Eleven on Top (A Stephanie Plum Novel)
by Janet Evanovichpublished
June 20th 2006
(first published 2005)
by St. Martin's Paperbacks
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Mass Market Paperback, 368 pages
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0312985347
(isbn13: 9780312985349)
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Stephanie Plum, Trenton's favorite bondswoman, is having a career crisis, which gives Janet Evanovich plenty of opportunities to showcase her series h...more
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Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as fugitive apprehension agent has run its course. She's been shot at, spat at, cussed at, fire-bombed, mooned, and attacked by dogs. Time for a change, Stephanie thinks. Time to find the kind of job her mother can tell her friends about without making the sign of the cross. So Stephanie Plum quits. Resigns. No looking back. No changing her mind. She wants something safe and normal. As it turns out, jobs that are safe and normal for most people aren't necess...more
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Read in July, 2008
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Number 11 in the Stephanie Plum series proves Janet Evanovich could go on forever. This best-selling author keeps the humor flowing with the wacky situations Stephanie and her cohorts manage to get themselves into.
Stephanie is beginning to question where her life is going and makes the drastic decision to quit her job as a bounty hunter. She ends up working in a button factory but gets fired the first day before she even begins work. Her next job at a dry-cleaning establishment ends when th...more
Stephanie is beginning to question where her life is going and makes the drastic decision to quit her job as a bounty hunter. She ends up working in a button factory but gets fired the first day before she even begins work. Her next job at a dry-cleaning establishment ends when th...more
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Read in June, 2008
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There is only so much a girl can take. And this girl has had enough! Enough of chasing bad guys, wrestling them to the ground, having them shoot at her and always ending up covered in garbage. So Stephanie Plum quits her job as a bounty hunter. She quickly finds out there are other jobs she is much worse at! She can’t seem to keep a job. She temporarily works at the button factury, a fast food place, a dry cleaners, before landing a gig at a security company, with the very good looking Ranger ...more
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Read in June, 2005
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Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as fugitive apprehension agent has run its course. She's been shot at, spat at, cussed at, fire-bombed, mooned, and attacked by dogs. Time for a change, Stephanie thinks. Time to find the kind of job her mother can tell her friends about without making the sign of the cross. So Stephanie Plum quits. Resigns. No looking back. No changing her mind. Sh...more
Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as fugitive apprehension agent has run its course. She's been shot at, spat at, cussed at, fire-bombed, mooned, and attacked by dogs. Time for a change, Stephanie thinks. Time to find the kind of job her mother can tell her friends about without making the sign of the cross. So Stephanie Plum quits. Resigns. No looking back. No changing her mind. Sh...more
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Read in January, 2007
Stephanie Plum is having a career crisis, so she goes from dry cleaner to factory worker. Most of them don't last a full working day, which is good for us, since it plunges her back into the world of fugitives who'd rather flee than face their day in court. She may be tired of having her life threatened, her cars torched or blown up, and her apartment broken into, but one thing she can say about her job is that it's never boring. Despite her intentions of going straight at a job with a little mo...more
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Read in November, 2007
This is actually one of my favorite books in the series... Stephanie decides she has had enough. No more being stalked, having her apartmen broken into and cars being blown up - no more... She decides to get a real job... After stints at the button factory, dry cleaner and Cluck in a Bucket, Stephanie ends up working at RangeMan. More about Ranger... : )
Of course this is a bit different than her previous experience working with Ranger - she has a cushy office job and her on-again-off-again ...more
Of course this is a bit different than her previous experience working with Ranger - she has a cushy office job and her on-again-off-again ...more
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Read in October, 2006
Ah, you can always count on Janet bringing a funny (almost ludicrous) read when it comes to the Stephanie Plum series. It's another volume in the adventures of a bumbling makeshift bounty hunter. I love her tales of Jersey and the sexual tension between the main character and her two love interests.
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Read in January, 2008
Fabulous! I love Stephanie Plum, Morelli, Ranger & even Grandma Mazur & Bob :) We see a bit more of Ranger, as Stephanie quits her job, ends up in a few different ones that always end in disaster, before working for RangeMan. This was a RABCK from Pookledo, so is now available.
