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Sex and the City

lklawless — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:08:55 +0000

Though I love the TV show, Candace Bushnell’s book Sex and the City is very dull. I actually read it long before I ever started watching the show – in fact, that’s why I held out for so long. You know how you read a fantastic book and then are often disappointed by the book? This was just the opposite – hated the book, loved the program.

Everything that is wonderful about HBO’s Sex and the City – humor, sweetness, romance, sexiness – is missing in the book. In fact, I’m amazed the show was ever made, because the raw material of the book is utterly uninspiring.

Boy Meets Girl

lklawless — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:00:58 +0000

A modern day epistolary novel, Meg Cabot’s Boy Meets Girl is told entirely through emails, notes, instant messaging, voice mails, and the like. Except I don’t – like it, that is. It’s one thing for a book to be written in the form of two people writing letters to one another – where both parties’ letters are included and you can follow the dialogue easily. It’s quite another to read only the narrator’s letters, in which she has to spell out what happened during the preceding “live” event in order for the letter or email or whatever to make sense. It’s totally artificial. Plus, for some reason the various characters’ outgoing voice mail messages are included before each voice mail message she receives or leaves. The first or second time is ok, but having to reread the same paragraphs repeatedly is annoying, and makes me wonder if the author was just trying to up her word and page count. As for the story, I don’t know – I couldn’t get into it. Maybe it would have been ok as a regular novel.

Suddenly Single

lklawless — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:00:08 +0000

I’m sure that Sheila O’Flanagan tried to dumb down the financial market info in Suddenly Single, but even so I couldn’t understand much of it (and there was a lot) and therefore the whole story was far less interesting than it might have been. There was no humor, either, so in the end I found it really boring. I’m all for strong, intelligent female characters, but not at the expense of an enjoyable read.