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Summary: Heartbreaking, but still sometimes funny
Review: A co-worker's mother has been a nanny (and mother and father) for the ultra-rich for years, so I had heard many stories similar to the events in this book before. So when I started it, I knew I was in for a heartbreaker, but I still found it very upsetting. I won't go into the plot in detail (other reviewers have done that enough), but I will say that the poor four-year-old boy in the story has two entirely self-absorbed parents and is being raised by a series of nannies that are replaced just as he gets attached to them.The nanny in the book does the best that she can in a horrible situation, both for the money and for the boy. Of course she grows to love him - who could spend that much time around a four-year-old and not fall in love - but she can't make up for the two mostly-absent parents. The book does have lots of amusing moments, mostly about the bizarre things these parents do (like mommy and me classes with the nanny), and it's a quick read that I found really hard to put down. I finished it late last night and afterwards had to restrain myself from scooping up my sleeping baby and giving him a cuddle. All in all, this is a summer reading-type book that will really wrench your heart.
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Summary: Not a waste of time
Review: Yes, ND is a quick read, sometimes amazingly funny, overall depressing, not a classic, but no, reading ND is not a waste of time. If any of these fictional anecdotes are based on reality, anyone who has children or works with children will have tremendous sympathy for little Grayer's situation. It's not that Nanny has no backbone, it's just that she is apparently a middle-class college student trying to finish her degree, living in apartment challenged NYC while looking for love. Nanny hardly has time or energy to look for another job. Besides, her experience as a nanny is one of the best internship experiences she can get (especially after reading about her interview experience with the strange couple at the development center). Nanny will be a better mother and child development professional after dealing with Grayer, the truly loathesome Mr/Mrs X and their peers. Readers may think H.H.'s role is included only to flesh out the crude history of the X's since he and Nanny's relationship seems a bit unrealistic. That didn't matter though because I couldn't help crossing my fingers for them since I wanted something good to happen for Nanny. Actually, even though most readers might be dissapointed regarding Nanny's soft routing of the horrid X's, it is evident that Nanny is truly the ultimate winner here. She still has a decent family, is capable of loving children, has completed her academic goals(despite Mrs. X)and obviously has a future without the X's-or Hairy Pilot for that matter. It is not a waste of time to realize, after reading ND, and hope that there might be someone who cares for these wealthy but emotionally abandoned children.
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Summary: Not recommended for those with anger management issues
Review: Overall, a quick and entertaining read. Not the best book ever written but certainly not the worst. The Nanny Diaries gives a glimpse into the world of nannying for NYC's upper crust, an unenviable job. All of us who've ever had to work for or with unapologetically self-absorbed, stuck-up rich folk can relate to Nanny's mistreatment by the Xes and will fume along with her in righteous indignation. Each episode of what she's subjected to only gets more and more ridiculous, and the only thing driving me to read on to the end was the belief that there had to be some delicious, satisfying, sweet revenge awaiting me at the book's conclusion. To say I was disappointed to discover otherwise is an understatement. I seriously do not recommend you read this if you are prone to rage! When I finished the book, I had to take a full 10 minutes to punch my mattress and scream into my pillow. I don't know that I would've been angrier if I'd lived through the madness myself. Along with weaknesses that other reviewers have already pointed out--weak characterization, a protagonist without a backbone, a largely uninspired love story--there must have been a way to give the Xes what they had coming while still allowing Nanny to walk away the bigger person and with a semblance of dignity. I have to disagree with anyone who thinks this book is "simply fun." It was fun at times but the feelings it left me with are far from simple. I try to take comfort in the fact that these are supposed fictional characters, but we all know that people like the Xes exist all around us. We should all band together and let them know that we are human beings and we deserve to be treated as such!
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Summary: Delightful and Troubling
Review: A book every parent should read: the poor so they'll know their kids aren't missing anything by not being rich, and the rich so they'll examine their priorities. Besides, it's hilarious.
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Summary: Well written, but too depressing for a mother
Review: I couldn't continue reading this book. It was well written, but so sad and depressing for me (a mom of two small children). It really shows the awful way some people treat their children. Not a book for me.
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Summary: Enjoyable
Review: I wanted to read this book for a long time, eventhough it is translated into Turkish I still could not read it.
Now after finishing it, I thought it was much more better but it is enjoyable at least.
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Summary: either you like it or you don't
Review: I could see my daughters just loving this book, but for some reason, maybe I was tired or something when I read it, it wasn't what I expected. I really think there are people like the ones that the nanny worked for and maybe that is why it wasn't as funny to me. This is not to say that the book was not good or entertaining because for certain people, I can see that it would be extremely so. It just wasn't my cup of tea.
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Summary: wonderfully sardonic yet so irritating
Review: While I couldn't put it down, for the last 2/3 of the book I wanted to grab the narrator by the shoulders, shake her and scream, "Stand up for yourself!" This is not a book about the spoiled Upper Manhattan Rich, it's about people who see others -- including their own offspring -- as mere props, placed on earth to serve their needs. I personally know a few women like Mrs. X: mothers who delegate the raising of their children to an army of professionals, on a fraction of Mrs. X's money. These narcissistic, infantile women have a huge sense of self-entitlement. I suppose having more money than one knows what to do with only takes the self-indulgence to extremes. This is one of these books where you wish the narrator was as smart as the authors and put her biting witty commentary to good use. Since Nanny can see through the Xes' trappings for the self-involved people that they are, it was extremely irritating to watch her allow them to overstep every imaginable boundary. It's a shame Nanny didn't use her wonderfully sardonic humor to stand up to the Xes the way she stood up to just about everyone else. Having said that, the sharp commentary and breezy style (it takes hard work to make it seem effortless) redeem this book.
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Summary: entertaining? disturbing? honest.
Review: I loved this book! It was...deeply disturbing at times with its honesty. But it was also hilarious at times. It definately gets you emotionally involved and keeps your interest. And no matter how disturbing it gets its highly entertaining! Its very real, its very honest, its VERY well-written! I recommend!
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Summary: I read this in 1 week and i work 40 hours
Review: This book is so good I really hope they write more. I couldn't put it down. I didnt sleep much the week I got it. I think just about any gal would enjoy it. I bet there are really nannies in nyc that have to put up with bosses like this. It is so interesting to me as i live in a small town
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