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Bunny Tales | 
 enlarge | Author: Izabella St. James
Publisher: Running Press
Category: Book
List Price: $24.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  84 reviews
Sales Rank: 5159
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover
Edition: illustrated edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0762427396
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.931092
EAN: 9780762427390
ASIN: 0762427396
Publication Date: August 21, 2006
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What happens in the Mansion, doesnt stay in the Mansion!
How did I get here? I was raised a nice Catholic girl in Ontario, Canada. I am an only child whose parents lavished their attention and resources on me. I have a Bachelor of Arts degree and a law degree, and Im studying to take the California bar. I am comfortable with my own sexuality, responsible for my own orgasm, and have never been sexually or emotionally abused. And yet for two years, I lived at the infamous Playboy Mansion, rolled in a posse of seven succulent beauties, and was a co-girlfriend of the father of the sexual revolution and the world's largest living hedonist. What is wrong with this picture? The Bunnies. The Girlfriends. The Mansion. The Grotto. The Myth. The Man. The Fantasy. The Reality. Izabella St. James left colder climes for the beaches of Malibu. Young, blond, and pretty, she was looking for fun, and the SoCal nightlife was a powerful magnet. Out clubbing one night, she met Hugh Hefner and his friends. Beyond the silk robe and age-proof good looks, Hugh was a genial man who invited Izabella to join his group of friends and then to move into the world-famous Mansion as one of Hefs girlfriends. (Plural.) Bunny Tales is Izabellas storyof a party girl who discovered what work it is to play all the time. Plastic surgery, gorgeous clothes, cool cars, and a generous weekly allowance are the perks of Mansion life, but Hefs girlfriends are a clique, a sorority, a group of best buds, and bitter rivals, the worst of high school in an adult party circuit. Izabella was witness to the growing pains of an empireand legendbuilt on a revolution long over. Like the best relationships, Bunny Tales is honest and fun, revealing and real, satisfying and surprising.
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 Would a rich man please call me???????? November 20, 2008
I had to give this rating one star because the option of no star.
I bought this book because I watch the show and always suspected a professional dynamic and this did support that.
The authour however, could she be more self-serving? Could she be more pathetic and catty?
Crying about things like holding her hand out but not getting her allowance because she went out of town when she knew that was already on the table?
Crying how mean Holly and Bridget were, when she and her pussy posse did the same thing?
I only meant to stay a few months. Pulease??? You were there for as long as you could milk that cow.
It was a job. You were well paid and then cried about it later in an attempt to stay in the lifestyle you missed.
Still now a lawyer but would love to play one on tv. Crying out for producers to call you. Crying out for casino owners to call you.
PATHETIC....even more pathetic is that I spent [..] on it.
She's obviously not a fan of the Girls next Door Girls. November 17, 2008
As other reviewers state it could have been proofed better. However, the book is still a good read. The author makes you dislike Holly & Bridget from the Girls Next Door. She seems very greedy while trying to convince the reader that she's not. I definately wouldn't pay full price for this book. If you can get it for really cheap its a good one-time read.
A Gossip book only.... November 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
You do learn some interesting things in the book (regarding how the Mansion is laid out, the different parties they had, etc.) - however, Izabella should be thankful to Hef instead of nit-picking him. He gave her thousands of dollars worth of stuff while she was a girlfriend (clothes, makeup, allowance, medical/dental, cosmetic surgery, new cars, etc.)- but yet it was NEVER enough. She basically said that she was there to "have fun" and get what she could.
She complains in the whole book about Hef and the mansion's rules. She went to parties and new some of the girlfriends BEFORE she became a girlfriend - so she should have known the rules beforehand. She says that Bridget and Holly were goody to-shoes and did everything Hef wanted them to do. He was treating them like royality - I think I would have wanted to spend time with him and treat him a little nicer than Izabella did.
She complained about him being "a creature of habit" and doing the same things the same way all the time. It was HIS HOUSE she was living in - and HIS money he was spending on her. I think he had the right! She complained about not being able to stay at events very long. I would have been thankful just to be able to say I WENT. He gave them a $2000 allowance an event for clothes - yet sometimes that wasn't enough. He even gave them money to buy christmas presents for the other girls - and they tried to figure out a way to keep THAT money instead of use it on what he said to use it on. And then blamed Holly because she told Hef about it. I would have told him too - that is almost like stealing from him!
She complained on valentine's day all they got was playboy items - and no "diamond jewelry" or anything like someone in a normal relationship gets. Um - who said this was a normal relationship anyway? Geez!
According, to the show - Girls Next Door - it sounds like now - most of the "rules" have gone by the wayside. PROBABLY because he knew Holly, Bridget and Kendra would do what they were suppose to do. They gained his trust. Something Izabella and her friends never gained. Her and her friends would always try to find a way to get out of doing what Hef wanted them to do. I am sure it was obvious to him - they didn't care about him.
The final fight she had was with Bridget. She claimed Bridget was crying because Izabella sit by Hef in the car and she didn't get to. She went up to Bridget and called her a "BI***". She claimed she sit by him because she was leaving and it might be the last time she got to sit by him. She could have explained that to Bridget and talked to her nicely but instead she called her names. Then she couldn't believe Hef came over grabbed her arms and told her he was tired of the "sh**". Well, duh!??
The book was an interesting read - but I didn't believe lots of things she said - and I felt she was just there to get everything she could - just like some of the girls she complained about. They sure don't know how lucky they were - I would love to have stayed in the Mansion for a WEEK - or even a day let alone 2 years - WOW!!! People like this will never be happy with their lives - always wanting something better.
Hell Hath No Fury October 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" could be another title for the book. She lost a power struggle with Holly, didn't get all the cash, gifts and recognition she felt entitled to (simply for being beautiful, not for any real work or effort), and so she wrote a bitter, often contradictory memoir of her life in the Mansion.
That said, it is also an entertaining read. It's full of drama and tidbits of life at Playboy. The resentful passages are easy to see through, and thus ignore. Aside from that, and the poor grammar, it can be fun and informative; a soap opera based upon fact, viewed through a very skewed and scorned lens. My wife loved it, and read it through in a single sitting (it's a quick 250 pages).
So 3 stars for the drama, factoids and fun. The anger, misstatements and contradictions are fairly easy to ignore. I feel sad for Hef, the other girls (past and present), and the staff that she disses, it is a total betrayal of trust (very surprised he doesn't have the girls sign confidentiality agreements). But for those of us on the outside of this world, it's kinda fun.
 Not a good book, but served its purpose. October 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really like The Girls Next Door and was really curious what goes on behind closed doors. I was also looking for a frivolous read. The reviews that are here are very true. It is not the best book. Izabella just sounds annoying and exactly like the stereotypical girl she clearly is trying to say she isn't. I guess it's hard to understand how one would be in such an untraditional setting, but the fact is that it's not likable. She also sounds inconsistent with her views of Hef...one minute he's not so great and the next she is grateful for him. For me, I am glad I got the book, because it did fit what I was looking for. Quickly, after starting to read it, I began to scan through the parts about her life and then actually read the parts about the Girlfriends and how this all works - logistically. This was also not a book "I couldn't put down", but on those occasions when I felt like something frivolous, I grabbed it and picked up where I left off. If there were a book written by anyone else about the Girlfriends, you can bet I'd go for that one first, but until that happens, if you are curious like me and don't mind scanning, this isn't a bad buy.
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