Maneater

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Summary: How the Other Half Lives
Review: What a fun, quick read! It is so much better than the other "chick lit" novels I have read of late. I could just picture Clarissa and Paris Hilton hanging out at The Ivy. Definitely recommended for a fast entertaining read.

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Summary: You will sink quickly into this book!
Review: What a great find at the bookstore for all chick lit lovers. This novel is based around our heroine (of sorts), Clarissa. She's a 31 (although she swears she's 28) year old woman who's still living off of her wealthy father while searching for the man she will force to marry her. Although the reader will begin the book thinking Clarissa is a shallow L.A. has been, she will win you over in the end with her internal transformation and witty banter. The author's writing flows well and is sometimes suprising, which is true to the nature of the never dull Clarissa. I would recommend this book highly as a quick summer read. I say quick read, because you'll have trouble putting Maneater down once you've read past page 2!

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Summary: Nobody walks in L.A.
Review: What a read! I think the Steve Martin quote on the back cover says it all- "Women aren't really like this, are they?" Needless to say, Maneater is a witty and sharp insider's view into the material world of Hollywood. Clarissa wants it all and wants it NOW. She is a social climber who gets what she wants and doesn't let her friends (aka the Star Chamber) or her mother stop her. She gets what she's after, all right, but her story is one that will keep you laughing, gasping, and ultimately, reading. The characters are fresh and funny-I especially love her Bolivian/Jewish mother. Take this novel for the satire that it is, and you will truly enjoy reading Maneater.

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Summary: What LA is that?
Review: Whenever I read a book set in "LA" I ask myself-- who are these horrible, sick, twisted people??? As a Los Angeles native, I've never had the misfortune to meet anyone as disgusting as the Clarissa-types. While I knew the book wasn't exactly going to be literature, I got tired of the mean spirited, shallow, self-serving "humor" and profanity. A spoof or a satire might make an amusing short story, but page after page after page after page of the same snotty, rude and "not-funny jokes" are not only tiresome, but aren't a good substitute for a good, entertaining story. As I said-- what horrible, sick, twisted characters.

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Summary: A fun piece of fluff for your beach blanket
Review: While this book makes no pretenses to be high literature, and the references will be dated by next year, it's a very fun read. It didn't make me laugh out loud like the first Bridget Jones book, but it is more clever and intelligently written than most "chick lit."

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Summary: Four and 1/2 actually for this chick lit!
Review: With her curves and overall maneating charisma, Clarissa Alpert is woman who is a bit smarter than she comes off (much like Jessica Simpson). Going after what she wants with a selfish, but somehow innocent mentality, whether it be a handbag or a man, makes this character endearing. Yet despite everything she's got, Clarissa does not have Mr. Right, and the diamond encrusted biological clock is ticking.

Enter the man she sets her sights on. An up and coming Hollywood "it" producer. Clarissa knows that this man has everything...except her. As things progress Clarissa gets to shop for wedding gowns, rent halls, choose the food, basically plan a fantastic wedding with all the trimmings. Now all she has to do is convince the groom-to-be to marry her. And not only that, but she has to make him think it was all his idea.

Clarissa has her work cut out for her, but for once is it really she who is pulling a fast one? Will her and her Vera Wang dreams live happily ever after?

Read this light, funny book to find out! I personally enjoyed this more than The Devil Wears Prada, and I think its just as good as the Shopaholic series.

Rating:
Summary: Four and 1/2 actually for this chick lit!
Review: With her curves and overall maneating charisma, Clarissa Alpert is woman who is a bit smarter than she comes off (much like Jessica Simpson). Going after what she wants with a selfish, but somehow innocent mentality, whether it be a handbag or a man, makes this character endearing. Yet despite everything she's got, Clarissa does not have Mr. Right, and the diamond encrusted biological clock is ticking.

Enter the man she sets her sights on. An up and coming Hollywood "it" producer. Clarissa knows that this man has everything...except her. As things progress Clarissa gets to shop for wedding gowns, rent halls, choose the food, basically plan a fantastic wedding with all the trimmings. Now all she has to do is convince the groom-to-be to marry her. And not only that, but she has to make him think it was all his idea.

Clarissa has her work cut out for her, but for once is it really she who is pulling a fast one? Will her and her Vera Wang dreams live happily ever after?

Read this light, funny book to find out! I personally enjoyed this more than The Devil Wears Prada, and I think its just as good as the Shopaholic series.