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Summary: Blonde is beautiful...... Decadent fun.
Review: Perhaps the most loved and the most reviled "character" in American pop culture, "the blonde bombshell" is traditionally revered by men and loathed by women.... Thankfully, Candace Bushnell blurs the lines a little bit in FOUR BLONDES. Her blondes are gorgeous and rich, but their sharp tongues and bad attitudes aren't designed to win points from all men. And women will be quick to point out that Bushnell's characters are fiercely ambitious and sharp-witted -- a far cry from the trite "dumb blonde" stereotype. FOUR BLONDES is terribly entertaining -- the characters are fabulously flawed and their predicaments in the world of the rich and famous create a fun backdrop. Don't skip it.
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Summary: Not worth the money
Review: I read Sex and the City and Four Blondes back-to-back. I loved the clear voice in Sex and the City, and looked forward to hearing it again in the next book; but that was voice was missing in Four Blondes. I was bored and kept asking myself why I kept reading. The disjointed stories were just Sex and the City "Lite."
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Summary: Waste of money
Review: I don't think that I have ever been more bored or annoyed by a book in my life! I consider myself fairly hip but I must not be because I hated this book. I thought this would be a fun book along the lines of the other book styles that I enjoy. Especially with all of the hype behind it. I didn't even get past the first two characters' chapters. I wasn't offended by the language in the book. I was offended that I paid money for it. I wasn't bothered that the characters were so self-absorbed and shallow. I think that books can have self-absorbed, neurotic, shallow characters that are still interesting. None of the characters in this book were interesting to say the least. I was so bored I used this book to put me to sleep. Now I use it as a coaster. I don't even remember any of the characters' names or their story lines. It is a truly forgettable book. I usually pass along books to friends for them to read but I wouldn't give this to my worst enemy. Like I said, maybe I am not as hip as I thought but if being hip means forcing myself to read this crap I will just stay a nerd.
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Summary: Four Blondes
Review: The language is offensive, the waste of beauty and privilege is despairing...the only reason I gave it a star is that the cover is cute. Candace Bushnell should be in Therapy herself--a waste of time and $$. I won't even donate it to my library.
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Summary: 4 Blondes Who Should Know Better
Review: 4 Blondes, the latest book by Candace Bushnell has a lot in common with her mega-hit Sex and the City. Bushnell covers more of the same ground, following shallow New York women-with-attitude who think about nothing but sex, money and designer clothes. Should be fun - but these 4 blondes are almost frightening in their self-absorption. While Sex and the City was a collection of stories gleaned from Bushnell's New York Observer column, it's hard to think of it as just a book - the actresses on the HBO series have breathed such life into the characters it's hard to separate the two. When reading 4 Blondes, you try to take the good will of the TV program with you, but these new women are so frivolous they should be arrested for taking up air. Blonde's worst offender is Janey Wilcox, heroine (and we use the tern loosely) of the first story. Janey is a former model who spends each spring looking for a man with whom to spend the summer in the Hamptons. The man doesn't matter - it's all about the house. While the story could be said to explore the age-old argument of prostitution (in the broadest sense) - is she using him or is he using her - the story isn't about prostitution. It's supposed to be about a modern, quasi-competent woman who has chosen this life. The fact that a modeling fluke solves all her problems is pretty convenient - and doesn't solve the reader's problems in the slightest. The other blondes don't intrigue us either. Winnie Deike, half of a high powered journalism couple, whose husband is an unappealing as she, freaks out when her husband's career doesn't measure up to her fantasies; Cecelia, a spoiled paranoid who is married to a minor royal and an unnamed American writer who decides she's running out of time and goes to London to try to find a husband take up the rest of the novel. By the time you close the book, you wonder, "When will these women stop wining? Get a life - your OWN life". The underlying text in 4 Blondes is that it's STILL all about the men. In Sex and the City, it was sporty. In 4 Blondes, it's desperate. And since we're throwing our philosophy back to 1950, anybody's mom could tell you, desperate ain't pretty.
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Summary: Keep reading ... it gets better
Review: The first few pages of the book seem useless. Then you enter the life of another blonde, then another, and so forth. At the end, it all comes together and you feel a little better about taking time to read this. As with Sex and the City, it took me awhile to realize there is a little of me in each of these women and I began to identify with them, one by one. I remember the uncertainty of the direction of my life, the questions of love and being true to myself, and now the occasional smugness of marriage. If you like Sex and the City (the novel), Bridget Jones Diary, etc. you will like this one. I read it in 4 days.
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Summary: Not worth the walk from the shelves to the register
Review: Like many of my girlfriends, I was really looking forward to reading this. I'm sorry to say that Bushnell's writing could easily be outdone by a fifteen year old high school student. She manages to make mildly intriguing characters downright dull. Don't get me wrong, I knew in advance that the novel would not bring enlightenment or have any point at all, for that matter. However, I think its fun to step into a world of people so different from oneself. I loved The Secret Diary of Bridget Jones, and there was really no point to that either. I thought this book was insulting to female readers and writers alike. That a writer as unskilled as Busnell can be a bestseller, speaks poorly of the standards which many women expect from literary works. Material like this is so easy to come up with, you'd think that an author should at least have to write it well to sell a book.
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Summary: It's like reading a magazine article
Review: I enjoyed Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City. I also love her column in the New York Observer, but her new book, Four Blondes, lacks charm and originality. I felt as though I was reading one of her newspaper articles. She brought absolutely nothing new in this one. That's not to say, however, that it isn't a fun and interesting read. I really enjoyed the story of Janey WIlcox. I have met my fair share of gold diggers and she is a very spunky character. The other stories were okay, but they seemed awfully familiar. Bushnell is incredibly talented. She talks about sex, money and lavish lifestyles with a great deal of knowledge and soul. I just wish she'd write something with fewer cliches.
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Summary: Take out the Garbage
Review: This book was pure unadulterated trash. She has set the status of women back immeasureably. Making women loathsome and sleazy does nothing to uplift their image.
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Summary: Sex and The City Lite
Review: Candace Bushnell still seems to have a great knack for taking a modern day satirical look at dating and relationships. Some of the critics of Four Blondes seem to be taking the book too seriously. This book is suppose to be fun. I will caution, however, that it is not up to the standards of Sex and The City. While Sex and The City was a fun and witty book, it also had some interesting and enlightening insights into the different ways men and women view sex and relationships. (For those interested in books of that type, I would also highly recommend Love Songs of the Tone-Deaf and Fried Calamari, two very original well written and funny books about modern relationships) But if you're in the mood for a lighthearted witty read, I recommend Four Blondes. If we could only get Ms. Bushnell to team up with Aaron Spelling, they could create a terrific Fox TV series.
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