Rose and Sage Baker, 17-year-old orphan twins with
more money than God, are living the good life in
decadent Palm Beach, Florida. Life is... read full description
more money than God, are living the good life in
decadent Palm Beach, Florida. Life is... read full description
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Aug 05, 2007
stephanie
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okay, it could be that my brain is on overload from the heavy things i've been reading lately. or it could be that i'm feeling particularly sappy. whatever the reason is, i think this is one of my new favorite chicklit books EVER.
poor little megan smith, yale graduate, is up to her ears in debt. she's living in new york, she's got a boyfriend and a roommate and then her apartment goes up in smoke. literally.
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poor little megan smith, yale graduate, is up to her ears in debt. she's living in new york, she's got a boyfriend and a roommate and then her apartment goes up in smoke. literally.
so she ends up in palm beach with the odd job of getting two tw More...
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Oct 25, 2007
Blaise
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Okay, so I've liked some chick-lit in the past, what can I say? But maybe I am growing out of this phase because i just thought this book was nothing special--same old story: girl is a journalist, has a boyfriend, lives in NYC, something bad happens-she's thrown into a crazy predicament (oh no!), she's attracted to another guy besides her boyfriend (what to do?!), but in the end everything turns out okay, she gets the right guy, all her debts are paid off or she's got the dream job/life, etc.--
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Oct 13, 2007
Heather
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I read this book because it was on my TBR list (I forgot how I found out about it), and I was craving some chick lit.
I thought the storyline was great, but the time frame wasn't long enough. Megan realistically wouldn't have been able to go through that many changes in just nine weeks. Parts of it didn't feel very realistic.
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I thought the storyline was great, but the time frame wasn't long enough. Megan realistically wouldn't have been able to go through that many changes in just nine weeks. Parts of it didn't feel very realistic.
The author made a lot of references to pop culture, things that celebrities had done in the last year or two. Although I enjoyed them, I don't think More...
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Sep 22, 2010
Marie
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After reading a number of much more serious books, this light frothy novel called to me from the shelves of the library. I'm not crazy about the term "chick lit," because it's too broadly applied to a lot of books by women...but if the book has a rags to riches story, including fashion, a plainish woman who suddenly becomes gorgeous and meets the man of her dreams, and gets the job of her dreams at the end...you've got chick lit. The career is usually journalism or marketing.
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Dec 29, 2007
Phoebe
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This book is a guilty pleasure, like reading celebrity tell-alls at the nail salon or watching people's escapades on reality tv shows. But when life gets heavy, its good to sometimes get away with a fluffy, silly book (ahh, calgon, take me awwaaayy!). First the bad news: this book treads in the well-worn footsteps of many many previous chick-lit books. The book's premise -- plucky heroine (P.H.) who's down on her luck is employed by the mega-rich evil dead, P.H. experiences travails and humil
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Apr 19, 2008
Jessica
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The more I read chick lit, the more I realize how much I don't care for it. Sometimes it seems as though all the plots are the same, and all the narrators the same person. Of course, all that isn't the fault of this book. To be fair, it's a reasonably nice example of the genre. The characters are (for the most part) better fleshed out than your typical chick lit. The story line is fluffy, but it is at least somewhat believable. I liked the main character, and I appreciated that she seemed
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Dec 19, 2008
Caitlin
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SO DIFFERENT FROM THE TV SHOW. Which is a good thing, because this was pretty terrible. And even though it was meant to be all moralistic about reverse snobbery, the book ended up being all reverse reverse snobbery. If that makes any sense. And Marcus was the biggest gay fairygodmother stereotype ever.
There was a twisty bit at the very end that I liked, and I enjoyed all the fake SAT questions. But I do not think that is enough for me to give it more than one star. Also, I wanted to More...
There was a twisty bit at the very end that I liked, and I enjoyed all the fake SAT questions. But I do not think that is enough for me to give it more than one star. Also, I wanted to More...
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Feb 12, 2012
Adrienne
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Reason for the Book’s Selection: In terms of target audience, the book’s genre falls slightly above young-adult and slightly below typical “Chick-lit,” so I picked it up for something different to read.
Plot: Megan Smith owes $75,000 in student loans (Yale) and is fired from her first job (among other things) when the opportunity to tutor some wealthy and snotty Palm Beach teenagers falls into her lap.
