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The History Connection - Good in Bed
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List Price: $15.00
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Manufacturer: Washington Square Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780743418171
ISBN: 0743418174
Label: Washington Square Press
Manufacturer: Washington Square Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2002-04-02
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Studio: Washington Square Press
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Summary: Some parallels to the movie "My Best Friend's Wedding"
Comment: This is not exactly a bad book per se, but I would like to point out that it doesn't seem to be an 'original' novel. For example, as I was reading this novel, I couldn't help but see flavors that were reminiscent of the movie "My Best Friend's Wedding" (1997), starring Julia Roberts, Rupert Everett, and Dermot Mulroney. However, these familiar flavors may be obscure enough that they may be missed by the average reader. For example, the protagonist in the book has a friend that is a food critic from which she occasionally gets relationship advice from (Julia Roberts is a food critic in "My Best Friend's Wedding" and gets relationship advice from a friend who sometimes comes along with her on her restaurant reviews). In addition, there are passages in the book that are similar to actual scenes in the movie I'm seeing parallels to. For instance, about a third of the way through the book, after the protagonist has been regretting her decision to break it up with her boyfriend and is desperately seeking to make amends, the protagonist has a conversation with her mother in which her mother helps her come to the realization that she is doing all of the chasing to get the relationship mended while her ex-boyfriend is not (pp. 119)--not much different than the conversation that Julia Robert's character gets into with Rupert Everett's character in "My Best Friend's Wedding", when Julia's character is chasing after her best friend (Dermot Mulroney) after getting caught kissing him by her best friend's fiancee (Cameron Diaz). Furthermore, the overall premise of the two storylines are quite similiar--the protagonist is trying to win back or win over someone they've come to realize that they love. These are a few parallels between this book and that movie to name a few. If the reader doesn't mind these similarities (again, these similarities may be obscure enough to go unnoticed) and can push back these thoughts well enough, then this book is quite entertaining in itself. Happy reading :-)
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Summary: Loving a Larger Woman
Comment: Carrie Shapiro is the classic larger woman protagonist. She's opinionated and loud mouthed. In this book, the boyfriend she has recently broken up with writes about her in a popular women's magazine. His article contains intimate details about their sex life, and what it was like for him to love a larger woman.
Carrie was the one who ended the relationship with this guy, and throughout the book, we see her constantly debating with herself on whether or not she made the right decision. Since being apart from him, she's come to realise how much of an impact he has had on her life and what she has done for him, so should they get back together?
I thought this book was okay. It's pretty typical for the chick lit genre. I was quite intrigued by the boyfriend character. It was refreshing to read about the conclusion of a relationship from the male perspective, which is not something we often see from the chick lit genre. However, overall I thought this book was fairly average for me. It's good for a laugh but nothing more.
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Summary: Could have been better
Comment: I was a bit disappointed with this book. Although, it was well written, funny and entertaining, I felt like something was missing, and the ending wasn't as good as it could have been.
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Summary: The whiney character gets a bit old after a while.....
Comment: Okay, I read this book because I had read everything by "Sedaris" and "Burroughs" and my sister recommended it. I now see why. The main character (who is a lot like my sister physically and sarcastically)is someone you start out liking but midway through the book she starts to get a bit pathetic. The amount this woman whines about "always being the fat girl" and how everyone that weighs under 200lbs must be mean, dumb, slutty, or just a plain [...] just becomes extremely bratty and annoying. Also most of the story line (including becoming best friends with a top hollywood actress in less than 48 hours) lacks realism. As a reader you want to like "Cannie" (the main character) but she spends so much time crying over her father leaving the family when she was in her teens and how much he owes her somthing, and it's all his fault that she is , how she is (which has happened to about 70% of the country in today's world) and the constant "it's because I am fat" or "I am so fat" or " nobody loves me because I am fat" (are we getting the picture yet?) story line. How can you base a story mainly on someone who is ridiculed and cannot stand being "so" fat but then on the next page she is stuffing her face with veal, or french fires, or a bagel and wondering why non of her weight loss plans have worked. Better yet she pushes the boundaries of sarcasim into just plain nasty jealousy and bitterness toward anyone who is not considered "heavy". I have no problem with a lead role being heavy. "Heck" more of the U.S is heavy than they are thin so I had hoped that would make this book more down to earth but really it just made me see why the "fat girl" got picked on so much... It's got to be all about her all the time and it gets a bit old..... I do however like the style in which this writer tells a story and I understand she has other works and will still try another of her books and just write this one off as having an unlikable character....
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Summary: Ok for a beach read
Comment: I liked the book, but didn't love it. I kept reading b/c I am from Phila and could relate to the Phila references. I liked Cannie and wanted to find out what happened to her, but I could not really relate, and didn't like the references to thin people as the enemy (maybe b/c I'm thin)! I think Jennifer is a good writer, but this just wasn't my favorite book.
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For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her friends, her rat terrier, Nifkin, and her job as pop culture reporter for The Philadelphia Examiner. She's even made a tenuous peace with her plus-size body. But the day she opens up a national women's magazine and sees the words "Loving a Larger Woman" above her ex-boyfriend's byline, Cannie is plunged into misery...and the most amazing year of her life. From Philadelphia to Hollywood and back home again, she charts a new course for herself: mourning her losses, facing her past, and figuring out who she is and who she can become.
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