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Summary: A Delightful, Yet Fast Read
Review: I absolutely adored Sophie Kinsella's Confessions of a Shopaholic. I stayed up all night, reading about the quirky, endearing, shop-a-holic, Rebecca Bloomburg. I don't know if it's my obsession with the British or the fact that Rebecca made my shopping obsessions seem so minor. I didn't even feel so guilty about having just bought another pair of black shoes, when I only have a dozen or so pairs in an already bulging closet, because I realized that there's someone with a more extreme addiction than myself. It may even serve as an antibiotic for a reader's recent case of buyer's remorse. Aside from Rebecca's humorous, hare-brained schemes to rearrange her day around a scarf sale, there is a story about actions and consequences, and discovering one's own hidden talents to rectify an otherwise sticky situation.
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Summary: The worst of the worst
Review: By now, everyone knows what the plot of the book is, therefore I will refrain from recounting the ever so intriguing and not all predictable storyline. Instead, I want to say that I was so appalled by this book that it physically hurt me to read it. Kinsella's style is pitiful. Her efforts at trying to be the next Helen Fielding fails ever so miserably. Rebecca, the main character in this book, does not come off as a witty, smart person to be pitied, as Fielding's Bridget Jones was. A tragic waste of paper. Please, if you are in any way an intelligent and sensible person, spare yourself the physical torture I went through and go buy yourself a copy of Austen or Tolstoy.
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Summary: Shop for this!!!
Review: Sophie Kinsella introduces "Becky Bloomwood" who has a job at a newspaper in London. Not to mention an overdraft that keeps increasing, or should I say it is decreasing her banking account. And she has creditors who are knocking at her door and sending her letter after letter, amusing the reader with the excuses people will use in life. Becky Bloomwood was born to shop, and she loves clothing. Credit is due to her, in her attempts to expand her knowledge of "accessories" even in the workplace and work-related events:
"The FT [Financial Times} is by far the best accessory a girl can have. It's major advantages are: 1) It is a nice color.
2) It only costs eighty-five pence, and 3) ...people take you seriously. With an FT under your arm, you can talk about the most frivolous thing in the world and insteead of thinking you're an airhead, people think you're a heavyweight intellectual who has broader intereste too."
And Becky does have broader interests...like that new scarf at "George and Denny's" and her new handbag and...Luke Brandon, head of Brandon Communications. She sees him at all of these financial press conferences that interrupt her chances to take advantage of sales in her favorite stores. Or just any sotre. I also give Becky credit in that she guatantees to maintain her intellectual image. But unfortunately MY credit does not suffice for Becky's overdrawn bank accounts. She has to pay her bills and she struggles as her flatmate Suze helps her with her money issues. Somehow, the reader manages to love Becky because she is so honest and blatant about her knowledge - or lack of it - to the reader, at least. "So anyway. There I am with the FT tucked under my arm, thinking I look pretty good, and half-wishing that someone from "Just Seventeen" would pop up with a camera."
Hey, don't we all wish these things as we go through life, having to maintain an image while also maintaining our good spirits?! I read all three of the "Shopaholic" books, and Becky Bloomwood, now that I have finished the trilogy, is like a lost friend to me - I miss her!
But I cannot wait to read Kinsella's next novels!!!
Anyone who loves to shop, read, and laugh will enjoy this one!
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Summary: Painful to Read
Review: One of the worst written books I've ever come across, the writing is awful, as if the writer was just trying to cash in on the recent sludge of chick books. Cute cover, but that's about it, the rest of the book is worthless.
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Summary: oh please
Review: This book was AWFUL. It's nothing more than a poorly-done, thinly veiled ripoff of Bridget Jones' Diary only with a far more annoying and less sympathetic main character. And is the author even actually British? I can't find any information on her but it felt like she just threw in British slang here and there as an afterthought so it would make the book trendier. I'm sorry I wasted time reading it.
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Summary: Hilarious...and Frightening
Review: I squirmed in my seat through most of this book...it was like a funny, surreal, living nightmare. Becky's incessant rationalizing is nothing other than perfection-the excuses Becky makes to herself are incredibly accurate...and FUNNY! Funny, because most have us have given ourselves these exact excuses... This book made me very agitated, though..as Becky dug herself deeper and deeper into debt, I found myself annoyed to the point of being uncomfortable. This is something my nightmares are made of- an incredibly frusterating, lingering, self-generated predicament. Becky's never ending lack of self-control was bordering on the pathetic, but this portrayal was carefully covered up with the humorous, naive, and flat-out ridiculous thoughts that continued to run through her head. Anyone who truly has a problem with BLOWING all their money should read this book.
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Summary: A fun and easy read
Review: I finished this book in a weekend. It was a lot of fun, and such an easy read. Very close along the lines of Bridget Jones' Diary as far as story line and the thought process of the main character. Becky's shopping problem and ability to justify her purchases is so easy for me to relate to. Any woman who has a bit of a shopping problem and is considering the book, do give it a try...you will not be dissapointed.
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Summary: Really appeals to me because I am a shopaholic myself.
Review: Kinsella's writing is realistic and I really believe that the events that happens in the book are real. The character as in a way where it may happen to a shopaholic.
If you read this book because you need ideas to solve your spending problems then you got the wrong idea.
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Summary: Fun, Light, Entertaining....................................
Review: Meet Rebecca Bloomwood, a financial journalist and professional shopper. Rebecca's never met a sale she didn't like, nor a purchase she couldn't rationalize making. She's able to blithely stumble her way through both her professional and personal life--ignoring her finances, tossing letters from both her bank and the credit card companies into the "skip" ("it's not my fault if I never got them, is it?"); and accomplishing just enough in her work environment to get by, finding it all incredibly boring. As a result, she is not at all taken seriously on the financial circuit....; and then something happens that is very serious, and forces Becky to take serious stock of both her professional and personal life--and eventually forces her to heed her own advice. This novel was a joy to read....and many the compulsive shopper will certainly be able to relate to the loveable albeit flaky Becky Bloomwood.
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Summary: Confessions of a Shopaholic Review
Review: I think that this book, Confessions of a Shopaholic, is a hilarious novel. The character Becky Bloomwood is really funny and the things that happen to her are even funnier. I just think this book is fascinating because Becky can just shop for hours and not feel a bit tired. I would recommend this book to anyone really because it is so entertaining and funny!
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