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Oct 08, 2009
Allegra
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How to teach filthy rich girls is about a girl named Megan. She just graduated from college with $75,000 in debt and no job. Then Megan gets an amazing opportunity- She becomes the tutor to Sage and Rose Baker, the Paris and Nikki Hiltons of Palm Beach. All she has to do is get them in to Duke College and their grandmother would pay off her debt. At first the twins give Megan a really hard time so she decided that the twins will defiantly not make it in to Duke and decides to write an exposé on
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Sep 08, 2009
Wendi
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Gist of the story: Recent Yale graduate Megan Smith comes to Manhattan with big plans for a career in journalism and even bigger student loan debt: $75,000. When she flails at her trashy tabloid job, she's given an escape hatch: tutor seventeen-year-old identical twins Rose and Sage Baker--yes, the infamous Baker heiresses of Palm Beach, Florida, best known for their massive fortunes and their penchant for drunkenly flashing the paparazzi -- and get their SAT scores up enough to get into Duke. I
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Jun 10, 2011
Ruth
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Megan should have the world on a string as a recent Yale graduate or at least that is what everyone expects when you graduate from a prestigious university. She gets a job with Scoop, a gossip paper and it is really not what she wants to be doing... and it shows. Her boss fires her but at the same time throws her a lifeline telling her that she knows some twins who need tutoring. Desperate, Megan jumps at the chance. She flies to Palm Beach on private jet, is picked up and driven to a mansion.
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Mar 02, 2008
Aysharoberts
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This book has so many twists and turns. I really enjoyed as it incorporates intelligence, culture, and fashion all in one. I finished reading it at the beach today and I couldn't put it down even though I got cold as the marine layer covered the sun. Instead of hopping on Pinky (my bike) and riding home quickly, I wrapped a towel around me to keep warm to finish it. I definitely will be checking out other books that this author has written.
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Sep 28, 2011
Karen
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this book shows a lot of very important lessons. one of them would be, that you should never judge a book by a cover. in the beginning Megan the main character sees two rich girls who look like they know nothing about education so then Meagan realizes she could do a expose on them and expose all of the baker twins secret. This is the second lesson, Meagan learns that friendship and trust is bigger than any opportunity life gives you. The last lesson Meagan learns is that if you weave yourself a
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Aug 07, 2011
Melissa
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There was a show on CW tv called "Privileged". It was a very short-lived show so it was canceled before it made it's way to the ending. Since I loved the show so much, I really wanted to find the book but forgot what it was called.
It wasn't til I made my way to Half Price Books and was searching the shelves for the cheapest books that I came across this one. At first I didn't know this was "Privileged". I read the back cover summary and fell in loved with it.
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It wasn't til I made my way to Half Price Books and was searching the shelves for the cheapest books that I came across this one. At first I didn't know this was "Privileged". I read the back cover summary and fell in loved with it.
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Dec 16, 2008
Allie
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O.K. I changed my mind. That was the corniest book I had ever read in my 15 almost 16 years of life. By the end, I was seriously gagging. I was shocked. In the beginning it seems fine...and then it get's ridiculous. And lastly, what I found the most disappointing was the fact that it was nothing like the show, and the show is really great. So sad.
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Aug 13, 2009
Erica
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I liked it...
at first.
I hadn't read anything by Zoey Dean but knew she was really popular for her A-List series. I figured this might be a good bet (especially since the tv show 'Privileged' was based on it and I loved that show so much!).
This is one of those rare instances where I actually like the television adaptation BETTER than the book.
It started out well, but towards the middle there just wasn't much...conflict, I guess. I rolled my eyes at the en More...
at first.
I hadn't read anything by Zoey Dean but knew she was really popular for her A-List series. I figured this might be a good bet (especially since the tv show 'Privileged' was based on it and I loved that show so much!).
This is one of those rare instances where I actually like the television adaptation BETTER than the book.
It started out well, but towards the middle there just wasn't much...conflict, I guess. I rolled my eyes at the en More...
Jun 24, 2009
Stephanie
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It's funny how very formulaic it is, and yet there's something to love about it. The descriptions of the food they eat (or don't eat) (I would LOVE to have a chef like Marco). The sheer grace of the grandmother. Falling in love with the boy-next-door. Getting away from Palm Beach to hang out with an artist friend, to laugh and splash in a pool, away from superficiality? Priceless. I loved the scenes like that, the ones that made it seem human, rather than trite playing with stereotypes and More...
Jan 25, 2009
Kimberly
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This just reminded me why I cant stand chick lit. I thought this would be an easy read for the gym......its an easy read and just awful.
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Jul 14, 2011
Meagan
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I'm usually not into the chick lit genre, in general I find them a little too mindless, so I was shocked that I loved this novel. I thought it had just the right balance of drama, coming of age, and brainless rich girl drama.
The story centers around Megan Smith a broke college graduate, who agrees to tutor Sage and Rose Baker twin socialites whose grandmother is withholding their trust fund until they get into Duke University. Zoey Dean does an amazing job of drawing the reader in, a More...
The story centers around Megan Smith a broke college graduate, who agrees to tutor Sage and Rose Baker twin socialites whose grandmother is withholding their trust fund until they get into Duke University. Zoey Dean does an amazing job of drawing the reader in, a More...
