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Title: The Cigarette Girl: A Novel by Carol Wolper ISBN: 1-57322-137-6 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (54 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Fun Simple Read
Comment: The mixed reviews regarding this book surprise me; I passed it on to two friends in “the zone” and they loved it also. The plot is not deep, nor is the writing an astounding literary masterpiece, but the characters are likable and identifiable to any clique of women. The main character, Elizabeth West is sometimes predictable, but aren’t best friends? Carol Wolper makes the reader root for Elisabeth and develop a love/hate relationship for Jake. I enjoyed it much better than Bridget Jones; Elisabeth is much more self secure, honest, and has funnier one liners. As a woman, I cannot help but feel a bit jealous Elisabeth found a man ...
Rating: 3
Summary: If you are looking for a light & trashy read ...
Comment: This book would do it for you! It's not as funny as Isabell Wolff's "The Trials of Tiffany Trott," nor any of Marian Keye's books ~~ for an American writer, this is pretty dishy and funny. If you like reading about sex in L.A. or Hollywood, then this book is it.
Elizabeth West is a free-lance screenwriter who is dreading being in the "Zone." The Zone is that age between 28 and 35 where women start thinking about their biological clock and settling down with a man. So every date is a "Maybe" and most often than not, it's usually a "No Way." Or about how a man would call for the second date and he never does ~~ it's about how women try their hardest to capture a man's attention and how hard they work to keep it ~~ it's a cynical view of dating and marriage.
This book explores a woman's dating life (er, well, sex life) as she tries to find the one man that she would spend her life with. Elizabeth West portrays the average L.A. party girl, fascinated with designer shoes and making it big with her screenplay, keeping in touch with her friends and living life in the fast lane (except drugs ~~ that's not her style, alcohol is more like it). It's not a thought-provoking book by any means, but it is escapism.
The Brits writers (Keyes, Trott etc.) still have the corner on the single woman's plight as she searches for marriage, meaning to life and so on ~~ dashed with lots of humor; but Wolper doesn't do such a shabby job with her first book. It is fun to read and you can still relate to Elizabeth West as she struggles for acceptance in the hardest city of the world ~~ Hollywood. It's a lot more realistic than you expected from Tinseltown, but it's still a glamourous read.
Rating: 3
Summary: a decent debut
Comment: I have to admit, I like that it wasn't typical of chick lit. The main character, Elizabeth, definitely has a brain in her head and knows how to use it. I like the premise of a non-bimbo existing and surviving in a bimbo's world, and I also like the way she captures the general shallowness of Hollywood types. Sure, her characters may be a little stereotypical, but it's all in good fun. Her jaded wit and her observations about models and bimbos is classic (especially when talking about bimbo Blaze putting on her "intellectual" glasses). Now for what didn't work: Being that the author was a screenwriter, the only details she really gives the reader are purely visual; she fails to evoke the other senses. That didn't bother me too much, though because L.A. is preoccupied with the visual anyway. With her platonic male friend (I forget his name), his past seems tacked on to me, and I really didn't get a chance to care about him enough for it to really ring true. I like how she can work a plot, and work dialog, and that's where her skills as a screen writer really shine through. My biggest gripe though was the cop-out ending. I won't spoil it for anyone, but that was enough to make me take two stars off it. A bad ending is hard for me to shake, but I give her three stars for making this a little grittier than your usual chick fare.
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Title: Secret Celebrity by Carol Wolper ISBN: 1573229911 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Other Side of Mulholland by Stephen Randall ISBN: 0312288670 Publisher: L A Weekly Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: I'm Losing You by Bruce Wagner ISBN: 0452278686 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: On Spec: A Novel of Young Hollywood by Richard Rushfield ISBN: 031228053X Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Mr. Famous: A Novel by Carol Wolper ISBN: 1573222720 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 24 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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