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Sex & the City

Sex & the City

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This is Manhattan
Review: I highly reccomend reading SEX AND THE CITY written by Candace Bushnell. It's smart, intelligent, sexy, funny, unapologetic, facinating, all this and more. The book takes a look at life in Manhattan. I found it very amusing to read, from the menage a trois to the bicycle boys. There is much irony such as the four city woman going to visit the married women in Conneticut for a baby shower. The book follows many characters, and their relationships throughout the course of this book. The main character being Carrie, and following her tumultuous relationship with Mr. Big. She wonders if she will ever get married, have children. The book analyzes the different aspects of life for a woman in Manhattan. The characters are outrageous and it's very to get into their world through reading this. A good book about relationships between people. If you enjoy the HBO series you are sure to like this, it's even more explicit than the series is! Overall a good read, highly reccomended.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: This is not like the series -- be warned!
Review: Journalist Carrie Bradshaw is only a peripheral character (as indeed is everyone in this book) in these series that emerged from a column Candace Bushnell wrote (notice the initials and occupation!) However, as Sarah Jessica Parker has evolved Carrie into someone lovable and with hope, none of the women in Bushnell's work are like that.

These women and their men are shallow rats running the New York race -- like any real people care about these status-grubbing social-climbing empty-headed and empty-souled zombies. It is probably best to read this as a column because it should be taken in small doses. Of course these people exist -- and that is why it is so depressing.

But I give it high marks for the writing and content -- it is what is happening out there, and someone has to have the guts to admit it.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Less Than 1 Star!!!
Review: This book was probably one of the worst books I've ever read! It so poorly written! (Good thing Bushnell was NOT a writer for the show!)

Take a pass on this book!!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Watch the TV show, forget the book.
Review: I have been an avid "Sex in the City" series fan. It is one of my favorite shows, and one reason why I pay extra money to have HBO on my satellite feed.
The TV show is so well written, with great characters and story lines which are very funny that it made me want to read the original book. What a terrible disapointment to me.
The book is very hard to follow. I don't know how these vignettes ever became newspaper columns, they don't even hold up as tiny short stories.
The characters are nothing like those on the show. No problem if the book's characters had any depth, or we were really able to follow the development of some(any)of the characters.
It is unfortunate for the reader that this does not happen.
The book is totally confusing, with no real continuity.

I would advise those of you who like the show to forget about reading the book. It will not help you one bit to gain more insight to the show's characters, nor is it a very amusing book. Those who like to read Candace Bushnell as an author, might find the book entertaining on a disjointed, superficial level. I think the majority of fans of the show will be disapointed.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Remember, the TV series was "loosely" based on this book
Review: If you are a huge fan of the HBO series, (and if not, why not?), keep in mind that this book does not follow the lives of the four heroines as the show does. Carrie and Mr. Big are largely featured, as are the other ladies to a much lesser extent, but this book does not follow your typical story-telling format. Hardly surprising as it is a collection of articles.

Overall, I found the writing excellent and witty, but the format rather disjointing. It's a fun read with colorful characters. There is no depth to them, but shallow seems to be the key theme in Bushnell's examination of the Manhatten single scene. If you are looking for love in the Big Apple, you may find this book either a) full of helpful hints or b) so depressing you want to run home to Connecticut. I enjoyed it, but it's easy to put down and forget about.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Not Worth Your Time
Review: This book is not like the TV series. It is full of useless characters. It jumps from one story line to the next without developing the characters. Carrie is in the book but she is totally different than her TV character. In the book she is shallow and uses drugs a lot. Her relationship with Big is also much different. I was diappointed in this book. It was a waste of money and time.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Like watching the Jerry Springer show, only smarter
Review: 'Sex and the City' is fun to read and entertaining. The people's lives are so outrageous that you wonder in what farm have you been living. I love the topics, the toxic bachelors, the guys who would only date models, the whole concept about threesomes and the four city girls including "Carrie" visiting married women with children in Conneticut and enjoying themselves, to their dismay. The book focuses Carrie's life and her boyfriend, "Mr. Big". I love the HBO series based on this book, but the book brings a total different perspective to life, and is even more outrageous and sexually explicit than the actual series!! It's a great read!!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: I paid money for this?
Review: Being an avid fan of the series, I decided I had to have the book. What a disappointment. The characters are not even remotely similar to the series and all the witty reparatee is nowhere to be found. When I felt as though I couldn't read another word, I would think to myself, "go on, turn the page, you paid for this book...it's got to get better." It didn't and I took it in the short$$$. This was by far the worst book I've ever bought.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Never saw the HBO show and still hated the book
Review: I wanted to demand my money back - I kept reading the book expecting for it to get better, to somehow justify all the hype I've heard about the HBO series, but it was, in a word, PATHETIC! The women were pathetic losers with no grip on reality, and I feel sorry for anyone who could relate to this book. If this is what people are like in NY city - I'll pass. I bought the book because, now that the tv series is over, I thought I might one day watch it in syndication, and that it would be good to read the book as background, but I'm sorry that I read it, and will now skip it in reruns as well.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good, but not too good!
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book. It was funny, sexy, and very straight forward. Having watched all six seasons of the HBO series, I could see where several episodes originated. I believe that most people expected it to be more like the series. It was not! I think the problem isn't that the book is bad, but the series was too good! It would be more appreciated by a person who has never watched the tv series. I would definitely recommend this book!


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