Sex & the City

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Summary: great
Review: I like a lot about this book . The characters are strong and yet so weak like all humans. The fact that it was nonfiction made me relate more clearly to the book and I was not biased while devouring it whole heartedly.

I also enjoyed a lot the book Sex and the perfect lover by Mabel Iam.

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Summary: "Sex and the City" is dull, shallow, and tedious
Review: Let me start this out by saying I've seen maybe a dozen episodes over its lifespan, but I never really watched the HBO series "Sex and the City." This is through circumstance, rather than an avoidance of the show itself - I choose not to have cable. I'm telling you this so that you will know my review is not based on a comparison to the show. Anyway, now that that's out of the way, let me examine the book, which I finally finished last night.

To be honest, it's been a long time since I read a book this tediously uninteresting. It produced two, maybe three half-hearted laughs out of me. I kept reading, sure that sooner or later something clever would rise up out of the "Sex and the City" infamy. Halfway through, however, the book finally wound up in my bathroom, where it's remaining pages served as on-the-john reading material. I'm not trying to be spiteful - it's the truth!

I suppose "Sex and the City" is meant to be titillating. (So to speak.) It's full of frank words about sex that I can't really use in a review, and it's also got plenty of booze and drugs. So what? Sex, booze, and drugs are suddenly something new? Why does every generation act like it invented sex, booze, and drugs? Please. And really, in the end, the sex in "Sex and the City" isn't even all that titillating.

But really, seriously. Take out the sex-related language, and the booze and the drugs, and you have a lot of vapid, superficial, man-obsessed women - and not even sex-obsessed (which would at least be interesting and fun), but just pure, old-fashioned, man-obsessed. Whoop-dee-doo. Way to live your own, independent lives, sisters.

I am a thirty-six year old woman, and I have a pretty liberal attitude towards most things on earth. Similar, you might think, to the women in this book. But there is not one character in "Sex and the City" I can relate to. They live as though they all went to a frat party in college, and just decided never to leave. Actually, I'd cross not only the street, but also the city, to avoid men and women who behaved remotely like the obnoxious, narcissistic, emotionally-stunted characters in this book.

Maybe I'm missing the point. Maybe the book is "ironic," although I don't think I'll give the author credit for being able to dream up deliberate irony. It's not clever enough for the real thing. At any rate, who cares? It won't make "Sex and the City" any less boring or shallow. Even the sex is banal. Save your money, or spend it on the "Sex and the City" DVDs instead.

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Summary: Smart and Delicously Witty
Review: I watched the show and always thought I'd get around to reading the book...and even thought it might be a waste of time - passe, and overdone since the huge HBO hit had come and gone. It was a great book, however, consistently funny (and that is saying a lot) and savorable. It's written in little tasty vignettes that weave some of the same characters throughout and gave me a few believable (if not completely reliable)revelations on the single life in New York. Throughout reading this book I was consistently won over by the author. Any woman who has truly indulged herself in the excesses of being intelligently, joyfully single at anytime in her adult life will find much to relate to.

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Summary: Always sex and..
Review: This book was funny sexy, and very straight forward.
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!

AND I ALSO RECOMMENDED THE BOOK SEX AND THE PERFECT LOVER by MABEL IAM ******** IT IS HOT AND AMAZING SEX GUIDE

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Summary: Loved It!
Review: Candace Bushnell's "Sex and the City" is an entertaining and FUNNY work of fiction. I absolutely loved reading this book and even prefer it to the television series. Having read Ms. Bushnell's other works, "Four Blondes" and "Trading Up", "Sex and the City" is by far her best written book and most hilarious one!

Ms. Bushnell chooses to write the novel in a series of essays or vignettes. To me, this is perfect because I kept better track of the characters. As a reader, I found this to be a very organized format and I didn't forget about plot developments or characters like I sometimes do with lengthy novel chapters.

I particularly liked that Carrie's character in this book was edgier than in the television series. I found her character in the book to be more realistic and as a reader I could relate to her. Even her relationship with Big seemed more true to life than in the television series.

It was very interesting for me as a reader to compare the characters in this novel to the ones I viewed on the television series. I definitely appreciated how perfect the television casting was!

What I really loved the most about the novel, "Sex and the City" is that it relays universal dating experiences to its readers. Whether in high society Manhattan or in the Ozarks, everyone has or knows someone who has had a really bad dating experience or two. Candace Bushnell captures these dilemmas with shrewd observation, laughable stories, and amusing writing.

Read this book and love it as much as I did! Without this book, there would not have been a television series! This is a fine book!


