One Fifth Avenue
by Candace Bushnell
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Book Reviews of One Fifth Avenue
Book Review: It's the One.
Summary: 4 Stars
Actually, it's the one I was able to read all the way through. CB owes her career as a book author to television and the producers and screenwriters that can make her look better than she is. SATC the book was dreadful, yet it was spun into gold by people who took her stories and characters and turned them into something. I made it to Chapter 3 of Lipstick Jungle before I asked myself why I was torturing myself, yet the show is a hit. In One Fifth, the characters are pretty good and their stories are fun to read, if not cliched. The writing is pedantic, but I envision the TV show that's sure to follow, a star studded success due to the aforementioned producers and screenwriters who will turn it into the next Hotel/Love Boat.Book Review: Page turner
Summary: 4 Stars
I've never read a book by this author nor have I seen Sex and the City. I enjoyed this tale of a high-end apartment building and the people who lived there. I was surprised by how much I got into the story and didn't want it to end.
I have one complaint, though, about the character of Lola, who is a self-entitled 22-year old who sleeps with several male characters in the book to wangle her way into what she thinks is the life she deserves, after her moderately affluent parents go bankrupt. This character is written more like 15 or 16 than 22, and I found her less than believable; she was more a sterotype of the self-entitled 'snowflake' generation.
Book Review: I am disappointed with the writing style mostly.
Summary: 2 Stars
Like Julie Book Lover's comment, I couldn't agree more. She said what exactly was in my mind. I too find very difficult to follow all those characters in the beginning of the book. I constantly had to flip back and forth and try to look up who was who was doing what with who at where and when. And yes most of the characters are extremely shallow especially Lola though I do love that name because it's my beloved cat's name. To me the storyline is more like real-life blogs and gossip columns. Well may be that's what Candance Bushnell's famous theme after all.
p.s. Don't get me wrong. I am a hopeless loyal fan of "Sex and the City."
Book Review: Big Disappointment for Me
Summary: 2 Stars
I am a huge fan of Candace's previous work, addicted to Sex In the City, watch Lipstick Jungle faithfully - so I was excited to see this come out and grabbed it immediately. I have struggled repeatedly to get through this book, and force myself to keep coming back to finish as I keep hoping something better will happen. Almost too many character storylines fighting for attention, hard to keep track! Not only does it also seem overdone, some even seems like "I've read it before" in her other books. I too think the characters are shallow and not even quite sure of the point of some of them - even for the staunchest of fans, I wouldn't recommend it.Book Review: Fun Read only.....Chick Lit at Its Best
Summary: 3 Stars
Great literature, it is not but if you want a fun read that is enticing, you will love this book. Candace Bushnell is a good writer, her characters are well developed and very much in sync with current day New York; real estate is the new currency, blogs, face book, hedge fund managers ruling the financial world, celebrity mags etc. She once again has captured the Kool-Aid of our time and used the backdrop of a fashionable, NY buildng as her playground. I devoured this book in 3 days but borrow it from a friend or wait for the paperback. I do however remember the days when a drink at One Fifth Avenue was all the rage.