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Summary: Lighten up, reviewers!
Review: Lauren Weisberger, I hope you read this. Your book is terrific. I've published 5 books and thousands of articles -- only another writer would know that you don't need to be grammatically correct everywhere to establish character and mood and plot. Lighten up, reviewers! The book is funny, especially so for us "escapees" who grew up in NYC and now live elsewhere and can laugh at the absurdities, and relate to some of them. Many of the reviews that criticized Ms. Weisberger's writing style are themselves riddled with grammatical and spelling errors. And an Ivy League education does not a writer make, pardon the ungrammatical sentence. I loved The Devil Wears Prada.
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Summary: Satisfying Like Fattening Clam Chowder
Review: Weisberger provides the reader an amusing if not painful insight in the world of fashion. Like uncontrollably glancing at a car wreck, the reader cannot help but follow Andrea's midadventures in providing for every silly need of her sadistic boss, Miranda Priestly. Though at times the heroine seems to be annoying in her narrow minded drive to get the recommendation from Miranda that will promise her any future job she wants, one should wonder what they would do if they were in Andrea's shoes. She is not the perfect herione. Despite occasionally forgetting her family and freinds while working for Miranda, her ambition is aspiring. From beginning to end, you stick with Andrea hoping that she will get fired for her own good but also hope that her patience and endurance will pay off. Very entertaining. **Give yourself extra points if you recognize the designer names mentioned in the book.
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Summary: NOTHING ABOUT PRADA AND A LOT OF CELL PHONES PARANOIA
Review: HAVING WORKED IN NYC IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY FOR NEAR TWO DECADES I FOUND THIS BOOK BORING.THE CENTRAL CHARACTER AND NARRATOR IS A PATHETIC WANNABE IN A WORLD AS COMPETITIVE AND DEMANDING, BUT AT THE SAME TIME FASCINATING AS THE FASHION WORLD IS.
A WORLD THAT THE CHARACTER "AHN-DRE-AH," DOESN'T EVEN CARE FOR. IN REALITY ANY JOB IN NYC IS STRESSFUL, AND SPECIALLY FOR THE SPOIL CHARACTER OF THIS BOOK THAT IS LUCKY TO HAVE EXPERIENCE HER FIRST JOB IN SUCH A PRIVILEGE AND UNDESERVING POSITION. THE ONLY PORPOISE FOR MISS WEINBERGER IN THIS BAD WRITTEN BOOK IS TO TRASH MRS. WINTOUR.
NOTHING ABOUT PRADA AND A LOT OF CELLULAR PHONE PARANOIA FOR A SMALL TOWN GIRL.
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Summary: Fun, Funny though Insubstantial
Review: "The Devil Wears Prada" is a fun read for readers into chick lit. Light, fluffy: it doesn't take much to get through it. If you have ever picked up Vogue or Bazaar, you will get a kick out of the behind the scenes description at a fictional fashion magazine.
The story is simple: Andrea Sachs, a recent graduate of Brown and an aspiring writer, takes a "once in a lifetime" job as an assistant to the famous (and infamous) Miranda Priestly, editor of Runway magazine. Miranda is the ultimate boss from hell-and human from hell-whose outrageous demands and bizarre habits drive our heroine insane. The book basically chronicles one incident (tracking down Harry Potter books before publication and sending them to Paris) after another. Most are very funny.
However, other than a serious of very funny fictional anecdotes, there is little else to this book. There really is no plot, zero character development and no insight. The author never really questions why or how Miranda turned into a she-devil and tells you absolutely nothing about the other fashionistas who work alongside her in slavish devotion to the magazine. The other characters-a saintly boyfriend, an alcoholic roommate, a snaky hot shot writer-are all one dimensional.
Still, if you're on a hot beach this summer-and you don't need to be challenged-you could do a lot worse than "The Devil Wears Prada."
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Summary: ...
Review: i loathe this book! it was given to me as a gift and unfortunatley it's like watching a train wreck - no matter how much i don't want to read it or continue, i have to just for my own sense of accomplishment. it's is such a contrived piece of rubbish that i am embarrassed to be seen reading it. the main character tries so hard to come across as this do-gooder when all you want to do is call her out on what a hypocrite she is. i think the author is trying to project what she wants to be into the spineless little fashionista character she has not so craftly designed in this "novel" (re: laughing).
and just when you thought it was over with the book, i have heard that there is a movie in the works. yikes!!! stop the insanity.
for a really good read, check out the dive from claussen's pier or the corrections.
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Summary: Nanny Diaries in the fashion world
Review: It was humorous and the characters interesting, but the theme is similar to the Nanny Diaries: young woman just out of college takes entry level position, not really in her field, in order to break into her field. Young woman is employed by outrageously insensitive woman who makes her life miserable, until she is fired. She learns a life lesson but ends up happy.
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Summary: Very Promising ... but a huge letdown...
Review: Entering the very posh and exclusive world of runway editor, Miranda Priestly, Andrea Sachs, fresh out of Brown, learns that getting to where she wants to be professionally may be much more difficult than she ever imagined. Hired as Priestly's assistant, the job "millions of girls would die for", Andrea's life takes a huge turn for the worst working for the boss from hell.
For anyone obsessed with the trendy, glamorous world of fashion and New York City, the book gives great details of famous designers, restaurants, places to socialize, what is in, and so on. Each detail of Andrea and Miranda's wardrobe is brilliantly described, down to the color of their Manolo's. We read of Andrea desperately trying to locate Karl Lagerfeld, dry cleaning a $40,000 Chanel dress, wrapping thousands of dollars of Christmas presents...
But, the fun stops there. Without the great descriptions of the fast-paced world of fashion, there is little to work with. Other than the great displays of hellish terror from Miranda, the characters are flat and predictable, the plot elementary, and the ending a yawn. I would be more inclined to recommend The Nanny Diaries for this type of book, where the writing is much more advanced and interesting.
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Summary: Fashionably Lame!
Review: I bought this book, simply, because the title caught my eye. A lover of fashion, but not a slave to it, it was quite interesting to get a glimpse into the world of high fashion and what really goes on behind the scenes. Overall, the book started out okay, but it went totally flat in the end.
In otherwords, I was looking for something really juicy and got nothing in return. No need to re-hash what all the majority reviewers, thought. If I had to say one thing, I'm in total agreement with the folks that caught all of the grammatical errors in the book. I thought my mind was playing tricks on me.
Highly suspicious from a Cornell Grad!
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Summary: Couldn't Put It Down!
Review: Lauren Weisberger takes you on an unbelievable ride! My heart rate went up everytime I picked the book up and I couldn't wait to see what she had to do next. This book is great for anyone who has ever been an assistant for a difficult boss. I thought the writing was a bit choppy at first, but once I started reading I got into the style.
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Summary: I want my nanny back!
Review: I was very excited to read this book. I even broke my own rule of book purchasing and bought it new and in hardcover. Whoa, was I disappointed! I expected a lot more Sex and the City and a lot less Nanny Diaries. It was virtually the same book--just different girls in different jobs. The main difference is that The Nanny Diaries is better written. Like many of the other reviewers, the main character didn't move me at all. I wasn't sympathetic to her plight, and her reason for staying in this job just wasn't all that realistic. Many of the other characters had potential, but they just weren't all that developed. I would have liked to have seen more of the "twins" and of Emily. I would have liked to know more about Alex; however, we are only given one tyrannical phone call after another. Check this out from the library or borrow your friend's copy. But save your money for something different!
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