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Summary: Laugh-Out-Loud Fun
Review: BOY MEETS GIRL is the follow-up to the wildly popular THE BOY NEXT DOOR. In BOY MEETS GIRL, Meg Cabot introduces us to Kate Mackenzie and Mitchell Hertzog via emails, voicemails, diary entries, and various other pieces of modern communication. Newly single and crashing on her best friend's sofa while she apartment-hunts, Kate is an employee in the Human Resources department of the New York Journal, bossed around and undermined by the Tyrannical Office Despot at every corner. When the T.O.D. orders her to fire Ida Lopez, a very popular cafeteria employee, Ida turns around and sues for breach of contract. The attorney on the case is Mitchell Hertzog, and something about Kate clicks with him, despite the fact that every time they meet, his dry cleaner makes money from the disasters that occur - oh, and the fact that his crusading on the Lopez case, intended to impress Kate and show her that he's not a soulless corporate drone, actually gets Kate fired.Complicating matters for Mitch is the fact that his brother Stuart is engaged to the T.O.D., his younger sister is in a crisis, his older sister wants him to get married, his mother nags him at every turn, and his father, the firm's senior partner, is incommunicado on a never-ending golfing holiday. As for Kate, besides being homeless and jobless, she's covering up for the office vamp's affair with a German ski instructor and being pestered by her ex, first to move back in, then to provide a "recommendation" for him as a boyfriend to a ditzy supermodel whose idea of foreign food is the Olive Garden. It never ceases to amaze me how well a story can be told in this format. I loved THE BOY NEXT DOOR for its novelty, and BOY MEETS GIRL delivers more of the same. Because many of the same characters appear in both books, I felt like I was revisiting old friends as well as making new ones. Dolly Vargas is as wild as ever, Tim Grabowski is still a huge gossip, George Sanchez is still complaining about the lack of Mountain Dew in the vending machines, and Stacy Trent continues to try to find a life for herself and her husband once the kids are glued to Spongebob Squarepants. Mitch, Kate, and Kate's best friend Jen fit into the setting perfectly. They're great characters, people I'd love to know in real life. If I have one quibble about BOY MEETS GIRL, it's the fact that the off-screen action can undermine the credibility of the love story. We only know what we are told through email. In THE BOY NEXT DOOR, Mel and John exchanged a lot of email, but in BOY MEETS GIRL, Kate and Mitch rarely communicate this way - everything we know is from Kate's emails to Jen. Readers can feel the chemistry between Kate and Mitch in the deposition transcripts, but there's not a lot of follow-through, so their relationship felt a little rushed to me. On the other hand, Cabot completely nailed the girlfriend vibe - Kate's emails and IM's with Jen read like some of my chats with friends. The characters were so engaging that my minor complaint was barely a blip on the radar; I enjoyed the book as a whole - and I recommend it to others. Read it - it will raise your spirits, I promise you.
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Summary: Fantastic media form!
Review: Fantastic story and media form. This is another one of Meg Cabots stories that is told completely in the form of email, fax, telephone messages, and in this one journal entries. I love how you can see different people enter into issues and discussions and see what rumors can look like. It is also a book about the "evil boss". You know the one that takes all of your ideas. Treats everyone like dirt and still think they can't do anything wrong. It is also a story about true friends, how people act around those they are attracted to and just how different 2 brothers can be. If you want a different reading media and want to thoroughly enjoy a story this one is for you!!
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Summary: A Fun "Chick-Lit" Book! What A Concept!!!
Review: First off I must admit to not being totally swept away with the new genre "Chick-Lit" as few of the books I've managed to read really spoke to me. Ms. Cabot's latest though is really an exception to the rule. She has managed to take our current lifestyle (computers, IMing, e-mail...) and shows us how it really can be used as a vehicle for story telling. Now I have not read the first book in this series but trust me I will be adding it to my shopping cart as soon as I'm done with this review. This book offers laugh out loud moments, fun and crazy characters, and a fun storyline. Ms. Cabot is truly a talented author and I found this book fun to read (e-mails, office announcements, and IM'ing as well as Kate's journal entries). I look forward to Ms. Cabot's next adult effort and highly recommend her for a light hearted, good time read!
