The book is very thick, but don't be afraid, as over a third of its content is comprised of pictures and collages of beautiful Jenna. However, I found it hard to read in the subway as the revealing pictures got a lot of attention by other commuters. The fix to this problem was to start carrying a white sheet of paper that would cover the pictures while I would read the text. Jenna's life is exciting, sad, dramatic, abusive, humorous, and extravagant all at the same time, and she does an excellent job at opening her heart to the public. She takes the reader on a journey that starts with a naughty little girl that plays with Barbies and also has a certain tomboy side to her, and finishes with a giant porn diva that sits at the top of thirty six billion dollars a year industry. This journey is full of ups and downs, which Jenna manages to turn into constant learning and self-exploration. She is very generous at sharing these learning experiences in the shapes of Jenna philosophies about family, love, relationships, sex, drugs, or all kinds of other dependencies. And as nobody in a healthy state of mind should take these philosophies at face value, they are nevertheless entertaining and will give you some interesting perspectives on all these well-debated issues. The book is a wealth of knowledge about the porn industry. If you are thinking about making it in this business, this book will be your new Bible. It is fascinating to find out about the sad self-destructive lives of most porn stars. If you are like me (or every guy I have talked to) and wondered about being a porn star, reading this book will definitely make you reconsider. Also, if you enjoy juicy gossips (who doesn't?) about the rich and famous, this book will prove to be very informative at that matter. You will find interesting bits about Nicholas Cage, Nikki Sixx, Tome Lee, Marilyn Manson, Derek Jeter, Joe Montana, Pamela Anderson, or the Undertaker. Who would have thought that Marilyn Manson likes to cuddle after he has sex? Who would have thought Nicholas Cage smells like the homeless people at the subway stations? I will highly recommend this book to anybody that likes to mix up his or her reading materials. If you are a fan of biographies, this book is must! If you have taken an interest on the porn industry this book will be eye-opening (no pun intended).

Don't Judge A Book By It's Cover

Jenna Jameson sure knows how to market herself. When she finally made the decision (and by reading this book, you come to understand that women do not get "sucked into" the porn lifestyle, as has been a long-running stereotype) that she wanted to advance her career to the adult film industry, she entered her first interview claiming she was not there to earn some extra pocket change but because she wanted to become the biggest porn star in the country. A far cry from the self-proclaimed shy tomboy this Italian blonde bombshell was as a child. Now Jenna owns one of the most frequented domains in all of the internet porn community, making her much more than just a Porn Queen: she is also a savvy business woman. It is easy to get sucked into this book by the images that adorn its cover, or even by the pictoral spreads that can be found inside. Jenna strategically chose pictures that would speak to her already existing fans to purchase this book, but it is the story that lies on 577 typed pages inside that will bring her many new fans, admirers, and supporters. She truly has led a remarkable life. And even she admits the things that got her the life she has today: a life in which she is finally happy and settled, will be seen to many others as mistakes. But just as we were taught never to judge books by their covers, so is the case with Jenna's chosen profession. The story is so touching and so sad it is hard to find words to review it. Jenna admits in the book that she doesn't like to talk about the abuse she suffered because she feels (and maybe even fears) that people will use that as an excuse for her entrance into the adult film industry. Maybe that is true; people are more conservative and close-minded than sympathetic toward that industry nowadays. However, it is an aspect of her life that cannot go unnoticed, and it feels like she finally has given herself a sense of closure now that she has written the truth down in these pages. So much occurs in this book- from multiple rapes to stripping while attending high school to two kinds of drug addictions- that you find yourself unable to put down the book until you have read every last word. And the story is told with an eerie ease; it is as if Jenna had this in her all along, and everything she ever did up until now was simply a situation she could use for this book. While some chapters read more like a play, as they are broken down only into dialogue or soundbytes from Jenna, her brother, and her father, the majority of the book is told in standard chapter format. You laugh with her, you cry with her, and more importantly, you feel with her. You finally get a look at the real person under the layers of make-up the industry cakes on her. And she is truly a person, full of real substance. It is a breath of fresh air to prove that. A lot of people who heard this book was coming out probably wrote it off as just another way for her to capitalize on her sex appeal. But nothin

Surprisingly good

This book was so much better than I thought it was going to be. Although I don't recommend you take this book to work to read, as there are partially nude photos on almost every other page.

A Good Read!

I read a bunch of reviews here, and it seems like people hate Jenna for what she does. Personally, I'm not a porn watcher. And I don't think it's art. But this is a good story. And it's unapologetic, which is why people with sticks up their butts have trouble with it. The scary thing is that most women can relate to it. She is eerily Everywoman. But what do I know? I'm a guy, and I like the pictures. No, actually I like the cartoons. It's a really clever book, and I've never read a biography like it. I doubt some of the haters have even read it...

This is really good!

This is one of those books that are just impossible to put down. From the first few pages to the very end you are just hooked. Obviously Jenna Jameson is no Ernest Hemingway, but she sure lead one heck of an interesting life that makes for a very interesting read. As you read this book its more like one of your best friends telling you a story. I highly recommend this book as a weekend read.