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Summary: My very first Jennifer Crusie...
Review: I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS. I cannot belive that every reader on here has not rated it 5 stars! What a FUN book! I LOVED Cal. I thought he was sweet, clever, charming, and [very attractive]...and as for Min...Oh My Gosh...She was a riot! The dialogue was unbelievable! I have never read dialogue like that in my life! It sounded so real it was hard to believe that these were only two made up characters speaking and not real people!Im so sad that its over! I am so excited to have found Jennifer Crusie. I fully intend to hunt down and purchase everything I can find that she has put out there... "Bet Me" is one book that I will be reading over, and over, and over...A DEFINITE KEEPER.
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Summary: Quite entertaining!
Review: Jennifer Crusie's "Bet Me" deals with Min who was dumped by her boyfriend David who made a bet with Cal, (a gorgeous and charming guy who gets any woman he desires) that Cal would not be able to take Min out for dinner and bed her in a month. Cal, however was not interested in the bet but Min overheard bits and pieces of the conversation and she was convinced that Cal was taking the bet. Playing along, she went out with Cal for dinner and soon, Cal seemed to creep into her life. Min was torn between her feelings for Cal and the fact that she thought he was only interested in her because of the bet. In the midst of this, David who was convinced before that Min would not be interested in Cal had second thoughts and tried to win Min back in order not to lose the bet. Then there is Cynthie who was Cal's ex and believed strongly they are destined to be together forever.This book is entertaining and the characters are interesting. Crusie also wrote very well the sexual tension between Min and Cal. However, my only criticism of this book is that, the length of "Bet Me" is a little long as the entire book deals with the bet and after 200 pages or so, Crusie is still writing about that. I was a little bored and feel that the book could definitely be shortened. Regardless of that, it is still a relatively entertaining chick lit.
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Summary: Not her best ... but still pretty good
Review: Bet Me is quite similar to the wonderful Welcome to Temptation - Little League, icy mothers, difficult sisters, improbably handsome hero, stray animals - but still very enjoyable, with witty dialogue and a fun plot. I do think, though, that once you've read several Crusie novels you notice the same phrases and expressions cropping up. I think she's a brilliant writer but I'd like to see her do something more original. How about it, Jennifer?
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Summary: Good fluffy read
Review: I don't usually go for the romance type books but I thought I'd take a chance on this one. I was glad I did. I enjoyed the characters and their stories. It was a good read, sweet, funny, thoroughly enjoyable. I put this up with Good in Bed and In Her Shoes by J. Wiener- witty dialog, good one-liners,characters you can relate to. I will definitely be picking up other books written by this author.
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Summary: How much chicken marsala can two people eat?
Review: I have been a fan of Jennifer Crusie since Tell Me Lies, and this book is not up to the par of some of her other novels. Min is just so cranky that I can't imagine why Cal keeps coming back. I also thought that the secondary characters were not as well developed as some of the other novels - Fast Women, for example. In fact, Cal and Harry were the only two characters I really liked. Also, I don't know how Cal and Min could eat chicken marsala so often.
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Summary: Great !!!
Review: I really injoyed reading this book, its fairly easy to read, not borring, romantic, a little bit on a fairy tale side, but I absolutly love it.
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Summary: terrific book ~ VERY funny ~ I loved it!
Review: Minerva and Cal. Bets. Love in the air. Friction erupts. Hilarious writing. Need I say more? Get this one! It's a winner.
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Summary: Laugh and Cry
Review: Excellent book. Better character development that usual. And I cannot remember the last time a book had me in both tears of laughter and tears of sympathy with the character. (probably "Good in Bed", which is high praise for Crusie!)
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Summary: Predictable but funny
Review: The plot here is Minerva overhears her ex-boyfriend bet a good-looking stranger in a bar ($10K) that he can't get her in bed within a month's time. Right from the description you know where this is going. Of course Minerva accepts a dinner invitation from the stranger with the idea of using him as well, but they become attracted to each other, and so forth. Nothing surprising. So why read it? Because it's hilarious. There are tons of great one-liners and sarcastic conversations to make it worth while. There are a lot of similarities here to the How To Lose a Guy In 10 Days, even some of the banter is the same, but well worth reading. And at almost 400 pages, it's full of wonderful vignettes and sub-stories that highly entertain.
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Summary: Hurray for the Curves!!!
Review: There hasn't been a bad Jennifer Crusie book. I appreciated the humor and the people. After all, life is full of all those people she introduced us to. Carbs, weight, appearance, diets, clothes. These are all topics of multimillion dollar industries. To have a man say, curves are good. Women lose weight for each other. To have a male give the encouragement for a woman to say, 'I am beautiful' is a rare and wonderful thing. To do so with humor, great shoes and an ensemble of good freinds is a delight. Too bad we don't have fresh Krispy Kreme where we live.
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