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Summary: well.......
Review: I thought this book kind of lacked a plot. it was trying to be a gossip girl wanna-be....i also thought the ending was pretty bad...maybe the author did that so there could be a second, but whatever the reason, no book should end that way.
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Summary: Great book
Review: It's edgy, funny, intelligent, and everything you want a teen soap on television to be...only better. Think "The O.C." minus the parents and gunplay.
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Summary: Too much of a Wannabe
Review: A friend of mine recommended this book to me since she knew how much I enjoy the Gossip Girl Series. Unfortunately, from page 1, it seems like this book is wanting to be too much like gossip girl. The only differences I could find between the two are that The A-List takes place in Calfornia instead of New York, the format isn't in the webpage style, and Gossip Girl is a much better read. I'm not saying that the book is completely horrible, but if you have read Gossip Girl before, your in for a bit of a disappointment. Those who haven't read GG series may find this book more enjoyable than I did.
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Summary: The A-Plus List
Review: I am a sucker for books like The A-List, Gossipgirl, and The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things. I love to read the books about rich teens in NYC. After reading a book like this, I am inspired to write one like it. But out of those books, The A-List has been my favorite.I picked up this book because it had the same editors as Gossipgirl. I was expecting The A-List to be in the same format as Gossipgirl, but I was relieved when it wasn't. Gossipgirl's website-ish format makes it very fun to read, but you can only take so much of her anonymous commentary on upper-class NYC teenagers. Thankfully, The A-List is in a normal book format. It is like Gossipgirl on the west coast. The main character, Anna, is a New York WASP whose father lives in California. Anna grudgingly moves from Manhattan to be with her druggie Dad. On the way there, she meets a guy on the plane who invites her to some bigshot's wedding. This guy is friends with the groom's daughter, Sam, and her friends, who all like the guy, and none of them know that the others do too. When Anna becomes friendly with Sam, her snooty friends try to ruin Anna's life, and Sam gets in on the action too. The A-List is much more mysterious than Gossipgirl. The ending contains big surprises that leave the reader yelling at the characters, as any good book would. The only bad part of the whole novel was the dangling ending. The book sort of just introduces surprises, and drops Anna off at school. As far as I know, there is no sequel planned, but the book leaves you feeling like there is. All in all, The A-List is more down to Earth than Gossipgirl, less funny than Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging, and only a little less dramatic (in my opinion) than the Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things. But The A-List is defintely the most fun.
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Summary: Average at BEST
Review: The prolouge is very hard to understand. I did read it although and some-how, it really was not needed. It went into the plane ride which was a little fast between Ben and Anna, but its a fiction book... whatever. It was going great from there on. The end of the book must had been the worst! I could not belive she just did that to him! She knew he was a loving guy and cared for people, what else was he to do? Look i don't want to spoil it for any of you who DO decide to read it, but im just saying, you will HATE the ending! I know i did! But maybe the second book will clear it up better? The only part of the end that intriuged me was Adam and Anna. Book 2 maybe? On another, im totally syked for Gossip Girl Book 5!! Great books (Gossip Girl i mean) They truly keep you hooked!
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Summary: The Best Book Since A long Time
Review: The A-List is a novel about a privileged girl named Ana who moves from New York to live with her dad in California for an internship with a literacy company. Ana is not your typical rich girl, she has depth, feeling, and wants more out of life than her new off the runway Prada handbag. Her parents are divorced, and her dad was hardly around since his work is his life and her mother will only do whats in her How to Live Rich Book. She leaves behind her best friend, Cynthia. Cynthia is everything that Ana isn't. Shes aggressive, outgoing, and not afraid to voice what she feels. Ana wishes to have some of these characteristics, and those wants are put to test the very moment she arrives on the plane heading towards Beverly Hills, California. She will encounter drunken old men, Cali. girls that have their noses stuck so far up that they don't even know whats bellow them, and a guy that could ultimately be "the one." Read and find out how Ana's life will end, or begin?
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Summary: Delightfully Awful
Review: Taking place mainly on a wild New Year's night, the A-List rises above, but only ever so slightly, what is in most ways a trite and unoriginal novel. When her sister enters rehab and her mother decides to "recuperate" in Europa, Anna Percy decides that she does not want to live in New York by herself. Instead she decides to move in with her father, who left the family many years ago. On the plane she meets Ben Birenbaum, a freshman at Princeton. When the two hit it off, Ben invites Anna to the wedding of Jackson Sharpe (Oscar Winning Actor) where Ann is introduce to the eponymous A-List: Sam, who is insecure about her looks and has a celebrity psychologist on speed dial, Dee, the nice one, and Cammie, who derives pleasure from being cruel and sexually promiscuous. The A-List all share a secret: they are in love with Ben. The fact that Anna is nothing like them, naïve and yet sophisticated, gorgeous, and seems to have captured Ben's heart earns her the A-List's animosity. In a book that is full of stock characters, Dean does a good job of adding shades of gray to her characterizations making even the least likable of characters at least understandable. Indeed the book is perhaps over populated with characters leaving the reader wanting to see more of interesting, but largely ignored, characters. In the end the only character who comes off as flat is Ben himself which makes it harder to understand how he can make so many girls' hearts go aflutter. The casual use of drugs and alcohol, not to mention numerous sexual encounters show a culture where adult oversight is absent and will either attract or repulse readers to the lifestyle of the A-List. The book's ending will likely provoke different reactions from different readers and sets things up quite nicely for a sequel.
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Summary: Movie
Review: Do you know how sometimes u wish a book u read would turn into a movie it was sooo good?! well the a list really was fascinating. I was so intrigued and had to keep reading. The ending had such a twist i wish it had a sequl.
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Summary: The A-list is on my A-list!
Review: This has to be one of the best books I have ever read! I can't wait to read the sequels. The ending will leave you wanting more from these spoiled little rich girls! Great for ages 13-19
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Summary: Okay, but definitely NOT Gossip Girl
Review: The A-List was an okay book. It was definitely not one of the Gossip Girl books, which are really good, and also by Zoey Dean. What happened was the book that had a lot of different characters and plot lines going for it, but it gave up on most of them. For instance, Sam is a girl who is popular but hangs out with the wrong girls, rich and has a tiny fling with a nice boy named Adam, but nothing really happens with her.... at all, ever. Dee is one of Sam's friends, who claims she is pregnant, but nothing else happens with her ever again either, and the last we hear she is having stomach aches. Not a great way to move along an interesting story. Anna, the main character, is naive and not very likeable, which makes almost the whole book annoying. The one good part about this book is a scene with the bad girl character, Cammie (or Camilla) whose Mother died when she was 4 and she goes to visit the grave. It is a pivitol point for the character because we see she has feelings, too. But then again, we never see her nice side again. She never changes. So no, I do not reccomend this book, but I strongly advise reading the Gossip Girl seiries if you want to read about fun, cool, new york city girls, who are a lot more interesting than Anna.
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