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Summary: I"m Glad I Borrowed A Copy From The Library!!!
Review: ...This book is really made up of four short stories from totally different perspectives. Taken as a whole I'd have to pan the book, but if you break this book down story by story I think you'd find a few that weren't that bad. Except for Winnie and James story. All I can say is ewwwwwww!! Still without getting into the nitty gritty plots of all four stories (that would take way to long) one should take this book with a grain of salt. ...
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Summary: Four Lobotomized Bimbos
Review: Never has there been such a waste of paper, ink and brain cells as this insipid book. I came across it when a coworker found it in the trash (it's rightful place), and we decided to form a joke book club around it. Even as a joke, however, we couldn't get halfway through the second story. This book is unbearable.
But lest you assume that this is the opinion of some "moralizing" Puritan who can't handle the subject matter...It's not the floozy New York social scene or graphic sex that's the problem here. It's that if you're going to write about these subjects - or any subject - for God's sake, make it coherent! And interesting. Ms. Bushnell manages to make even cheap sex as boring and unreadable as a vacuum cleaner manual translated from Chinese. As for the writing itself, your average high school student could do a better job... over a weekend, if they had flunked 2 grades, were high on inhalants and learned English from watching Beavis and Butthead. It's not that this book isn't literary - it's not even literate. What Candace seems to have done is to capitalize on the success of Sex & the City with a sick joke on the book-buying public: to see if it's possible to scrawl off a trashy, unfinished and unedited outline for a book (complete with notes to herself still in the text and typos galore), publish it without ever bothering to write the book itself, and challenge people to buy it. Well, you did, in droves, and you've made Candace rich. She thanks you!
I'll say one thing for her though: she seems to know her subject matter well. Only hard core booze binges and a serious cocaine habit could explain this book and its publication.
I am now happily returning 4 Blondes to the trashcan where it was found.
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Summary: Cheap blondes
Review: Being a huge fan of the HBO series, "Sex and the City," I had high hopes for this book. Fortunately they were dashed. There is no real wit here, and all the characters just seemed sad. I suppose one could argue that the girls of "Sex" are/were mainly sleeping around and caring more about accessories and looking good, but somehow the writing and the acting makes them fleshed out and interesting. You feel you know them, can relate to one or all of them. I never got that with these 'Four Blondes.' It just felt empty. I'd suggest reading through it more carefully at the bookstore before buying, or that you borrow it from a friend or the library. It might just be me, but this coming from the woman whose idea and columns sparked 'Sex and the City' it just is a letdown.
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Summary: Do such vacuous people really exist?
Review: The other reviewers seem to have covered it: shallow, spoiled characters living in some alternate universe that may or may not exist in elite New York. I had to make a correction: "Winnie" is said to be a graduate of Smith College (ahem, the women's college) but then a few pages later she knew a male doctor because "they went to college together". [In Sex and the City, Charlotte is said to have gone to Smith then later meets with her "sorority sisters from college". There are no sororities at Smith.]. As a Smith grad, I don't mind Bushnell using it to exemplify something stereotypical, but how hard is it to find an editor who knows that Smith is a women's college?
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Summary: Entertaining and Witty
Review: I loved Four Blondes. All of the other reviewers before me must have been expecting some great work of literature and that is why they were dissapointed. It's an entertaining book to read and very enjoyable but don't expect any enlightenment from reading it. (Unless the sort of enlightenment you hope to gain is along the lines of how good your life really is in contrast to the characters)
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Summary: Worst Book Ever
Review: This is the worst book ever written. I would rather watch paint dry than read another sentence in this trashy novel. I always finish the books I pick up, but this one was not worth it. No point in wasting MY brain cells when reading about these slutty, bitchy, druggie girls wasting their lives away. BTW: I LOVE Sex in the City. This book is nothing like the show.
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Summary: TERRIBLE WASTE OF TIME
Review: I must agree with the majority on this one. It has to be the worst book I've ever read in my life. I made the mistake of buying a used copy online without reading any of the reviews first. Of course, I'm thinking, "Hey, she wrote SATC, she's gotta be pretty good". But, oh, was I ever wrong! Now I know why the book itself was only sold for 89 cents and I SERIOUSLY regret paying the S&H for it. What a waste!! Don't think I've ever been unable to finish a book, but I just couldn't torture myself with this literary garbage any longer. I never made it past the 2nd part about Winnie. I was so disgusted with the first character, Janey, and I HATED the way the second part was written. I just received a copy of Bushnell's 'Trading Up' as a part of an online book club and I returned it immediately. If I didn't like Janey in 4 Blondes, I'll hate an entire book about her upper-class wannabe lifestyle. Hello, she's a shallow, self-absorbed prostitute!!! Please, I beg you, don't waste your time on this one.
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Summary: Not A Waste Of Time
Review: Yes, this book was depressing and made me ticked at the society women in New York, but I think that was the point. I didn't enjoy reading this book as much as I have some other books (ie The Nanny Diaries) but I did gain something from it. Read between the lines in this book and it's more valuable.
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Summary: Rich White Society Women with Problems.
Review: Yes, it's "fast-paced" and "sassy", but I think it's more shallow and obscene than anything.
I think a more appropriate title would've been "Self-Centered Rich White Society Women With Problems", because it basically traces "adventures" of 4 egotistical New York concubines. Not as in street-prostitutes who work for their money, rather pampered and spoiled-rotten women who will do anything and anyone for designer clothes, a house in the Hamptons, or simply fame. These women will stop at nothing to get to the top, which is never high enough for them. The characters are despicable people, and though it is fiction, it is rather realistic(surely we've all known someone like any of the jerks in this book). After all, isn't all art really an imitation of nature. THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH calls the author "Jane Austen with a martini". Unfortunately, I haven't read enough of Jane Austen's work to make a truly thoughtful comparison, but I don't think this writing is as a fraction of a percent as well done as Jane Austen's. Moreover, the characters in this book are really all the same. What do the 4 women in this book have in common? a given is that they're all probably blonde (hence the title), but they are all desperate to be rich and beautiful as well as to rub shoulders with others who are even more so. I would recommend THE PREPPY HANDBOOK instead of this one. Candace Bushnell is also the author of SEX AND THE CITY, which I haven't read. Although I enjoyed the HBO television show very much, I probably won't read the book. If you liked THE DIARY OF BRIDGET JONES (I didn't), you might enjoy this book.
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Summary: My goodness, was there no editor for MILES???
Review: If you read this, be prepared for a complete lack of consideration for grammar whatsover. Also, watch for abrupt changes in storyline--with no segues at all. The characters were not likeable, and not terrifically believable. I was disappointed.
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