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Summary: Life in the Fat Lane
Review: Life in the Fat Lane is a pretty moderate book. It is not an unbelieveably stunning page-turner, because the plot is only about one thing; a girl's struggle in being fat, and her loyal friends who stick by her. At first, you like to hear about her struggle, but after fifteen long chapters of it, it gets old. The book was also a bad example for people who want to lose weight, for she tries to be anorexic and bulimic, and she works out very hard on not many calories. I didn't really like the characters, either, though they were believeable. The one thing I hated about Lara, the main character, was that she was so self-concious. She gained weight. Everyone pity her. It's like, get over yourself! She cared about whatever anyone said about her, when before, when she was skinny and beautiful, she said the same things herself about other fat people. I'm not sure that anything could help this book, but maybe if they showed how she ended up later on, it would move the book up from a 3 to a 3.1. This book really doesn't seen to end, but after a lot of patience and concentration, it does. The book really isn't that worth while if you like page-turning novels. If you have better things to do other than read this book... do them!
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Summary: Well....
Review: I'm not entirely sure what to think of this book. On the one hand, I like the premise of the story. "Life in the Fat Lane" deals with a girl who is suddenly faced with circumstances beyond her control. Because of these circumstances, her friends desert her; and she goes from being part of the "in crowd" to being a walking target for their abuse. (As a former target myself, I've experienced such abuse firsthand.) On the other hand, I have a difficult time sympathizing with Lara. I can feel *sorry* for her--when her friends turn against her, when she's being taunted at her new school, or for her awful family situation; what I can't do is particularly like or even respect her. She acts as if it's her deity-given right to be admired and envied. When she starts gaining weight, she moans about how fat she is (even at 5'7" and 128#)--a trend that continues throughout the book. And she blames her weight--rather than the shallowness of the people around her--for the contempt of her appearance-conscious parents and the scorn of her false friends. Even when you finally think that she should have done some growing up, she turns around and acts petty again. All in all, she's barely less of a vain, self-absorbed prima donna than the spoiled girls who mock her. In short, "Life in the Fat Lane" would have been vastly improved by a less annoying and static heroine. Most of the other characters (with a few notable exceptions, such as Jett and Molly) are cardboard cutouts; making Lara more than a metabolic disorder and a constant whine would have been a coup.
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Summary: Life In The Fat Lane
Review: This book gives you a broad view of the perfection teenage girls feel they have to be.
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Summary: Loving the "Fat Lane"
Review: I absolutely loved this book and every teenager can relate to it in someway or another. The way Cherie writes is just beautiful magic and I think more people should pick up this book and give it a go.
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Summary: Highly recommended.
Review: Life in the Fat Lane was an excellent book, I give it 5 stars. I don't often have time to read since I am a full time college student, but once I began reading this book, I didn't want to put it down. There were times when I laughed, and times when I cried. I was really able to relate to Lara, because I too am overweight, and people look at me the way she described, and I often feel as she felt. I was able to understand the feelings she had, and the anger she felt. I recommend this book to all women, especially teens suffering from obeseity, Lara was able to make it through everything and she didn't let the pain and anger stop her, just gave her a liitle down time, but she came back at full speed, once she found people who accepted her for who she was, people who didn't know she had ever been a beauty queen, in their eyes she was beautiful just the way she was.
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Summary: Size shouldn't be an Issue
Review: Lara Ardeche has what every teenage girl dreams of-popular friends, a great boyfriend, homecoming queen, and beauty pageant winner. Everything is going her way-until she starts to gain weight, and keeps gaining. After a few months Lara is more than 200 pounds. Follow Lara's story as she faces life as a fat teenage girl, being pressured by friends and family to get her great figure back. Now Lara will find out who her true friends really are and the "in-crowd" starts to completely shut her out. I really enjoyed this book because the story is so real. The characters are everyday people and it really explains what high school and are society is like. People are so unaccepting to others with weight problems. I would reccommend this book mostly to teenage girls but it would be good for anyone to read. This book really made me think about how I treat people who are more overweight than me or have other problems.
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Summary: Made me think a lot
Review: I started this book on a saturdayafternoon and couldn't stop reading it, which meant this was the first saturdaynight in a long time where I wasn't out with any friends (some came over though... but I didn't talk because I was reading!). The book is about that perfect girl,Lara, in that perfect world, who everybody wants to be. And she getts fatter, really big. Of course everything around her changes also, her friends and family get different and suddenly her perfect world starts to change. It made me think so much because that is not a book where she is at the end fat and happy and the motto is: Eat whatever you want. No it is realistic she doesn't get happy being fat but she starts to realize that being thin again wouldn't make her problems go away either. But this is not the only "lesson" in the book. All I can say if you ever were unsatisfied with the way you look, read it!!! And trust me it a book you will still think about long time afer you read it. And thank you Cherie for answering my emails!!
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Summary: A Must Read
Review: Life in the Fat Lane is soooo good. It deals with the real lifetime events that almost every girl has to put up with. Lara's ordeals from going to skinny and popular, to fat and ugly, make up a great story with a great moral. Don't go another day without reading this book!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: GREAT BOOK
Review: I would just like to say to all of you. that Life in The Fat Lane is such an awesome book. It only took me a day to read because I got so into it! Whats so great about this book is Its really real and you how some books out there make you think yeah right like this is could ever happen well this does happen to girls and boys every single day. The whole book you could totally feel what the girls going through But you might cry in this book I know i did. So give it a chance chances are you'll put it on your top ten list. Enjoy
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Summary: Fat lane
Review: This book was really amazing! Lara comes to realize that inner beauty is more important in the end. Nothing can be perfect, like she once thought. I learned from this book because it is a real situation and the author did such an amazing job with everything. This is probably now one of my favorite books, even if you are not dealing with a weight issue, you can still relate to this. good job cherie!
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