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Summary: Witty and Satirical.
Review: Unlike the t.v. series, the humor is more subtle. No doubt this won't appeal to everyone. If your looking for a refreshing lite read then pick this up. If however, you prefer more obvious titilation then stick to the t.v series.
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Summary: Big City Fun
Review: If you are a fan of the t.v. show, you will enjoy this book. If you are comfortable with yourself and the relationships in your life, you will enjoy this book. If you are looking for a light, witty read and are not reading 'Sex and the City' as an example of what dating in New York encompasses, you will like this book. Accept the novel as a series of short stories and anecdotes written to amuse you, and you will enjoy it. I did!
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Summary: READ IT AND HAVE SOME FUN
Review: I am a 32 year old career woman from Istanbul,Turkey. When the TV series started in Turkey about 3 months ago me, my hubby and colleagues in the office were hooked on it. Just because it is fun! The book is certainly not a literary masterpiece. But who says that everything we read has to be quality literary ? We need some fun and relaxation in our everyday stressfull life and this is exactly the right book to read. Coming from a different culture the most interesting thing for me was that career women are more or less the same everywhere in the world. We love designer shopping, beauty products, fitness studios, we love lunching with our girlfriends (although in Turkey we do not talk about personal sex experiences as open as Carrie and her friends do), and of course all single women love dating. The most interesting part for me is that except Samantha all women be them in Manhattan or in Istanbul we are looking for " THAT GUY" and can do quite silly things to keep him. Regardless where we live and which culture we come from , education and travel globalizes us it is a matter of personality that makes us different from each other like Carrie, Sam, Charlotte and Miranda. The book is great fun, I recommend it to every woman who is interested in Manhattans single - strong career womans' life and reads magazines such as Elle, Cosmo and Marie Claire regularly. Certain things are so true, such as men dating models. Ms. Bushnell gave a great insight about true dating vs. sex rules of the world, which mostpeople are just shy to talk about. Congratulations, I am looking forward to read THE FOUR BLONDES.
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Summary: Depressing Sex in the City
Review: I was disturbed and diappointed in Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell. While I understand that much of the stories were written intending on poking fun at some of what occurs in the singles scene of New York City, I also understand that much of what was written really does happen in that same singles scene. Sadly, the stories and topics were twisted and kind of horrible. The people were mean, their ideas about life were narrow, ugly and profoundly sad. Nobody was nice to anybody else, nobody treated anyone else with a modicum of respect and frankly, nobody loved anybody else. Which is kind of depressing given that the book is about relationships and marriage. I was born and raised in Manhattan and while no place or social group is perfect, those that Ms. Bushnell chooses to spend time with, write about and therefore glorify would not be invited over to my apartment, at least not twice anyway. I have started the second book daring to hope that the characters like themselves or each other just a bit more than the not at all of her first book. But, from what I can tell, that is not likely to happen. It feels like Ms. Bushnell doesn't like herself, other women (single or married) or other men either. Look, I am not against a little darkness or sarcasm, but this book was unrelenting in its depiction of women looking for connections in the city. It actually made me think more fondly about the suburbs.
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Summary: Do blondes have more fun? Not according to this book.
Review: This was an interesting book to read for the social moires of blonde women in Manhatten either married or trying to find the perfect rich husband. The first chapter is about a blonde single gal that is trying to land a rich husband, but really doesn't want to get married. It reminded me very much of the book A Certain Age. The second chapter was about a unhappily married woman. The third chapter was the very best and made reading the book worthwhile. It was facinating to me because I think it was a thinly veiled account of Carolyne Bessette Kennedy. I think it was, if it wasn't it surely reminded me of what her life may have been like. I think the author should do a whole book on chapter 3. The forth chapter was anticlimatic for me, but other people say they enjoyed it and that it is an veiled account of Candace Bushnell herself. All in all, if you are curious or interested in Carolyne Bessette Kennedy and the life she may have lead, I would recommend the book just for chapter 3 alone. It was great!!
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Summary: If People in New York Were Really Like This, I'd Move
Review: While the HBO series "Sex and the City is, as mentioned in a previous review, bright and funny, the book was a sad attempt to titillate the reader with boorish tales of the supposedly glamorous lives of pathetic, conceited nobodies languishing in their own misery. Bushnell's writing style is disjointed and elementary. The characters are patently obnoxious and predictable. A real yawn - I couldn't get through it. Very disappointing considering I was hoping for a fun vacation read. I would normally never promote TV over reading, but in this case - watch the show.
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Summary: Depressing
Review: I didn't write this review to win the amazon popularity contest, but I think this odd book needs to be reviewed for non-urban, non-Americans. Meant to be witty, and written with style, I suppose this book could yet be a valuable primer for preparation for a move to New York. Actually, unlike the amusing and bright HBO series, this book was quite depressing. Full of snippets of neurotic relationships and desperate sex, the book is one tale of failure after another. Whether or not the tales are true, the book highlights a bizarre kind of pathos in human relationships. If you are not an urban American, the humor will either be totally lost on you, or you will have to wade through the book's ludicrous and counterproductive foibles of an ill society to get the obscure laugh. Actually, I am an American who has lived in a big city there, and I still didn't read anything in the book that made me laugh out loud. It was just sad. More than a decade ago, Cynthia Heimel wrote about women and sex with a zest and hilarity that is not in evidence in Bushnell's work. (I recommend Heimel as a sane voice in the world of single women). Yes, Sex and the City is full of titilating sex and sexiness, making this great group reading material at slumber parties for 11 year old girls (parents, you know what I really mean), but there is never a mention of a relationship based on friendship, trust, and love. Written humor's gotta have a little contrast to work well! Compared to this book, I think most porn movies have a sweeter sense of warmth and tenderness.
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Summary: Book is to show what fast food is to haute cuisine
Review: On the show, the characters are well developed and multifaceted. They are good friends, and Carrie (the main character) is likeable and generally admirable. If she were a real person, I'd want her as a friend. In the book, the characters are only sketched. They are merely acquaintances. Carrie is a spoiled brat. If she were a real person, I'd avoid her! I finished reading the book only because I was on the treadmill at the gym with no other entertainment options. But I LOVE the series! That is, I love what I have seen of the series -- the first season, which is on video. I don't have HBO. I eagerly await the next season's videos!
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Summary: A little disappointing...
Review: As a HUGE fan of the HBO series I figured that this was a must read. The book is always better than the movie / tv show, right? Wrong. Kudos to Darren Starr for taking this disjointed collection of non-sense and making a successful series out of it. True, it wasn't all bad - just most of it was. This book has soured me from wanting to read Ms. Busnell's newest endeavor.
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Summary: Accurate, Witty, Poignant
Review: ...are three of the words I'd use to describe this (extremely well-written) book. A series of short, mostly unjointed, chapters (excerpts of life), each of which makes you think. Some of the strongest writing I've seen.
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