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As a professor at a "large west coast PAC-10 university," I didn't find the book a total waste of money.

It answered some questions I had, and left some more unanswered.

I've read worse.

The credibility problems have been covered by more than enough previous posters. (You've got some good writers on this board.)

My least favorite parts are where Robbins plugs in jaw-droppingly bad cliches & descriptions -- "Amy purred with her velvety southern charm" ... "she flounced on her ruffled, pink-canopy bed, tossed aside her stuffed swan " ... and something about "her freckles in the light."

My goodness.

Anyway.
Have a good summer.
Stay out of trouble.

D.

I picked it up at the library this morning and am about 100 pages in so far. I can't figure out if the author intended this to be a sociological study, an op/ed piece, or a semi-fictional piece. I also love the credit to www.greekchat.com, although I don't know how any serious writer could actually use a public internet message board as a citation :D At least she gave credit where credit was due, yeah, that sounds good!

I wonder though, if there's a second printing will she have to do major revisions after the recent court decision concerning one of her "references"?

Hee hee hee hee :D

Is there a post about this?

Ok, thanks.

Robbin's Pledged site has been strangely quiet. At first, she was promising updates in April, and then in May. Now it's June and there's still nothing.

Betcha she's hard at work cooking up her next sordid expose... gotta live up to the terms of that big fat book contract! :)

I want to see her take on Opus Dei next.

I got a call from the library today that my copy is waiting for me. Guess that's what I'll be doing this weekend.

Hate to beak this to you all - but Paramount bought rights to Pledged; I'm afraid that piece of (*&% is going to be a movie. Maybe we can stop it??
Also, I know through a friend of a friend that Robbins has a few things to hide of her own. Lets just put it this way, there is a list of people who refuse to work with her, and she doesn't have many friends - not that she's concerned with anything but her own success.

Honestly, we can't really stop private companies from doing things like this. BUT, perhaps we should all start really focusing on Greek Unity and working in the community to show that we aren't all big bad bullies. The Greek System has survived many attacks like this and will continue to survive!!!

We, on Greek Chat, already have an affinity for each other and we have established that all Greeks are Greek together, right? Let's take that mentality out to other chapters and houses to show them that we HAVE to stick together and stick up for our Greekness!

Ms. Robbins was a guest on KROQ (a L.A. radio station) today, talking about Skull & Bones, and how both presidental candidates are members.

She of course had to throw in that she is a memeber of Scroll & Key. And how some member of Skull & Bones is trying to ruin her career as a journalist. (Man, what about the members of GLO's that are also??? Give us some credit, too! :D)

Then one of the DJ's mentioned "Pledged." All the DJ's could talk about was how sexual the girls are in the book...

:rolleyes: Whatever!

I think she destroyed her journalistic credibility all by herself.

But I thought that she "bonded" with Caitlin, Vicki, Amy and Sabrina - why doesn't she call them up and they can paint each other's toenails?

As to the rest of your post, I'm curious. Do tell.