Nov 21, 2008
Kate
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Typical but enjoyable chick lit. When I first read the blurb on the back, I thought the premise sounded a bit cliched, but a friend enjoyed the read, so I figured I'd give it a go. There isn't much original going on here, but the typical urban Cinderella meets "fairy" godmother, gets couture for free, wins over the snotty rich people, discovers that they have a heart, falls in love story was fun mind candy. The characters are drawn to be likable and entertaining and the narrators ow
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Oct 04, 2007
Heather
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Cute read; finished the book in about 2 days.
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Jun 11, 2009
Jessica
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It’s a predictable novel. I mean, come on, it’s chick lit! It’s a nice little story minus the profanity, promiscuity, underage drinking, lying, unbelievable naivety of an adult, etc…
Why did I keep reading it? The story is catchy and…I was hoping all the other stuff would just go away. You know how some books (and movies) start off with objectionable material and then as the story progresses the objectionable material subsides–that’s what I was expecting.
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Why did I keep reading it? The story is catchy and…I was hoping all the other stuff would just go away. You know how some books (and movies) start off with objectionable material and then as the story progresses the objectionable material subsides–that’s what I was expecting.
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Sep 12, 2009
Rachel
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I first started watching the TV show and then thought I would try out the book. I love the TV show, which I think made me really like the book. The book and TV show is about a college graduate, Megan, that just can seem to get the perfect job yet, so she ends up tutoring two twins that live in palm beach, and they are in fact very rich. The twins absolutely hate their new tutor but as Megan begins to work with them they start to build a good relationship. The TV show was amazing and I can't
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May 27, 2011
Martha
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I picked up this book at the last day of the closing of our Borders. Lets just say I am glad that I only spent $2 on it. I thought it would be good because ABC Family, or was it The CW, that did a series on it that I really enjoyed. The book follows a somewhat similar plot, but the TV series was much better twist to it. The characters in the book weren't very likeable because ALL of them, rich or poor, were made out to be shallow and self centered.
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Jul 05, 2010
Andrea
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How To Teach Filthy Rich Girls is a nice summer read. The protagonist is portrayed as "every girl" in a situation that almost all university grads find themselves in: graduated with degrees but without their ideal work. These factors make it easy to relate to the character. Though the story lacks a lot of depth is it nice to read and see how the characters and their perceptions alter through the course of the story. If you are looking for an air plane read or an easy forget-my-problems
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Jan 01, 2010
Sara
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I saw the CW tv show Privilaged before finding out that the series was based on this novel. I usually don't say this, but the tv show was way better. The characters were more indepth in the tv series. The book was a great out line for the series. It was a fast read, with more foul language than I expected but over all a decent book. Not much to the characters because I felt like the book moved so fast, there wasn't much time to get to know them very well. It was a great book to put down and pi
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Jan 10, 2012
Robin (RBBR)
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I found out about this book because I came across the show based on it and happened to find it on the first episode. The TV show caused me to want to read the book, no surprise there but the book which I read before the series ended made me want to continue watching the show. The show followed the book pretty well but then it got annoying not because it became inaccurate but because they started doing the repeat an episode and move the time around thing. Needless to say I lost track of the new e
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Jun 27, 2010
Angela
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This was made into a TV show that lasted one season only due to the WB merge with...whatever that other channel was...and then they formed the CW. The show was called "Privileged".
The TV show was a million times better than this book. Had I not watched the show and wanted to read the book as a result of that (not vice versa for a change), I probably wouldn't have really liked this book. The plot kind of dragged; the writing was an insult to my intelligence.
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The TV show was a million times better than this book. Had I not watched the show and wanted to read the book as a result of that (not vice versa for a change), I probably wouldn't have really liked this book. The plot kind of dragged; the writing was an insult to my intelligence.
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May 08, 2010
Allison
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I definitely enjoyed reading this book. The characters, the plot, the drama... it was all very entertaining. However, as you might expect, there were plenty of clichés, predictable events, and a typical happy ending. Every once in a while, the novel would throw me a curveball, but it ended up just where I thought it was going every time.
In my opinion, all of the characters were great. The gorgeous neighbor, Megan's perfect sister, not to mention Marco, head chef and Megan's fairy gay More...
In my opinion, all of the characters were great. The gorgeous neighbor, Megan's perfect sister, not to mention Marco, head chef and Megan's fairy gay More...
Nov 01, 2008
Kourtney
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This was the book that inspired the show "Privileged" on the CW. I have become a huge fan of that show, so when I saw the words "Based on the novel..." I ran to the bookstore to find the root of my new found love.
If you are a fan of the show, you will need to go into reading the book with the frame of mind that the show is LOOSELY based on the book. They basically took the name of the protagonist, the name of the twins, grandmother, chef and neighbor, kept the att More...
If you are a fan of the show, you will need to go into reading the book with the frame of mind that the show is LOOSELY based on the book. They basically took the name of the protagonist, the name of the twins, grandmother, chef and neighbor, kept the att More...
