false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172463892m/178813.jpg 178813 18 With a brilliant comic voice as well as Jane Austen's penchant for social satire, Candace Bushnell, who with "Sex and the City" changed forever how we view New York City, female friendships, and the love of a good pair of Manolos, now brings us a sharply observant, keenly funny, wildly entertaining latter day comedy of manners. Modern-day heroine Janey Wilcox is a lingerie model whose reach often exceeds her grasp, and whose new-found success has gone to her head. As we follow Janey's adventures, Bushnell draws us into a seemingly glamorous world of $100,000 cars, hunky polo players and media moguls, Fifth Avenue apartments, and relationships whose hidden agendas are detectable only by the socially astute. But just as Janey enters this world of too much money and too few morals, unseen forces conspire to bring her down, forcing her to reexamine her values about love and friendship -- and how far she's really willing to go to realize her dreams. 2011131 31 7 2003 Trading Up total:3464|5:198|4:570|3:1168|2:971|1:557| 3464 9273 4386 355 1 8 false false Mon Aug 27 06:26:51 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 17:32:39 -0700 2007 Please stop writing female characters with no depth of soul. I am a women and yet capable of thought. I am capable of getting a job and supporting myself. I am capable of dating people because I like them and not because they are rich. I am capable of having friends who I don't b...more...]]> 0 6 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue May 29 08:39:04 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 09:12:30 -0700 2007 This book was the worst piece of crap ever written. I have a problem when it comes to books in that I have to finish reading a book once I start it. I hate myself for finishing this one. I'm dumber for having read it and will ne...more...]]> 1 5 false false Fri Aug 08 21:20:13 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 22:54:13 -0700 2008
What a terrible waste of my time. What a terrible waste of trees and ink.

I only finished because I was hoping that, in a surprising twist, Janey would fall off of a cliff, or get lynched, or die in some horrible, ...more...]]> 1 2 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Jan 09 06:45:58 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 09 06:49:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Mon Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 14:47:21 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 12:48:35 -0800 2008
A few days later....more...]]> 1 1 false false Fri Sep 14 07:12:25 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 07:25:11 -0700 2007 Bergdorf Blondes", "Devil Wears Prada", etc. etc...) "Trading Up" didn't even serve my only purpose for it: to be a mindless beach read while on vacation. I struggled throu...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu Nov 06 22:16:42 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 06 22:16:42 -0800 2008 1
I've k...more...]]> 1 0 false false Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 11:57:47 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 16:26:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jun 21 12:34:47 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 21 12:47:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 19:34:31 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 19:54:28 -0700 2009
All Janey Wilcox wants is to be on top. Climb up the social ladder and become Manhattan's elite. However, in NYC, its not as easy as it seems and no one is ever good looking enough, rich enough, or talented enough to stay atop the social ladder.
Many unexpected...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Oct 03 07:56:54 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 08:02:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Thu Jul 03 11:23:24 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 11:26:08 -0700 2008
Why would anyone want to spend hundreds of pages with unlikable, unfunny Janey Wilcox, even if she is a blond, beautiful Victoria's Secret model? I would be a million times happier rereading _Cranfor...more...]]> 1 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 28 11:43:52 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 11:47:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 true false Tue May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 11:49:49 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 19:32:59 -0700 2009
The character this book is based on is in fact a horrible, shallow, nasty person, but I f...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 22 06:10:35 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 30 06:22:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 18:32:25 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 18:37:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false true Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 12 09:20:22 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 09:20:22 -0800 2008
Unfortunately, I was disappointed w...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 19:19:39 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 14:27:34 -0700 2008
The Plot: Janey Wilcox (first seen in Bushnell's series of Novellas 4 Blondes) is in her early 30's - but she's showing no signs of slowing down. Always scheming,...more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Oct 26 23:13:04 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 26 23:34:14 -0700 2007
menggambarkan kehidupan seseorang yang sangat benar-benar membosankan! suka mengeluh! tidak menyukai dunianya tapi harus menyukainya! ada cerita dimana 2 pasangan yang udah married tiba2 menjadi unfaithful! mode...more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 06:52:41 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 06:56:12 -0700 2009
The characters were poorly developed. The plot was silly and repetitive. The diction was not at all creative, and the writing was long and drawn-out.

Also, the edition I read had a publishing error and was missing a 30 page chunk of ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=178813