The Thin Pink Line

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Summary: Awsome!!!
Review: The Thin Pink Line really is fantastic... Lauren Baratz-Logsted has really ruled over this genre! A fantastic book for anyone that wants to laugh a little and smile tons!!!

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Summary: LOL funny
Review: I enjoyed this book - not your typical chick-lit fare. Funny and entertaining, I even shared some with my husband to explain why I was laughing. Jane is outrageous in her scheme and the ending left me wanting to run out and buy the sequel right away.

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Summary: The Thin Pink Line
Review: I thought this book was amazingly funny! I think that every woman can find something in Jane that they relate to. We have all been in the position where we want to see "how the other half live". Jane just takes her scheme a little too far, which is what makes this book comical!

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Summary: awful, awful, awful
Review: This is the first review I've ever written, but felt compelled to do so. This book is one of the worst I have ever read (or attempted to read). It's just badly written. How on earth did this get published? There are no redeeming qualities, and why on earth is this American writer (I use the term advisedly) pretending to be British???? To climb on the Bridget Jones bandwagon, perhaps. I'm convinced the positive reviews are written by the publishers (they sound just like paid reviews).
Please save your money and don't buy this book! If there was an option for no stars I would use it.

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Summary: So impossible to like that you'll love her
Review: Jane is a most unusual heroine, the kind of self-involved person who makes life tough even for her best friends. She's the kind of person you love to argue with, who does irritating, ridiculous things--but who somehow makes you happy when she retains her true character and doesn't reform herself in the end. This is a fun read, one which leaves you wondering what happens next--and waiting for the next book. Unforgettable!

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Summary: Don't waste your money
Review: This book has a fairly interesting concept - the idea of faking a pregnancy because of the perks of being pregnant - but the author fails miserably in pulling it off. The plot is very poorly developed, the details unbelievable. And the ending includes a gratingly convenient deus ex machina that, frankly, just seems lazy.
Also, the main character is supposed to be a native englishwoman, living in london, and yet she speaks and thinks in american language (eg, calling a painkiller "Tylenol" when every english person knows it as "Paracetamol"). I find this extremely irritating.
And the idea that anyone could fool all their friends, family and co-workers with the sort of ridiculous lies and tricks that this woman comes up with is just preposterous.
Seriously, this book isn't worth your time or your money. I strongly discourage you from buying it.
I'd give it zero stars if I could.

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Summary: well-written with a terrible story..
Review: i NEVER feel strongly enough about chick lit books to review them, but this book brought out some strong feelings in me. yes it's a bit witty, and well-written. but the protagonist is SO ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING that it's difficult to get through the book. she's a terrible cariacature of a decent person, and i worry that the author actually thought people might find her sympathetic. i kept waiting for something to happen to turn it around but unbelievably, the ending is worse than the rest of the book. don't waste your time.

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Summary: R.R. Writer/Reader Chicago
Review: I adored this book! It's the perfect choice to curl up with on a lazy Sunday afternoon and I was milking the last 40 or so pages because I didn't want it to end. Bravo to Lauren Baratz-Logsted! She makes the writing look deceptively easy. She has acheived something with her character Jane that is extremely difficult. She has taken a character whose behavior is morally questionable and still manages to get the reader behind her all the way. Even if you disapprove of some of Jane's actions, you're still pulling for her and that is the sign of an extremely skillful writer.

This book will make you laugh, make you stop and think and make you want to share it with a friend! It's smart and clever and there are surprises right up until the very end. What an accomplishment and what luck for us that her second novel, Crossing the Line, is already out there waiting for us!!!!

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Summary: Really not worth your time
Review: Humourless, lacklustre and pretty much one of the worst novels of this kind I have ever encountered. The author gets so caught up in her own delusion that she is funny that she creates the thinnest of plots, subplots and characters. Despite her best efforts to sell herself as a born and bred Londoner, if this were truly the case I would be very surprised. This book is not only insulting to one's intelligence but also to any decent sense of humour. It is peppered with so many Americanisms and misquoted British slang that I just winced.
In true Bridget Jones fashion we have our heroine working in a publishing house, suffering an intolerable mother, living in Knightsbridge of course, throw in the gay best friend for good measure and there you have it, the combination for the perfect novel. Only it's not.

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Summary: Horrible Book
Review: I'd like to say that anyone who has ever tried to get pregnant would be offended by this book, but since this book was given to me by a friend from my son's playgroup, I guess I can't generalize. I didn't find the premise of this book funny at all. I thought it was a stretch and the prose annoying and simplistic. I dreaded picking it up to finish it. And I feel sorry for the poor soul who picks it out of my garbage can to read!