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Summary: sssshhhh listen! You can hear the wind blowin' in her head
Review: What if the airhead girl, who led the popular clique, grew up and wrote a book? Well here it is! No plot No dialouge No senatances that make any sense To be quite honest, I couldn't even bring myself to finish it. I got about half way through it until I set it down for the last time. Do yourself a favor, go read your cereal box. It is more entertaining.
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Summary: What's the point?
Review: Like other customer reviewers, I bought the book because I enjoy the HBO series. It's amazing that someone read this, though, and thought it would work on screen, because the book is exceptionally slight. No character development, no plot, and no real content. At least it was a fast read.
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Summary: Incisive, a joy
Review: Very, very funny -- Bushnell can write. (As an aside, both my husband and I also adore the HBO series...we have Candace to thank for that) Finally, women get to have a sense of humor about their conflicted desires and sexuality. Good God, it's about time. I look forward to her next work.
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Summary: What a let down
Review: I purchased this book because I liked the HBO series. To say that the series is "loosely based" on the book in an understatement. The characters are vacuous and two dimensional, the dialogue is forced and unrealistic, the stories are flat and incomplete. There is no connection between the reader and the characters, and by the end of the book you don't care what happens to these shallow people. I also was looking forward to the humor of the series, only to find out that nothing funny happens in this book. Truly awful!
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Summary: Stick to the HBO series
Review: Yes, I read this book after becoming addicted to the HBO series. But this book is not nearly as interesting as the show. Very disappointing! The show is so witty and interesting, but the book is lacking something...
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Summary: What men wish they knew about women and vice versa.
Review: This book is just so bad, don't misunderstand me though, I mean bad in a good way, confused? well stick around then and I shall explain. What I mean is, it is quite an insight to people's bad sides, both women's and men's. It is like reading one long gossipcolumn but less tiresom and ten times funnier. Candace has a wonderful way of completely 'undressing' people so we really feel we know then intimately and know things about them that we don't even know about our closest friends. And might I add, don't really wanna know either. But at the same time she has a way of portraying people so superficially that we really get a taste of the NY facade. The book is very catching, it has that can't-put-it-down-until-it's-finished-quality, it's AB FAB and absolutely worth a read. What doesn't hurt that book either is that it is now a TV show with Sarah Jessica Parker in the leading role as Carrie and the show is definitely watchworthy as well.
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Summary: Boring compared to the series
Review: LOVE the HBO series for its wit and sharpness. The book by comparison is more breezy than a magazine and unsatisfying and not as funny. If you're a true fan of the series, the book will prove thin and dull.
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Summary: Very Funny Book
Review: First of all, let me say that I am a man, and I've never seen the HBO series based on this book. However, I still loved "Sex and the City," more than I really thought I would. Each chapter is well-written, funny, and filled with fantastic insights not only about men and women (or New York), but about love itself. While the lives some of these characters lead (unbelievably rich models, etc.) may not have much resonance for most people, in these tales are enough humanizing aspects to realize that we're all basically the same and we're all trying to find love and someone to be with. This is a very funny, very moving, and very accurate book.
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Summary: The Guilded Age: 1997
Review: Bushnell's tome of collected articles takes the sparkling mirage of wealth and glamour in the magical city of New York and cuts it straight down the middle revealing a bleeding heart: loveless and cold. "Carrie", Bushnell's alter-ego, parts the magic curtain surrounding the places and people we only see in the society section of the paper, revealing a tragic depravity all to human. The reader is introduced to an aesthetic wonderland where the cruel limits of middle class reality are blown upart by the capitalist magics of wealth and power. However, this fantasy world is alas false. The reader identifies with the narrative and its characters due to their elemental urges for love and acceptance, and further, sympathizes with them in response to Bushnell's masterful presentation of social pathology among a jaded, post industrial aristocracy incapable of love. Bushnell's grasp of intracultural anthropology is impressive to say the least examining New York society's emotional pathos from a number of perspectives: infrastructural, and\or cultural. But most notable is her understanding of the modern "tragic hero"- the woman, raised in a schizophrenic society, fed fairytale by the spoon and career by the fork. The modern woman cannot reconcile the need for romance, the expectation of success, and the demand of beauty. They are legions of the emotionally dispossessed, each wearing a thousand faces without a cogent identity between them. Bushnell stands as the voice of the "Age of Un-Innocence" just as Fitzgerald acted as the siren song of the "Lost Generation\The Guilded Age". Both authors urge us to re-examine the cultural standards of success and happiness in the society that has raised us. Where Fitzgerald exposed the deceptive promises of the "American Dream" in its annhilation of identity , Bushnell begrieves the extinction of love in the modern metropolis, desperately replaced with vanity, egotism, and materialism. Comparisons to the HBO series are like that of the same city by night and day. The series is a fluffy, juvenile version of the book; insightful surely, but without tragic impetus driving it. Bushnell offers a sadly beautiful examination of American Dreams and their monstrous real life correlates.
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Summary: The feminist's guide to the galaxy!
Review: Ms Bushnell wins all my admiration for every single word in this book. To me it absolutely obliterates the male gender in the sort of witty way it's been written. I can see the background research coming forward very nicely and it gives the reader a very good idea about the sexlife in New York. All the characters are somewhat different from each other giving the reader several options to choose from. Their views about sex and relationships are all quite different and that makes the book a good source for discussion. All in all I found the book to be very feministic and anyone who happens to be an independent soul should read it and take the advice offered.
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