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Title: The Cigarette Girl by Carol Wolper ISBN: 1-57322-818-4 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 12 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (54 reviews)
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: 4
Summary: Hollywood chick-lit story with a slight edge...
Comment: I've had this book on my book shelf for quite sometime; I finally decided it was time to read it. And while it did not offer anything new to the chick-lit genre, it had a nice Hollywood touch to it and provided entertainment for a few days.
Cigarette Girl tells the story of 28-year-old Elizabeth West and her quest for Mr. Maybe. Elizabeth is an action-movie screenwriter who is currently writing for her long-time crush, Jake. Problem is, Jake is a bad-boy, with a Blonde-of-the-Month in tow at all times. Mostly, Elizabeth yearns to be free of The Zone, the area in life where singeltons worry about settling down, getting married and having babies before it's too late. But every date on which she goes doesn't hold much promise. Will Elizabeth EVER find true love -- with a bad-boy or anyone else?
This book was pretty typical in its presentation. I wasn't really expecting anything different. I did enjoy the book, and the Hollywood setting the most because I think that is what gave this book its edge. Plus all the premiere parties and screenings were just plain fun to read. I would read another book by Carol Wolper -- she did a pretty decent job and for chick-lit fans, I think Cigarette Girl will provide a good time.
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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