What Goes Around

Rating:
Summary: I'd give it 6 if i could!!!!
Review: As a house husband, I can truly say that this book has given me a new lease on life. I had spent the past 60 years searching for meaning, but after reading this book, I have finally found happiness!!! "What goes around" really comes around!!!!!

The use of language in the book "totally rocks," as they say. Take, for example, this masterful passage:

"What are you on about?" He frowned, checking the toast.

Truly astounding. It brings tears to my soul every time.

Until this book "came around", all I had in my life were Judge Judy reruns, Days of Our Lives, and those nice young men from Jehovah's witnesses that visit every Tuesday.
This amazing novel has helped me to gain insight into the feminine mystique, and my wife and I have never been closer.

EVERYBODY SHOULD READ THIS BOOK!!!!!

When are they going to make a movie? The guy who plays Captain Picard would be perfect for the role of Max.

This book would best be described as "w00t!"

Rating:
Summary: Darkly compelling!
Review: Cat's life's in a total mess, and as she tries to figure it all out, so she becomes fascinated by the concept of karma and karmic retribution. Of course, what she fails to see is that not every choice she makes is for her own, or the good of anyone else for that matter, but it's the realism of this flawed character that makes her so compelling.

Sweetness and light, no - this book is a dark delight instead!

Rating:
Summary: Richly comic tale of jealousy, obsession and revenge
Review: Empty, stupid and depressing. Cat, the main character, is hateful. When she starts having suicidal thoughts, you wish she'd just do it already. Full of pseudo-spirituality and yawn-worthy "revelations," this book is the ultimate cure for a chick-lit addiction.

Rating:
Summary: Can I give this book 0 stars?
Review: Empty, stupid and depressing. Cat, the main character, is hateful. When she starts having suicidal thoughts, you wish she'd just do it already. Full of pseudo-spirituality and yawn-worthy "revelations," this book is the ultimate cure for a chick-lit addiction.

Rating:
Summary: Richly comic tale of jealousy, obsession and revenge
Review: i guess this is a love it or hate it kind of book. heroine Cat is the perfect antidote to those tiring of all the cute but neurotically hapless heroines cluttering chick lit shelves today - she's funny, smart and out for revenge over the men who've put her down.

living and working in Hong Kong, where corporate USA meets beer-swilling Brits, Cat feels lonely and isolated. a doomed affair leads her to explore all things esoteric, looking for hints as how best to change her life. the narration is funny and ironic, poking fun at all her obsessions and the way in which desperate women will read anything they want into their stars/fortunes etc in a bid to justify or improve their unsatisfactory existence.

if your after a chocolate-box romance, you'll hate this book. if you've never lusted over another woman's man or had mean thoughts about perfectly innocent rivals, you sure as hell won't get the humor, but if you're looking for something spikier than the average read, this book is a scream.

Rating:
Summary: I loooooooooooved this book!!
Review: In this highly entertaining but somewhat trashy chick-lit novel by British author Alexandra Carew, we meet Cat Wellesley, a dedicated careerist and man-chaser looking for love in the age of narcissism. Cat is a Harlequin novelist's heroine for the New Age: beautiful and ambitious, she has a glamorous, if morally vapid, job in television and has just begun dabbling in past-life regression in her desperate search for self-fulfillment. Vulnerable and sympathetic, Cat makes many mistakes and sleeps with a number of men, all the while consulting horoscopes, the tarot, and psychics for clues to her "karma." Like many a reformed materialist, she seeks a spirituality absent from her world. Ultimately, with New Age wisdom gleaned from various self-help books and fortune-telling websites, she learns to trust "the Universe" to guide her toward "her path."

It is easy to identify with Cat. She begins as a smart but dissatisfied, rather shallow young woman who seems to be meeting with nothing but one roadblock after another in her life's journey. She wastes much of her time chasing after similar types of men who use her and discard her freely, thinking that, by having sex with them, they will fall in love with her. She spends the duration of one relationship blaming her lover's infidelity on his frumpy other girlfriend, never once putting the blame on him for being the two-timing scumbag that he is. Cat's desperation is touching, resonating with every woman, and in some ways the book could serve as an illustrated manual for what not to do in a relationship. In an attempt to get yet another lover back after he has fallen in love with someone else, Cat decks herself out in garters and stockings and, sans underwear, stages a seduction worthy of Linda Lovelace to try to win him over. While he succumbs to her sexually, he remains immune to her charms outside the bedroom, and she is left, once again, frustrated and unloved. (One of the clear messages of this book is that women cannot buy men's love with sex, and that, by making ourselves all too available, we only render ourselves dispensable.) As she begins to realize her role in accepting this destructive pattern and ultimately rejects it, she clears the way for happiness. It's really kind of profound and inspiring, with plenty of scenarios that women will find familiar along the way.

I couldn't put this book down. Highly recommended!

Rating:
Summary: A boring book with nothing characters
Review: My husband got a dog, I got Carew`s novel. I look happier... I won`t say "it`s a sizzling debut" or "I couldn`t put it down". Darn, I have. Well, it`s true. This is chicklit at its finest. Got man problems? Got boss problems? Look no further than "Goes Around..." If you believe that in the grand scheme of things one`s actions (good and bad) never go unaccounted for, this is the book for you. My fingers have severe paper cuts but I`m still looking forward to Carew`s second novel...

Rating:
Summary: Great Story, Terrible Ending
Review: This book is great until you get to the neatly packaged, quickly thrown together ending. Cat is a fabulous character whom anyone who has every had a psychotic episode over the wrong man can totally relate to. I found myself laughing out loud several times during this easy read. But the ending is too neat, too obvious and too much of a let down after such a fun read.

As a frame of reference, chick lit I love: Bridget Jones, Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination, Mr. Maybe, Hard,and, of course, the Shopaholic Series.