Rating: Summary: I Loved It! Review: I found this book and after reading the back cover decided to pick it up...I am SO glad that I did! I read it in about a 3 day period and had trouble putting it down!Sunny Langstein, a 24 year old Jewish woman living in Fort Lauderdale decides to move to Manhattan to live with her boyfriend. She leaves a fairly good job and a Jappy sister in Miami. She gets to NYC, where her BF and affluent man-whore of a dad live and finds it isn't everything she expected but learns to love it! If you enjoyed The Nanny Diaries, or enjoy novels that mention Prada and Mont Blanc pens, you will enjoy it! =)
Rating: Summary: Pure Trash Review: I know that Sarah is young and just getting going. But she needs a wakeup call. Garbage graphic fiction. I am very sorry to have wasted my money.
Rating: Summary: Not Mlynowski's best Review: I love Sarah Mlynowski, but As Seen on TV, is not her best. It is a very enjoyable book, but the main character, Sunny, got on my nerves. Sunny was very annoying. I recommend it, but I think Fishbowl is better.
Rating: Summary: Great for a cold evening's read! Review: I'll admit it--Once I started this book, I was hooked. Sunny's adventures as a participant on a reality TV show are fun to read and even funnier to imagine. Sunny's father's girlfriend (whom Sunny knew at summer camp) lands her a once in a lifetime spot on a reality show called "Party Girls," which seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. For a while, even Sunny herself believes the expense account, salons, and celeb status are worth it, too. But, like any self-respecting chick book, Sunny realizes what she has before she loses it all. Mlynowski introduces some interesting twists in this book--all involving women's issues. Some are developed, while others are not. Either way, I respect Mlynowski's ability to write light, funny, and still meaningful prose. So curl up with a Cosmopolitan and read until you're partied out!
Rating: Summary: Fast, Fun, Enjoyable Reading! Review: I'll admit it. I'm a big fan of chick-lit. Granted, I read more "intelligent" books...but, light-hearted and funny books drag me into their web. This one was awesome. No, there's nothing overly unique about it...it's a chick book. However, it was a great one to read, and no part of it was boring. That's one of my biggest pet peeves about some chick-lit books. They get boring, and I'm tempted to skip over big chunks to get to the good stuff. That's what made this book so interesting and worthwhile for me. It's all good stuff. It was hard to put down, and yes, reading about the main character's brush with fame and glimpse into the world of reality tv was incredibly entertaining and a blast to go through with her. I would recommend this book, as well as ANY of the other Sarah Mlynowski novels. She's a great writer.
Rating: Summary: Fast, Fun, Enjoyable Reading! Review: I'll admit it. I'm a big fan of chick-lit. Granted, I read more "intelligent" books...but, light-hearted and funny books drag me into their web. This one was awesome. No, there's nothing overly unique about it...it's a chick book. However, it was a great one to read, and no part of it was boring. That's one of my biggest pet peeves about some chick-lit books. They get boring, and I'm tempted to skip over big chunks to get to the good stuff. That's what made this book so interesting and worthwhile for me. It's all good stuff. It was hard to put down, and yes, reading about the main character's brush with fame and glimpse into the world of reality tv was incredibly entertaining and a blast to go through with her. I would recommend this book, as well as ANY of the other Sarah Mlynowski novels. She's a great writer.
Rating: Summary: Disappointment from Mlynowski Review: I'm a huge fan of Sarah Mlynowski and loved "Milkrun" and "Fishbowl" (which I HIGHLY recommend!) I was awaiting her next book, "As Seen On TV", and so looking forward to it that I preordered it months in advance. What a huge disappointment. This was not up to par with the Mlynowski quality I'm used to reading. The plot was amateur and was something I would expect of a novice chick lit writer, but definitely not the calibre I was anticipating. I would not recommend "As Seen On TV", but definitely pick up her other 2! Now those are great reads.
Rating: Summary: Her Best Yet Review: I've read milk run and As Seen on TV. They are both entertaining reads that I was unable to put down. But this one is my fave. The funniest part is the waxing scene...I won't give it away but you have to read it!
Rating: Summary: predictable Review: not a bad way to while away a few hours, but there are no surprises here, and not a lot of laughs. Also (call me picky) it was marred by obvious total lack of proofreading -- for example, the colorado ski town was called "Vale" rather than "Vail" and the past tense of "broadcast" was "broadcasted". These things may not bother some people, but to me it indicates that no one cared enough even to proofread the book.
Rating: Summary: Not great Review: Not have read any thing from Sarah Mlynowski, I was not sure what expect from "As Seen on TV." Sunny Langstein is a twenty something that moves from Florida to New York City to be with her boyfriend, after a job falls though, Sunny ends up on Party Girls a new reality show. Quickly, Sunny goes from a character that the reader likes to a self-center woman who more interested in the lastest fashions than the fact that her boyfriend and others are falling the way-side.
Other reviewers, said that this was not Ms. Mlynowski best, well I was not that impressed with "As Seen on TV."
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