Four Blondes

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Summary: Could this book get any worse?
Review: Like many others, I picked up this book due to the success of Candance Bushnell's hit tv show " Sex and the City". This book was so annoying it revolves around 4 blondes...enough said! It reveals 4 characters who are all obbsessed with their social status and it doesnt get any deeper than that. There are four sections in the book, each dealing with one of the four characters who never actually meet! I didnt put this book down, because I was so desperate to see if this book could actually get any worse! It did! It was awful. What an embarrasement to Candance Bushnell! I hope she knows that her book bombed!

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Summary: don't waste your time...
Review: i love sex and the city as much as the next person and was pretty excited about reading this book, but when i did, what a surprise i got...not only was it shallow, but depressing and rather boring. the only thing in its favor is that it's a quick read. the stories continually portray women as helpless floozies who have no other cares than men. i'm far from a staunch feminist, but after i while i got totally sick of the reiteration of patriarchal standards. don't waste your money, just stick to watching the series

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Summary: Waste of Money
Review: This book is nothing but pathetic rubbish and is fit only for the dumpster. Most surprising of all is that I thought I'd relate to the characters as I'm a pretty savvy, late 20's blonde in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, the only time this would be mildly amusing is after one too many cosmopolitans.

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Summary: Ravishing
Review: This book is excellent...it is a wonderful book to read when it is a rainy afternoon. If you think your life is bad, read this book...it is funny and theres lots of sex!

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Summary: Why was this written???
Review: This book was so bad...I read a lot of books and I don't have time to write a review about them all, but I couldn't even get past the second story....what possed Candace Bushnell to write this book....I mean Sex in the City was great....this was a total loser...just hope I can get something for it when I turn it in to the used book store...This is NOT one I want in my collection

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Summary: How did this get published?
Review: (...) This book is a disgusting display of all that is wrong with popular culture. There's a lot of brand name dropping, boring and pathetic characters, and terrible writing. I love the series Sex and the City, but after reading Four Blondes I will stay away from anything Bushnell has to offer.

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Summary: Not worth it
Review: I received this book as a gift and actually enjoyed the first chapter. But the rest of the book was miserable...I only finished it because I felt i had to. The characters were very uninteresting and the writing actually gave me a headache at one point. Don't bother with this one.

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Summary: sympathy free characters
Review: I bought this book to read on the beach on vacation. I, like many others, love Sex and the City the HBO show. I read this whole book in spite of the fact that I couldn't stand it after the first chapter. The characters are all so self-absorbed that I could care less what happens to them. In fact, I found that I didn't want things to turn out well for them, because it would be so unfair. I think from now on I'm sticking with HBO.

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Summary: A Disappointing, Forgettable, Shallow Romp!
Review: While trying to copy the success of "Sex and the City" Candace Bushnell delivers a horrfic novel. I love " Sex and the City" and eagerly await the new season every year. But there is not one character in this book I found likable in any respect. While I can remember lines and stories from "Sex in the City" (the book) I couldn't describe a single element of this book if I tried, after I read it. In a word-totally forgettable. Don't waste your time. Watch "Sex" on TV and refelct on the promise of a gifted writer, that unfornatley is not displayed here.

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Summary: LOOK ELSEWHERE FOR RICH/FAMOUS SATIRE
Review: I, like many of the other reviewers, am a big fan of HBO's "Sex and the City" which led me to this book in my local library. (Thank God I didn't spend a dime on it!) I really, really wanted to like this book, but I just couldn't. After reading half of the first chapter, I decided to log on to amazon.com and check the reviews. Whew! My opinion was confirmed by many other readers, so at least I'm not tragically unhip. I won't go into the shortcomings of this book-- they're already repeated several times in previous reviews-- but I would like to suggest 2 other books that are satires of the rich and famous, but are superbly written and actually funny. One is "The Gold Coast" by Nelson Demille. The other is "Bonfire of the Vanities" by Tom Wolfe. (Don't waste your time on the movie version!!!) These two books deliver what "Four Blondes" pathetically attempts.