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Summary: A Fun "Chick-Lit" Book! What A Concept!!!
Review: First off I must admit to not being totally swept away with the new genre "Chick-Lit" as few of the books I've managed to read really spoke to me. Ms. Cabot's latest though is really an exception to the rule. She has managed to take our current lifestyle (computers, IMing, e-mail...) and shows us how it really can be used as a vehicle for story telling. Now I have not read the first book in this series but trust me I will be adding it to my shopping cart as soon as I'm done with this review. This book offers laugh out loud moments, fun and crazy characters, and a fun storyline. Ms. Cabot is truly a talented author and I found this book fun to read (e-mails, office announcements, and IM'ing as well as Kate's journal entries). I look forward to Ms. Cabot's next adult effort and highly recommend her for a light hearted, good time read!
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Summary: Clever premise
Review: Having spent way too much time at work on IM and email with my friends, it was a HOOT to peek into someone else's life reading their electronic communications! The whole book is told in real-time (IM) or near-time (email and voice mail), and it is very clever. I did think the main character was kinda dumb for staying with a guy for 10 years without realizing he would not give her the life she wanted, and some of the sub-plots were a little distracting, but overall this was a delightful read.
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Summary: Meg Cabot conquers all audience ranges
Review: Hey everyone! I absolutely loved this book when I picked it up... the humor is incredible and the descriptions are so vivid. Yes, the guy that Kate is interested in is incredibly hilarious as well... This is an excellent stress reliever... but I would only recommend for college-aged audience... anybody older may not appreciate the witty comments or the references to things of popular culture... If you enjoyed Princess diaries, you will love this book... I spend a lot of time laughing out loud and re-reading the funny parts.... Gotta love it!
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Summary: Cute, but Hard to Read
Review: I absolutely adored the first book in this series - The Boy Next Door - but felt that this book, in comparison, was way overdone. It's cutesy, but... that doesn't make it quality. Cabot's previous book was written entirely in e-mail format, but this book takes it a step further. Now, we have e-mails, IM messages, answering machine tapes, interoffice memos, to-do lists, professional letters, advertisements, etc. There is no actual dialogue between characters, and the entire storyline must be gleaned through the correspondence you are presented with. There was definitely humor throughout the book, but the problem is this.. the storyline didn't flow because it was written in such a choppy manner. I didn't get a feel for the characters, and it was hard to follow because you have to refer back constantly to check for initials and code names and such; it was just bothersome after a while. In order to get "the big picture" for this book you have to pay attention to the little details, like the names on the letters, the way someone signs their name in an e-mail, the persons' official title. etc. This book takes the easy way out, and sacrifices content for a creative writing structure that doesn't actually work. Enough already with this format - simply reverting back to a 'normal' book structure would have made this book 100% more enjoyable. I understand it's quirky and irreverent, but 350+ pages of office memos and email is just .. too much work.
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Summary: Boy Meets Girl~~~ WOW!!
Review: I absolutely LOVED this book. Meg's clever use of emails, IMs, and voice mails to tell this story was a wonderful example of how romance and the relationships around it develop in the 21st century. The story of Mitch and Kate is a wonderful tale and I found myself rooting for the downfall of Amy and Stu through out the whole thing. The only thing I still haven't figured out was why Mrs. Lopez refused to give Stu the pie. Did she have ESP and knew this would bring Kate and Mitch together? Possible I suppose. I highly recommend this book as a quick and fun read.
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Summary: So good!
Review: I bought this book last night and finished it today! It was so engaging and I really fell in love with the characters. I was in the mood for a girly read and got exactly what I wanted. This is a great book for a girl with a crush . . . hee hee. As a side note, there are some recipies in the book . . . I wonder if they work. I think I'll try them.
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Summary: hilarious novel
Review: I had bought this book on a whim from the student store at my school because we were having one of those random 20%-off everything sales. I had read The Boy Next Door a few years back and this book was just as great. Same style of writing in the form of e-mails, messages and the like. I think I read it in one night, it was that entertaining. A lot of the characters from The Boy Next Door are referenced in this one too and it made it that much more funny. A must read! =)
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