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Title: Living Single by Holly Chamberlin ISBN: 0-7582-0143-5 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.44 (16 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Sex and the Bostonians
Comment: Living Single is a novel about four thirty-something single women looking for love in the big city. They exchange witty dialogue over cocktails at trendy bars. Sound familiar? Well, this novel is a carbon copy of TV's Sex and the City -- only that this book is set in Boston.
I am not attacking Holly Chamberlin for having written a novel that's uncanny to the popular series. On the contrary! The novel's insights on single life are quite accurate -- especially the way the heroine's illicit affair with a married colleague progresses throughout the novel. Chamberlin has hit the nail in the head with the taboo topic of infidelity.
This novel has enough wit and insight to outweigh its lack of originality. I know that chick lit enthusiasts (like myself) will enjoy it. So sit back, relax and set out to read this novel with gusto!
Rating: 5
Summary: Real women, having fun and living life!
Comment: A girlfriend gave me this book and I picked it up after the last episode of 'Sex and the City'...the cover makes it look like it might be like that...and it is, but different -- in a good way!...the women are more real, with real lives and real concerns...Holly Chamberlin is funny and the Boston setting is fresh and lively...anyway, I gobbled it up and it almost made the pain of losing Carrie and her gang go away!
Rating: 3
Summary: Holly Chamberlin is FUNNY!
Comment: I really enjoyed much of this books--the parts I read. Ms. Chamberlin is a very funny woman and a great writer with a smooth style.
Unfortunately, her editor let her down. This book should be 100 pages shorter. I skipped from March to June without any loss in continuity. Didn't feel I missed a thing. Then, in August, I started scanning and skipping scenes.
I loved the places in Boston the friends met--and I liked all the friends--but I felt at least 1/4th of those shared meals could have been cut because they didn't go anywhere. I don't understand the need for the affair between Erin's father and Abby. Nor was there much of a need for Maureen. There was a LOT here that could have been cut. This would have picked up the pace and made this a much better novel.
And, sadly, the length hurt the best part of the book--Ms. Chamberlin's great voice and terrific wit. While the ending was not sloppy, was actually very well written, by the time I fainally got there, I was worn out and Ms. Chamberlin wasn't funny anymore. What happened to Erin's smart mouth when we needed it?
I'm not sure I want to spend more money for her next novel and end up skipping 1/3 of it.
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Title: Party Girls by Roz Bailey ISBN: 0758201966 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Girlfriends by Patrick Sanchez ISBN: 1575668998 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Accidental Virgin by Valerie Frankel ISBN: 0060938412 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Bare Necessity by Carole Matthews ISBN: 0060532149 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Girls' Night Out by Roz Bailey ISBN: 0758201982 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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