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Summary: the perfect romantic comedy
Review: I read Jemima J last year and have since recommended it to all my friends. It's a very entertaining and funny book. Jane Green has a great sense of pacing, and this book moves well from the first page.Jemima is a character so many real women can relate to - smart, funny, talented, overweight, and surrounded by ridiculously skinny people. She is a character you root for throughout the whole book. My friends and I are still talking about the twists and turns this book has to offer. All the characters are well developed, and it's not everyday that a book makes me giggle outloud.
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Summary: Just Okay
Review: I'd never heard of this author until a co-worker lent me the book to read saying it was the story of her life, well the beginning of the book was. Speaking of the beginning of the book, that was the best part. Jemima was believable and funny even when she started losing weight. But when she goes to California to meet her hunk it is way too far fetched for me. It started to drag and get somewhat boring. And what about the word "gorgeous" how many times can the author use that word to describe every guy Jemima meets. The word was well over used and I recommend she get a thesaurus. I am going to give this author another chance by reading something else she wrote.
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Summary: I've read it twice.
Review: I can't believe how great this book is. I've already read it twice and I've only had it a short time. Jane Green has captured life as an overweight person so perfectly and then to include such a perfect ending...(I wouldn't want to give it away). This book is perfect summer reading.
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Summary: Would be a good book if it wasn't so hard to digest...
Review: It starts out good, but as you get farther and farther into it, it just gets more and more outrageously unbelieveable! I am all for a fictional light read, but come on - this was ridiculous! I spent the whole second half of the book trying to figure out just what Jemima looks like after she loses weight. How could she be that incredibly drop-dead gorgeous that everyone wants her. If she was that beautiful after, she must have been very pretty before, even if she was overweight. Plus the fact that in just a few months she went from having three chins to being completely toned and thin with no problems to her health whatsoever. That she is so deep and such a good person but she gets caught up in an internet romance and actually flies to another country to meet the guy! And how about him wanting to meet her after just a couple of emails? I would have never logged on with that guy again, the red lights would have immediately started flashing - but the smart Jemima doesn't seem to think it that unusual. I could go on and on about this, but I'll just point out a couple more impossibly unbelieveable parts of the book - that Ben ends up staying at that hotel in Santa Monica when he's some big celebrity going to L.A. for the first time, and also that he looks right at Jemima standing right before him and has no clue it's her - even though he saw her after she lost 40 lbs! Plus that they are such good friends but he never once commented on her weight. But please, isn't he perfect? All of these things and more are so ridiculous you just want to laugh.
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Summary: Great summer day reading...
Review: I think this is an awesome book to read on a hot summer day when going outside is not a option. The women who have lost a lot weight will relate to this book, including myself. Although the other reviews make a vaild point when they expressed the shallowness of how the author portrays Jemima's life after she loses weight, I must admit (from experience) doors are opened much wider for the slim and beautiful. In some areas the author does push this point a little too much. However, the supporting characters and stories in this book makes it all worth while. Great, great, great book. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Awesome! Finished it in one night!
Review: I really loved this book. Jane Green has a great tone of voice in the book that is easy to understand and love. I really think the reason I loved the book was that Jemima resembled me in every way from the insecurities in the beginning to the insecurities at the end. It was like someone wrote about my life and millions of people now know all about me! Crazy stuff. Anywho... I really liked the book... not too hard or easy to read.. just enjoyable.
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Summary: How cliched can you get?
Review: Although this book had its fine moments, for the most part it was cliched and predictable. Also, it set a disturbing example of the ways to weight loss and fitness. Although it was incredibly wonderful that she lost the weight, it would have been nice if she had taken just a little longer to do it healthily.
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Summary: One of the most horrific books I have ever read
Review: I picked up Jemima J expecting a light beach book kind of read. I ended up struggling with this book. I kept thinking, "this is how I was in high school, except by some miracle I was popular." Jemima is a shallow, self centered brat, aged 27. She thinks that she is nothing and whines about it. She works at a [crummy] paper and hardly does any work--no wonder she is still at the bottom of the pile. She also lives with a couple of shallow roommates and hangs out with shallow sknny people throughout, only one of whom sees her for who she is. Jemima feels that she is nothing unless she looses weight. I have a hard time--and refuse to believe that--Jemima is by any means a nice, caring, lovable person. Her rotten attitude and language proliferate thoughout, and I have a hard time believing that a caring, nice, and lovable person would act the way Jemima does. I have met some people whoa re honestly caring, lovable, and nice. Not a one acts like Jemima Jones. Now the part about Ben I could relate to. I have met far to many Bens in my life who are searching for women who look like models and have the perfect personality to boot, only to end up crushed. The part about Ben I believe. And I can, to some extent believe that Ben is a nice person, because he acts differently from Jemima for one. This book, for the most part, is about a self centered shallow 27 year old brat who feels that she is overweight and overlooked. She may very well be overlooked because of the nasty shallow person she is. And don't even get me started on the excessive dieting. Avoid this book. It is a pathetic disgusting book.
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Summary: Inspiring!!!
Review: I have just finished reading this book..for the fourth time.I find wonderful and a modern day cinderella story(I wish it were made into a movie)The first time I read the book it inspired me to go on a diet and although Jemima is a fictional charecter I figured is she could do it.I can too.And I have I lost 100 pounds!.Everyone always asks me what motivates me and I always let them know that it is this book that inspired me. The author makes you feel pity for her,proud of her and then makes you cry at the end because Jemima has finally found her happiness.If only there were a sequel...
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Summary: Great, with one major fault
Review: I thought Jemima J was hysterically funny & enjoyable to read. As a character, her life is interesting and so similar to so many women's lives. The problem is this: throughout the story the author tries to make the reader see how Jemima has been ignored/overlooked/cast aside because of her weight, and how unfair this is. BUT THEN SHE LOSES WEIGHT AND PEOPLE TAKE HER MORE SERIOUSLY! Where is the lesson to the general public that has been holding her back here?
The story is good and has an interesting (albeit unexpected) turn and this one is worth the read, if you can get past what I considered a fault.
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