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Summary: Glad it was from the Library and not a purchase!
Review: I got this book from the library on the recommendation of a friend. While the premise of the story was somewhat interesting, the story itself was lacking. In fact, it was so unchallenging and uninteresting that I flipped through it, missing pages at a time, and I finished the book in 15 minutes. As the mother of an active 2 year old, who stays at home, reading is the only thing that stimulates my intellect. Therefore, I can't afford to waste time on a lousy book. Needless to say, I was glad this book only comsumed 15 minutes of my time. If you want a good book, read " Sister of My Heart". It is intelligent, well written, and thought provoking. Look it up and enjoy a truly good story.
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Summary: Quick read but disappointing protagonist
Review: I, too, loved Talk Before Sleep, and I'm enjoying The Pull of the Moon on tape at the moment. Even though Until the Real Thing Comes Along was a good, quick read, it left me feeling flat. I thought of many of my single in their 30s women friends when I read about Patty--those people who really want to have a family but can't find the right guy. I enjoyed some of Patty's characterization (the bit about her fantasy houses, relationship with the older couple), but her obsessive love for Ethan was a bit much. Get over him and move on with your life, Patty! I will keep reading Elizabeth Berg, because I know she's a talented writer, but this one was not one of her best.
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Summary: Don't read this book
Review: Stupid Patty. Thinks in cliches. *Feels* in cliches. So wrapped up in herself and her fixation with babies and Ethan that she can't see what's going on around her, let alone try to make something of her life. I really enjoyed _Joy School_ and _Talk Before Sleep_, and that made this book even more disappointing. Don't waste time reading this book. Don't even borrow it from the library.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: A usually adore Elizabeth Berg's books - her TALK BEFORE SLEEP and RANGE OF MOTION are on my keeper shelf - so it was with great anticipation that I read UNTIL THE REAL THING COMES ALONG. I found it contrived and in a word - disappointing. That said, I haven't given up on Berg -- quite the contrary -- am looking foward to reading OPEN HOUSE and some of her earlier novels.
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Summary: A quick,enjoyable summer read!
Review: I have read four other books by this author. While this title treats some very serious topics in a light hearted manner, I still found many chances to soul-search and laugh simultaneously.
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Summary: An enjoyable read
Review: My first Elizabeth Berg novel and I really enjoyed it. I felt that I could really connect with the main characters and thought Bergs developments were great. Its a fun book!
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Summary: A funny, engaging novel
Review: Patty Murphy is a thirty-six year old real estate agent who goes home to an empty apartment and listens to her biological clock tick. Patty wants a husband and a baby, but the problem is she has only loved one man since sixth grade, her best friend Ethan---and he is undeniably gay. UNTIL THE REAL THING COMES ALONG is a funny, yet poignant story of how Patty and Ethan try to have it all, but beyond that, it is an examination of the search for love and true intimacy. Berg has given us a very funny, engaging and compelling novel with characters whose humaity touches the reader. This is a highly enjoyable novel---don't miss it!
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Summary: Another wonderful book
Review: I thought the main character, Patty, wasn't going to draw me in. Her feelings of mediocrity were initially annoying. Suddenly I was sailing through the book, hoping for happiness for her and for Ethan. I felt very satisfied with the entire read. Berg again manages to make me laugh out loud and be touched. She capsulizes little things about life in these hilarious little bundles that I want to copy down straight away and read often. Ethan, for example, on housework: I feel like Sysiphus in an apron. Read and enjoy!
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Summary: Expected a better book!
Review: In her recent books like Talk Before Sleep and Range of Motion, Elizabeth Berg has become known as a writer of "buddy" books. By this I mean that some of her books revolve arround women dealing with a medical crisis and the support system of the buddies who surround these women. But as many of Berg's readers also know, she has tackled other subjects such as the coming of age stories in Durable Goods and Joy School and passages in a woman's life in my favorite book of hers, The Pull of the Moon. Now, in Until the Real Thing Comes Along, Ms. Berg once again takes on a subject near and dear to many, the plight of single women who hear their biological clocks ticking away. Patty Murphy is a 30 something woman who not only feels pressure from her family about finding Mr. Right and having a baby, but also finds herself longing to settle down and become a mother. And while she dates some good prospects every now and then, she is waiting to meet a man like her friend who unfortunately for Patty is a homosexual. And when Patty and her friend make an unusual decision, the reader can't help but be curious about the outcome. This book is hardly a new subject and one would expect that in the hands of Elizabeth Berg, this books would be both witty and poignant but sadly to me as a readers it wasn't one of Berg's better books and somehow missed the mark. For me, the characters didn't ring true and I found myself listening to whining throughout the book.
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Summary: Blech
Review: Don't get me wrong-- I've been a fan of Elizabeth Berg's for quite some time now. I bought this one the day it came out-- began reading it right away...and was sorely disappointed. The main character, Patty, is just...blech. Like another reviewer said-- no back bone. She had no respect for herself and decided to have a child with a man who would never love her the way she wanted to be loved. She settled. I can't respect a woman like that-- who will fawn all over a man who will never want to be in a real loving relationship. Patty could have found a great man to love her and make a life with, but instead she kept going after Ethan. Blech...
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