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Summary: This book was off the hook, but the movie was the bezomb!!!!
Review: Stella and her friend was planning a trip to get away from the states and their jobs to go to Jamaica and get away from everything and everybody. If I was Stella I would try to stay in Jamaica forever because Jamaica is a beautiful place to live.
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Summary: STELLA JUST DIDN'T GET HER GROOVE BACK SHE GOT IT ON!!!!
Review: This book was very well written. One of her best pieces. I thought that the book was much better than the movie. Even though that actor was ohh so fine, but anyways Terry showed her true genius in this novel. I never put it down. She gets 5 stars from me and I recommend this to anyone who loves to read. I felt this novel more so than Mama or Disappearing Acts.,,Stella definitely gave alot of women the incentive to get there groove back.
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Summary: I got in a rut just trying to finish this oh-so tedious book
Review: Oh the self absorbed shallow preoccupation with one's self!This book was so boring--the first book my book club voted not necessary to finish.Shelia may have got back into her groove but it certainly wasn't through any kind of insightful or thoughtful reflection or soul searching. This book reads rather like a constant commerial for material goods---'no fear' shirts--'seal c.d's' and on and on and on. Perhaps if Shelia had stopping focusing on designer or brand name items she would have got her groove back much sooner. The characters lacked depth, the conversations were bland, and the story --well where was the story? Shelia needed to get a personality---not necessarily a young lover.
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Summary: her name is stella and she is woman
Review: I think the valuable thing about this book is that we really get to know stella - almost like we're in her head with her running commentaries about her life. For those 200 odd pages I was a part of her life. And the thing I think one gets to like about stella is how honest she is - I loved the way she'd talk about hating her best friend cos she loved her so much, but she hated her for dying and not being there when she wanted to talk to her, or when she'd talk about maintenance oriented sex. It's not just a book about a black woman, its a book for all women. Just read it!
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Summary: A romantiac trip toJamaica!
Review: Sure everyone would love to get away on a vacation.In the book that i have read ''How Stella Got Her Groove Back'',Stella flys to Jamacia on a vacation, and she meets a young boy Jamacian boy.They then falls in love,she doesn't really wants to go public with the relationship because of her age.Stella is Forty-two years of age, and the Jamacian boy is Twenty years of age.She brings him back California where she lives,and her family and son likes him and after a while he asks her to marry him and she says yes.
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Summary: Worse than "Exhale" ...
Review: The politically correct term for grammatical runon garbage is "stream of consciousness"... puhleease, it was overdone and badly used. I actually had to put the book down and shut my eyes after one of those paragraph/sentences to avoid getting a migraine. Then, we have a part with Stella reading "Waiting to Exhale", 'by that Terry McMillan', geez how tacky, making references to another of your books in a fictional story....What was the point of including it in there? To let readers know that *you* know they don't like it? That's the only purpose it would serve for me, other than be an 'I'm trying to impress you' plot device. Ok... basic plot... bored rich woman goes to Jamaica, sleeps with a couple of guys, doesn't get much deeper than that. Read it if it doesn't take much to impress you, but frankly, I should try to get my 4-year-old to get published if this is all it takes.
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Summary: This is the best book ever
Review: This is the best book I've ever read. I hardly ever like to read I'd rather just wach television or something but i picked this book up and I just couldn't put it down. It was so good! If you have never read the book you should! I was so happy when they made a movie out of it . even though i loved the movie i fell in love wih the book first! I would give it 6 stars if i could
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Summary: Pretty Boring
Review: To me, each of Ms. McMillan's books get worse. I loved Mama and Disappearing Acts. Waiting to Exhale was o.k. This was like, "WHATEVER." The movie was MUCH better than the book. I wish people would stop comparing everybody to Terry McMillan. There are so MANY talented writers out there, each with their own identities. This book was not BAD, just mediocre. There was not a lot to this plot.
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Summary: Racy and Fun to Read
Review: I have just finished this book and I loved it. Stella is real, courageous and has her life in control. I admire the honesty with which she deals with her feelings about Winston; she is very much like most of us are, battling with anxiety, fear of looking bad, of displeasing others.... I admire her for her courage to accept herself and her feelings, however unsocially correct they may seem. Terry's style though, is rather heavy going- the stream of consciousness style does make the book a bit tedious at times, unlike Waiting to Exhale. I found her unsavoury comments about African women unacceptable - the cultures that subjugate women through circumcision and poor education are a much deeper issue, Terry, and those poor women cannot fight them all alone. they need help, not ridicule.
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Summary: Did not read past the first 5 pages
Review: What is the world coming to? I actually spent $25 dollars on this very irritating and annoying book. Terry, what are you writing? I really hate dishing out the following comments but I have to. Your only other book I read was "waiting to exhale" and I wasn't too crazy about it. Then you come with this and I say to myself, this will be a lot nicer. Then I turn the first two pages and I couldn't believe my eyes and the way my brain received this. I skipped to the middle which was a wrong move because I yelled for some type of help. This is a sin. To actually sell people this. That's not fair. Please, choose a new subject to write about. Strong black women and psycho black men is really not what life is about. You're giving people the image that black women are frustrated. I'm a black woman and I believe I'm not man crazy/frustrated. Please, do your readers a favor.
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