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Summary: Where's the fun in this friendship?
Review: Clare flies back and forth to California to see Sally more than she sees her own daughter. The two "best friends" never really seem to mesh. I know that these two bear no resemblance to any best friends I know. Clare is self-centered and boring. Sally is just kind of a wishy washy wimp and has no common sense considering she's supposed to be a brainy lawyer.I about gave up on this book half way through. Now I wish I would have.
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Summary: It was not nearly as bad as many people here think it was
Review: Come on! To begin with, this was the author's first book. I can think of many authors who have made less credible attempts at first novels and have gone on to become well read and respected novelists.
Who ever said protagonists had to be likeable? Both Clare and Sally were multi-dimensional characters, and that's what you want in a good book. I agree that at different times while reading this I found it difficult to like either Clare or Sally. Clare seemed self-absorbed and egotistical for much of the time, only to unexpectedly show us her softer, caring side . I frequently perceived Sally as immature, and for someone who opened a law firm for women, remarkably uninformed of women's issues such as pornography. There are many redeeming qualities in this book, the writer touches on relevant social issues with a great deal of honesty and sensitivity. I would not call this a flimsy book, so if you expected a light hearted beach novel I can see why you would feel disappointed after reading this book.
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Summary: Agree With All Negative Reviews
Review: I honestly thought this would be a great read - my best friends are my room-mates from college, and it is now 20 years later, we all live within 5 miles of each other, and as the years go by, we get closer than sisters. This book i found to be slow - the 'big secrets' were obvious or not really very ineresting- the main 'best friends' in the book seemed to be sad, lonely and not very likable. The dysfunction of thier families was not something that really made them intersting or tragic, just blahhhhh... I had to struggle through this book, it seemed to drag on and on, and the trips to los angeles just more and more boring and uneventful. The friendship did not seem to be balanced, and there did not seem to be a strong bond between the two women, they were just so different and selfish. I was not thrilled with this, i would recommend Summer Sisters, that was a much better read.
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Summary: Try this book
Review: I love this book! I have a best friend that I have known for so many years I can't count them. I tell her a lot about my life and her life, but I don't tell her everything. I think this author has the maturity (regardless of her age) to realize there are and always will be some things we must keep to ourselves for whatever reason. It is a great read and I highly recommend it. I have been an avid reader my whole life and books like this, are hard to find in this day and age.
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Summary: Wonderful Can't-Put-It Down Book
Review: The first half of the book was fun to read and quite engaging. I thought I had picked up by chance the perfect vacation book. Then it started to get "off the wall" and the story left the "easy to relate to" feel and entered the world of crazy fiction. It was like 2 books in one. So, in other words, I enjoyed the first half and couldn't wait to just finish the rest of the book
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: The first half of the book was fun to read and quite engaging. I thought I had picked up by chance the perfect vacation book. Then it started to get "off the wall" and the story left the "easy to relate to" feel and entered the world of crazy fiction. It was like 2 books in one. So, in other words, I enjoyed the first half and couldn't wait to just finish the rest of the book
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Summary: Good Read
Review: This is an intelligent, interesting and original novel. I liked the unusual structure: somewhere between a journal and a story. (I wonder how autobiographical the novel is; the author is a physician as is the narrator, Clare.) The novel's structure mirrors the structure of life: major, life-changing events follow minor day-to-day incidents without any huge chapter headings or breaks---simply a new paragraph, and life goes on in it's new direction. It's a very contemporary novel that is 80-90 per cent successful at what it's trying to do; it's a little strained in the last 100 pages. But it's a very enjoyable read. It seems real, it's interesting, it's fairly compelling. There is not a lot of warmth or richness of emotion, but it's engaging.
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Summary: Wonderful Can't-Put-It Down Book
Review: This is one of the best vacation reads I have ever had! Highly recommend this book.
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Summary: A lovely title, but..............
Review: When I picked up this book to read last year, I was looking forward to an engaging, emotional story about two best friends maturing together. I, too, have a best friend that I met when I was 18 and in college........seven years later we are still spiritual sisters. We tell each other everything and I cannot imagine my life without her. I guess its because I have had this friendship that I was able to see just how contrived and flawed the "friendship" between these two women was. There personalities never really gelled, and Clare was constantly jealous and possessive of Sally (who I liked, actually). I found it difficult to believe that Clare could be anyone's friend. Also, I believe that any good novel requires conflict. But this novel included murder, drugs, porn, homosexuality, suicide........I mean really, this stuff made any Jerry Springer family seem like the Brady Bunch. I think if Moody would have kept the problems more real life and believable (like the ending of relationships/problems with kids), she could have focused the novel more on the "friendship" at hand. I also am in total agreement with the reader who said the characters never matured. Yes the years passed, but the characters remained exactly the same........I was not even convinced as to why these two remained friends. The end seemed forced........Clare just seemed out of place and simply "tagging along" in Sally's very full life. I saw several people recommend "Summer's Sisters" by Judy Blume. I will give that a try.......hopefully this time I will be presented with realistic characters who give friendship a good name.
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Summary: A lovely title, but..............
Review: When I picked up this book to read last year, I was looking forward to an engaging, emotional story about two best friends maturing together. I, too, have a best friend that I met when I was 18 and in college........seven years later we are still spiritual sisters. We tell each other everything and I cannot imagine my life without her. I guess its because I have had this friendship that I was able to see just how contrived and flawed the "friendship" between these two women was. There personalities never really gelled, and Clare was constantly jealous and possessive of Sally (who I liked, actually). I found it difficult to believe that Clare could be anyone's friend. Also, I believe that any good novel requires conflict. But this novel included murder, drugs, porn, homosexuality, suicide........I mean really, this stuff made any Jerry Springer family seem like the Brady Bunch. I think if Moody would have kept the problems more real life and believable (like the ending of relationships/problems with kids), she could have focused the novel more on the "friendship" at hand. I also am in total agreement with the reader who said the characters never matured. Yes the years passed, but the characters remained exactly the same........I was not even convinced as to why these two remained friends. The end seemed forced........Clare just seemed out of place and simply "tagging along" in Sally's very full life. I saw several people recommend "Summer's Sisters" by Judy Blume. I will give that a try.......hopefully this time I will be presented with realistic characters who give friendship a good name.
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