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Summary: A MUST READ FOR ALL TEENAGE GIRLS!!!!!
Review: this book is absolutley my all time favorite book. I liked it so much that after i read more than half the book in one day i purposly paced my self so the book wouldn't end. The author is amazing making you laugh and cry with jessica, and get all emotional in all the those girlie moments. It really is the perfect book for all girls and is sooo much fun reading, and your hooked on it after the 1st 5 pages.... this book is so good i know guys that have read it a loved it... every girl should really get the chance to read sloppy firsts they would most definatly benefit from it !!!!!!
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Summary: Now my favorite Book!
Review: I was looking through Amazon.com teenage book lists, and i saw Sloppy Firsts as one of them, so i bought it, and i loved it!! Being 16, i can relate to the feelings that Jessica is feeling, and i thought that the author did a wonderful job of developing her character as well as the plot. As soon as i started reading it, i couldn't put it down! I've let my friends read it, and so far, all of them had really enjoyed it. This is an excellent buy for teenagers, and i would definatly recommend it. I'm just waiting for the second one!
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Summary: Cute, funny in places, ultimately a little flat
Review: There can be no doubt that Megan McCafferty's affinity for her protagonist goes well beyond the typical writerly investment: she's drawing from some of her own murky experiences as a confused and semi-popular teen, as surely as you're reading this right now. Which is why it was particularly disappointing when, at the book's climax, there, well, wasn't one. Written journal style, peppered with vocabulary no High School sophomore on the planet would ever use (iconoclast, jingoism), and punctuated by credibility-straining e-mails to a long-distance friend, McCafferty's book is at times poignent, at times touching, and at times downright thigh-slappingly funny. But in the end, like its main character, it doesn't *quite* know what it wants to be when it grows up. The big payoff, such as it is, involves a dilemma our heroine has only hinted at until the very moment that we are hit over the head with its significance. I enjoyed this book -- it's well worth the ten bucks or whatever it is -- but there are plenty of better examples of teen girl angst out there, if you only have time or money for one. Check out "Girl" by Blake Nelson, or Lorrie Moore's exquisite "Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?" for quintessential treatments of the subject.
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Summary: A cool book to read!
Review: I thought this was a really cool book to read. If you like books about teenage girls, then this book is definitly for you!
It was about a teenage girl whos best friend Hope moved away. For the rest of the book she has to deal with her snobby "So-called-friends". It also had to do with old crush's and a new mystery guy. The only thing that I disliked about the book was that a lot of parts I didn't feel like I could relate to them as well as other books, which isn't exactly a bad thing, but it made the book less interesting for me. However, you should definitly get this book if you're even slightly interested because it's worth reading!
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Summary: Light-hearted novel you'll enjoy
Review: I really enjoyed this book. Being a teenager myself (15), i could relate to a lot of the things she felt.
The book is really Jessica Darling's journal entries, but not the "Dear Diary" type you'd expect. Her life is complicated when her best friend, Hope, moves far away, and she is left with shallow friends who she doesn't really like. Things aren't any better at home, dealing with her father who only cares about her running, mother who is obbsessed with her sister's upcoming wedding. Both her mother and sister being blonde's, she tends to feel like the "ugly-duckling".
GET THIS BOOK!! it really was a great book, i bet u'll be laughing out loud (i'm not just saying that...i really did!) at how cynical Jess can be at times.
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Summary: Jessica = Me
Review: I really loved this book! Read about it on Amazon, looked through it and decided i had to own it, when i saw it a few weeks later in a bookstore i bought it! I read it when i was on vacation, without a TV in my room or any watch to tell me what time it actually was, i tried to read myself to sleep with it and managed to finish in one sitting!
Jessica's a really great protagonist, because EVERY girl will be able to relate to her somehow. She reassured me i wasn't the only one who was that anti-social and surrounded by false friends, the only major difference is i actually have a boyfriend and she has worse luck with that. It's good to see someone manage to get along in life without a best friend (though she can still write her, she's just a 1000 miles away), because i had just lost mine a few weeks before, but for a totally different and less acceptable reason (let's just say, i realised after a looong while she's too much like Manda, including the fake glasses to distract attention from another body part). The best part of the entire book, i have to say, is Marcus' poem 'Fall', i reread it so often, it's that good!
I can't wait for the sequel 'Second Helpings', which i will most definitely buy.
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Summary: Hilarious!!!
Review: You know how people say "laugh out loud funny" when describing a book? Well i've read books described like that and never actually laughed out loud until i read Sloppy Firsts. Even after having finished it a few days ago, i'm still laughing when i think of some of the hilarious things Jess would say. Not only is Sloppy Firsts "laugh out loud"(seriously) funny, it's also got a great plot(and what every teenage girl wants, a love story, well more than one actually!) I would reccomend this book to anyone! Girl, boy, man, woman! Anyone can appreciate this story.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This was a great way to see how a typical teenager survive high school. I think that Jessica Darling did a great job in staying friends with the snobby cheerleaders, even though some of them weren't all to loyal to one another. This book had a few twists, but I loved it. The ending is great!
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Summary: Loved this book!
Review: This was a really good book--I loved the character and I loved Marcus! McCafferty is a really good writer and she talks like a teenager, which is good to read instead of those books where old people write about teens and sound NOTHING like us. Thanks for a good book, Megan!
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Summary: A totally awesome book
Review: Having been a teenager in the mid 80's, I couldn't resist that title. Plus, this book is probably better than any of the books for teenaged girls at that time. I can't really remember there being an author like Megan McCafferty. She has a full grasp of a teenager's world. For myself, reading Jessica Darling's innermost feelings and thoughts was like reading my own high school diary(which is the form in which this is written). Full of self loathing and teen angst, I identified with the character so deeply that I did not want this story to end.
Jessica is a sophomore, and her best friend, Hope, moves away. She is heart broken. Not only that but her only sister is 11 yrs. older and engaged, soon to be wed. She also hangs around with a crowd that she really doesn't want to hang with.
She experience such extreme stress that her period disappears for an entire year. The more I read about Jess, the more I felt myself transported back into my own high school days which were so much like hers.
While I wasn't a size 0 or a jock, I was in love with a senior who didn't know I existed and eventually made a fool of myself in front of him. While my friends had boyfriends, I was still utterly dateless. And I often was depressed and wallowed in self pity. I was not even near the top 20 percent of my class, while Jessica is extremely intelligent. I often found words that wouldn't normally come out of a teenaged girl's mouth, but McCafferty made her use words that even I, at 33, don't even use to this day. My only quip with this story is some of the choice of words. I assume that Jessica NOTSO Darling is far more intelligent than most 15 year old girls.
I adored the character of Jessica Darling. She is full of wit, and intelligence. I also fell in love with the character Marcus, he is as well developed character as Jess. Their relationship is a very unique one, and I was not disappointed in the end like some of the other reviewers were. There is something to really look forward to in the sequel!
McCafferty is an extremely gifted writer who speaks volumes.
I read this book because I am a struggling YA writer who wants to study her craft.
So far the best writers of this genre that I have had the extremem pleasuer to read are Sarah Dessen and Megan McCafferty. I am highly anticpating "Second Helpings." I took this one out of the library, but will buy this and the sequel.
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