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Title: Angels by Marian Keyes ISBN: 0-06-000803-2 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.76 (86 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Second favorite Marian Keyes
Comment: My favorite Marion Keyes book is, hands down, Rachel's Holiday. But Angels comes awfully close.
Angels chronicles Maggie Walsh (of the irresistible Walsh family) after she leaves her husband. Keyes uses her flashback style I've come to know and love to show us how Maggie's marriage became so horrible that she up and left her husband one day to visit her childhood friend now living in Los Angeles. Just as when I read Rachel in Rachel's holiday, I completely sympathized with the Maggie right off the bat, even though, like Rachel before her, she has certainly has made some less than stellar choices. Keyes gives Maggie, and the characters she comes to befriend, such warmth and wit that it is easy to spend every moment of free time with them, and I did, pretty much devouring the book in one setting.
This book is also a great read for anyone looking for a hilarious take on Los Angeles. Maggie's new friends are all involved with the entertainment industry in one way or another, and as Maggie navigates her way through Hollywood parties, phone calls from agents, and a meeting where her friend pitches her script to a Hollywood producer, you will definitely have several laughs at LA's expense.
Rating: 5
Summary: Outlasts Milk
Comment: Rita Rudner is quoted as having said "In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk."
Maggie Walsh is known to her family and friends as plain vanilla yogurt. At room temperature, no less. Of the five Walsh sisters she is the only well-behaved one (as far as people know). Having married her first boyfriend and landed a paralegal job that was "as glamorous as a cold sore," she is known to be the steady, dull one. So it comes as a great shock when she leaves her husband of nine years, loses her job, and takes off from Ireland for Los Angeles to stay with her screenwriter friend Emily. It isn't long before she discovers that culture shock is the least of her problems in the land of dissolving marriages, movie extras, plastic surgery, and casual sex.
Angels is a book full of joy and sadness, artistry and humor. There is a story underneath a story underneath a story here, and Marian Keyes works simultaneously both forward and backward from the break-up to lead the reader to the story's surprising conclusion. I read it, laughing out loud in parts, and thoroughly enjoyed what I thought was a well-written light read. But the last third of the book sandbagged me with its unexpected depths. By the end it becomes clear that if Maggie Walsh is vanilla yogurt, it is yogurt with raspberries buried underneath the surface. One last thought: this book must have been fun to write, because it sure was a blast to read. Definitely worth 5 s tars.
Rating: 5
Summary: Thank You!!
Comment: I want to thank the author, I absoulutly loved the book. The characters were beleivable, and the reader is easily able to feel and see what the characters are going through. This book helped me through a break up, and helped me to move on. This is a great read for those who need to rememeber that life will move on. I love how when you read the book, (if you have read other novels by this author), you already know some of the characters, and those that you don't you start to love instantly. Pick it up, give it a read.
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Title: Watermelon by Marian Keyes ISBN: 0060090367 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes ISBN: 0060090383 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married by Marian Keyes ISBN: 0060090375 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Last Chance Saloon by Marian Keyes ISBN: 0060086246 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Sushi for Beginners : A Novel (Keyes, Marian) by Marian Keyes ISBN: 0060520507 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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