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Summary: Have you heard......All I want is everything is awesome
Review: After reading the first two in this delicious series by Cecily Von Zeigesar I became absolutley enthralled. All I want is everything is arguably one of the best novels I have ever read. Blair, Serena, Nate, Chuck ,Jenny, Dan, and Vanessa are all back and in their prime! The book is absolutely addictive and is so fun you'll read it in a day! I suggest that everyone buy iy and then save it until summer when you can really kick up your heels and enjoy the world of Gossip Girl!
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Summary: Mah-velous, Darling!
Review: Serena and Blair are friends again (so fast?) and back to their old ways of hard drinking, chain smoking, and just partying it up all the time. Ok, I'll admit it, I do miss the whole fight dynamic they had in the first two books...Nate is just as frustrating as usual. He's suddenly having second thoughts about Jenny (finally) and beginning to think that maybe Blair wasn't so bad after all. Dan and Vanessa are together, but they just can't seem to just get down and have sex! Hmm, sound familiar, anyone? Poor Aaron, hopelessly in love with his stepsister (eww!) and rejected at every turn. I hate to say it, but I find myself actually caring about these characters. Like, I want Blair to get into Yale, I want Serena to get with Aaron, and for God's sake, I really want Kati and Isabel to just come out of the closet and admit that they're in love with each other. But what I want most of all is to find out who Gossip Girl really is, although that would spoil everything...oh well. Can't wait for the fourth installment in the fall!
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Summary: gossip girl!
Review: this book is great, blair is my favorite. i love her obsession with audrey hepburn and how she always plays hard to get. the characters personalities havent changed AT ALL (except for i think blair's gotten more funny to read about, and of course she still has that eating disorder) but nate gets on my nerves as well as the plot with vanessa and dan. i just couldn't put this book down!! if you havent read it yet, you should!!
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Summary: Lagging and Flawed
Review: I go to prep school at the high school level and I could definetly relate to the first two enstallments of this series. However, "All I Want is Everything" was lacking what I enjoyed about the first two books. The characters seem a little one dimensional in this book than they had previously. I also must have a career as an editor beacuse I caught mistakes Cecily von Ziegesar made in this book as well as in "You Know You Love Me". Examples in "All I Want is Everything": At the "Black and White" party Miles is wearing "shiny" Christian Dior shoes. 20 minutes later his shoes have changed to "shiny" Prada shoes. And in "You Know You Love Me" Blair's middle name is first Cornelia and then later on Paige. Although that was the only mistake I found in "You Know You Love Me", I found this book to be hurried. It seemed like with the success of her first two novels, that the author was rushing to complete the third to get it on the shelf ready for purchase as soon as possible without even proofreading it.
The materialism in this book has reached an all-time high. How many times was the word "Cristal" mentioned in the first few chapters of this book? 10? 20? It seemes like these people would be broke because no one seems to work; all they do is party and drink outrageously expensive champagne by the bucketfull. How did these people get all their money? Even as a prep schooler myself, this seemed a little odd to me. No one was a doctor, no one was a lawyer, the only profession I recall was that of Arthur Coates. That brings to mind another error: First he was a well-known actor in the 1st book, in the 3rd he makes made for TV movies. Even Vanessa, the character who seemed to care least about materialism and being skinny, shops in stores she previously thought of as repulsive and wasteful. Ok... Don't misunderstand me; I enjoyed this book but it simply did not measure up to the first two. It kept me mildly entertained, enough so that I finished it in three days. However it was slower moving than the first two and lacked the feverish excitement of the "rich life" that the first two books portrayed to the reader. It is worth the read if you enjoy that kind of materialism, but if it makes you want to slit your writs, stay far, far away.
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Summary: Lagging
Review: I do enjoy reading the series Gossip Girl. I go to prep high school and I can relate to the first two books moreso than this one "All I Want is Everything". I must have a potential future career as an editor because I keep catching funny errors that the author makes. Examples: When Miles is at the "Black and White" party he is wearing Christian Dior shoes and then 20 minutes later his shoes are Prada. As well as "You Know You Love Me" when Blair's middle name is mentioned as Cornelia and then later changed to Paige. The errors are missing in the first book and are few in the second, but it seemed to me that the author, with the success of her first two novels, was rushing to complete the third and didn't even bother to proofread. In "All I Want is Everything" the materialism reached an all-time high. How many times was the word "Cristal" mentioned in the first chapter? 10? 20? It is amazing that these people aren't bankrupt because no one seems to work or do anything but party and down 2,000 dollar champagne by the bottle. Even Vanessa, the character who seemed least likely to care about material posessions, turned to shopping in places she formerly loathed. Don't misunderstand me, I enjoyed this book, but it moved slower than the first two without so much excitement. Maybe if she had introduced more than two more minorly interesting characters it would have proved to be more exciting and more like the first and second books in this series. Overall, it was an entertaining book and although not as engrossing as the first two, kept me mildly amused especially when my life as a prep-schooler paralelled the lives of these characters.