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Trouble seems to find Stephanie everywhere she goes, and once again she’s struggling with her tangled love life, chaotic family, and her God-given gift for destroying every car she drives. This time, P...more
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Trouble seems to find Stephanie everywhere she goes, and once again she’s struggling with her tangled love life, chaotic family, and her God-given gift for destroying every car she drives. This time, P...more
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Read in August, 2006
I was a little disappointed with this book. I really enjoy this series and was looking forward to this book. Loved the thought of Stephanie working for Ranger full time but looks like that won't last into the next book. I read these strictly in paperbook because they aren't worth hardback prices. Felt this book's plot didn't really come together and she left the ending out. There's nothing really accomplished. We didn't really learn anything new. Felt like Evanovich wanted to write more but her ...more
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Read in September, 2007
recommends it for:
anyone who's ever lived in Jersey
I had tried reading this author years ago & it didn't click. Now she's one of my favorites! Stephanie is very human, w/a family that partly fun & the rest dysfunctional. But hilarious. Her characters are so vivid, and I laugh out loud at Lula's antics. It's just a fun read, full of surprises, and full of factual backround. Janet E. is interviewed once in a while on the books on tape & she mentioned how she researched her books, made friends w/the Trenton cops & even bought them a...more
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Read in August, 2005
ELEVEN ON TOP (Bounty Hunter-New Jersey-Cont) – G+
Evanovich, Janet – 11th in series
St. Martin's Press, 2005- Hardcover
Stephanie has had enough and resigns from being a bounty hunter for Uncle Vinnie. But that doesn't keep her out of trouble. Her cars keep getting destroyed, Grandma runs into Morelli and breaks his leg, and things and people are blown up. Finally Ranger gives her an office job trying to keep her safe. As if…
*** I don't read these expecting depth or character gro...more
Evanovich, Janet – 11th in series
St. Martin's Press, 2005- Hardcover
Stephanie has had enough and resigns from being a bounty hunter for Uncle Vinnie. But that doesn't keep her out of trouble. Her cars keep getting destroyed, Grandma runs into Morelli and breaks his leg, and things and people are blown up. Finally Ranger gives her an office job trying to keep her safe. As if…
*** I don't read these expecting depth or character gro...more
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Read in April, 2008
I enjoyed this installment quite alot. In it, Stephanie resigns from Vinnie's Bail Bonds, takes a brief run at the button factory, a dry cleaners, and Cluck-in-a-bucket, before taking an office job at Rangeman. She is also being stalked by someone from her bounty-hunting past...more cars to blow up, more FTA'a to bring in, Sally Sweet makes another appearance,and Grandma Mazur gets into not ONE fight (with Bella, Joe's crazy grandmother) but, two (a food fight with a snockered Stephanie's mom!)....more
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Read in July, 2008
Fast read and fairly entertaining. Some of the earlier novels in the series deal more with mystery than the later ones. The plot's not the most amazing, but I think the characters are hilarious. Skip it if you're looking for a really good mystery novel. Pick it up if you're looking for fast and fun and don't care that much about amazing plot lines.
I need another star category for "really liked it and it's an amazing piece of literature" and "really like it because it's NOT an...more
I need another star category for "really liked it and it's an amazing piece of literature" and "really like it because it's NOT an...more
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After trying to read the first one, I didn't know why anybody liked these books. I just couldn't get into it. Then I found out that my friends started in the middle of the series. So I started the series with this one. I was concerned I wouldn't understand what was going on, but it requires no thinking. It was much better than the first; the action started right away. I laughed out loud. Now I will try and reread the first one.
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Read in November, 2007
Well, obviously I wouldn't read eleven books in any series that I didn't absolutely love. I love it. It's fun and lighthearted and yet really well-written, especially the dialogue. I *highly* recommend listening to this as an audiobook, I think it fits the pace of the writing even better than the quick read you can do through the written book. If you can find them, C.J. Critt does the best audio recording, but Lorelei King isn't bad.
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Read in January, 2007
I like Evanovich a lot because reading the speech patterns of people in New Jersey--the setting of this series--reminds me of Pittsburgh. I like the use of murder as a means to build suspense, which this author tends to do. This series started out a little rocky. By the fifth novel, Evanovich had it down and several of these middle books were great. Nine and ten went downhill a little, but the most recent ones have been good.
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Read in April, 2007
As the series winds down this book starts out slow and we see Stephanie making some changes - major changes. It appears as though she is starting to become more responsible. This was not one of my favorites of the series but it was a nice - mellow - read. I'm hoping book 12 provides a little more action and of course in my opinion I would like to see Stephanie move closer to Ranger. Someone has to tame that bad boy !!!
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Read in August, 2008
The ninth and tenth book in this series left me unimpressed; Stephanie's same old storyline was very stale. I'm glad I stuck with it for the eleventh book; it's as funny as the early books in the series and it seems as though Stephanie is (finally) beginning to grow as a character. Grandma Mazur remains my favorite and she really shines in this installment. Hopefully 12 Sharp will be just as good.
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