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Summary: terrific book ~ VERY funny ~ I loved it!
Review: Minerva and Cal. Bets. Love in the air. Friction erupts. Hilarious writing. Need I say more? Get this one! It's a winner.
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Summary: Best bet for a great read
Review: Romantic, funny and sweet -- the perfect weekend read. I was a little disappointed with Jennifer Crusie's last book, but this was a delight from beginning to end.
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Summary: Crusie hits a home run again!
Review: Some may argue about the semantics of novel writing and Crusie's application of them in "Bet Me", but I just enjoyed her colorful, hilarious characters. She comes through once again with lots of laugh-out-loud moments throughout this book. "Bet Me" definitely leans towards the more light-hearted end of Crusie's collection of novels so far, but there's nothing wrong with that! Crusie is at the top of the game of romantic comedy and REALLY funny dialogue. Another truly enjoyable read. Another Crusie keeper for me!
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Summary: Predictable but funny
Review: The plot here is Minerva overhears her ex-boyfriend bet a good-looking stranger in a bar ($10K) that he can't get her in bed within a month's time. Right from the description you know where this is going. Of course Minerva accepts a dinner invitation from the stranger with the idea of using him as well, but they become attracted to each other, and so forth. Nothing surprising.So why read it? Because it's hilarious. There are tons of great one-liners and sarcastic conversations to make it worth while. There are a lot of similarities here to the How To Lose a Guy In 10 Days, even some of the banter is the same, but well worth reading. And at almost 400 pages, it's full of wonderful vignettes and sub-stories that highly entertain.
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Summary: Wrong demographic?
Review: The story is cute, and I laughed aloud a couple of times, but I wish I'd read this when I was about 18. I think I would have appreciated it more then. I'd draw the analogy to a Julia Roberts movie...entertaining, but you're almost dumber for having partaken. At 18 I wouldn't have minded the lack of character development, I wouldn't have minded the cartoonish supporting characters. (...)But at my age (...) I feel like this book was wasted on me because it is a silly and superficial, albeit cute, story. And for heaven's sake, where was Jennifer Cruise on the day they taught conversational writing in school? Playing hooky and stuffing her face with Chicken Marsala? After the first chapter, I was already fed up with the "he said...she said...he said...she said...he said..." How about "he retorted," or "she replied?!?" (...)
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Summary: Hurray for the Curves!!!
Review: There hasn't been a bad Jennifer Crusie book. I appreciated the humor and the people. After all, life is full of all those people she introduced us to. Carbs, weight, appearance, diets, clothes. These are all topics of multimillion dollar industries. To have a man say, curves are good. Women lose weight for each other. To have a male give the encouragement for a woman to say, 'I am beautiful' is a rare and wonderful thing. To do so with humor, great shoes and an ensemble of good freinds is a delight. Too bad we don't have fresh Krispy Kreme where we live.
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Summary: Couldn't put the book down
Review: This book was hilarious from start to finish. Bet Me kept me wanting more and was a fast moving book. The characters were realistic and had minds of their own. Looking forward to another book from Jennifer Crusie.
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Summary: Did we read the same book?
Review: This book was so ridiculous I couldn't finish it. The bar scenes the pick-up lines the author described were so trite and phony I felt like it must have been a flash-back to Studio 54. I honestly don't think the author has ever experienced the bar/pick-up/dating scene. It felt as though she was writing about what she thought it would be like and certainly not from any personal experience. I found the situations so unbelievable I laughed out loud. Do some research next time, Ms. Cruise because believe me you are way off base here. I gave it one star because I liked the cover. Read The Devil Wears Prada or the Nanny Diaries instead.
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Summary: Likeable, but not loveable
Review: This is my 1st Crusie novel and I liked it... didn't absolutely love it the way I have some other "chick lit", though. I liked the sexual tension between Min & Cal that builds up throughout the book. It makes the physical act that much sweeter and more fulfilling for the reader when it happens. The food obsession and carb count that others have complained about parallels this point and is also today's reality. It's all about carbs these days and denying yourself guilty pleasures like bread and Krispy Kremes. When you finally allow yourself these luxuries, you appreciate them in a new and special way. The first chapter, although essential for understanding the bet, doesn't grab your attention. Once you get past that though, it begins to pick up and hooks you in. I also agree that there are some unlikeable and meddling peripheral characters, but they are necessary for the conflict in the story and sometimes add humor to the scenes. One *minor* thing that bothered me while reading this was how Crusie shortens the character's names: Min & Cal, in particular, but it also extended to include Cyn and others. As if these characters didn't have dreadful enough names to begin with. All in all, it is a fun, enjoyable read. Just don't take it all too seriously.
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Summary: Bet on Crusie!
Review: This woman has never let me down...Her writing is always hilarious and tightly plotted, and the characters are always quirky and loveable. And to correct a glaring mistake made in some readers' comments on this book: CAL DID NOT MAKE THE BET. Minn's scum of an ex-boyfriend did. To everyone else: Buy the book. You won't be disappointed.
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