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Title: Gossip by Kelly Lange ISBN: 0-684-83263-1 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I give this book 5 big stars..............
Comment: I just finished reading GOSSIP and found the book to be so entertaining that it was hard to put it down. I have spent some time in Carmel so was able to relate to the area of California that she mentioned throughout the book. I liked the life time friendship of the four girls and the experiences they shared through the good and bad. I look forward to reading TROPHY WIFE as soon as I can. I am certainly going to recommend this book to others.
Rating: 1
Summary: Only wish I could have given it 0 stars...
Comment: Although I was somewhat entertained during the first 2-3 pages, throughout the rest of the book I felt an overwhelming urge to inform Ms. Lange that a.) less is more when it comes to "educating" your audience about the lifestyles of the rich & famous living in New York and L.A.; b.) you do not need to leave "clues" and "cliffhangers" at every turn; and c.) no one in the real world leaves messages on answering machines even remotely resembling those left by Trisha, Molly, Kate, and Lane, the ever-so-exhausting-to-read-about main characters in "Gossip." I understand that this is a work of fiction. I also understand that the author is entitled to portray and describe locations and characters in any way she sees fit in order to tell her tale. However, one cliched description after another, conversations that are so inane and melodramatic that they make even "Gone With the Wind" look subtle, and tedious stereotypes about starving and/or self-destructive artists, cut-throat gallery owners, has-been athletic stars, and poor little rich girls were enough to make me alternate between nausea and derision. The only thing that allowed me to finish the book was my hope that SOMEWHERE in the ending I would find redemption -- unfortunately, I had predicted the ending chapters ago -- and the knowledge that at least I didn't buy it.
But I certainly feel sorry for the library from which I borrowed it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another bestseller
Comment: The four of them became close friends in the late seventies when they all were undergraduates attending the Briarwood College for Women in Pennsylvania. The school was an exclusive college for daughters of the wealthy and famous, especially the filthy rich with an occasional scholarship tossed to some ingrate. After graduating together in the class of '79, they kept in touch. In fact, over the next two decades, as their careers and new families form, they constantly meet to share the latest GOSSIP.
Patricia "Trisha" Collins Newman (nee of the Philadelphia Collins and married to the business mogul Peter Newman), is a radio show host. Lane Hurley (of the Boston Hurleys) is the owner of an expensive antique shop. Katherine Spenser Feruzzi (yes- of the New York Spensers) is married to Austin, an abusive spouse, who hapens to be an art dealer. Molly Adams (of the scholarship Adams) is a wannabe artist, who works for Katherine's husband. The GOSSIP at this latest get-together centers around Katherine finally leaving Austin, who has recently increased the number of beatings he gave his wife. However, everything changes when Austin is murdered and his relationship with Katherine becomes the nation's gossip.
GOSSIP is wonderful modern work of contemporary women's fiction that will thrill fans of the genre. All four women are witty and charming in different ways as they confront various issues facing the American female in the late nineties. Kelly Lange, who has already made heavy medal noise with her previous brilliant work, TROPHY WIFE, comes ever closer to reaching the top rung where the queens of this genre reside. This is a novel that fans of women fiction will devour.
Harriet Klausner
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Title: Reporter, The by Kelly Lange ISBN: 0446612561 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Trophy Wife by Kelly Lange ISBN: 0451188128 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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