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Title: Four Blondes by Candace Bushnell ISBN: 0-8021-3825-X Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.17 (286 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Four Blondes With Attitude
Comment: I can't say that I am a fan of Candace Bushnell, but I did enjoy Sex in the City, so I was intrigued enough to read this book. Seeing as how the first novel was so good, it was truly hard to follow, and unfortunately, this follow up wasn't all that great.
Four Blondes brings us the stories of four women. The only one that I truly found mildly interesting was the first one involving Janey Wilcox, a former model who is constantly looking for a man to support her and take her to the Hamptons for the summer. It was mildly humorous and she was, by far, the most interesting character of the four.
I can see how Bushnell was trying to continue with what worked for her in her other novel with the four main characters, but I honestly could have done without the other three. In fact the last woman doesn't even have a name, and her story was so short, I felt as if this section was just put in to make the quota of four.
As always, her language and writing style was very crisp and clear. The storylines were alright, considering the actual length of them. However, the character development could have used some work.
On the whole, the book is not as bad as some of the other reviews on here, and I am hoping that Winnie Deike would approve of my on-line review (see the story on blonde #2 to get that joke). Although it was a fairly entertaining read, Four Blondes did fall somewhat short of my expectations.
Rating: 2
Summary: Cheap blondes
Comment: Being a huge fan of the HBO series, "Sex and the City," I had high hopes for this book. Fortunately they were dashed. There is no real wit here, and all the characters just seemed sad. I suppose one could argue that the girls of "Sex" are/were mainly sleeping around and caring more about accessories and looking good, but somehow the writing and the acting makes them fleshed out and interesting. You feel you know them, can relate to one or all of them. I never got that with these 'Four Blondes.' It just felt empty. I'd suggest reading through it more carefully at the bookstore before buying, or that you borrow it from a friend or the library. It might just be me, but this coming from the woman whose idea and columns sparked 'Sex and the City' it just is a letdown.
Rating: 4
Summary: BLONDE: JUST ABOUT THE RIGHT COLOR FOR THIS BOOK.
Comment: A quick read of the reviews here has me wondering what the other readers were expecting from this book. Bushnell writes (or has been known to write, I guess) for the New York Observer. It'd be a tall order to line up expectations of literary ingenuity or deep mystique about the characters that 4 Blondes is about. Three of the four leads are single, all live in NYC, and all socialize with (or aspire to socialize with) the type of people who read or appear in High Society sections of leading dailies.
This is a novel of manners with no manners, pop literature that smartly captures the mores and obsessions of our times and does so with wit, insight and a lot of unshackled talk about sex. We read about enough penises to make Philip Roth blush.
It's a snappy, quick breeze through modern urban pop culture. And yes, there ARE people like this in all megapolis urbanscapes of the world, from NYC to Tokyo. And it makes no pretense of being otherwise. Which makes for a fabulous fun if you don't suffer from a Moralizing Itch.
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