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Summary: fun short vignettes
Review: As actress Karrie Kline attends the latest wedding of a friend, she wonders if at forty-five she allowed her career ambitions to stamp out Mr. Right. She muses that she enjoys her life in the city especially the theater and that a suburban family would kill her from tedium, but wonders if she is rationalizing why she remains single.Karrie begins looking back at all the frogs she has seen over the years to ascertain if somehow blind ambition made her miss Price Charming. Could he have been in her Jewish neighborhood in Queens, up in the Catskills, perhaps in Los Angeles, or in Manhattan? However, assessing the pack she thinks the male of the specie might better have been served as frog legs as each were lacking. Though somewhat inane, fans will enjoy Karrie's look back at career dating and the other male losers that populated her life. The tale is more a series of short vignettes than a story line as Karrie thinks back over the past fifteen plus years to a weird bunch in which as she claims Kramer would have been a better date. Fans who enjoy a lighthearted romp in which the protagonist encourages men to leave will laugh with Laurie Graff's apt YOU HAVE TO KISS A LOT OF FROGS. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: A great summer read for every season- don't wait!
Review: Don't wait for summer to enjoy this wonderfully light and easy read. It's fast paced and funny. The character,Kari Kline, has a different dating story to tell in each chapter which made it so hard to put down. I usually can't stay up late reading,but I couldn't put this book down even as I was fighting to keep my eyes open. Following Kari's experiences actually makes dating seem kind of fun. Most of her dates were happenstance meetings, not blind dates or other kinds of forced introduction. That alone should give single people renewed hope and encouragement that you just never know who and how you'll meet someone. It enforces how unpredictable life is. Besides entertaining, I found Lori's writing insightful. What Kari learns from each relationship about herself and other people made me reflect. I highly reccommend "You Have to Kiss A lot of Frogs" and hope there's more to come from Lori Graff!
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Summary: Good if you're a 45 year-old Jewish actress in New York
Review: Each chapter is a different date or guy she dated. It gets monotonous until halfway through the book when you start to see some repeats of characters. It just seems like bad date after bad date, and it's a lot of bad dates before she learns not to be so desperate.
I had a hard time relating to the main character because there are a lot of cultural factors that come with being Jewish and trying to date. There is, however, an opportunity to learn about the Jewish culture from this book. You can also learn about being an actress in the dating world.
I thought the book dragged, and the ending disappointed me. I?m 25 right now and still single, and the thought of spending another 20 years in the dating world is depressing to me.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Having kissed my share of frogs I had high hopes for the story, but it dragged. You never really get attached to the character and just keep reading to get the end. don't bother. There is no end. Very anticlamactic. She has no big character growth, no life altering event, no real conclusion at all. I can only assume Karrie's life will go on as it has for the first 45 years, I'm just glad I don't have to read about the next 45. don't waste your time.
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Summary: ...but you'll probably fall asleep first
Review: Her friend's bridal shower spurs Karrie Kline, a New York City-based actress, to take a look back at all the men in her life. It's a scenario that could be poignant and that should be funny, but, unlike another Carrie-about-town, this protagonist has neither the charm nor the charisma to keep your attention or get your sympathies. Since the author is also a New York City-based actress, and since she includes a very vague disclaimer in the book, you have to wonder how many of Karrie's experiences are actually her own. That is, you get the sense this book got its start when the writer was sitting around with her friends swapping stories -- "So I go home with this nice Jewish guy to meet his nice Jewish parents and I have a nun's costume in my bag, can you believe it? So I'm just trying to be friendly and the cab driver takes it so seriously he climbs intto the back seat after me, can you believe it? I've had so many weird things happen I should write a book." But what's hilarious as girl talk doesn't always translate into print, and unfortunately, "You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs," is a case in point. The book falls flat. I read it on a cross-country flight, but even though I was a captive audience with absolutely nothing better to do, I found it really hard to stick with this one.
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Summary: Hope for the Hopelessly Romantic
Review: I bought a copy of "You Have To Kiss Alot of Frogs" hoping to be amused and entertained by a light novel aimed at those of us who are single, middle aged, and still hoping to find Mr. Right. And not only was I amused and entertained, but the character of Karrie Kline possesses such an enterprising romantic spirit, that, no matter how many times Mr. Right turns out to be Mr. Wrong, she never gives up her quest to keep putting her heartaches behind her and moving forward to the next possibility of true romance. Karrie, and the men she dates, have the kind of 21st century neurotic sensibilites that I think alot of women can relate to!
I, for one, was instilled with the desire to jump right in and get back in the dating game, after a long hiatus. The book inspired me to get over those past heartbreaks and string of Mr. Wrongs and get out and take chances again!
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Summary: Had me in stitches!
Review: I can never get enough of "Sex in the City" stories and this is whole other take on that world that cracked me up. Laurie Graf has a knack for knowing just how to put any bizarre or mundane moment or dude into the perfect words. When is her next book coming out? I want it now!
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Summary: I loved this book
Review: I can't tell you how delightfully surprised I was by this wonderful book. I'm not usually a chic-lit book reader but I was traveling and looking for some light entertainment that wouldn't require too much of me. Instead, I got this touching, revealing read that had me laughing and crying over and over. I've bought it now for my mom and several friends. I think it's Karrie Kline's honesty that is so unusual. She's not posturing but really telling the nitty gritty about life in the fast lane of New York dating. It will make many a reader sigh with recognition and feel a little less alone.
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Summary: a very uniquely written book: Clever/Creative/Funny/Poignant
Review: I have to say that with the abundance of all the chic-lit kind of books about being single and all that, I kind of stopped reading them. They all seemed the same more or less. But then, this one caught my eye in the store and I took a chance......!!!!! and i was crazy about this book! Now i have been purchasing it for friends, and even for my Mom, who laughed and cried through the whole thing.
The author writes with such an honest, insightful perspective that the reader can't help but to feel the life of the single gal in the book, Carrie.
I picked up the book every night before bed and read a story or two, and was just blown away.
Even the way the book was organized and set up is pretty cool.
but don't just take my word for it, read it for yourself and share with others who are or were single!
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Summary: Funny, touching and oh-so-real!
Review: I laughed so much while reading this charming collection of stories that my husband kept asking me what was so funny. He ended up reading it, too, and loved it as much as I did. Not just for "chicks" or "singles," it is a hilarious and touching look at people and their feeble, frantic and flat-out funny attempts to make connections with one another. We've read chapters aloud at family gatherings, to the delight of all present. In the end the book is more than the sum of its parts, as Karrie's poignant perceptions about life and love add a dimension that renders the term "chick-lit" utterly inadequate.
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