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Summary: Easy read
Review: This book, I would consider pretty entertaining but the plot was easily predictable and also the conclusion. It's a good quick summer read.
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Summary: Page-Turner, But Didn't Quite Make It
Review: My wife and I read this book to each other, and I have to admit that it was a page-turner. It was never difficult to decide to turn to the book, and it was easy to get through. Nevertheless, the book left me disappointed. In the book, recent college graduate Andrea dreams of a job in the New Yorker, and decides to get a foot in the door by getting a job in magazine publishing. After dropping her resume all over, she is interviewed and hired to be an assistant to the editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine. The job is hard work, her boss demands the impossible, gives orders that are often unintelligible, or at least inexplicable, and Andrea works long hours. I know what you must be thinking, gee, sounds like the rest of us. Of course, as an assistant to a fashion magazine editor, Andrea also has access to a seemingly limitless supply of free clothes and accessories. Plus, it seems that her boss really will be able to get her closer to her dream job. Now it seems that her job is really better than everybody else's job. But Andrea's boss is truly inhuman to her, in a way similar to Nanny's boss in the Nanny Diaries. It is interesting, in a guilty sort of way, to read what her boss will do to Andrea next. But unlike in the Nanny Diaries, Andrea's boss's actions will not affect an innocent child. Also, Andrea is a much less sympathetic and multi-dimensional character than Nanny is. To sum up my conflicted feelings about this book, you probably will have a fun time reading this book, but at the end, you will not feel much for Andrea and might wish that the author had written the book with a bit more care and thought.
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Summary: HoHum
Review: I liked the premise of the book, however, found it to be very poorly written with weak character development. Unlike in Nanny Diaries, it is difficult for the readers to feel any sincere connection to the characters, main and secondary. I had little sympathy for Andrea as she seemed completely lazy in her employment role. Part of an assistants job is to figure out the missing pieces of a demanding boss' puzzle. I have had one such boss. One example is when her boss tells her to find a review in "The Post." Ms. Sachs assumes it must be the NY Post and when she doesn't find it there fails to think of other "Posts" in the media. I immediately thought why not try the Washington Post, duh. Later, after asking the boss again, she is informed to check the WPost. And, this Andrea character was way too whiny and annoying for me to be anybody's heroin. Always soooo tired. Wah Wah. Anyway, an overall entertaining but much too forced and under developed effort to make me recommend the book - though I am sure that the title will sell the book.
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Summary: The Devil Wears Sweatpants
Review: The devil doesn't wear Prada, the devil wears sweatpants. The main character of this book infuriated me as much as she was infuriated by her boss. She was unappreciative, unprofessional, lazy, and immature. Her boss demanded the best for the right reasons. The portrayal of the fashion-loving fools was great, and this book had many laughs. At the same time, it was great to see how anybody can demonize others while they themselves aren't the Archangel Gabriel, either. 4 out of 5 stars - a must read.
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Summary: HILARIOUS.
Review: I usually dont buy novels but this one caught my attention at the book store because of its unusual cover. I was convinced on buying the book when I saw that it was about a person (Andrea Sachs) struggling to keep her job because of all the crazy things her boss (Miranda Priestly) makes her do.
I truly recommend this book to everyone who, in some time of their professional life, has had an "impossible boss". Believe me, you will really enjoy this book.
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Summary: The Nanny Diaries of the fashion world
Review: The plot reads like the Nanny Diaries, just in a different setting: young woman out of college takes entry level job not immediately in her field in order to break into her field -- ends up working ridiculous hours for a woman that is beyond belief and extremely demanding - I'd say the rest but it reveals the end of the book. Overall it is a humorous book with interesting characters. Pick Nanny Diaries or this one but not both, or you will end up bored.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down!
Review: I loved this book, and I can't remember the last book I said that about. I read this book right after finishing The Nanny Diaries, and I enjoyed this book so much more. While The Nanny Diaries is cute and silly, this book was more mature and believable. I think you have to have some appreciation for the fashion industry, and the obsession with designer labels to appreciate this book. If a book doesn't pique my interest after the first 100 pages, I will not give it a chance, but I genuinely looked forward to the evenings when I could read this book, and had a hard time putting it down! I would definitely buy the next book from Lauren W. -- looking forward to it already.
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Summary: Good enough for sitting in the sand
Review: First: the book isn't really well-written. The author, in what i'm guessing is an attempt to write the way people talk, creates clunky sentences and repeats phrases (okay, so Andy wants to write for the New Yorker. I get it). But when i picked up a book entitled "The Devil Wears Prada" I wasn't seeking the next Booker Prize winner. Instead, I got a really funny beach read, with a character in Miranda that is so over-the-top you're thinking "she can't make this stuff up." Andy isn't the most sympathetic character ( I felt much worse for the utterly disillusioned Emily) but she's enjoyable enough and her pop-culture and post-college references are right on the money. The characters and the plot could've been fleshed out more and the choppy writing could've been better edited, but the book was a glance into that world that many people are at the same time envy and are disgusted by. someone pointed out that the author seemed to be relishing in the lifestyle she was dishing on and I think that's pretty much the point. I for one would like to think that I'm above being bribed an endless supply of designer wear but then I think--oh please, who am I kidding? And I agree that it all could've been better conveyed but is it worth your fifteen bucks? It might be just to see how much money Miranda wastes on breakfasts and lattes, and her utter absurd "tasks" and belittling remarks--and then realize that it's not completely fiction.
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Summary: Cute
Review: Were it not for author Lauren Weisberger's well-touted credentials, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA probably would not be the hit that it has become. Weisberger makes no secret of the fact that she was the assistant of VOGUE editor Anna Wintour. Thus, reading this novel about the assistant to the editor of the world's most influential fashion magazine becomes a guessing game in where the line between fact and fiction has been drawn. Weisberger says in interviews that Anna was a delight while Miranda, her fictional counterpart, is the Devil in Prada. Thus, for those of us who have not worked in fashion, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA is an intriguing peek into a private world. Insofar as DEVIL is accurate, it is informative and entertaining as well. Yet there's another quibble: Weisberger's heroine spends much of her time bemoaning the fact that the demands of her position leave her no time for the writing of serious prose. It was jarring, therefore, to notice the many glitches in grammar that this novel contains. Shouldn't a former VOGUE editor and her own book editor have been able to join together in putting out a book that was written more correctly? In a word, this book is cute, no more and no less.
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Summary: LOVED IT!
Review: The book is so real. I had a couple of bosses that were exactly Miranda Priestly. Whoever has worked in fashion - or elsewhere in the real world - will be able to relate with the 'first job out of college' description: lots of coffee trips and errands all over the place. Very funny and entertaining.
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