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Summary: you know we love you
Review: Cecily von Ziegesar is my new hero. ... What a prurient, pandering, fetchingly written and intelligently orchestrated book. I read it in two sittings, that's how much I couldn't put it down in spite of how much I hated (and loved) her characters. Cecily's delectable cast of winsome kittens and young bucks are so detestably sassy and waxed and buffed that I'm still loathing myself for finding them sympathetic. What an exquisite little exercise in confirming how predictable and pathetic my insidious appetites are. Brava, Cecily! You know we love you! Remember the little people when you're famous as hell.
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Summary: Can't Put It Down
Review: The characters in Gossip Girl are like real people. When you get to know them you realize there's still a lot to learn, so you want to keep reading about them. These kids drink a lot and some of them smoke pot, but the story isn't about alcohol or drugs, it's about growing up. These teenagers could be your friends. The best part of the book is how well-written it is. It's about teenagers, but it isn't "written down" to their level. The author obviously knows what she's talking about. Is she the Gossip Girl?
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Summary: Very Cool Book
Review: This book is exteremly amusing. Contrary to most of the reviews, it's actually very deep. It's a good insight into the dirty little secrets of the more "privledged" classes. I, personally, think that things are really like that...I stayed up all night reading Gossip Girl and I really enjoyed it!
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Summary: Not risque at all.
Review: I really didn't like this book. I thought there was no real plot whatsoever, I didn't care about the characters and gossip girl whoever she is, has no life since she spends all her time spreading stupid gossip I don't care about. It's not scandalous or mature or even risque. it's just not anything at all. It sucks. I think my brain's IQ started to drop after reading this piece of all too well marketed "book."
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Summary: Pleasingly Empty
Review: I picked up this book hoping it would be similar to HBO's Sex and the City. Unfortunately, it wasn't. Gossip Girl takes us though the world of the beautiful and wealthy teens. Unfortunately, it fails to tell us who we're supposed to root for. Do we cheer for Blair, overshadowed by the supposed evil Selena? Or we cheer for Selena, victim of cruel and jealous gossip? The only person we know we're supposed to like is the narrator, Gossip Girl. G. Girl is sharp and funny with the perfect amount of sarcasm. The only complaint I have about her is that her voice isn't heard very often in the book. If we heard more from G. Girl, the book would be more enjoyable. Gossip Girl also leaves us with an ending clearly meant to make us buy the next book. The problem however, is that one doesn't care enough about the characters to see what happens. The book would have been better if the ending were the middle, and the middle was cut out. While Gossip Girl isn't the worst book in the world, it certainly isn't the best. If you've worked your way though the Teen Chick-Lit world, you'll find this a good book during your wait for the sequel to Sloppy Firsts or Princess Diaries. If you haven't yet made your way though the Teen Chick-Lit world, I suggest you shelve Gossip Girl, and pick up another.
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Summary: Don't waste your time...
Review: The reason why I gave this book one star was not because there was too much sex, drugs, or lack of morals; it was because it was just plain boring. It was extremely poorly written and doesn't make you care about any of the characters, even the pathetic ones who are there only for that purpose, like Danny. I checked the first three of these things out at the library and was really looking forward to reading them, thinking they'd be like The Angus Thongs books, but it turned out to be much more like a Babysitters Club book, only with richer, skankier characters. I recommend this book to: anyone who likes Dawson's Creek
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Summary: AWESOME
Review: The first Gossip Girl book was incredibly addicting. It was also very funny and entertaining. Blair Waldorf, one of the most popular and wealthy girls at her school in New York, is a character that people love to read about. Yeah, she's very bitchy, but it just makes the book a lot more addicting and hilarious. This first book in the series is about Blair's best(ditzy) friend Serena coming back to NY after a year at boarding school (of which she was kicked out). Blair, who is mad at her, decides to take revenge on her former best friend. Awesome light read.
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Summary: Incredibly stupid
Review: I dont know about the rest of you but thid book is pretty pitiful. These people in these book are incredibly sad and dumb. They put on shows for everyone else and never show true feelings. Yeah they're all rich and well-off but its absolutely ridiculous. The gossip is the dumbest thing i've ever heard. And thats mostly what they do: gossip. The parents the kids, everybody. If this was reccommended to you from sisterhood DO NOT READ IT. Its crap and a waste of time trust me. Read Sloppy Firsts or The Black Book: The Diary Of a Teenage Stud
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Summary: wow
Review: Gossip Girl, by Cecily von Ziegesar, is the first book in the Gossip Girl series. The story takes place in New York City, and the main characters are preppy high school seniors who love to be bad. Blair Waldorf, a sarcastic, rich brunette, struggles with her mom's new boyfriend, obnoxious Cyrus Rose, and the fact that her father ran off with another man. Blair lives in an elaborate penthouse on Fifth Avenue. She attends an elite school, Constance Billard School for Girls, while her ex-best friend, Serena van der Woodsen, attends a boarding school, or she would, had she not gotten kicked out. Blair and Serena stopped being friends because Serena would never write to Blair or send her anything from her boarding school. Blair is also very jealous of Serena because she's "perfect in every way."
