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Summary: A novel about not growing up..
Review: That's the way I felt when I finished this book. Sally and Clare met as young girls, full of zest for life with some interesting insights into the world. However they never seem to fully realize their potential or even make any real changes in their life. Clare is the physician who goes from man to man without ever figuring out what it is she really wants in a spouse. At a young age she idolizes Sally's family and even as an adult never gets to know her own family members. Sally lives in her own world. She never learns until much later in life what her father really made his money in, she cannot face her brother's downward spiral into drug abuse and instead of helping him she furthers his substance abuse. She never learns how to be happy, she has no idea how to look after herself. She went from looking after her brother to caring for a brood of children with a husband who has no interest in her. I enjoyed this book at the very beginning but somewhere around the middle it went haywire. There were too many conflicts thrown at the characters and they just never learned from any of it. I couldn't feel sympathy or empathy for any of the people in this book. Without that, the story fell flat.
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Summary: Readable, but....
Review: The book attracted me because of the premise. It was readable--because of its simplicity and realistic tenure--but there was something missing--ahh thats right, the ability to like the main character. I hated Clare. I just hated her--cruel, vindictive, a 'user' of Sally (whom I actually liked) and Sally's lifestyle, Clare wasn't even likeable as the 'underdog' she was just...flat and boring. By the end of the book I was quizzical why Sally and Clare were still even friends at all. I guess to that point it was realistic. But the book left a lot to be desired--there was no beauty, no emotion that tied me down. It was dialogue, this happened, that happened, I felt that... Clare narrated so that could have been the problem. I also didn't give a rat's about Sally's father's 'secretive' business. Who cares? Why is it Clare's business? Basically, it was 'okay' but I will never read it again. I fully recommend "Summer Sisters" by Judy Blume if you want to read a touching, beautiful, and very realistic account of two best friends and their two different lives and the ties that keep them together--instead of fake emotion about a fake friendship which never should have been written about.
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Summary: Wonderful Can't-Put-It Down Book
Review: The first half of the book was fun to read and quite engaging. I thought I had picked up by chance the perfect vacation book. Then it started to get "off the wall" and the story left the "easy to relate to" feel and entered the world of crazy fiction. It was like 2 books in one. So, in other words, I enjoyed the first half and couldn't wait to just finish the rest of the book
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Summary: Trite, boring, who cares?
Review: The reader from Napa, CA read my thoughts. I agree completely.
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Summary: Good, but I agree that Summer Sisters is probably better
Review: This book covers the friendships of two very different women from college to their forties. I enjoy this type of book and found this to be an easy reader. However, I get tired of books about people who should have the world in the palms of their hands, but just can't get with it. These two women just can never get their lives reasonably right. Clare is a physician, good at what she does, but only likes a man after she's divorced him, and seems disconnected from the world. She seemed like she must be depressed. Sally keeps having kids as her life goes more awry, but doesn't really seem to be happy about it. I figure that this is the author's way of telling people that those who appear to lead great lives can really be messed up.
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Summary: Agree With All Negative Reviews
Review: This book has no plot, its characters no redeeming qualities. I can't believe how many people called this a "deep" read. Why are these two women friends? They have nothing in common, don't relate well to one another and Clare, frankly, is a horrid person. The only thing she wants out of life is, apparently, to possess Sally. I mean, give me a break. What was all that garbage about Clare feeling "betrayed" by what Sid does for a living? IT DOESN'T AFFECT HER LIFE ONE BIT! Yet she couldn't WAIT to tell Sally (and that whole "No, Daddy! No!" Sally screamed was ridiculous. Granted, I don't approve of the kind of "torture" rags he was putting out, but that was over the top) and even worse, couldn't bear it that Sally already knew. Pfft - there went her leverage to get Sally away from her family. Yet she pushed and pushed to get Sally to stay away from her father, even encouraging Sally to not let her father "seduce" her. And her to-his-face awfulness to Sid (not a great person either but he always tried to treat Clare well) and her threats about "I'm gonna tell" were self-serving, definitely NOT in Sally's best interests. It served only Clare to have Sally separate from her family. Then there is Clare's complete disrespect for Sally's marriage (and, contrarily, Sally's unsupportive reaction to Clare's first pregnancy - trying to convince her that she didn't want a baby, to abort it, put it up for adoption, anything but KEEP it). Not only does she knock Sally's husband, Peter, to Sally's face (and for no good reason; fine, she doesn't approve of his "guru" ways but, again, she should just stay out of it as a) it doesn't affect her life and b) Sally is happy), but she is actually "dismayed" to see Sally pregnant again because it upsets her that Sally and Peter have "come together" again (i.e. she is upset by the thought of Sally having sex with her husband). Again, someone tell me - WHY are these women friends? All the "we know everything about each other" comments are also ludicrous. These two women have only surface conversations. A truly pointless and poorly written book.
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Summary: The Best of the Best
Review: This book is thoroughly entertaining and then some. I read this book in two days and was disappointed when it ended. Right away I loved the duo a "normal" girl with a "normal" everyday family and then a rich sheltered girl. Who would have thought the lives would be opposite of your assumption. It truly is a story of best friends and it becomes your best friend.
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Summary: What is this about?
Review: This book took me forever to finish. 5 months to be exact. In that time I finished 2 other books. I still cannot get over the story line or lack there of. Moody is very vague on detail and the storyline is hard to follow.
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Summary: New Take on Familiar Themei
Review: This book was better than anything recommended in my conservative book club. The twists and turns of the two friends lives are unpredictable, amazing and amusing. Quick read for 400+ pages and a great summer escape novel. Also included 10 vocabulary words that I had to look up in the dictionery so this was no pulp fiction. Do YOU know the meaning of the verb HECTOR? Read it and find out.
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Summary: A waste of time!
Review: This book was given to me by my sister and it sounded as if it would be a good, light read. was i wrong! i had a terrible time getting into the plot, there were way too many silly, overly melodramatic stories(a lawyer buying herion to "save" her brother, please!) and the characters unlikable(you keep waiting for them to redeem themselves or move foward in some way, but they never do). i was very dissaapointed to say the least.
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