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# By Lynn Barber - An Education Paperback – December 16, 2009

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    I really liked this book....
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2009*

I really liked this book which I bought after seeing the movie and reading Lynn Barber's long interview in The Guardian.  It is refreshing to read a straight-forward, honest autobiography/memoir.  What was missing in the movie was that she got tired of Simon long before her parents found out he was a liar and a creep; in the movie, you get the impression she was having the time of her life and was shocked to find out that Simon was anything other than what he told her he was.  The record is set straight in the book where we learn that she thought he was weird at best and would have stopped seeing him but for the encouragement, almost insistence, of her parents, especially her father.  The education she got from Simon was that people are almost always NOT as they appear.  Hello Tiger Woods?  (sorry)I did like this book, though, which I thought was well written.  It is always interesting to read about other people's lives to see why they took the directions in life that they did.  In this case, Lynn Barber wanted to be a journalist, and she worked as a journalist wherever she could get a job.  Her first job was at Penthouse magazine.  Sobeit.  She learned and moved on.  She also became a wife and mother, jobs she didn't think she wanted or was cut out for but that she ended up loving after all.  All in all, she was a lucky lady.

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    Life's Tuition
  

*by C***G on Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2011*

British journalist, Lynn Barber, born in 1944, wrote a memoir piece about her teenage affair with an older guy for Granta and it was that piece on which the movie of the same name was based.  This fuller version begins with a chapter on her childhood, then moves to "An Education," and follows with her Oxford years, marriage, writing for the start-up Penthouse magazine, later success in the world and personal events up to a few years ago.  There are many episodes worth comment, but I don't want to risk spoilers.Throughout this engaging, well-written book, Barber is warm, human, candid and often very funny.  She never claims victimhood over anything; she learns from all of her experiences.  All of the chapters could have been titled "an education" because of that.  The chief lesson she learns is the ultimate unknowability of other people.

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    Smart, Funny, and Well Worth a Read
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2017*

I really enjoyed this book. I bought the audio version and the reader is perfect for the material. Barber is a very good writer. Part of the book is the basis for the film, and, while Barber can be a bit more harsh than her film character regarding her affair with an older man, she is smart and funny and worth a read. I enjoyed learning about her life and I wish her other books were on CD.

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