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Summary: Lots-O-Fun
Review: How To Meet Cute Boys is definitely in the marshmallow-fluff category, but everyone needs a little junk food now and then. The writing was smart, hilarious and fast-paced, and the little magazine 'articles' were clever and almost too cutesy. The only thing that annoyed me is that the heroine takes her desperation and worry toooo far. It kinda got old, but all in all it was a fun read. Looking forward to the author's next endeavor.
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Summary: Lots-O-Fun
Review: How To Meet Cute Boys is definitely in the marshmallow-fluff category, but everyone needs a little junk food now and then. The writing was smart, hilarious and fast-paced, and the little magazine 'articles' were clever and almost too cutesy. The only thing that annoyed me is that the heroine takes her desperation and worry toooo far. It kinda got old, but all in all it was a fun read. Looking forward to the author's next endeavor.
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Summary: Pure fun!
Review: How to Meet Cute Boys is one fun novel! I laughed out loud on so many occasions. The novel/magazine style is clever -- the protagonist is Filly magazine's "sexpert" -- and the graphics, articles and Cosmo-like quizzes are great treats. I also love the L.A. dating scene as the novel's backdrop. I could relate to Benjamina Franklin's plights. She makes the same relationship mistakes she warns her readers about. She is a tad neurotic, but isn't that the reason why we read these books in the first place? Isn't neurosis one of single women's signature traits? How to Meet Cute Boys isn't food for the intellect. It's a fun, quirky read to enjoy while taking a bubble bath and gulping on martinis.
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Summary: Listen to the book on tape and crack up.
Review: I "read" this book on tape and found it to be hilarious. The book was good and the narrator was just perfect for the part with very amusing voices. I would recommend this to my girlfriends.
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Summary: HOW DID THIS GET PUBLISHED
Review: I bought this because I read all the great reviews on this page .You guys must have been reading a different book .Where are the jokes
where is the plot save your money and if you want a good laugh buy some David Sedaris
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Summary: lame Lame LAME
Review: I don't know how this book managed to have an average rating of 3 1/2 stars.. it was awful. I completely agree with whoever said that the author's connections are the only reason for this book to have been published.
THe plot is okay but isn't written well enough to hold your attention and is trying way too hard to be trendy. Everything is superficial and nothing delves even a LITTLE deeper into the surface. You have Ben, the main character, going after a guy named Max that she met at a party. A good ways into the book, she discovers he's only 20 to her 27, which is quite gross, but she keeps trying to get with him. Their entire time together is spent doing stuff or small talking about nothing so you get absolutely no sense of why she's into him that much.
The side plot has to do with her sister, who's only 21, getting married before her. I really couldn't get a good feel for the relationship between the two girls, as their conversations weren't about much else. Ben's mother also factors in here with the planning and Ben always refers to her as "the mother," which gets annoying after a few times.
So of course drama ensues between Ben and Max and her sister and her fiance, but not until even further in the book, which means that there's a lot more fluff in between (the fluff is basically Ben wondering if she can get Max to commit to being a "full lifer" and wondering how to act around him and so on).
When the ending finally rolls around, you expect to know what's going to happen between Max and Ben and her sister and her fiance, right? No such luck. The ending just leaves you dangling with a plot you didn't even care about in the first place. What is Ben going to do? Nobody knows. Suffice to say, I was not thrilled.
I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. The packaging is cute, but all the articles and quizzes in the middle start getting annoying when the plot continues to putt along. Now, to sell my copy of the book...
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: I read this book very quickly because of the authors easy writing style and cute cartoons.
Parts of this book were downright laugh at loud funny with references to pop culture and celebrity status. (Casey Kasem, Kato, musical references, 1980's culture).
This isnt a heavy literary novel, its something that is light, humorous and a fun book in between heavier reads.
I recommend this book if you want to laugh!
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Summary: That's All?!?
Review: I thought this book was very clever and entertaining. It kept my attention throughout the story. I sympathized with the main character even though I have not been in the same situation as her - so I consider the writing to be good enough. But, when it came to the ending, I felt that it was very weak. I was expecting the story to continue for another 10 pages or so, but instead, the story ended and the book concluded with 10 blank pages. The ending (or lack thereof) reduced my rating. If the ending had been stronger, I would have given the story 5 stars.
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Summary: Clever story - weak ending
Review: I thought this book was very clever and entertaining. It kept my attention throughout the story. I sympathized with the main character even though I have not been in the same situation as her - so I consider the writing to be good enough. But, when it came to the ending, I felt that it was very weak. I was expecting the story to continue for another 10 pages or so, but instead, the story ended and the book concluded with 10 blank pages. The ending (or lack thereof) reduced my rating. If the ending had been stronger, I would have given the story 5 stars.
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Summary: insightful, hilarious and bitingly witty
Review: Kizis manages to write a witty, insightful, yet light novel that transcends the girl genre. it creeps up on you, like a night of slow drinking. There are elements of Benjamina that resonate in us all, the insecurity and self-doubt we all fight, while putting on a pretty face externally. This book shows what it's really like to live in the big city, yet yearn to find real love even amidst the dirt of Hollywood.
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