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Summary: lazy, predictable writing
Review: Another example of how just about anything that creates momentum through lowest common denominator readers and good publicity can become a best seller. Bad, rambling writing, irritating, one-dimensional characters, plots stretched to the absolute limits of believability, and predictability so gross that almost every page has a "I feel like I could have written that" quality to it.
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Summary: Jennifer Weiner is my new favorite writer
Review: I'll admit, I found the title of this book questionable before I read it--and it raised a few eyebrows when I had it sitting on my coffee table! Little did I know what an incredibly funny and touching story it represented. Jennifer Weiner knows what it's like to be one of the girls, and brings that across like nobody else--reading one of her books is like having a conversation with your best friend. This story is a winner from beginning to end.
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Summary: surprise pleasure
Review: I picked this up thinking it was another mindless, funny women's fiction book. In reality, it is women's fiction with wit, insight, fleshed out characters, and beautiful writing. This book is worth buying. Her other one, IN HER SHOES, is just as good.
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Summary: WOW!
Review: I sincerely enjoyed this book. Weiner delicately balances realistic situations with a touch a fantasy, but in the end, the woman doesn't have to be a size 6 to be happy with who she is. I never expected this novel to tug at my heartstrings as it did, but it is all the more engaging for it. Don't miss this one!!
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Summary: Incredible
Review: A great weekend book, the pages turn themselves. Not overly intense, but very REAL. I loved it.
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Summary: Another Lifesaver
Review: Yes, I'm saying it again. I used it before with SHE'S COME UNDONE by Wally Lamb and now I'm using it again. I'm a firm believer that worse things than death exist, and that one of them is losing sight of happiness and what your future can be or having a "soul death." Jennifer Weiner has written a book that has, I have no doubt, saved many women from the fate of losing themselves -- to their lovers, their families, their friends, or to society's idea of who they should be. And of losing sight of what they can have in life.Even during the funny parts (and there are many) I sometimes wanted to cry; cry because this novel has so caputred my experience with being fat in America today. The insights Cannie offers while she struggles with her size and with her life are certainly ones I wish I had grasped sooner than I did and ones I am still working on grasping. Not to mention the sort of insights I wish others around me would grasp! I hesitate to share even the smallest piece of plot on this book because I feel it is one of those that should be savored and enjoyed, each word read and absorbed like a fine wine or a rich dessert. The pages kept turning and I found myself reading as much as I could (I finished this book in less than 48 hours) as well as wishing people would stop interupting me! I even stole minutes during testing of subjects for my thesis study! I've decided I want a dog like Nifkin, I want to find a friend as awesome (and rich!) as Maxi, and I want to grow up to be Cannie - though I'll skip the name, thanks much. My favorite scene by far has to be the group meeting she attends. I actually read it outloud to my mother while she was driving and we both laughed outloud at the description. I've been in that situation a time or two myself and I wanted to do exactly what Cannie did. It reminded me of my favorite response to the "You're fat." comments I'll get (namely "WHAT?! You're kidding! When did THAT happen?!") This book is not-to-be missed! I can't recommend it enough.
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Summary: Loved Cannie from Page 1 till the end...
Review: I just loved finally reading a book about a girl who had struggled with her weight, had a crazy family background and how she went through with her ex-boyfriend. I felt like I could totally relate to the main character. I wouldn't want to give anything away, but if you ever felt like you were the only one who ever felt fat and unloved then this will be a book you will love. I defiently learned somehting from Cannie. I am glad I read this book and totally recommend. I am now reading In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner and I love it so far as well.
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Summary: Wonderfully Entertaining!
Review: It can be difficult to read books that are as painfully truthful as Jennifer Weiner's first novel. However, 'Good In Bed', while painful at times, is also fun and touching. In the book, we meet Cannie (a thouroughly modern woman struggling with life's complexities). Cannie's biggest problem is a BIG problem, she is overweight. The book is Cannie's journey to come to terms with how others see her and more importantly how she sees herself. Also recommended: In Her Shoes by Weiner, The Losers' Club by Richard Perez
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Summary: horrible...annoying, self pitying and homophobic
Review: Possibly the worst book I've ever read. Annoying, self-absorbed dreck. Hated, hated, hated the main character -- she is a whiny, immature idiot. The portrayal of her mother and partner was totally stupid. Don't waste your time and money.
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Summary: Rubbish
Review: The popularity of this novel is more instructive than its actual content; consider why such a whining, self-absorbed, superficial narrator has struck such a sympathetic chord with contemporary readers. (Of course, Holden Caulfield is much of the same, but at least his adolescence is somewhat of a mitigating factor, while here Cannie Shapiro is pushing 30.) People like to read about themselves, people like to read about people who like to read about themselves, and sister, does this book deliver. (We're not five pages into the novel before Cannie is literally reading about herself in a magazine.) Cannie appears to judge everyone entirely by how they relate to her: if they kiss her behind, they're her friends, but if they dare to question her prominence in the universe...watch out! Thank goodness a sympathetic movie star is on hand to buy Cannie's screenplay and shovel money into her lap, and extra-thank goodness the diet doctor loves Cannie just the way she is, overweight and all, because nothing's more important than whether Cannie is happy or not. As a woman of a certain age, I am appalled by what gets printed under the banner of "chick lit;" there *is* a reason why this genre is derided. I recommend Jhumpa Lahiri or Alice Munro instead, women writers who observe more than just the world beneath their noses.
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