Blair's mom, Eleanor Waldorf hosts a dinner party so all of her classy friends could meet Cyrus. The trouble starts when Blair's mom invited Serena to the party. Blair gets pissed when Serena flirts with herm always stoned boyfriend, Nate, and surprisingly he flirts back. During the party, Blair was supposed to lose her virginity to Nate.
Then there's the voluptuous fourteen year old Jenny Humphrey and her brother, Dan. Jenny is basically a loner, because all of the girls are jealous of her chest size. Dan is a dark poet looking for love, and good stuff to write about.
Throughout the book, excerpts from gossipgirl.net, written by an anonymous character appear. Gossip Girl, as the person is known, spreads gossip and answers questions about characters in the book. Gossip Girl also "stalks" the characters and records where they were seen and what they were doing.
The one thing that annoyed me about this book was that the characters would spread absurd gossip about their best friends. Even the sophisticated parents would gossip among one another. That is the only part of the book that seems unreal and exaggerated.
This book has mature content, such as drug use, profanity and sexual content, so it's definitely not for everyone. If you like to read about prissy high school girls with to-die-for lives, then you ought to pick up Gossip Girl and start reading. Each book is better than the last, and the eight book series is enough to keep you interested.
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Summary: gossip girls book # 1
Review: Gossip Girls "You know you love me"
By Cecily Von Ziegesar
Gossip Girls by Cecily Von Ziesegar is a well written exiting book full of unsuspected scandal. This young adult book is set in New York mainly at an all-girls school filled with bulimic, alcoholic, rich, and snotty girls. You'll see into the thoughts of Blair Waldrof, her boyfriend Nate, and her ex-best-friend the gorgeous Serena van der Woodsen. When Serena is gone at boarding school Blair is the most popular and prettiest girl at school. However, when Serena is kicked out of boarding school and comes back to the upper east side of New York City, everyone starts paying attention to Serena again and ignoring Blair, even Nate. To my dismay Blair starts spreading rumors about why Serena got kicked out of boarding school, giving her a bad reputation. Unlike some people I was shocked by the random dirty acts in parts of the book.
Furthermore, the begging of the book was fast paced and interesting to read it begins at a party, never a dull moment at a rich family's party. Being rich in there world means no drinking age and being able to do anything they want, when things get tough run away smoke a joint and drink lots of booze. At first it seems that all the groups of teens want to do is make out or sleep with each other, but never succeed. It amazed me how a best friend could destroy a best friends life! Blair was missing Serena, but then when she came home Blair did not want to be Serena's shadow no more so she spread those rumors. Even Nate was abscessed with Serena, every guy was. Blair is like Serena's separated twin so every one thought she would know why Serena got kicked out of school, believing every word she said. Blair said it was because she was in a cult, did drugs, slept with every guy around, had millions of STDs, and even had a child in France. Literally every page kept me focused wanting to read more.
As the book progresses Blair wraps her self up in school activities. She the kind of girl always busy with extra-curricular activities, and Nate is trying to keep Serena away from her and her friends manly Nate. It is so ironic that Serena can practically attract boys when she not even trying, she could be wearing trash and still get any guy, she is the "It-girl". For example one chapter is when she goes to an art gallery opening and the artist is drawn to her pulling her out of the line and straight to getting pictures taken with her. They even paint some part of her body and it is put all over New York on busses, cabs, and billboards. Some how Serena always gets what she wants.
If you are looking for a book to relate too then maybe this is not the best book, unless you live in huge pent house apartments have Kate spade bags as party favors and have a unlimited amount of money to spent, and obviously drink, smoke, and are wild. One of the main characters Serena changes from a bratty rich running wild to a sensible committed girl by the end of the novel. Never follow rumors because most likely they are lies, and some people never change/ people change is the theme of the book. Besides that there are plenty of little reason you can get on the way. I would recommend this book for a person just looking to be entertained mainly by stereotype high school students just being teens facing real situations.
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