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Title: Scars Make Your Body More Interesting and Other Stories by Sherril Jaffe ISBN: 0-87685-779-9 Publisher: Black Sparrow Press Pub. Date: January, 1990 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $21.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: The reader from San Jose has a vendetta against Jaffe
Comment: The book is marvelous, it explores the abstract qualities of writing in descriptive short stories with humor and metaphor. The reader from San Jose used the same review for this book as they did a couple of other Jaffe books. They explain that they once had Jaffe as a professor at Sonoma State. Apparently they didn't get along well, and this immature, novice reader has decided to tamper with the career of a well respected writer. Instant Karma is gonna get you "San Jose."

Rating: 1
Summary: Calling it trite is being kind
Comment: I had Mrs. Jaffe as a professor of English Composition at Sonoma State University. Although I received a good grade in her class and find her teaching methods to be . . . interesting, I have a strong distate for this book.

The stories encapsulated herein are trite, Jewish, everyday stories. Nothing new or exciting for the average Jewish person herein. There is no imagination in the telling, and there is no beauty in the language. Mrs. Jaffe picks words like a blind monkey plays the piano: randomly with discordant results.

Calling it a fictionalized memoir is only half-true. Yes, it's based on her life, but a more accurate name for it would be therapy. Rather than seek professional help to deal with her familial problems, she has written her problems in book form to get them off her chest. Mrs. Jaffe, your personal life is not anyone's business, no matter how "comical" or "interesting" it may be.

In closing, this bookis banal, boring, bothersome, biased, bloated and bad. Do not read. I would rather have my wisdom teeth extracted with no novocaine than read any of her books.