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Summary: Another great Marian Keyes book.
Review: Yet again Marian Keyes is back to her girl is single, girl looks for guy, but ends up with all the wrong men in the world. Now don't get me wrong I am a sucker for storys like this.. Lucy is your typical young woman who is looking for all the things that single women do. Someone to be there, someone to love and someone that she can have fun with. When she goes with her friends from work to see a fortune teller and there is where the lady tells her that Lucy will be getting married soon, but the problem is that Lucy is single. Lucy then has her fair share of bad dates and bad men. Lucy's roomates Karen and Charlotte were a riot to read about. I just wanted to strangle Karen for being such a terrible person towards Lucy. Lucy's work friends Megan, Merdia and Jed were a riot to, thou there wasn't too much mentioned about them. Daniel the knight in shining armor for Lucy. Always there to help her out and be there for when he can. He was a really great person. there were times when I just wanted to go and tell Lucy to wake up and smell the coffee about him. Overall since this was Marian Keyes second novel it was good, not as good as some of her later books, but she is talented writer.
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Summary: Enchanting!
Review: This is the first Marian Keyes' book that I have read, and I can't wait to get into "Rachel's Holiday" next!!
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Summary: Hilarious and Heart Wrenching
Review: Lucy Sullivan's character appeals to many women because of her low self esteem and seemingly ordinariness. However, the life she leads is far from ordinary; she has a long journey of self discovery and luckily she is immensely happy with the outcome of it. Many of the passages in the book lively and witty and truly reached out to the reader. Again Keyes is able to create funny, lovable and hatable characters with as many features as flaws. I truly felt that most any of the characters could be walking down the streets in London. It was an engaging text and once I started it, I couldn't put it down.
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Summary: Great, but not Keyes' best
Review: Having read two of Keyes' novels previously, I had expected nothing less than the best from Keyes. Her wit, and writing skills usually make for a fascinating read. While Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married is definitely a good novel, of the Chick Lit variety, it is not an exceptional one. Where Rachel's Holiday boasted hilarity and excellent character development, Lucy Sullivan was a bit lacking. Mind you, a bit lacking for Marian Keyes is better than your average Chick Lit book. However, this novel was slightly better than an average chick lit book, making it a bit of a disappointment from Keyes. I still laughed out loud, and enjoyed reading Lucy Sullivan but it was a bit trite. I found the characters were much more one-dimensional than in her later novels. The plot was less sophisticated, more predictable and generally more chick lit-esque. Keyes is a fantastic writer, and even this book is enjoyable, it's just not up to par. Strangely enough, I would still recommend this book to first time Keyes readers. Only to tell you that it gets even better after this. If you started with Lucy Sullivan and follwed with her others, I think it would be a much better sequence--- you would notice the improvement in her writing since having written Lucy Sullivan. So, don't let this review discourage you in any way from reading Keyes. She is a talented writer, with a gift for prose and character development, this novel just does not accentuate those aspects well enough. I have yet to read Last Chance Saloon, and Watermelon, but both Rachel's Holiday and Sushi for Beginners are both excellent. I will be reading everything by Keyes that I can get my hands on. Enjoy, and first time Keyes readers, if you find this too light and fluffy, don't be discouraged from reading Keyes, pick up Rachel's Holiday and you'll understand what all the fuss is about! 5/13/02
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Summary: Love that Brit humour!!
Review: I did see similarities between this book and Bridget Jones simply because they're both full of eccentric British humor. Americans can't help but find it wildly entertaining and want to read more. This book was so much fun to read it made me want to pack up and move to England to start a new life! The only thing I didn't like was how blatantly obvious the storyline was regarding her eventual finding of "true love". The plot was so obvious, I kept hoping it would end differently than I expected. Unfortunately, that wasn't to be. That said, there certainly were some surprises. Unlike another reviewer, I didn't immediately pick up on the fact that her father was an alcoholic. I realized it well before Lucy does, but found the whole story fascinating and enlightening. This book is quite long (over 600 pages in paperback), but worth the read. I, too, missed Lucy when the book was over and I'm very much looking forward to reading more of Marian Keyes.
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Summary: I Love Lucy!
Review: I loved this book.
After reading it I wanted to know more, like a 'Lucy Sullivan 2.' Not that there needed to be more, but I missed her after I read it. It's so personable and real, and the author gives you so much. It's definately quality 'singleton' reading material!
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Summary: Pretty Good at Times.
Review: This is a good book, but rather long. "Watermelon" is much better.
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Summary: Bridget - like, and very British...... or is it Irish....
Review: Lucy Sullivan is getting married, at least the fortune teller she visits with her friends says so. Of course Lucy Sullivan does not believe in fortune tellers or in tarot cards, but when things the fortune teller told would happend to her friends really happends she starts to wonder. Is she really getting married? She, who never has any luck with the right men? And whom is her husband to be? Can it be Gus, the gorgeous, sexy though unrelyable Gus, or may be Jed, the new boy at work, or may be Chuck, the handsome American she is dating? Well, it really isn't Daniel though, he is her best friend and the one who listens to her when she makes a mess of her life. Which she does, over and over again. Lucy Sullivan has alot in common with Bridget Jones. They are both singel girls trying desperate to make the best out of their lives, to be sexy enough, thin enough, have enough money till the next payday and so on, and so on. Though this is not written as a diary like BJ is. The book is a long one, more than 700 pages, but it is truly a page turner. And though Marian Kayes could with success have spend a couple of hundred pages less on the book, it is an easy read. You can laugh with Lucy, though you can't cry much with her. The language is too funny, though sometimes I really wanted to cry. Especially when she is having her useless meetings with her mother, or when she is trying to take care of her father after her mother has left him. Marian Keyes is one of many promising Irish writers of today, and since this is the first book I read by her I know I have hours and hours of great reading time ahead of me. I'm already on my way to by another book by her, though untill it's done I can enjoy myself with another Irish writer, Niall Williams. Britt Arnhild Lindland
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Summary: Any book by Marian Keyes is fine by me!
Review: After reading Watermelon and Last Chance Saloon, I was ready for another dose of Keyes' in Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married.
Lucy Sullivan and three co-workers go to a fortune teller, only to be told that Lucy will be getting married within about a year or so. Baffled, Lucy begins to truly wonder who it will be.
Keyes takes you on a trip throughout Lucy's troubles with her roommates, to her zany boyfriend Gus, and ends up with a wonderful ending.
Different from Bridget Jones, yes. But absolutely fantastic. I can't wait to read Rachel's Holiday.
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Summary: fun, fast read
Review: I have been on a British chick book kick ever since I found Bridget Jones last summer. The teaser for this book really got me curious, so I just had to find out who Lucy Sullivan was, and who she was going to marry. I will say that at times the book was a bit tedious....but then again, isn't life at times? I found myself rooting for Lucy to get with "the guy". How I wish a psychic would tell me I was going to get married within a certain amount of time, and find myself hurled on a road of romantic adventure.
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