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The Trials of Tiffany Trott

The Trials of Tiffany Trott

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: BRILLIANT & HILARIOUS
Review: I fell into love with this book the minute I read the front page.
I really enjoyed reading the trials of Tiffany and they were written in such a witty and funny way that I simply could not put it down! I think the writer is very talented and I can confidently recommend this book to anyone who is considering to buy it! I am eager to try her other works too!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: the trial that never ended......
Review: for me, i found this book to drag on and on......it finally made me 'laugh out loud' on page 280 with the description of childbirth which, for some reason, struck me to be hilarious, having gone through it three times myself. the rest of the book was fun, but too bad it took 280 pages to get there.

the author described too much in detail, leaving not much to the imagination. when she said things she retorted with "i didn't really say that", this got annoying after the eleventh time. she also went on and on with giving examples, endlessly.

anyway, all-in-all, i am glad the trial is finally over. the end was predictable, even though she left us with quite an uncertainty......

on to a more funny novel.....i hope.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: THE FUNNIEST THING I HAVE READ IN AGES....
Review: A classic for the 'anglophiles' and fans of British singleton. This book had me rolling with laughter at the first chapter- it is great!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Not The Best Work...
Review: Tiffany Trott is a boring, repetitive novel with a weak main character.
Actually I didn't say that at all...wait, yes I did! This novel had potential, but it spent more time describing to us Tiffany's odd dates then it did developing the main characters. Tiffany spends so much time pondering love and marriage, and Seriously Successful, that we never hear about her friends, who sounded promising. Tiffany herself also seemed interesting, but you soon lose interest and find yourself not caring if this woman ever finds love or not.
There were a few amusing moments, but none that would make this book stand out among the better ones out there.
A weak imitation of the better written, and much more appealing, "Bridget Jones' Diary". Another one to try is "Asking For Trouble" if you want to genuinely want to laugh out loud.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I love this book
Review: I think I love this book even more than Bridget JOne's. I can go back & read it again & again! I think that Tiffany is so easy to relate to, she is so funny and yet also so real!!! It is a quick,easy, fun read which also hits home in many ways especially in self-perception. I recommend it highly!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The Trials of Tiffany Trott - *Great* Entertainment
Review: I came to this book in a roundabout way. Searching for advice about creative writing (I'm a mature student) I found myself in Isabel Wolf's website, and I rather liked the sound of Tiffany Trott (I got divorced last year) so I went to the bookstore and bought the book. I don't regret it! It was a riot of laughter and funny situations from from the moment when Tiffany answers her first personal and it kept me gripped for four hours straight. *The Trials of Tiffany Trott* is a nice, engrossing read, because all along you keep wondering who - out of all these guys - many of them quite horrible - she's gonna end up with. I loved BJD but I thought this was wonderful also - a very refreshing, and at times hysterically funny take on being a single city woman, whilst not being vulgar or lewd. Tiffany is clearly cultivated (hence references to Solzehnitsin and Schopenhauer) and at times she can be a snob(she reminded me, slightly, of a toned down female version of Frasier in some ways) - and this book will therefore appeal more to the intelligent reader. The humor is smart, and in some places quite black - like when she worries that one of her dates might have hereditary alzheimer's, so quizzes him, over dinner, to test his memory! Having said all of the foregoing - there are definitely faults (hence four stars, not five) - the book is a bit long, overly episodic, and some of the characters are too sketchy, but this didin't spoil it overall because I just found it so funny and there aren't many books I can say that about.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Loved it.
Review: This book is along the same format as a lot of books lately seem to be. I all it Bridget-Jonesesque. Not to say that it's a clone of Bridget Jones, but it's the single woman in London looking for a man and success in life, etc.

Having said that, I did truly enjoy it. Tiffany finds herself in some very bizaare situations (which is something that I always enjoy in a novel!) and the cast of characters includes some of her friends, who find themselves in equally bizaare situations. (All I'm going to say about that is that the male-bonding retreat chapter is hilarious!)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Absolutely hilarious!
Review: This is a great story with a strong, smart heroine. The one-liners are subtle but laugh-out-loud funny. Tiffany Trott is a most entertaining read....this is my favorite of the British-chick genre. I also recommend the Shopaholic books by Sophie Kinsella.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Loved Tiffany
Review: No, I am not Isabel Wolff. Nor am I a personal friend or business associate. However, I did happend to read TTT several years ago when it was serialized in The Telegraph. I loved her character so much that whenever I am in London I find myself on a quest for "Tiffany"...

In contrast, I could not force myself to read Bridget Jones... Her character was simply too neurotic to admire.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: The book would've been better if it ended sooner
Review: Tiffany Trott is a single girl who gets dumped on her birthday. Rather than wait for Mr. Right to arrive on her doorstop, she goes looking for him, attending class reunions, placing an ad in the personals, and traveling to Club Med.

But every man she meets isn't right for her -- one is still living in high school, one is pompous, one is annoying, one is an egocentric TV personality, etc. The only man she clicked with is already married. He wants her to be his companion, she walks away. Or does she?

The book started off on a high note -- we meet Tiffany, we meet her friends, we see her get dumped by the guy who likes to wear her underwear. On with the search, which goes on and on and on.

The book would've been better if it ended sooner. I know this was supposed to follow a year in her life, from one birthday to the next, but how many bad dates can a person have in 365 days? Is London filled with annoying men? Plus, the author can't decide if she wants the book to be about Tiffany, or her friend Lizzie, or her friend Sally who SUDDENLY becomes pregnant and decides to have the baby on her own. This was thrown in for a twist -- it didn't work.

I liked Making Minty Malone (the second book by this author) a lot more -- Minty was a character who had more on her mind than Tiffany. That book also is long, and follows a year in Minty's life, but her life is interesting.


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