Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Sex and the City
Book Review: Don't Read This!
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this expecting something like the series on HBO, it even had Sarah Jessica Parker on the front. It was something that I didnt enjoy, it was all dark drug use, nothing like the series. Dont read this book!!! Donate the money to charity- it would be better spent.Book Review: Don't Waste Your Time
Summary: 1 Stars
Even though several others have slammed this book in the reader feedback section, I want to add my note of caution. There are too many characters, and all of them are lacking in depth. It's more like the first few episodes of the show, but it goes downhill very quickly. The book is lacking in charm. I kept turning the pages in the hopes that something would develop, but in the end it was a convulted mess that only made me laugh twice.Book Review: Edith Wharton in spike heels!
Summary: 5 Stars
Hubba, hubba, hubba!!!!!!Book Review: Edith Wharton with a martini my (...)
Summary: 1 Stars
Bushnell has been hyped as "Edith Wharton with a Martini". If anyone actually believes this, then I am horrified at how low American literature has sunk. She's not even Jacqueline Suzann or Jackie Collins. These little vignettes are superficial, dull, and neither particularly intelligent nor particularly witty. Other reviewers are correct when they point out that the series was much smarter and funnier (at least, the first three seasons, anyway). It amazes me that this crap ever got published, and now Bushnell fancies herself a clever writer, so she has begun foisting other bombs on us as well (Trading Up and Four Blondes, both as dull and unimaginative as Sex and the City). She is an amateurish writer with painfully sophomoric "insights" who has benefitted from the hype of a great show based very loosely on her column (and I mean VERY loosely). As someone who lives in NYC, I can tell you that the people Bushnell reveres as the power players and "in" crowd are the (...) of many a joke in other social circles. Not everyone in this city worships superficiality and eternal adolescence. Don't waste your money!!Book Review: Enjoy It And Do Not Compare It With The HBO Serial
Summary: 5 Stars
When you read this book there are many things to consider.1. The book is written in the style of a scientific work of a doctor student. Every chapter has an own topic, which has been introduced every week as a column in the "New York Observer". There is no coherent plot with the exception of the relationship between Carrie and Mr.Big. In this way the book is often very hard to digest, but once you have put up with this and swallowed the idea you can enjoy its wit and humour the more.
2. Since there is no coherent plot in this book it is quite different from the HBO serial. This serial deals with the life and sex relationships of four women, Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda. In the book only Carrie has a distinguished part, the other women are three out of hundreds. At the beginning it is quite fastidious to have to read so many names of women and men, but at the end you get the idea why Candace Bushnell is doing this: all people consist of names and sex, nothing more.
3. Is this book a moral book? In my opinion it is. The relationship between Carrie and Mr.Big has to end because it is a sexual relationship without love. At the end Mr.Big uses all his power to destroy Carrie and he succeeds, which in my opinion is also a sign that there has never been any emotional understanding betweeen both protagonists. When you have finished the book I advise you to read the first chapter again. It has the genious quality of both introducing the book and summing it up. Afterwards you understand what Candace Bushnell wants to tell us.