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Summary: Fascinating from the first page!!
Review: I received this book for Christmas and was finished reading it by that night!! It was an exciting read from the beginning. I would definitely read anything else that these four decide to write!!
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Summary: Great suspense novel.
Review: I thought the book was very well-written and very timely. I liked the characters and thought the securities part and the viagra-like invention very timely and clever.
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Summary: Fast paced thrills
Review: I thought The Student Body was an exciting and very entertaining read. The almost sarcastic humor was great comic relief for a fast paced thriller plot that sounded more like an episode of Hard Copy than a novel about the Ivy League.I really liked the strong characterization of Toni and her friend, young women who won't take no for an answer. Toni is a great character.
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Summary: Sleazy Marketing for a Cheap Thrill
Review: I was first made aware of "The Student Body" through what initially appeared to be a random email from a fellow reader, who "responded" to my Amazon.com review of Brad Melcher's "Dead Even." Closer examination of the "fellow reader's" email address, however, revealed that he WAS one of the four authors of "The Student Body," and that the email was the product of a cleverly designed spambot that injects just enough references to the reviewer's comments to appear, upon a casual reading, as a genuine, personal email.
Egads! Isn't the Harvard's motto "Lux et Veritas" (Light and Truth)?
So what does sleazy marketing have to do with the book? Everything or nothing, depending on how you look at it. Perhaps the desperate marketing tactics of one of the authors should have warned me off, but morbid curiosity drove me to pick up a copy anyway. Surprise, surprise - a big-canvas masterpiece of flat, boring characters and stilted dialogue (and, like the work of most unimaginative authors, lean on the race of their characters to give them their personalities). Turgidly paced, insultingly trite - it was only being trapped on a transcontinential flight that kept me reading this lugubrious tripe to its final, painful chapter.
Please, "Jane Harvard," keep you day jobs. (Especially the one working at D.E. Shaw)
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Summary: I'm so relieved!
Review: I'm so relieved that "The Student Body" has come out in paperback. My friends have been talking about this must-read-book for months, but due to my own procrastination I didn't order a copy until the hardcover version was sold out. Jane Harvard rocks! You go, grrrrl!
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Summary: VERY ENTERTAINING, WITH TERRIFIC CHARACTERS
Review: In contrast to so many suspense novels, THE STUDENT BODY has characters that are vibrant, likable, and believable. I found myself laughing out loud a lot, and even though I didn't go to an Ivy League college, I didn't feel left out of the jokes. I also liked the fact that the cast of characters is so diverse (without being forced or stereotypical) -- Asian, Latino, black, white, gay, straight, bisexual -- which is the way I remember college, too. So when is the movie coming out??
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Summary: Riveting!
Review: Jane Harvard is a master storyteller who captures the Ivy League experience in ways you never expected. Students of various origins and orientations appear in the full splendor of their good and/or evil. Good and evil are at the heart of this thrilling tale.
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Summary: Original and Exciting -- but not for the irony-impaired
Review: Jane Harvard's collaborative book differs from most of what's on the market in that it's a thriller with a sense of humor, and its characters are not limited to white men. It succeeds both as a page-turner and as an ironic commentary on "multicultural"issues. Obviously, not everyone is into this, but then again, not everyone is into books that require intelligence. I loved it, and got my friends to read it.
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Summary: Entertaining Read--Delivers on its Promise
Review: Jane Harvard's first effort is a winner in this tale of sleaze at America's most prestigious center of higher learning. While the plot may be somewhat predictable, there are enough twists and characters who refuse to be cliches to make this an exceptional read.
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Summary: The most fun I've had since graduating!
Review: Okay, I admit it. I was leery of this book because of all the hype. And yet...it sounded so interesting. Maybe it wouldn't hurt to read just a tiny bit. And just a bit more. Then I was doomed. The true-to-life (if a bit larger) characters, the snappy writing, and the cutting humor sucked me in. And I was reading a trashy novel and -- yes -- enjoying it! I'm a graduate of one of the other Ivies (the best one, if you ask me), but I think everyone who went to college in the eighties or nineties will identify. This is one hot Body!
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