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Summary: Interesting Title But Mediocre Content
Review: I picked up this book at a local library thinking that it would be a quick read. But I was sadly mistaken. Granted, the book did start out funny and entertaining, but I found that the main character's constant complaining was a bit redundant. There are some cute moments (Andy's encounters with Christian) but for the most part I found it difficult to actually get through a book that was only 300 or so pages. I have to give the author some credit though for writing a book so young and straight out of college. Maybe in the future her books will live up to their titles.
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Summary: A book for someone who likes picture magazines.
Review: The greatness stops with the title. This is part of a new genre of literature built around the success of Sex and the City and aimed at young women who dream of living in New York and wearing $1000 shoes while making $30,000 per year. It is mildly entertaining (emphasis on mildly) for escapist reasons, but I wouldn't put it in the category of a guilty pleasure. It is fun to think you could get a job where you have access to unlimited priceless designer clothes for free by pure luck, but that is about the only fun fantasy this book perpetuates. Unhumorous & boring. If you want to dream about wearing Prada and Versace buy a copy of Women's Wear Daily.
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Summary: One-Hit Wonder
Review: Unless Lauren Weisberger, gets an amazing job really soon, I don't think she'll have too much to write about. The plot of this book turns out to be a diary of Andrea Sach's daily rituals...the problem is, they are pretty much the same, every day: fetching coffee, answering the phone, delivering the book. The only variances were that some days it was rainy, and some days it was snowing. Same ol' same ol' page after page, for almost 400 pages!Anyone who moved to New York right out of college will appreciate the humor in the absurdity of a boss' requests or expectations. Anyone in the real world will relate to having to launch their careers at the bottom of the ladder and having to pull 14 hour days. Nothing that will blow your hair back.
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Summary: Room for Improvement
Review: The cover art and the title drew me in, but I have to admit this story got a little long and didn't have that extra little bit of originality I was looking for. But, to expect something other than an incredibly dishy, fluffy summertime read would be expecting to much. Afterall, this is not meant to be an incredibly literary book. Andrea Sachs is a girl who thinks that by putting her time in in the trenches at a glitzy New York fashion magazine and working for the world's most horribly demanding boss that she'll be able to write her own ticket and persue her dream to write for The New Yorker. So What....??!?!? That's what all 350+ pages of this book keep repeating. Andrea desperately wants to work for The New Yorker and she is forced to work for this total witch of a woman, Miranda Priestly, who happens to be IT when it comes to the world of high fashion. I did enjoy Miranda's antics throughout the book, though and the ending was better than I thought it would be. However, I still made it all the way to the end of the book, turned the last page and thought: Oh! Well, it's over, I'm finished, on to my next book. And I have to say that I hate feeling that way. I also should tell you that I'm glad I borrowed this book instead of paying for it. Will I read any future novels by Ms. Weisberger? Probably, but if her future endevors aren't any better than this debut effort, I will most likely excersize my right to choose and choose something else.
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Summary: Amateur Hour -- Pageturner but nothing else.....
Review: OK....everyone who has an evil job out of college fantasizes about seeking revenge against their vile boss by writing a tell all novel. Did Michael Lewis start this trend I wonder? So I guess Weisberger is a bit more motivated than most since she actually finished her tome of revenge. Other than a window on wintour's obsessive ways, this book is pretty useless. And Weisberger's portrait on the back just makes the narrator smack of hypocrisy. With that absurdly perfect blowout we are supposed to believe that she's a happy go lucky bohemian intellectual right?????? Oh I forgot! It's not autobiographical. Yup!
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Summary: A fun read.
Review: This is a fun, quick read with a few good laughs.
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Summary: Hilarious!!!
Review: Best book I've read all year...If you liked Nanny Diaries or Confessions of a Shopaholic than get this book and get ready to laugh out loud!
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Summary: Over-hyped garbage
Review: This book is both thin (emaciated, in fact) on plot and horribly written. I guess Ms. Weisberger learned nothing more at Cornell than how to string together one cliche after another. The characters are uninteresting, her commentary on life in New York inaccurate (since when are the streets empty at 7AM?!?--a detail she repeatedly makes throughout the book), and her observations about humanity shallow and trite. Skip this book. I literally threw mine in the garbage.
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: I loved this book! I mean, it made this world of fashion that looks so glamourous and everything look like a complete and total nightmare! On top of that, it was so funny, because you could relate. Everybody's had someone they had to deal with that was hard to work with. I think this is an awsome book, and I recommend it to anybody!
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Summary: Trite plot, lousy fleshing out of characters
Review: Weisberger creates us a little tale of how the professional life consumes the character of Andy completely. What Weisberger failed to do was to make Andy empathetic. She created a great character if this was a story about a Jewish Princess. But she failed to capture the drive and energy of a young professional who may have sold their soul to the devil to reach their goals. I had very little concern about Andy and what became of her. As soon as she started working, her attitude was poor. She felt the magazine was below her. She felt she was better than her coworkers. She barely did the job that was asked of her (stopping for cigarette breaks and personal phone calls when sent on a 5 minute errand). It was very frustrating to read a story like this, since almost everyone who has ever held a full time job has worked with a person like Andy. What really bugged me about the character was how she openly billed fraudulent charges back to her company (A dinner for her friend, a latte for the homeless guy, etc.). I'm sure this was meant to demonstrate that at the young age of 23, Andy had become so cynical that she was just interested in causing pain to "The Man". Instead, it made the character seem like a whiner and not trustworthy. Sure, the boss sucked, as did the job, but suck it up, sister! You are not in the unique position of having a nasty job! 12 months! Seriously, not that long! The boyfriend Alex bothered me too. We were told that he was a super-cool, supportive boyfriend, but we never saw any of that. We see him complaining that she is never around, that she forgot to call, that she missed a date. Yes, that can be annoying. But I've worked 100+ hours a week myself in a job. My husband didn't enjoy it, but he knew I had set lofty goals, and to obtain those goals required some hard work on my part. So he didn't whine or nag me, and he surely didn't leave me once I got out of my demanding job with a snotty little "too late, I've been trying for too long". Weisberger never developed Alex's character into something that resembled supportive. She told us he was and we were expected to accept it. As a result, he came across as holier-than-thou. Whatever, Alex. Andy, despite all of her faults, is better off without a self-righteous boyfriend. Finally, the job was described to sound like hell. Off the charts. The problem was it sounded a little too much hellish to me. Miranda was practically a comic, she was made so cartoony. I think she was described wonderfully as someone who was heartless, ruthless, and self-centered. That is believable. But some of the demands should have been scaled back. Whenever we get a story of Andy chasing down something for her, we know pretty early on how it's going to end. The boss is going to request something entirely different than what was originally asked and Andy is going to feel the heat for not telepathically expecting this. How many tales of screwed up lunches, location of furniture stores, reviews from the newspaper, etc. do we need to be subjected to for this point to come across? All in all, save your money.
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