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Summary: Light - Hearted Fun
Review: Twenty-six year old self-pitying Lucy Sullivan will captue your heart and make you laugh in Marian Keyes' "Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married". Though the book is not serious or deep, it is light-hearted fun for women everywhere.Meet Lucy, who wallows in a dead-end job and lack of self-confidence. One night, she and three of her co-workers, the rich yet boring Hetty, the gigantic Meredia, and the laid-back sharp-tongued Megan, travel to the outskirts of London to have their tarot cards read. When Mrs. Nolan predicts that Lucy will be married within eighteen months, she sets out on a journey to find the perfect man, and learn a little bit about herself along the way. Throughout the book, Lucy fights to keep her head held high despite disastrous relationships, dealing with her alcoholic father, arguing with her self-confident roommates, and losing touch with her best friend. But when Lucy finally realizes she's met the love of her life, you will feel the joy and amazement with her, and will be left wanting more.
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Summary: Not what I expected.
Review: When I buy a paperback book with a brightly colored cover and a title like: "Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married", this is what I expect: a lighthearted comedy about a slightly shallow, single, city-dwelling, young woman and her love life.
So when I read, "Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married" I was a little confused. Paperback, Pretty Cover, Cutsie name...so what is this? A heroine with bouts of depression? Alcoholic fathers? Broken Homes? How...how...realistic!
Yes, that is my main complaint about Marian Keyes witty yet occasionally grim novel; "Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married" it is far too realistic.
Set in downtown London, the book stars (surprise, surprise) Lucy Sullivan, an insecure, nine to five worker with an infamously unsuccessful love life which takes an interesting twist when a fortune-teller predicts that she will get married within the year.
Keyes' style is intelligent and funny, and her characters are likable and diverse. However, as I said before, this book is not the light piece of fiction is appears. Lucy suffers from depression and major insecurity and around three-quarters of the way through; the book takes a strange and unexpectedly dark turn.
I liked it, but while I originally thought that it belonged to the same category of books as the 'Shopaholic' series, I now see that it is quite different.
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Summary: ehhh
Review: the only reason that i finished this book is because it was the only book i had with me on the plane. usually i like these chick-romance novels, but lucy just lets every other character in this book walk all over her and i was left feeling no sympathy for her. it's just hard for me to read a book when i dont even care about the main character.
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Summary: "Lucy" is not a "Bridget" wannabe!
Review: Perhaps because I have 2 children ages 2 and under, but I truly appreciate my reading leisure time more than I ever did before. That's why I was relieved to discover how much I enjoyed "Lucy Sullivan" (the last book I read was "The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing", and it stunk on ice). I also loved "Briget Jones' Diary", and apart from the fact that both characters are British, I fail to see how "Lucy" is trying to be Bridget! Lucy and her 3 co-workers go to a fortuneteller to have their tarot cards read, and Lucy's "prediction" is that she'll get married within one year. Although her realistic sense tells her these readings are "for entertainment purposes only", she can't help but think about them seriously when her co-workers predictions start to come true. From there on, she looks at every man in her life as if he could be "the one", from a bad blind date with an American in the personals ads to her video store clerk. Marian Keyes is hilarious. I love her sense of humor and style of writing. I appreciated the way she allowed Lucy to slowly, and only through learning the hard way, realize her father is an alcoholic, even though everyone, includuing the reader, knows this from the first time he's introduced. At first I was so frustrated with Lucy for putting up with Gus. But, in all fairness, she did warns us at the beginning of the book that she avoids nice safe men. And, she comes to that revelation on her own, but I won't give away the entire plot. My sister-in-law is from England, and she gives me some of the best Brit authors to read. She, of course, handed me "Lucy Sullivan", and I am grateful to find a new favorite author. I can't wait to read "Watermelon" now! If you want a fun, realistic read, pick up a copy.
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Summary: Marian Keyes, come to Cleveland!
Review: We would like to see more press for this pink-cover girl author! She rules, adding just the right writing touch of self-esteem issues! You MAY however,find yourself wanting to SHAKE Lucy already for the ill treatment she takes from men! The book SHOULD put her on a par with Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones' success,and "Trials of Tiffany Trott", as the comedic style is similar... It reads like a journal of your 20-something fun WILD years! A touch of excellent hilarious Irish family humor spiced with innuendo and ambition, the main character will provide the cure for your depression! I laughed on nearly every paragraph, and had to keep stopping to mark pages to read aloud as deterrent to jerky men! (saying "Lucy Sullivan is getting married" kept them guessing). The book is quite bittersweet and more serious than the absolutely HILARIOUS "Watermelon," as it emphasizes Lucy's struggles with her father and its relation to other men in her life. Above all, perhaps, it is the sweet romantic ending that gets you. ADORABLE, in gold-pink letters (As a writer myself, I LOVE the artwork cover). Get out your cupid's steel arrow for a rollicking emotional roller-coaster ride with one of the top female comedic writers of our time! WENDY W cleveland, oh
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Summary: Look Beyond the Frivolous Title and Be Pleasantly Surprised
Review: Browsing through a book store and seeing a title like that, you would probably expect the book to be something along the lines of Bridget Jones - a woman more concerned with her fluctuating weight and lack of a boyfriend than with anything of actual substance. Once you get a few chapters into this book, however, you discover that there is much more to this book than you at first expected. Sure, if you're searching for many laughs, some cute romantic situations, and discussions of the merits of suede boots vs. snakeskin, you will find it in these pages. But, you will also find much more than that. Marian Keyes, unlike many other writers in the genre of "romantic comedy," actually likes to have substance to her writing. The topics of addiction and alcoholism pop up frequently in her work (see Rachel's Holiday as another good example). In the case of Lucy Sullivan, the heroine herself does not have a drinking problem, but as the book goes on, you discover her attraction to men who do, men who hurt her, use her for her money, and who know that no matter how badly they treat her, she'll always take them back. Despite a somewhat cliched ending, this book rises above the usual romantic fare. Keyes delivers yet another book with a brilliantly darkly humorous edge.
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Summary: Another Winner from Keyes
Review: On the surface, "Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married" has all the aspects of Keyes' usual hilarious and rollicking novels: Thirty-something Brits making their way through the perils of London life, from dead-boring jobs to broken relationships to the perpetual search for true love. But beneath the hilarity is another story entirely: the devastating effects of alcoholism on families, relationships, and the psyche. Only Keyes could take such a serious subject and write about it with such love and real humor. But it is there, nevertheless, so if one is looking for a mindless romp, this is not the book. Like all her main characters, Keyes' Lucy Sullivan is loveable through and through, and the reader follows Lucy's perpetual escapades with all the wrong men with wringing hands! Why go for the alcoholic, drug-sodden user, the admittedly gorgeous Gus, when there is a man in the wings who really wants her and is entirely suitable? Will Lucy ever see what we see? Will she allow herself to stopped being used and start being happy? Read it and see...and prepare to be enchanted.
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Summary: awesome book!
Review: Terrific fun - didn't want it to end. I highly recommend!
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Summary: Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
Review: I thought this was a cute book, albeit very obvious. I enjoyed this book and thought it was very witty with a cute ending.
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Summary: i'm thinking....no.
Review: Everything was way too obvious and drawn out. I'm not sure I would recommend it unless you want to read about someone being depressed all the time...and ignoring the obvious fact that her father is an alcoholic...and that she only dates lazy bums...and that she is so blind that she can't see that her friend likes her throughout the entire 400+ pages!!!! Lucy Sullivan whines too much for me. And everything in the book is too obvious and her views are way too pessimistic for light, enjoyable reading. For light, funny, enjoyable reading...I would recommend the Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella.
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