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Title: Straight Talking : A Novel by JANE GREEN ISBN: 0-7679-1559-3 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.08 (24 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Well written but unlikable character
Comment: Anastasia (Tasha) is thirty and single. She knows that she's pretty, makes a good living in London television, and has plenty of friends, but her relationships may last a single night or nine months, but they never turn into Mr. Right. Sometimes the passion is there but nothing else. And with her friend Adam, there is love without passion--which simply isn't enough for Tasha.
Author Jane Green uses a conversations first person style to narrate Tasha's adventures in London. She hangs out with her girlfriends, sees her psychologist, and wonders why she can't find the relationship that will make her happy. She sleeps with several men (but not so many that she's really slutty), and spends most of her time with her friends talking about her men or their men--none of whom are worth bringing home in the first place. Of course, Adam has been growing on her, but Adam simply doesn't create the kind of fireworks that Tasha feels she needs.
Green is a good writer and her writing holds the reader's interest. Tasha, however, is not an especially likable character. She falls hard for Simon who doesn't seem to have anything going for him, waits for him to call her even when he's sleeping with a beautiful model, and treats Adam like dirt. We're led to believe that Adam is really a special and understanding guy, but I couldn't help wondering why he would like someone as superficial as Tasha unless he had his own issues.
STRAIGHT TALKING is classic Chick Lit. Women living in the big city, making big money, reject any man who is interested in them and go for the men who aren't available--and then feel sorry for themselves when things don't work out. If you like this kind of story, you'll enjoy STRAIGHT TALKING. Green's conversational style does work.
Rating: 1
Summary: Horribly written and boring!
Comment: After reading Jane Green's poorly written but strangely engrossing novel, Jemima J., I decided to give her other books a chance. I am extremely sorry I wasted my time. Mr. Maybe started off well, but quickly dissolved into a boring, predictable, and forgottable mess.
Straight Talking, which is probably her worst novel yet, doesn't even start off well, and unfortunately, doesn't get any better. Reading these novels makes me realize that anyone can write a book and sell it, as long as it is badly written, predictable, and blah. Mrs. Green writes like I did in the eighth grade, not even bothering to hide her lack of talent. Her descriptions, if you can even call them that, are lackluster, and her dialogue is absolutely atrocious. Plus, aside from Jemima J., she has not created one single likable heroine. In fact, Straight Talking's Tasha, has got to be one of the most pathetic, annoying, and unlikeable characters in all of literature, which, if I had my way, this book would not be a category of. She falls in love with any man who lays his eyes on her, and gives in to pleasure within minutes of speaking to him, then wonders why she can't have a decent relationship, blaming her lack of love on her parents' divorce. A television producer should be smarter than that. Honey, perhaps you can't find a man because you've slept with all of England!
Tasha's friends all seem the same to me and I was confused as to who is who. All four of these women are cardboard, going through the EXACT same cliched problems and dealing with them in the same way. I could not tell one from the other and it bothered me how similar they are. Perhaps ONE best friend would have been more convenient, and saved the confusion. These women are stuck in very harmful relationships and blame themselves for it, and can't bring themselves to just walk away. It seems they are trying to deliberately ruin their lives by doing everything they shouldn't. It's pathetic and bothersome.
I just can't get into a novel where I don't even care about the characters, especially the heroine. She is the woman you always try to avoid at parties and want your boyfriend to steer clear of at all costs. A woman everyone is friends with, but secretly hates. Now, would you want to read a book about her?
This is being compared to a British version of Sex and the City, but I assure you it is not. It's a very bad novel written about a horrible person. Steer clear, you have been warned!
Rating: 5
Summary: Delicious Page turner !!
Comment: This book captured my interest from page 1 !! If you are a single woman in your 30's, you will easily relate (although you may not always agree with Tasha ). Green writes in the 1st person, drawling you into the story, as if Tasha herself is telling her tale directly to you . Tasha, is the kind of woman other woman despise , glamourous job, figure, but under the surface , she still suffers from childhood issues that have formed problems in her adult life . Her mother never thought she was good enough, and her father was unfaithful . Adam , is her best male friend , and he is everything she dreams about, but she is blind (as we all are sometimes), until she almost loses him . This book will make you laugh out loud, get angry at Tasha , and finally be happy for her at the end . If you love all things british (including the cheeky humor ) you will enjoy this . Tasha is a realistic character, she has flaws, but she is not perfect, although she appears to be on the outside.
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Title: Babyville by JANE GREEN ISBN: 0767912233 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Bookends : A Novel by Jane Green ISBN: 0767907817 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Mr. Maybe : A Novel by Jane Green ISBN: 0767905202 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 11 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Jemima J : A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans by Jane Green ISBN: 0767905180 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 05 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella ISBN: 0385336810 Publisher: Dial Books Pub. Date: 23 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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