Civic Beauties

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Summary: A hysterical read!
Review: A worthy follow up to Youth in Revolt. The same hysterical antics continue to follow in Civic Beauties. The twin Mason daughters run into hi jinks just as Nick Twisp did and somehow manage to get themselves in more precarious situations as time goes on. And their solutions for these situations get funnier and funnier as they become more complicated. This book wasnt as drop dead funny as Youth in Revolt, but it did grab your interest in the same way. You become very involved with the twin sisters, and laugh out loud when characters randomnly break into song out of nowhere. A novel novel. Very recommended

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Summary: No smile....Frown
Review: After laughing hysterically at Nick Twisp's one-liners, I waited and waited for Mr. Payne to whip up another novel to amuse me. I was very disappointed. Unlike Youth in Revolt, the characters and their actions in Civic were totally unbelievable. The story was a little confusing towards the end because you had no idea who was saying what. I regret to say, that I couldn't wait to finish the book so I could read something else. Sorry C.D.! I loved Youth in Revolt and recommend it to everyone but Civic Beauties should be kept on the shelf....

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Summary: Funny!
Review: CD Payne can make you laugh out loud at his style of writing. I love how you can figure out what happened, without him having to say so.

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Summary: A whole lot funnier than Al Franken
Review: Civic Beauties is a novel of teenage sisters and their minister father's campaign for the Vice Presidency of the United States. While one of the lovely sisters dallies with a picketing environmentalist, her identical twin conspires to "blow the elections sky high". The pace of C.D. Payne's rollickingly funny novel is hectic and non-stop as one memorable and unique character after another suddenly breaks into "song". Civic Beauties is a witty, inventive, unique, engaging, laugh-a-minute novel of pure delight and just a touch of the kind of innocent lunacy that seems to be a necessity for politicians and their families.

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I loved "Youth in Revolt" and "Revolting Youth", and so I guess I had very high expectations of this book. After only about 50 pages I found myself struggling to continue. It isnt a bad book, but is definitely missing something when you compare it to the brilliance of the aforementioned titles.

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Summary: So boring....
Review: I loved "Youth in Revolt" and "Revolting Youth", and so I guess I had very high expectations of this book. After only about 50 pages I found myself struggling to continue. It isnt a bad book, but is definitely missing something when you compare it to the brilliance of the aforementioned titles.

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Summary: So boring....
Review: I loved Youth in Revolt, which made me laugh a lot, but this book was so boring that I didn't even read the last 50 pages - and that hardly ever happens to me.

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Summary: C.D. Payne does it again
Review: The musical novel Civic Beauties is another great sucess for C.D. Payne. These book has Payne's origanal humor applied to poltics. I looked at the cover of this book after I finished because Payne does such a great job of writing from the prespective of a teen ager female. I encourage all to invest in Civic Beauties, if not cause it's great. But to support C.D Payne

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Summary: stay away from twins
Review: The Twisp books show us how destructive teenagers can be. Civic Beauties shows up how their destructive power is multiplied with twinship.

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Summary: Very funny read, but...
Review: This book was quite ammusing and I did enjoy it. My only problem with this book is that C.D. Payne has women characters that are somewhat vindictive and very manipulative. I found the characters in civic beuties to be a little to manipulative. I would recommend this book, but with a condition...READ YOUTH IN REVOLT FIRST, so you can see this author at his very best.