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Summary: Just Okay
Review: I listened to this on tape and it didn't grab me the way BESTSELLER and FIRST WIVES' CLUB both did. I found the plot a bit too implausible, and without pages to flip back and forth, I began to lose track of the large cast of secondary characters. I finished the book but was definitely ready for it to end.
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Summary: Don't waste your time
Review: I really enjoyed The Bestseller, but this was a terrible disappointmet. The ending was predictable from the first chapter.
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Summary: Goldsmith Bombs with Switcheroo--Worthy of a Zero Star
Review: I thought "Bestseller" "First Wives Club" even "Fashionbaly Late" were interesting, funny, witty, etc...Switcheroo on the otherhand, it is hard to believe that Olivia Goldsmith actually wrote this piece of garbage. The dialogue and characters are so unrealistic (not to mention unlikable). It seems like Goldsmith wrote this book in hopes of having a screenplay created...it reminded me of a "Waiting to exhale" copycat. I kept hoping the book would get better, but sadly, it got worse! Don't waste your time on this book. Goldsmith seems like she is trying to inject humor and wit into the characters, but the entire book is flat, dull, and if you liked Goldsmith's other works, you will be thoroughly disappointed. Makes me wonder if Goldsmith is running on a deadline and selling out like one of her characters in "Bestseller".
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Summary: Thoroughly engaging and funny
Review: I thought this was a great book with a fascinating premise. I listened to it on tape, and the narrator (don't ask me who she is) did a GREAT Marla. For the movie version, I see Helen Hunt as Sylvie and her younger clone, Lele Sobieski, as Marla.
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Summary: Please, please NO MOVIE!
Review: I was extremely disappointed in this book. It was fluff, just like "Marrying Mom". It read like it was dashed off because of a deadline, not because Oliva had a great idea. It could have been so much better, however, none of the characters were engaging. I found myself wondering why? why? why? Then I wondered why I finished the book.
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Summary: very disappointed as well
Review: I wish I had read these reviews before I bought the book - read The Bestseller and Flavor of the Month, then went out on a hunt for more Goldsmith books. I can't believe this is the same author - something is very wrong - did her editor write the other two books ( which were by the way excellent even though a bit contrived)when I got to page 100, I threw it away very sad
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Summary: Good light fun
Review: I'm beginning to think that Olivia Goldsmith occasionally writes shorter and somewhat lighter stories in between her longer novels. Works for me! I love everything she's ever written and this one was no exception. She writes about all the things that women would like to say and do but can't or won't. This one had some of the best one liners I've ever read. A great pick me up.
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Summary: Ridiculous but highly entertaining
Review: I've read 3 of Ms Goldsmith's books and so far, I've not been disappointed. Although any reasonably intelligent person would realise that the plot is rather ridiculous, the story and writing itself was extremely entertaining. I enjoyed this book thoroughly. Once in a while, you need a book like this to soften the reality of the Grishams and the Baldaccis. An enjoyable read.
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Summary: Just For Fun...
Review: I've read the other reviews of this book and all I can say is:Come on people! This is pop fiction NOT literature! Unrealistic? Sure! Simple minded? Right again! Bad grammar? Worse than my four year old grandson. But the bottom line is that it was fun! So what if you have to "suspend belief"? I read this over a "do nothing" weekend and it was just what I needed. A dose of unreality. I'll agree the "Bestseller" and "First Wives Club" were better books, but I had a lot of fun with this one. As long as you don't take it seriously and have nothing else to do - enjoy! I agree with the reviewer that said this book is a movie waiting to happen, but Hollywood will mess it up and unless they get Nora Ephron involved it will be a bad one.
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Summary: Just For Fun...
Review: I've read the other reviews of this book and all I can say is: Come on people! This is pop fiction NOT literature! Unrealistic? Sure! Simple minded? Right again! Bad grammar? Worse than my four year old grandson. But the bottom line is that it was fun! So what if you have to "suspend belief"? I read this over a "do nothing" weekend and it was just what I needed. A dose of unreality. I'll agree the "Bestseller" and "First Wives Club" were better books, but I had a lot of fun with this one. As long as you don't take it seriously and have nothing else to do - enjoy! I agree with the reviewer that said this book is a movie waiting to happen, but Hollywood will mess it up and unless they get Nora Ephron involved it will be a bad one.
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