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Title: Bergdorf Blondes : A Novel by Plum Sykes ISBN: 1-4013-5196-4 Publisher: Miramax Pub. Date: 07 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.8 (60 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A little too Bergdorf, and a little too blonde
Comment: In the tradition of Candace Bushnell's "Four Blondes" and "Trading Up" comes "Bergdorf Blondes" by Plum Sykes, a story about Manhattan's best-dressed women, and their fantastically luxurious highlights, heartbreaks, and Hermes Birkin waiting-list woes. In a sense, the unnamed narrator (a self-described champagne bubble-about-town) and her perfectly blonde best friend, Julie Bergdorf, are refreshingly unlike many rich chick-lit heroines: they're not ruthless or mean-hearted, they're oftentimes charming and witty, and their very self-indulgence has a campy quality that comes across as more amusing than petty.
There's a downside: the book never goes anywhere particularly surprising, and the whirl of men-clothes-manicures gets boring and one-dimensional after a while. The characters' very cuteness is a little unnerving as well; I love clothing as much as the next girl, but it's not all that I, or any other girl for that matter, think about. Sykes' writing isn't good enough to make her characters into real people. Rather, they're simply very well-dressed, well-coiffed shells with no interests other than clothes or men, and they're not real enough to make their silliness interesting for more than 100 pages or so.
In conclusion, it's disappointing to reach the end of the book and realize that it doesn't go anywhere: there's no well-fashioned plot, just a series of fragmented episodes that pass for a story, and there's no character growth. No one ever learns to care for anything beyond men, clothes, and grooming, and yet, despite this, they're perfectly happy people. Does that mean the book's not worth reading? No, it is; it's good beach or boredom reading. But you may find yourself losing interest in the incessant themes of designer highlights and rotten men, in which case, "Bergdorf Blondes" becomes very unpleasant to finish.
Rating: 1
Summary: Utterly vapid.... and not in a fun way.
Comment: I wasn't expecting real literature, here. I was hoping for an effortless little bit of fluff to distract me for a spell. But frankly, this isn't even a good beach read. It's pallid and flat and lifeless and dull... It has no plot, it goes nowhere, and the characters are so tediously arrogant that I wanted to club them senseless with their own Jimmy Choos. I get the distinct impression that this is a talentless but rich and spoiled celebutante's attempt to write a thinly-veiled memoire. It had such potential to be a fun read, but it's as dull and soulless as "Moi" herself. Yawn. Glad I borrowed it from the library-- I'd feel ripped off if I had actually wasted my money on it.
Rating: 2
Summary: Very readable, but ultimately lackluster and disappointing
Comment: I was in search of an enjoyable chick flick type book when I bought Bergdorf Blondes. Unfortunately, this book had all the trappings, but none of the heart. It was a very fast read, which is probably good because I would have likely put it aside otherwise. I did not feel the author gave us any real good reasons to sympathize with the main character/narrator. I am not sure why I kept reading until the end. Perhaps I was looking for her to get more real, or at least less superficial. Somehow it never happened. (Or might have kept reading
because it made me happy to be married and no longer living in NYC!)
Regardless, the lives of these girls seemed very pathetic and lonely. I prefer books where the main character has a goal greater than getting free clothes and rides on private jets. I did not root for the main character, I felt I was only watching her life from afar in fascination of its vapidity.
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