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Summary: Sex and romance
Review: I know how different books and movies can be that I wasn't expecting it to be just like TV. If you bought it already and for whatever reason, well, buy the DVD set again in lieu of buying this book. I should call it a read I enjoyed. You don't have to live some place like New York to enjoy it
Usually the book is better that the TV show. I loved the show. While you will recognize similarities in the characters and the plots, the characters in the novel.I would advise those of you who like the show to reading the book. Sex and The City is a really funny, witty and insightful read and look at modern romance.

AND I ALSO RECOMMENDED THE BOOK SEX AND THE PERFECT LOVER by MABEL IAM ******* IT IS HOT AND AMAZING SEX GUIDE.

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Summary: Think about it
Review: If you really love the show and have been watching it, I wouldn't recommend reading this book with the expectations that it will be like the show because it is nothing like the show. The characters are completely different in the book and the book can be hard to understand and follow at times. If you read the book before the show, then I guess the book can be OK, it's not a HORRIBLE book. I was just disappointed in the book because I thought it would be like the show.

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Summary: Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell
Review: Sex and the City, by Candace Bushnell, is a modern and witty story about the true-life adventures of a group of friends and their luxurious lifestyle. The story is set in New York City, specifically, Manhattan. The story tells of Carrie Bradshaw, a 30ish writer for The New York Observer, and the many things that happen to her and her friends. Many other characters play a role in this book, such as Mr. Big, a successful business man and love interest for Carrie, and Stanford Blatch, an artist, and one of Carrie's best friends in the book. Carrie's three best friends are Samantha Jones, a movie producer, Charlotte York, a sex crazed British woman, and Miranda Hobbs, a cable executive. The book introduces the reader to "Modelizers," whom are men who are only interested in models, "Toxic Bachelors," and many kinds of men, bad dates, etc. that many women have experience at some point in their lives. Throughout the book you will learn of all of their relationships, break ups, parties, social events, etc. It is quite entertaining because it is so much like my life and my experiences. It's almost like the reality shows on TV. You can't help but liking them because they're just so interesting and so much like our own lives. The book shows that relationships and people aren't perfect. Bushnell kept me wanting to read more because so many different things happen to the characters throughout the book. This book definitely shows Bushnell's creativity. It was actually written about Candace Bushnell and her friends' lives. Carrie Bradshaw represents Bushnell's character. I think this is interesting because part of the reason it seems so real is because a lot of it is, in fact, real.
I love the show, as well! It is definitely my favorite TV series. I never knew that the book was so different from the TV series, though. Carrie gets much more coverage in the book than most of the characters and at some points, it was hard to tell that the four women were best friends. Stanford actually gets quite a bit more coverage in the book and he has long hair, opposed to being bald on the show. The characters are somewhat different as well; Miranda is a lawyer on the show, opposed to a cable executive, Samantha is in PR on the show, instead of a movie producer, and Charlotte is a shy and innocent American woman, opposed to a sex-crazed British woman in the book. I actually saw the shows before I read the book, but I am very glad I decided to read the book. The book is so realistic, I felt like I could relate it to my life more so than many books. It's not quite as sugar-coated as the show, and it doesn't have quite as much of the happy ending feel to it, which, for most people, is much more realistic. I would recommend this book to everyone, especially people who love the show as well!


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Summary: This is a stupid book!!!! I HATE this book!!1
Review: READ BEFORE YOU BUY THIS BOOK!!!! If you LOVE sex and the city, as I do you will NOT like this stupid book. These vapid mean little slices of life in the big apple are NOT the bedtime stories with a kick we watched on HBO every Sunday night. These pointless plotless mini tales lack any resemblence to the show. what I loved about Sex and the City was how well most women could relate to these women. Yes they were in new york, yes they had $500 shoes ( on the salary from a WEEKLY newspaper colum might I add:)) but their loves and their struggles and their FRIENDSHIPS were portrayed in a way that we GOT!!! There is NOTHING of that in this book. There are these nasty drunk stoned MEAN souless human beings flying(stumbling rather) around New
York stabbing each other in the back smoking LOTS of pot and just being as MEAn as humanly possible!!!!. There is no coffe shop bonding, there is Miranda Hobbs gleefully telling Carrie that Mr. Big is cheating on her then calling in her drug delivery man.???????Who ARE these people and is this REALLY New York????Maybe Ms. bushnell really lives here in this snakey ugly little fishbowl. Makes me glad I live in chicago. I am going to list this one used for 1 penny cause thats what its worth!