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Summary: Like the ending that never ended.
Review: As a person interested in the in's and out's of the fashion world I was terribly disappointed in the good start,and terrible ending of this book. The beginning was awesome since this girl lands the job that a million girls would die for, what an awesome opportunity. But, throughout the book there is not one inspiring thing that teaches her, (An-dre-ah!!) how good of an opportunity this really was for her to take! Then like I said the ending just makes it more confusing since the author really does not extend on what happens next. Is there going to be a second part to this book? I sure would like to read one that way I don't keep thinking of what happened next.
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Summary: Poorly written
Review: With a juicy, interesting story line like this book has to work with, there is no reason that the book should not be entertaining. Yet with the poor construction and editing, I found the book very difficult to enjoy. It seems like the publisher must have rushed the book to the shelves, perhaps to keep the liberally-used pop culture references timely and to capitalize on the gossipy aspect being touted in the media.In the book, the conversations are hard to follow and don't ring true, and the cutesy run-on sentences with parenthesized thoughts in them are tiresome. Trendy fashion terms, 20-something lingo, and Yiddish terms are tossed about without explanation. Worst of all, I came across some plot holes where editing must have slipped up and not noticed that the author changed her mind about the progress of a chapter. I was stunned, reading along, and then struggling to piece together what the intended direction of the chapter was. Also many far-fetched coincidences are used to tie the story together. You would feel like a fool letting yourself get lost in this story. It's hard to enjoy the continual negative attitude of the protagonist also; I couldn't feel sorry for her. So there was no really likable character in the story with which to identify. This one was given to me as a gift. I'm glad I didn't waste my own money on it!
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Summary: The Writer Needs an Editor
Review: This is a fun, light summer book - perfect for this time of year. If you are looking for some great insight into the world of high fashion magazine publishing - this book is not it. I agree with other reviews that Weisberger is gramatically challenged - but she is also "story-challenged." The book jumps around far too much between different times and characters for me to get a clear picture of her world. I have to admit that while her boss does seem more than unreasonable she does not embody the devil until the very last scenes. These are a couple of cloudy scenes where even Weisberger seems ambilivent about her boss. The supporting characters in the book are underdeveloped and seem to only serve to attempt to humanize the Andrea character. This book would be better served if the editor and author realized the lack of experience of the author herself and waited a few years to publish it. That being said, if you can look past the obvious errors in structure and grammar it is a fun read about the rich of New York that most of us will never see.
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Summary: From One Who has Worked at "Runway"
Review: Although the book was not very well written (and she did seem to complain an awfully lot) it was interesting to me as a reader, having worked there in the late 60's, early 70's (the days of Diana Vreeland) for gasp!......the advertising/merchandising department as an assistant. It was a hoot to find that I was an outcast according to An-dre-a. It was more of a life defining moment for me. Oh, there were horror stories, such as, higher-up editors demanding that their assistants come clean their closets on the weekends! But many of the editors were very good, creative, well adjusted people as I recall!
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Summary: Hackneyed, Boring, and Ungrammatical
Review: The fundamental premise of this ludicrously stiff and artificial novel is simply this: a struggling young writer takes a job with a nightmare boss in an attempt to gain a foothold in the magazine world. And Miranda Priestly is, indeed, a nightmare, but she's the SAME KIND of nightmare throughout the book, and her ridiculous antics, rather than seeming either shocking or comical, come across as boring, predictable, and contrived. Alex, the heroine, doesn't make the experience any easier--she's whiny, inarticulate, and, judging from the quality of her dialogue, should be kept far, FAR away from writing, as, in fact, should her author. It's worth reading, if you have absolutely nothing better to do, but if you're looking for worthwhile literature, you're better off reading a romance novel, which, at least, has a long-standing tradition behind it, whereas this novel and its similarly wooden sisters are the products of untalented young women with nothing better to do but whine.
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Summary: funny light summer read
Review: I thought this was a fun read. I couldn't put it down, I had to see what else happened.If your looking for an easy no-brainer just to entertain you this is it.
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Summary: Former Vogue employee speaks out
Review: As a former Vogue employee for a short time (until I could take it no longer) who remained at Condé Nast, I can say first-hand that The Devil Wears Prada is an accurate description of what goes on inside that building in Times Square. However, I found the writing poor and the book just a repetitive checklist of couture designers and name-dropping of NYC hotspots. If you live in NYC and work in publishing, take this book with you for a quick beach or plane read and enjoy saying to yourself, "Oh that must be (insert name of Vogue employee)." If you live or work outside of the NYC area, don't waste your time. I expected a much more in-depth look at the fashion publishing world, but turns out that my own personal experiences in the industry are significantly more interesting. Perhaps I have a future publishing and movie contract in my career, too.
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Summary: A real disapointment
Review: Not nearly as clever as The Nanny Diaries or as smart as A Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing. Weisberger's "literary" style is better suited to the "How To's" of Cosmopolitan than an essay in the New Yorker (the main character's dream placement). Even the guilty book pleasures of summer should be better than this.
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Summary: Good beach read....
Review: I specifically bought this book to read at the beach over a long weekend. I thought it was good for that. I had a paperback advanced readers copy that I purchased off Amazon.com auctions and it had a TON of typos and grammer mistakes......I thought it was very unprofessional but do not know if all the corrections got into the hardcover copy.
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Summary: Fun Summer Read! On par with Nanny Diaries
Review: I devoured Devil in one day. Despite the book being too long (some parts seemed to drag on), I actually enjoyed Weisberger's debut and feel that it was on par with The Nanny Diaries. Even though the ending was predictable, it is more interesting than the ending of "Diaries"- which I think was a major flaw in that book. Overall a fun summer read.
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