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Title: Down with Love by Barbara Novak ISBN: 0-06-054162-8 Publisher: HarperEntertainment Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: hilarious
Comment: I can't wait for the movie to come out. The book is so hilarious, there is also a surprising twist towards the end. I wasn't expecting it. I didn't even see it coming, but I was glad that this romantic comedy is different & fresh. You'll just have to read the book to find out. It'll be so cool to see this romantic comedy. I can't wait!
The basic plot is this: Barbara Novak has sworn off love, written a book "Down with love" that encourages women that love is a distraction. Down with love but not sex, she encourages women to have sex "a la carte," it sounds very "Sex & the City" and its reminiscent of those Rock Hudson & Doris Day comedies.
The book becomes a best seller & women everywhere are following Barbara's advice. That's not cool with Catcher Block. This journalist, & ladies man has had enough. He decides to bring Barbara down, by of course, pretending to be a shy astronaut. He hopes to write an expose about how he made Miss Barbara Novak, fall in love with him.
Instead of ending like those Hudson/Day comedies, which most people have seen & know the ending of...this book certainly twists things up. I was so surprised at the ending! Very surprised. The book felt original, different & fresh without feeling cliched, even though the premise seems to be recycled. I suggest that you read it...
Rating: 2
Summary: awful, mindless, and shallow
Comment: I purchased this novelization ... after hearing positive buzz about the film. BIG MISTAKE. I read it in one hour, but it wasn't because it was enthralling or the slightest bit interesting - in fact, it was quite [bad]. Now I know why the retail price was [money].
Of course, with a title like "Down with Love" and cutesy '60s cover art, I didn't exactly expect this to be Faulkner, but the repeated blows to my intelligence were just disgraceful.
The plot of the novel seemed promising, and the premise was indeed original and slightly tongue-in-cheek (anyone who has read this novelization and/or seen the movie can tell you it's a throwback to the old Rock Hudson/Doris Day sex comedies of the '50s and '60s). Of course, it's laden with a ton of sexual innuendos and wacky situtations. But it also has the worst characterization known to man. The characters, ESPECIALLY the two leads, are carelessly developed, shallow, and unconvincing. Their "love story" is silly, and I think I killed a million neurons just reading about it.
For starters, skip the novelization and just watch the movie. At least there it's presented in a superbly visual format, and can come across as weird as it wants to without looking utterly stupid.
Rating: 4
Summary: Down with this book!!
Comment: I am hands down loving this book. At first I got alittle worried with the begining, but it turned out to be a sweet read. I read this book of course in a 2 & 1/2hr span. I just drifted right along with it. Very funny how the author jumped from the two main characters, I liked it. Great read for by the pool, or on a trip. Not too much to read but light enough to get fullfilled from it. I loved the characters Barbara and Catcher, their crazy twists on the truth & their devious plans for eachother. Now I want to see the movie. Hope its as good as the book.
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Title:Down With Love ASIN: B0000996F6 Publisher: Warner Brothers Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.99 |
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Title: Young Adam by Alexander Trocchi ISBN: 0802139779 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title:Down with Love (Widescreen Edition) ASIN: B00005JLZW Publisher: Twentieth Century Fox Home Video Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $20.99 |
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Title: Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Daniel Wallace ISBN: 0140282777 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Choose Life-Ewan McGregor & the British Film Revival by Xan Brooks ISBN: 0233994106 Publisher: Trafalgar Square Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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