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Summary: Page turner
Review: I finished The Nanny Diaries in two days. It is quite the page turner and is certainly enjoyable. "Nanny," a 21-year-old working her way through college goes to work for the X's as the nanny to their son Grayer. Mrs. X's ludicrous requests and demands are quite funny, and I have to admit, they remind me a lot of my days as a baby sitter. However, as the book unfolds, you see how unhappy Grayer, Mr. X, and Mrs. X are, and the novel becomes more tragic than comical. I really wondered if this book was fiction by the end - I think much of it is based on real life experiences. It's a great read. It loses one star because the end is somewhat unsatisfying.
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Summary: Oh MY GOODNESS!
Review: i got the book because i was bored and needed something to read. I told my sister and she told me her friend megan's sister was one of the authors so i got more into the book for that reason. I started reading it and within seconds i fell in love with the story. Its a beautiful story with a psychotic head case mother and a sleezy cheating father and a wonderful young boy who just needs to be loved. Nanny keeps it together very well though. She is there for Grayer while going to college. I'm not completely finished yet so i'm actualy going to go finish it right now...if you read it i know you'll enjoy it just as much as i do!
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Summary: Great Read
Review: I read some of the other reviews on the possible non existence of Mrs.X. Oh they are out there. Both my husband and I have encountered them over and over again. Myself working for a top New York City doctor and my husband being a chauffeur. Nanny's spineless ways as one reader put it, had every reason to be like this. She needed to survive and a new job would take time to find. As stated in the book also, when you leave a job of this type, no matter how dedicated you were they can choose to give you bad references. Also her love for Grayer who would suffer had she left was touching and all so true of many of the nannies. I really loved the book, I found it to be so entertaining and sad in a way. I hope they write another.
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Summary: A fun, yet sometimes slightly scary beach book
Review: I picked up a copy of The Nanny Diaries in the bookstore in preparation for an upcoming trip where I knew I would need something easy to read. This book was perfect for what I call the "beach books" or "plane books." I found the book easy to read, entertaining (with many a wild antics), strong in the character area, and for the most part great. The story is of an NYU student in need of money serving as a nanny for a rich Manhatten family who while there falls love, becomes way too dedicated to her job, and far more involved in the family's personal life than she needs to be. I found this book fun and frequently hilarious, particularly as it reminded me of many of my friends growing up. I attended a stuck-up private school in a wealthy part of town, and had many friends who were raised by their nannies. I saw lots of the truth in the book, while some stuff that was a little too close to reality, and thus a little scary. Overall the book is a great quick read. It is a little freaky when you consider how real the book could be, and slightly annoying that the ending just leaves you hanging. Besides that, it's awesome.
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Summary: Marry Poppins this ain't
Review: When I first heard all the praise on this book, the only thing I could do is go to my local bookstore and purchase it. "Just like Bridget Jones!!", "very funny!" were some of the quotes on this book. So then you think The Nanny Diaries you think is going to be a funny, plot stricken, good novel that will give you a good time. Yet, it isn't so. This novel seems to go nowhere, and the characters are very transparent. We never get a visual image in our head to unite with each of the characters, because the book spends too much time getting to know the characters we care least about. If anything you will be mad at this books ending. You go on reading 200 and some pages when, like snapping your fingers, it ends. Nothing will be resolved, and you are left thinking that mabye this is the first in the Nanny series and that maybe in the second book the characters will be explained and they will not be as transparent. Read at your own risk is all I can say. Some of us out there may like a book without a backbone, but most of us for the part dont. Unlike this books comparison "Bridget Jones' Diary" poor Bridget's book was in the form of a diary (unlike this first person book" and even Bridget stood up to her boss at one point. If Marry Poppins was real, I could imagine her being very ticked off after reading this novel. Stick to the pro...Mary.
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Summary: Why a bestseller?
Review: I found this book very tedious to read. I guess I had a problem with all of the personal injustices that Nanny had to endure (and the various other "help" in the X household). There were some cute moments, and the little romance between Nan and H.H. was kinda fun... overall, not all that it is cracked up to be... I was expecting something great since it has been a bestseller and all...
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Summary: Great Piece of Social Satire and Very Sad Too....
Review: I made my "living" caring for other people's children in the Chicago area throughout my high school years and also through college, and I have to agree whole-heartedly with both McLaughlin and Kraus on some of the experiences they portrayed. While all these experiences may not have happened with one particular family, I have to say that at one time or another throughout my career, and with one family or another, those occurances did happen, as odd as some of them might be. The book is excellent. It makes me angry to think how some people treat their children, expecting other people to raise them and share in those experiences that are meant for parent and child. It is also absurd, albeit a reality, on how some people treat their help. I, like Nanny, felt the most sorry for the children. Many times I couldn't bring myself to leave them in their time of need or pain. I hope that others who read this book enjoy it as much as I did. It is an extremely dark comedy. I wish what happends in the book did not really go on in real-life, but that is the tragedy of reality.
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Summary: Very Funny but Too Disturbing
Review: I, like many other reviewers, couldn't put this book down. The Nanny of the title has many hilarious moments, but it is the sickening or scary ones that stay with you. I beleive that there probably are people like the X's out there, but I hope in real life the Nanny speaks up at least for herself if not for the child. It is an interesting and fast read, but I wasn't expecting the disturbing reality of the parents. The marketing of the book was a bit misleading as I understood it just to be a comedy. I would give the book more stars if I had known what I was getting into when buying it.
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Summary: well written but depressing
Review: This is a sad commentary on the state of child rearing today among the wealthy; too obsessed with themselves to even consider that the needs of their child are, heaven forbid, more important than their next pedicure. I am a working mom who also has au pairs out of necessity, not because i just didn't feel like staying around to tend to my child. (Had I all the money these moms have at their disposal, it would be a wonderful joy to spend my time at home). This mother and the other described are, while fictionalized, in all likelihood classic examples of people with more money than sensibility, compassion and human decency.
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Summary: No No Nan
Review: Funny in a sad/pathetic way. Quick read. Made you want to get to the end. But why'd the main character, Nan, have no backbone whatsoever? That was the annoying part! Hopefully that was supposed to be a subtle point...that her character traits were taken to the extreme just like those of her employers.
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