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Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered

Written by: Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark
Narrated by: Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark, Paul Giamatti
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Publisher's Summary

This program is read by the authors, with Paul Giamatti, and includes sections recorded in front of a live audience.

The highly anticipated first book by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, the voices behind the number-one hit podcast My Favorite Murder!

Sharing never-before-heard stories ranging from their struggles with depression, eating disorders, and addiction, Karen and Georgia irreverently recount their biggest mistakes and deepest fears, reflecting on the formative life events that shaped them into two of the most followed voices in the nation.

In Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered, Karen and Georgia focus on the importance of self-advocating and valuing personal safety over being "nice" or "helpful." They delve into their own pasts, true crime stories, and beyond to discuss meaningful cultural and societal issues with fierce empathy and unapologetic frankness.

"My Favorite Murder started as a way for Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark to work through their fears. Now it’s a worldwide community.... Even its darkest moments are lightened by Karen and Georgia's effortlessly funny banter and genuine empathy." (RollingStone.com)

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark (P)2019 Macmillan Audio

What the critics say

"Hardstark and Kilgariff’s podcast takes on crime, death and other gory subjects, all filtered through the pair’s subversive wit as they riff on life’s craziness, often sharing details from their own mental health and substance abuse struggles. This openness translates onto the page. A kind of life guide...the book is just as funny as the podcast but often goes deeper into painful subjects." (Los Angeles Times)

“Kilgariff and Hardstark bring a much needed dimension to our current, true crime fever dream - an empathetic, slangy dose of acidic humor, weary compassion, and nervous hope. Their podcast is a joy to listen to and this book captures its energy and hilarity perfectly.” (Patton Oswalt, New York Times best-selling author of Silver Screen Fiend)

“In addition to being laugh-out-loud funny, smart, and incisive, Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered is so interesting and insightful that it made me a) want to be best friends with the authors and b) for real ask them to take me on as a therapy patient. This book is hilarious, honest, insightful, and clever as hell. Do yourself a fun favor by buying it and consuming it. You’ll emerge at the final word as a new-and-improved badass version of your former self.”(Megan Mullally, New York Times best-selling coauthor of The Greatest Love Story Ever Told)

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My only complaint...

I have one complaint, and that is that this book just wasn't long enough! I want MORE! I could honestly listen to these two lovely ladies all goddamn day, SO below is a list of potential sequels:

Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide Part 2
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide Part 3
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide Part 4
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: Confessions of Steven Ray Morris
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: Corrections Corner
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Not-So Mini Minsode

Just to get the ball rollin'
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Do it for the murderinos!

I had a hard time wanting to keep reading this book and finished it more out of loyalty than intrigue, something about the style it was written.. more like a collection of awkward valedictorian speech scripts, didn't do it for me. Regardless of that, I found the content completely relatable and will always read any book these two beautiful souls put out. SSDGM

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Great Listen

If you enjoy the podcast you will enjoy this book. Easy listen and was sad when it was over.

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An okay experience

This is a book written specifically for their fans, i'm doubtful anyone who hasn't listened to their podcast will get much from it. I wouldn't say it's a definitive how-to guide about anything, really, although i appreciate the intent was likely more of a self help book. It's a collection of their own stories and personal anecdotes mixed in with some rather vague life advice - (do something you love, buy your own things with your own money - sums it up basically). Nothing more insightful. It's fine for what it is. I do enjoy Karen and Georgia and think they're good storytellers, although they're at their best when they can banter off each other. For this reason i enjoy the podcast more than i did the book, although it was an easy listen and the narration was pretty great.

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Obviously I love it

Vulnerable and awesome. Thank you KK and GH. I need more words for this review but I don’t have any, it’s perfect. It was over too quickly.

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Jarring live sequences really hurt this book

As a big fan of this podcast, I was quite excited to hear that they were writing a book and that there would be an audiobook version. I immediately placed a pre-order for the book and downloaded it immediately. If you are a fan of the podcast - you will know that a lot of the interest from that is the riffing between Karen and Georgia, something that they have tried to recreate somewhat in the 'in conclusion' sections of some chapters but this somewhat falls flat as they are trying to go for a more 'professional' sound.
Which is why the sudden and seemingly random switches to a live reading of the chapter for no apparent reason off-putting. If you are going to go to the effort of having a polished product that loses some of the appeal of the original product because it doesn't have the bantery back and forth bits - why include a couple chapters read live? It doesn't even make sense for the chapter to be read live, the audience interaction is completely unnecessary and makes it harder to understand. They aren't even together for the live read chapters so it is extra weird and unnecessary.

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Podcast material

Title is the best thing about the book. Story is about applauding mental therapy and the authors' personal struggles / finding their common bond with others for true crime story enthusiasm.

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Late to the party

I might be late to getting to this but I binged it in a day! Thanks ladies - this was pure gold!!

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Thank you for making us Murderinos feel “normal” about our obsession with true crime!

I’ve been listening to the MFM podcast for a few months now, so I still have about 2 years worth of episodes to finish…I have enjoyed every single episode! I love Karen and Georgia- their transparency and vulnerability when it comes to mental heath issues, therapy, drug/alcohol dependency and their childhoods. Being born in the early 80’s, there are so many things they talk about in their book that are relatable. Keep up the amazing work ladies!
From one of your many Canadian Murderinos!

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Amazingly honest and real, I cried.

I was not expecting to get emotional listening to this book but boy did it hit home. It is so relatable from men being pushy and over stepping and just brushing it off with a polite smile, to the sibling rivalry and then being your best friend later in life. Thank you for this book, I wish I had it in my teen years

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