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Summary: A beautiful book
Review: If you read only one this summer, make it Beautiful Bodies. This is about the mind, soul and the body and about a beleagured city. These women are the real thing -- friends to the end, no matter what. They may fight, disagree but they have become more than friends. Sexier than Sex and the City, for really smart women who do not wish to be condescended to...Truly fine writing by a memoirist, writing her first novel. Funny, sad and true, true, true.
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Summary: Bliss with Beautiful Bodies
Review: I kept remembering where I left this book so I could get back to it. I kept sneaking peeks, read some out loud, took it to work and to the beach...now I read it in its entirety and regret it's over. This is a sweet, meaningful story about single working professsional women around New York. It is dignified and smart yet howlingly hilarious. I give this my highest rating. The woman who feeds her fiance the viagara is maybe, maybe the funniest creation in contemporary literature. You'll hear loads re this beaut.
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Summary: A charming story
Review: A charming story of the enduring friendship between six thirty-something women: their loves and their losses; their desires and their dreams. Full of heart and life, Beautiful Bodies is a delight to read.
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Summary: Superlative, literate fiction about single women's lives
Review: This book is so startlingly smart and truthful, it brought tears to my eyes. The tears were followed by laughter. I looked into this novel as into a mirror. How do you know all this? I ask the author. Can you read my mind? Do you know me? And my friends? I felt my body and soul were exposed and I did not want this book to end. There are erotic sequence too, that seem so true, I wonder if they are memories. Destined to be read widely by women with above average intelligence. I will read it again and again, and give to my best friends in a chain of friendship...Loved, loved, loved it!
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Summary: Pure pleasure
Review: A perfect summer book, one to savor and share. Six thirtysomething New York women gather for a baby shower (the mother is happily single) as the "storm of the century" gathers outside. Laura Shaine Cunningham's characters feel like old friends, but still have the freshness to make you laugh out loud. Beautiful Bodies is funny, funny, funny, but the six women's longings and disappointments as they hurtle towards forty give it a much deeper resonance. This is one you'll be recommending to friends for a long time to come.
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Summary: boring
Review: Very slow moving, overall not a very interesting story.I was expecting something more chic lit and funny and it wasn't that at all.
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Summary: Great female friends
Review: Laura Shaine Cunningham explores the immense power and importance of female friendship. Friends truly are the family you choose! Cunningham's writing is funny, honest, and cuts straight to the heart.
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Summary: Entertaining
Review: If you're looking for a book to hold your attention for a few evenings, you found it. Last week I had back surgery and was looking for a book that would hold my attention in spite of being halfway knocked out by pain killers. I tried a few other books- each lulled me into a drug induced sleep- before finding Beautiful Bodies. This story of six friends who met years ago while residing at the Theresa House in New York City and have maintained their friendships- in spite of growing apart- will entertain you from start to finish.
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Summary: Packaging not to the novel's credit.
Review: Yes, it *looks* like yet another swingin' single gal fic to be enjoyed while swilling cosmos at the bikini wax salon, but don't be fooled. It's actually the spirit of "The Group" being handed to us with a sugary coating we didn't ask for and don't need, because this is quite an excellent book. How I wish the publisher would give both novel and reader more credit than to dress this one up for drinks at the latest hip spot and make it hang out at the bar with Carrie Bradshaw and Bridget Jones.
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Summary: Blissed Out with these Beautiful Bodies
Review: Lucky for me, I borrowed this from the library. how angry would I have been to have wasted money on this! What could have been an AMAZING story, falls flat, dead. ONE character out of the six MAIN characters has a MINIMAL resolution to her issues. The others have NONE. ZERO. One character--one of the more interesting characters in the book--has a big "secret" that we wait most of the book for her to reveal... and when she does... YAWN! The character from Kentucky... pul-lease, did this woman do ANY research??? Be serious! Martha, who by all standards, should have had some experience to teach her something valuable... no, she is unchanged. Just a ridiculous waste of my time!
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