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Summary: all i want is gossip girl
Review: It was great, Serena, Blair, and Jenny ect. are back to there old tricks, fighting parting and living it up. And of course cheating on eachother, its a guilty fabulous pleasure to read. I would definetley recomend it.
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Summary: all i want is this
Review: gossip girl just keeps getting better and better. i love how everything gets pulled together, and it can really relate to life. this book is deffinatly the best, and i can't wait until the next one comes out in september, because they just keep getting so good that you can't put them done. I read this book from front to back in the same day that i got it. i wouldnt put it done until i was done, thats how good it is!
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Summary: When Gossip Is Good
Review: Oh my God this just has to be like my favorite series of all time! I just simply love Serena, how she is so beautiful and yet doesn't act like a total ... like Blair. Not that I don't like Blair, she's actutally my second favorite character (although she does get on my nerves sometimes how she disses Aaron and Miles). Oh, and I just HATE Nate (hey..that rhymes) and how he just dumped Blair for a ninth grader. There relationship should be ILLEGAL!
Anyways, back to the book. The series is really good and my favorite so far has been "All I Want Is Everything". Blair and Serena friends again is just too cool. But I must mention tha before you just buy it the story does contain underage drinking, smoking, and cussing like a sailor. But overall, the story is hot. You'll just fall IN LOVE with the characters. Way to go Cecily!!
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Summary: All I want is not this
Review: "All I Want Is Everything" adds to the soapy celebration of vapidity that is the "Gossip Girl" series. What is becoming more noticeable with time is the forced complexity of the character relationships and the fact that the books are starting to get -- oh horrors -- boring. Serena and Blair, after the breakup of Blair's relationship with Nate, have become buddies once more -- and Serena is being semi-stalked by Flow, a gorgeous rock stars who is (like every other man in these books) drooling with lust at the mere sight of her. Vanessa and Dan are a couple, but Dan's happiness is giving him writer's block. Blair develops an attachmant to a foot-fetishist. Nate and Jenny are photographed cavorting half-nude in a video of Vanessa's, which gets Jenny grounded and alienates Dan from Vanessa. "All I Want Is Everything" shows that the "Gossip Girl" series hasn't aged well. The constantly shifting personal relationships have taken on a frantic tone, as if Von Ziegesar is running out of potential hookups, and is trying all possible combinations before breaking them up and starting anew with other people. Her introduction of Flow, and his infatuation with Serena, is laughable, as is the Audrey Hepburn screenplay that Blair writers. (I'm sure it was meant to be laughable, but it is laughably boring rather than funny) Blair is the same flake as always, even admitting in one scene that she admires Audrey Hepburn for essentially being pretty and wearing good clothes, not for things like UNICEF. Serena is still a Mary Sue, who has all men goo-gooing over her (the sentence where Flow is dumbstruck by "her loveliness" is best described as hysterically funny). And it's becoming more evident that she has no real characteristics except being blond and beautiful. And when you thought Nate might develop some redeeming characteristics, he turns back into a rat. Jenny and Dan are perhaps the only ones out of the bunch who are in any way likable, but given the twists given to the Dan/Vanessa storyline, Dan might not be that way for much longer. The cloying cutesiness of the writing has gotten more so with time, and the Gossip Girl columns are becoming less clever and less noticeable. In fact, I skipped some of the columns because they had ceased to be really amusing. So, for that matter, are people writing in to Gossip Girl and either accusing her of being a fraud or trying to get hints as to who she is. Given that the second book was slightly better than the first, I had hoped that the third would improve further. Wrong. "All I Want Is Everything" is far from what I want. Not worth it.
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Summary: Gossip Girl <3!
Review: I must say, for a girl that used to live in NY and club the same scenes as Serena and Blair, their party-hard w/ class lifestyle puts me to shame. I absolutely love this series. The books keep getting better and better! Everytime I read it its like, "Can I get a Cosmo over here?" Scandalous love!
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