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Summary: The 16th Minute...
Review: Sorry Candace, but your 15 minutes are up. Like most, I adored Sex and The City and still love the HBO series but this book makes Bushnell look Bush-league. Hard to believe it was the same author...not at all the enjoyable experience of her debut. Sad...but best skipped.
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Summary: "Sophomoric" Effort
Review: Here's what you do:Pick up the book (don't BUY it just pick it up) Turn to page 98 (hardcover edition) Under the passage entitled "Winnie's Bad Habit" is a sentence: "Boring and Utterly Pointless" A precise assessment of the book "Four Blondes" if ever there was one. ...And just so you don't think "sour grapes"...I'm a beautiful blonde from NYC (who hopefully won't have a building collapse on my head after that last remark!)
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Summary: A big disappointment.
Review: I too bought the book because I am a "Sex in the City" fan and also because (God help me!) Cosmo and Glamour gave it rave reviews. I could stomach it if Bushnell managed to make these characters even somewhat likable, but she didn't. I could have enjoyed it if the author had made pains to invite the reader into her world but instead we are excluded from it. And the stories either ended too abruptly or too neatly. I give her a single star because I thought sections were well written and the book jacket is clever.....
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Summary: Bushnell has another winner
Review: Once again, Candace Bushnell proves her superiority as an observer and as a writer. She accurately picks up on the stereotypes of those personalities which so frequently flourish best in Manhattan and East Hampton. Anyone who hasn't been to these places may not appreciate how dead-on are her portrayals. With a writing style that is spare and distinctive, FOUR BLONDES makes an interesting read. Ultimately, all the heroines in it are empowered, making this is the best kind of post-feminist fiction, thought-provoking without being preachy.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: This was a great book. Very witty and enjoyable; however the last two stories were not as good as the first. They lacked a lot of substance that the first two had.
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Summary: Blondes - Four points of view
Review: The four blondes are ultra similar in their self-absorption-for each it's all about me, me, me, men, men, men and money, money, money. Each has boatloads of "friends" yet each finds herself ultra alone in the world. Each runs with the A-list crowd. The collection of stories could have been ultra-repetitive. But Bushnell deftly chose different literary points-of-view for each story. Janey is searching for her man in third-person limited. The dysfunctional couple, James and Winnie, are written in an edgy present-tense by an all-seeing, all-knowing, unnamed narrator (Bushnell herself of course) so we get healthy doses their thoughts about each other. And nutty Princess Cecelia could only tell us her own story-and she does-in the first person. The seemingly simple, yet important choice of point-of-view, written by a skilled author turns a good, yet potentially repetitive book into an good collection.
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Summary: Stupid, stupid, stupid!
Review: I love Sex in the City and had hoped that this book would provide similar entertainment. What a disappointment! The characters are pathetic. Each of the four stories ends abruptly, leaving the reader to wonder if perhaps Ms. Bushnell was limited to the number of pages that could be published. I read the entire book (a VERY fast read) hoping it would get better, but alas, no luck. Additionally, the book appears as if the author has just learned the "F" word and is intent on using it as much as possible. Read this only if you are curious as to the many ways this word can be used, otherwise, SKIP IT!
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Summary: Save your money
Review: This is without a doubt the worst book I have read in a long time - if not ever! The characters were one dimensional, uninteresting and there was not a protagonist to be found. The prose was stilted and the timeline wandered all over the map. Where was her editor when Ms Bushnell handed in this book? I am a faithful watcher of the TV series Sex and the City and I find it hard to believe that Ms. Bushnell had anything to do with the smart and witty characters we see week in and week out. Save your money and watch an episode of the TV show and stay far away from this awful book.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Review: Very enjoyable book. It's four stories. The first was a little too neatly wrapped up at the end. The second was deliciously evil. The third was kind of disconcerting. The fourth was sort of abrupt, too. But, all good. I'm a New Yorker and I don't live a life like this (but I have worked for womens magazines!). I'm glad I don't live a life like these women.
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Summary: Unreadable
Review: Each chapter/section was worse than the next. Painful and boring. The final story ended midsentence. Was this a binding error in the edition I bought, or did the author realize the futility and just quit?
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