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Title: Me Times Three by Alex Witchel, Alyssa Bresnahan ISBN: 1-4025-0234-6 Publisher: Recorded Books Pub. Date: January, 2003 Format: Audio Cassette List Price(USD): $78.00

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Average Customer Rating: 2.71 (73 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Rewrite, please
Comment: Sandra Berlin is a twenty-something young woman who comes to New York and lands herself a job on a new magazine, working under a mean-natured boss. She discovers in short order that her long-time boyfriend and current fiance is engaged to two other women besides herself (no explanation as to what's going on there) and that her gay best friend had AIDS. She also meets a handsome, talented, on-the-verge-of-eligible writer.

The rest of the story plays out without any surprises. In fact, that is pretty much the story, which moves with facility but not a lot of substance along to its inevitable ending.

Alex Witchel writes well when it comes to manipulating the language and putting together a nice turn of phrase. And her premise has a lot of potential. But the packaging and marketing promise humor that isn't there, and the overwhelming reaction on finishing the book is likely to be "So what?" In a market saturated with books about twenty-somethings finding the ideal man, it's a pity she didn't have an editor at least as good as her protagonist to push for one more rewrite.

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent! Sorry to see the negative feedback!
Comment: Hmmm... I wonder if they read the same book I did. I found it delightful, true to life, funny, satirical, and enlightening. I am 51, so I enjoyed the younger woman outlook with the maturity of having been through some of those same situations! The fractured fairy tales interspersed really added to and interpreted the maturity that the main character, Sandra Berlin, gained as the story progressed. The story of her gay best friend was very real to me and I thought she did an excellent job of covering all the bases in dealing with the death and dying of a friend with AIDS. I listened to it on an audiotape first and then purchased a copy. It was excellent entertainment during my daily commute.

Rating: 3
Summary: Why was this written?
Comment: I borrowed this book from a friend believing that it was going to be another one of those funny "chick-lit" books that I could breeze through in a couple of days with a few laughs. That is not what was in store for me. I like to read all kinds of different literature though so that wasn't necessarily a problem. However, the back cover had me believing that the story would center on Sandy's bad break-up with her high school sweetheart. (He was seeing two other women while seeing her). This horrible thing he did was mentioned throughout the book, but I never felt that it was really solved. Meanwhile, I was expecting to get into other aspects of her life. She works for a magazine as an editor of some sort(stereotypical of chick lit) and she tries to date again. Nothing EVER really happens with any of that though. Just boring paragraph upon boring paragraph. (Except for the chapters regarding her gay best friend who has moved to California.) These chapters were the only reason I gave this book 3 stars instead of 1 or 2. If the book had been more about that relationship and about what was going on there, it would have been more interesting. I felt like the author kept taking a side tour with that story and completely neglecting the rest of her life. *Semi-spoiler* (it's all totally predictable and uninteresting anyway) Basically, she gets a wake-up call in love, gets terrible news about her friend, deals with it, gets a new job, and maybe sort of has a new boyfriend. Nothing spectacular. Rereading my own diary is more entertaining and interesting that this book. There are definitly books out there that are less disappointing and more fun. Don't waste your time and read one of those instead!