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Summary: A Cute and Fun Beach Book
Review: I bought this book after having read Keye's Rachel's Holiday, so I knew what to expect- a light, silly, beach read. In the book, Maggie, the main character, leaves Ireland after her marriage falls apart and moves to California to live with her best friend. While there she learns about Hollywood and the movie industry and experiements as she trys to break her good-girl image. Although the book is lengthy, it is cute, and goes by fairly fast. It is definately a fun summer read. I would reccomend this to anyone looking for a fun, not extremely intellectual, beach book.
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Summary: Enjoyable characters, easy summer read.
Review: I have to agree with the other reviewers who say the L.A. of this book seems chiche and the characters sometimes seem rather shrill. However, the characters overall are wonderful and funny, the plot is fast-moving and silly, and the ending, of course, is happy. Who could ask for more for a summer read?
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Summary: Angels
Review: This book is better than "Rachel's Holidy" but not as good as "Watermelon." Still, it was hilarious in typical Keyes deadpan humor fashion. It's like she takes everyday observations one has always thought about and turns them into laugh out loud words.
One of the reasons why I love the characters in her books is because they are shamelessly witty and fun. If this is your first Keyes book, Maggie Walsh (the main character) is just one of the four sisters Keyes has written books about. Claire "Watermelon", and Rachel "Rachel's Holiday" are the other two, and I sure wish Keyes would write a novel about the bratty, youngest Walsh sister Helen, who makes several brief, bitingly funny appearances in "Watermelon".
Lastly, in my opinion Keyes best book isn't any of the ones dealing with the Walsh sisters. "Last Chance Saloon" is one of my favorite books. It's about three best friends and when one of them becomes very sick, he gives the other two challenges that he calls "favors" and makes them swear to him that they will change their lives...for the better.
So after Angels, be sure to read it!
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Summary: Somewhat entertaining
Review: Angels was somewhat entertaining but left me a bit flat. It is unrealistic in the treatment of some of the relationships (After 9 years of marriage I would fight it out, not run away without talking)and the way the main character has no clue about herself and her motives. The whole thing with the Troy character was also unbelievable. It's a decent light read if you are stuck in an airport like I was when I picked it up.
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Summary: One of My New Favorite Authors
Review: Angels is a funny, page turning book about an Irish woman left by her husband for another woman. Margaret Garvan, a borderline shopaholic and devoted wife, is sacked from her job as a paralegal and soon after is dumped by her husband of nine years. Distraught, Maggie flees the country to the solis of her long time friend Emily, a struggling writer in Los Angeles. As Maggie is trying to get over her grief and rebuild her life without Garv, her husband, she starts to mingle with the Hollywood elite. After a while, she strips herself of the long time "good girl" title and starts showing her wild side. Not only does this book show the current life of Maggie, but flashes back to critical moments of her life with Garv while she tries to win him back. Maggie is really more wild than one might think... Between pitching a script for the drunken Emily, going out with unusual people and rebuilding her life, Los Angeles and Margaret Walsh will never be the same again. This book was a light, easy read, but I really enjoyed it. What I really liked about this book was how the author made the flashbacks to critical moments in her life like when she had her miscarriages and abortion and other myriads of stuff. It was funny and entertaining, which is why I enthusiastically give this book five stars.
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Summary: Get ready to laugh!
Review: What a funny novel! This is my first Marian Keyes, I happened upon it in an airport and bought it on a whim. You know how you try to keep to yourself on a plane? I kept laughing so hard that I disturbed the others reading around me. They finally put down their books and had to hear about mine. The characters are so fun, you feel like you know them all, and you care about each one. Even if the end is somewhat predictable, you are so glad that it comes to that conclusion, but so sad that the book is over at the same time! Great choice for fun, somewhat light reading. I have read several of the "young-but-getting-older looking for love" books lately, and this is by far the best - better writing, better characters, better plot. Buy it if you want some great belly laughs and maybe even to shed a few tears along the way.
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Summary: Great Summer Read
Review: This is the first of Keyes' books I have read. It was also the first of the chick lit genre I have read. I really liked it, and judging from the reviews I won't be disappointed with her other books. The books portrayal of life in Los Angeles was "laugh out loud-able". It was slow at times, but it all came together nicely in the end. If you are looking for a great author in this genre, read this book - although I have read it is not the author's *best* work, it is definately worth reading and a great intro to her writing. Highly entertaining.
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Summary: Clueless in L.A.
Review: Wow. I've enjoyed Keyes' other books, but this one is really not good. The look at L.A. is completely cliched in an outdated, 80s New Agey sort of way, and it's achingly unfunny. Keyes also attempts to spoof the Hollywood production scene without knowing a thing about how the town really works. (Marian, honey: if a producer has read your script, he doesn't ask you to come in and pitch it to him. He read it. He knows what it's about. Pitches are for scripts you haven't written yet and would like to get money to write). If this book were any fun at all, one might overlook Keyes' wild inaccuracies about how people in L.A. live, eat and shop, but the characters are uniformly shrill and unlikable. This one is a disappointing chore to get through. Hoping Keyes' next book will have her back in the delightful form of "Last Chance Saloon", "Rachel's Holiday" and others.
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Summary: Only worth it for the ending
Review: I really didn't like this book. Not at all. I found myself only continuing to read it because I'd paid for it, and because I was bored waiting for the next Jennifer Weiner book to come out. It dragged on and on and on. It was probably because I hated the characters. They were all boring and stereotypical, from as much as I could gather, which wasn't much because they weren't very well developed at all. Especially the main character. It was as if she was only telling about her suroundings, not letting the reader get to know her and her feelings. If I had to describe Maggie in 4 sentences, I couldn't, because after 450 pages of her I still don't feel like I know her at all. The only thing, the ONLY thing that saved this book was that what I'd been hoping happened at the end did. Not that I really cared that much, but for what it was worth at least I got something good out of it. If I were you, I'd pass on this one, unless you are really, really, really bored.
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Summary: Average beach read
Review: This was not the most dynamic book I've ever read, but it kept me entertained during a few Starbucks visits. Its good if you want something quick and light. Not Keyes' best.
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