Straight Talking: A Novel
by Jane Green
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Author: Jane GreenEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-09-23
ISBN: 0767915593
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Broadway
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Book Review: One of the WORST books I've ever read!
Summary: 1 Stars
Like another poster wrote, if this had been my first Jane Green book I would NEVER have read another. It was just that bad.
The main character is admittedly stupid, but what she doesn't understand (Jane) is that the main character is also extremely despicable.
Tasha, is vain, snobbish, foul mouthed (when she doesn't need to be) conceited, and a complete slut. I mean she will sleep with anything wiht a pulse, blaming it on her not so amazing parents. This is a woman in her 30's that acts like a 16 year old. She's supposedly educated and classy (HAHAHAHA), worldly and EXTREMELY SOPHISTICATED (WHAT A JOKE), yet blames her parents for making her have bad relationships with men. I really hated this character through and through. The only redeeming friend was "Mel" who Tash and the rest of her friends liked DESPITE the fact that she wasn't like them (BEAUTIFUL, SLIM AND SOPHISTICATED). Wow how kind of you to sacrifice your high standards to let such a loser in so close to your perfect circle of friends. Meanwhile Mel is the only normal, kind, together person (after a rocky start with her own men problems), while the others were the biggest losers ever written about.
Then she finds the perfect man who of course she cannot deal with because he might actually want to care for her rather than just using her.
She treats him like garbage and he actually says he'll wait for her. WHAT???!!! There is no way a man with 1/2 a brain who is decent (as this one was built up to be) would be totally betrayed and a day later be saying he'll always love you and will wait for you. Then it gets even more ridiculous after that.
When they meet and she can't believe he'd moved on. OMG, I could barely contain my anger towards her.
She is such a sickening character to me that the last thing I wanted was for her to have a happy ending, she did not deserve one.
The writing itself was HORRIFIC! I honestly cannot believe they published this book. I thought it was a mess from every angle.
I'm just sorry I could not give it a ZERO star!
On a better note I have enjoyed some of her other books. She always rights a bit on the snooty side, but normally her characters are very likable. THere are always men problems, but the other women you can relate to and they had in themselves very redeemable characteristics, like being sensitive and caring, having some dignity.
Tasha wouldn't know a redeemable characteristic if it came up and bit her. HORRIBLE!
Summary of Straight Talking: A Novel
Meet Tasha?single and still searching. A producer for Britain?s most popular morning show working under a nightmare boss, Tash is well-versed in the trials and tribulations of twenty-first century dating. She and her three best friends certainly haven?t lived the fairy tale they thought they would: there?s Andy, who?s hooked on passion, but too much of a tomboy to have moved much beyond the beer-drinking contest stage; Mel, stuck in a steady but loveless relationship; and Emma, endlessly waiting for her other half to propose. Their love lives are only complicated by the sort of men who seem to drift in and out: Andrew?suave, good-looking and head over heels in love . . . with himself; Simon, who is allergic to commitment but has a bad-boy nature that?s impossible to resist; and Adam?perfectly attractive, but too sweet to be sexy.The bestselling first novel that launched Jane Green, one of the brightest stars in contemporary women?s fiction, Straight Talking sets the record straight regarding the real world of dating, and follows the adventures of Tash and her friends as they search for fulfillment and the right kind of love. Funny, flirty, and ultimately tender, Straight Talking gets at the heart of modern romance.
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