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Summary: Devil Wears Prad - ultimate guilty pleasure
Review: While Weisberger may not write well enough to join the staff at the New Yorker, but trust me you will not even notice. This is the ultimate beach read of the summer. Besides the yummy descriptions of the couture clothing hanging in "the closet," you will love to hate Miranda, sympathize with Andrea's boyfriend, and be utterly charmed by the new man in her life, Christian. This is the book you long for your best friend to read so that she can call you up and exchange "can you believe her!?!!" conversations. Miranda Priestly takes the cake for boss nightmare stories; she is so far from reality she actually has "Harry Potter" books taken on a private jet to her twin daughters' rooms at the Paris Ritz so that they can have them a whole day before the rest of the world! Naturally it is Andrea's job to coordinate all of this, including actually obtaining the books a day early! So much fun, but be careful - you'll have an uncontrollable desire to go on a shopping spree when you hear about the only perk of Andrea's job!
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Summary: Not too shabby
Review: I loved the title. Disappointed at the ending. I was suprised that after all the ground work that was laid out for this story that there would have been a phenomenal ending that we would have ravished. Weisburger let us down with the ending. It could have been so much more. I recommend Marian Keyes, she is a terrific author and seemed to blow the socks of this writer.
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Summary: I liked it!
Review: The Devil Wears Prada was a fun book. I eagerly read to find out what Miranda Priestly would do next. However, I often wondered why the assistants didn't just ask for help when they didn't understand a request. It seemed as though alot of the tension and stress could be resolved if the girls just talked to Miranda and worked it out. HOwever, if they had done that then there would have been no story. Overall, it was a fun book that made me appreciate my boss.
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Summary: Not that big a deal, folks
Review: The hype--good and bad--around DWP goes far, far beyond its literary merits (which are minimal--this is entertainment, not literature). I really don't care whether Lauren Weisberger was fair to Anna Wintour or not, or whether she sold out her old boss, I just care about whether the book will keep me entertained for a few hours, and it did. The book is moderately entertaining and very gossipy, although some of the plot devices were awkwardly handled (such as her saintly boyfriend and the hot writer she's attracted to). I liked it better than the Nanny Diaries, which I found somewhat disturbing--these characters are pretty cartoonish, and anyone who vividly remembers how much their first job sucks may sympathize with Andrea. Btw, I read that the book has been opted for a movie...who would play Miranda Priestly?
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Summary: so bad, dont bother
Review: This is a real boring, badly written book. Not worth the money, I made the mistake of not following the reviews in the NY Times and others who all agree that this book is garbage. I heard that she got the job at Vogue but was not very talented to do anything so she made up scandelous stories, shame she has no ability and people keep buying this nonsense.
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Summary: Good Read for Light and Fun Fiction
Review: I am a student and at times just need a fun read. This is a great book to just sit back drink a martini and enjoy the evening. Though not a challenging read, you will be amused and hopefully thankful for where you are in your career or like me scared of what is to come.
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Summary: Wait for the Movie
Review: Great title and promising premise, but the writing is dull-normal at best and you learn all there is to know about the story from reading the jacket. No insights await inside the covers. And the grammar is the worst I've ever seen in published writing... which is particularly astonishing since the narrator/heroine claims to be a graduate of Brown with a burning desire to write for The New Yorker. Hard to believe the book had an editor. Not only was reading it a waste of time, it was seriously annoying.
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Summary: Easy read
Review: This book, I would consider pretty entertaining but the plot was easily predictable and also the conclusion. It's a good quick summer read.
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Summary: Page-Turner, But Didn't Quite Make It
Review: My wife and I read this book to each other, and I have to admit that it was a page-turner. It was never difficult to decide to turn to the book, and it was easy to get through. Nevertheless, the book left me disappointed. In the book, recent college graduate Andrea dreams of a job in the New Yorker, and decides to get a foot in the door by getting a job in magazine publishing. After dropping her resume all over, she is interviewed and hired to be an assistant to the editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine. The job is hard work, her boss demands the impossible, gives orders that are often unintelligible, or at least inexplicable, and Andrea works long hours. I know what you must be thinking, gee, sounds like the rest of us. Of course, as an assistant to a fashion magazine editor, Andrea also has access to a seemingly limitless supply of free clothes and accessories. Plus, it seems that her boss really will be able to get her closer to her dream job. Now it seems that her job is really better than everybody else's job. But Andrea's boss is truly inhuman to her, in a way similar to Nanny's boss in the Nanny Diaries. It is interesting, in a guilty sort of way, to read what her boss will do to Andrea next. But unlike in the Nanny Diaries, Andrea's boss's actions will not affect an innocent child. Also, Andrea is a much less sympathetic and multi-dimensional character than Nanny is. To sum up my conflicted feelings about this book, you probably will have a fun time reading this book, but at the end, you will not feel much for Andrea and might wish that the author had written the book with a bit more care and thought.
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Summary: HoHum
Review: I liked the premise of the book, however, found it to be very poorly written with weak character development. Unlike in Nanny Diaries, it is difficult for the readers to feel any sincere connection to the characters, main and secondary. I had little sympathy for Andrea as she seemed completely lazy in her employment role. Part of an assistants job is to figure out the missing pieces of a demanding boss' puzzle. I have had one such boss. One example is when her boss tells her to find a review in "The Post." Ms. Sachs assumes it must be the NY Post and when she doesn't find it there fails to think of other "Posts" in the media. I immediately thought why not try the Washington Post, duh. Later, after asking the boss again, she is informed to check the WPost. And, this Andrea character was way too whiny and annoying for me to be anybody's heroin. Always soooo tired. Wah Wah. Anyway, an overall entertaining but much too forced and under developed effort to make me recommend the book - though I am sure that the title will sell the book.
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