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Summary: FOUR BLONDES
Review: REALLY-TRULY, TRASH! DONT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY! A DREADFUL, PIECE OF GARBAGE THAT WARRENTS NO FURTHER DISCUSSION.
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Summary: 4 dumb and shallow blondes
Review: I thought I was a fan of Candace Bushnells because of Sex and the City, but this book was a waste of time. Hopefully, women like those don't exist. It doesn't deserve a star or your money.
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Summary: This book was not worth reading
Review: This book was not well written and the characters were not likeable. If you have to read this book definitely wait for the paperback.
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Summary: High expectations
Review: Being a fan of the show "Sex In The City", I was looking forward to reading this book. After about 2 chapters, I realized that I should just put it down and find something else. But being an optomist, I pressed on. The characters are shallow and pithy. The storylines are useless and go nowhere. The concept is obviously fashioned by someone who wishes they were inside "New York Society" and not writing about it. If you have begun this book, put it down now and go get Harry Potter!
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Summary: Truly terrible
Review: This is a book for stupid, vapid twenty-something females. There was no character development; there was simply a pile of drivel about how sad the lives of the rich, famous, powerful, beautiful et. al. are. A sad and silly novel. Quite possibly the worst book I have ever read. Ms. Bushnell could not even properly spell the name of an infamous Hampton. (this is a detail she should certainly be able to master.) Just awful. Save yourself.
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Summary: Crazy, Campy and lots of FUN!
Review: There are way too many people taking this book way too seriously. First, do not expect "Sex and the City 2" This is a different set of women. Sure they are Manhattanites with killer tongues and great fashion sense, but the similarities with her first four characters end there. These women should know better, they are often unrealistic, horribly self-centered, and perhaps we don't know know anyone like them. But they do exist, even if only in this book. No matter, they are great fun to get to know as characters, even if we don't like them. I think Ms. Bushnell is sharp, witty, has a great ear for dialogue and can certainly spin a yarn. People are calling the work "trashy". Perhaps. Perhaps Ms. Bushnell is a new-millenium Jacqueline Susann. But I most enjoyed the ride she took me on!
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Summary: 4 bores
Review: This book was better suited for a magazine article. Each story was more boring than the previous one. These women were either bimbos or bores. The first story was so-so with a quick, wrap-it-up ending. The second was silly and dull, and by the time I got to the third one I was forcing myself to read. I wouldn't recommend this novel to anyone.
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Summary: Literary Junk Food
Review: Don't we read "4 Blondes" and similar drivel for the same reasons we eat junk food? They're both quick, tasty, cheap and predictable. And we feel slightly guilty and abused afterwards. I couldn't bring myself to buy this bomb, so I read it at Barnes & Noble in about three hours and left it for some sucker to purchase. Sorry, Candace, no royalties from this reader. Plus, what self-respecting guy like me would want this turkey on his bookshelf, even if I DID read it? Yes, I got sucked into reading this thing, just as I stumble into McDonald's every once in a while. At least nobody I knew saw me reading Candace's dirty little book, just like you hope none of your friends see you furtively ingesting a Big Mac. And I always wash my hands after touching filth. So, listen, I'm a New Yorker who has participated to a small and unfortunate degree in the life that Candace Bushnell describes. For all you readers out there in the hinterlands (where Bushnell is from and which she now detests), I'm happy to report that "4 Blondes" (and the author's "Sex in the City" and the resulting HBO series) are far more of a parody than any sort of reality of our life here in New York. Yes, there are neurotic and conniving people (men AND women) here in New York (and elsewhere) just as Bushnell describes, but I like to think that our vast population operates on a higher plain. Sure, Bushnell creates salacious situations that are beyond the scope of our everyday lives to engage and entertain us. That's what cheap literature is all about. And that's what sells. But "4 Blondes" is pretty superficial, with stilted dialogue, preposterous situations, unconvincing characters and arrested plot development. Bushnell throws four novellas at us in "4 Blondes", as if she couldn't figure out a way to tie it all together into a meaningful book. And for all of her lewdness, Bushnell's works (and the HBO series) are not erotic in the least. They both obsess about sex and forget love. And, in the end, soft porn is pretty boring.
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Summary: Do people like this really exist?
Review: I would have given this a 1/2 star if I could've. I, too, picked up this book because I loved "Sex & the City", but what a disappointment. These 4 blondes are the most shallow of shallow from the ditzy former model whose claim is to find boyfriends for the summer based on what house they are renting in the Hamptons. The second is the married power wife, who has an affair with a movie star that her husband roomed with in college, not realizing that her husband wants her sister. The 3rd is a real princess who is on a paranoid rant due to drug usage and the 4th, I have no idea, because I didn't finish this book! Save your money! Thanks for reading! **Pandora
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Summary: Field Guide to Modern Female (Cat: Urban Social-Climber)
Review: In 3 thematically-similar novellas and one short story, Candace Bushnell gives us some interesting studies of how the other half lives. The tone is that of a modern day Anita Loos ("Gentleman Prefer Blondes") -- an author more intelligent than but not condescending to her characters. The tales deal with the moral challenges and manuevers of 4 women with the same hair color but widely different agendas. The first wants to use her looks and charisma to get ahead, the second wants to use her brain, the third just wants to escape from it all, and the fourth doubts that what she wants exists -- a man who is worthy of her love and admiration. Each woman finds that there are circumstances which she cannot fully control and she must deal with them...or let things happen for better or worse. This book is quite entertaining. A good ability to pace and a steady prose-writer's hand make Ms. Bushnell an author worth reading. This may not be the deepest book you'll ever find, but it does manage to be moderately thought-provoking. Pick it up for a change of pace and you won't be disappointed.
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