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The First Wives Club

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Before Sex and the City...before The Starter Wife...there was The First Wives Club
The sharp-witted and sexy New York Times bestseller!

Elise, Brenda, and Annie have one thing in common: they were all first wives. Make that two things in common -- they were the secret to success for each of their spouses, faithfully supporting them as they rose to the top. Okay, three things...more

Paperback, 576 pages

Published April 1st 2008 by Gallery Books (first published 1992)

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Dec 01, 2008 JayeL added it · review of another edition

Shelves: pre-2000

I liked this book because the premise was that men underestimated their wives and their wives showed them that one should never underestimate anyone. I liked the attitude that the first wives take. It has a bit of man-hating in it, which I don't agree with.

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Mar 23, 2009 April Hamilton rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

One of the grandmothers of the chick lit genre. Funny, if a bit mean-spirited at times, though it's hard *not* to empathize with the long-suffering first wives who are tossed aside like yesterday's leftovers when their husbands decide it's time to bag trophy wives. The story of how they work together to wreak vengeance on those cads, and improve their own futures and that of their community at the same time, is an entertaining read.

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Jan 04, 2009 Lisa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this book before the movie came out. I think if I had seen the movie first, I would have never read the book. The movie was horrible! This book is way more interesting. The characters had much more emotion & substance. Don't get me wrong... this is not going to be a literary classic, but in the book you get to see them much more vindictive, angry, sad, and hurt; and the revenge that they achieve is much more fun (and cruel) than the movie allowed you to see. Again... if you're looking...more

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May 20, 2013 Laura rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was a little nervous to read the book that my favourite movie is based on. I didn't want to automatically dismiss the book just because it might be different to the movie i was used to. I wanted to be able to enjoy the story for what it was and try and push away my preconceptions.

I have to admit that it was a little hard to do that because of how many times i have watched the movie (I almost know the script off by heart). To be honest i didn't enjoy the beginning of the book because it was so...more I was a little nervous to read the book that my favourite movie is based on. I didn't want to automatically dismiss the book just because it might be different to the movie i was used to. I wanted to be able to enjoy the story for what it was and try and push away my preconceptions.

I have to admit that it was a little hard to do that because of how many times i have watched the movie (I almost know the script off by heart). To be honest i didn't enjoy the beginning of the book because it was so very different to the movie. I was surprised at how different it was that i became wary that my favourite movie was based on a book that i might (faint) not actually like. However after i got into the story, i was able to push away the movie i knew so well and just enjoy the story for what it is.

In my review, i do have to compare the book and the movie. I know that you aren't really meant to do that however because the movie is so ingrained in my brain, i have to do a comparison so i then can in fact, can just review the book for what it is.

I found the book a lot less lighthearted than the movie, which surprised me. The book wasn't terribly depressing but it didn't have that lighthearted note to it. My heart didn't sing like it does after I've watched the movie. Also they REALLY changed a lot of things for the movie. I didn't like the differences at first, however once i got over myself, i actually found it very interesting how it all tied together in the end. I'm not sure why they changed so much for the movie, maybe it was a bit too complicated, however i can't say I'm not glad that they did :) I don't think it would be my favourite movie if it was true to the book.

The story is about three women who have been left by their husbands for younger women after helping them to their success. It is their story of heartache, a little revenge, justice, true friendship and triumph.

The book was well written and interesting - there were some great twists. I think it takes a bit to get into it because you don't fall in love with the characters straight away, it takes time. Once you know them though, you are with them until the end.

If you've seen the movie, it's well worth reading - just keep in mind that its quite different. If you haven't seen the movie, then what's wrong with you?! To be honest though i wouldn't know whether to read the book or watch the movie first - you choose!

I would probably read it again and i would recommend it to most people. I don't know what category you would put it in, it isn't really a romance, or a drama. Just a pretty good story.

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May 16, 2012 Krissy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I liked the concept/plot line and really dove into this book. Women who've dedicated their lives to helping their husbands succeed only to be tossed aside for younger women decide to take action and get even. It sounds cheesy, but the cheesiness adds to the appeal. That said I thought it dragged a bit to be honest and I found it hard to identify with Brenda, Elise, and Annie in the book. Maybe it's because I adored their characters in the movie version, but this one just falls flat. I did like t...more

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Nov 14, 2011 Boogenhagen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. If, like me, you spend an inordinate amount of time reading the cheatin' kinda romance or the ones with the Alphahole jerky H that seems so prevalent in various category lines and find that for every 10 you read 8 are probably just not satisfying the need for a good apology and a sincere "I love you and only you" from the misbehavin' sorry b*stds.

If your tired of the H whose always seems to get out of a big grovel with a cheeky smile, and a "I will be faithful to you from now on, mostly, If I a...more If, like me, you spend an inordinate amount of time reading the cheatin' kinda romance or the ones with the Alphahole jerky H that seems so prevalent in various category lines and find that for every 10 you read 8 are probably just not satisfying the need for a good apology and a sincere "I love you and only you" from the misbehavin' sorry b*stds.

If your tired of the H whose always seems to get out of a big grovel with a cheeky smile, and a "I will be faithful to you from now on, mostly, If I am not too tempted the by the buxom blonde in the spandex.." and some hot smokin' smexxing moves then you need to cleanse your palate with a good ole' fashion make-the jerks-sorry revenge novel. I admit I wear a lot of rose colored googles and tend to throw a lot of pink and purple sparklies around in my quest to really believe in the HEA, but there is a dark, seekrit corner of my heart that just wants to see the dawgs beg for mercy. That is why periodically I just have to read this book.

Yes it is vindictive, it is cruel and probably very frightening to most males, (my own husband read three pages and ran away screaming, I think it was the part about the paint job getting ruined on the jag), but nobody actually gets physically castrated they just get a good dose of what is coming to them.

Olivia Goldsmith manages to take every kinda alphahole H know to Romancelandia and characterizes them brilliantly in her four male "bad guys" in TFWC. She also does a pretty good job of exemplifying the typical doormatty h's seen in too many novels to count and finally gives them a backbone.

What I find particularly interesting is that none of the ladies could do it for themselves, they really are "good girls" for the most part, but when one of their own kills herself because of her asshat husband, watch out. The ladies find an inner strength and resiliency that would make any proper Romancelandia h stand up and cheer and want to move over to chick lit, all in the name of avenging their fallen comrade. They aren't really very kind or sweet about it either, but they do remain ladylike at all times while slowly turning the screws on four very rotten scoundrels who finally get what is really coming to them.

The book is over the top, and yep it has got a lotta fluff, but believe me if you have read as many bad romances as I have, you have got to appreciate the break.

In any other romance book the ladies would quietly get on with their lives and wait for the gents to see how they missed them and return. Annie would take Aaron back with a half-hearted apology and a few "I really love you's", his indiscretions overlooked and quietly swept under the rug. Our abuser Gil would agree to go to counseling and maybe become a monk to help other's overcome their violent tendencies. Elise and Bill would come off as Hollywood royalty and Bill would promise to be more discreet in the future and Morty would realize that all he really wants is Brenda and a cannoli. OG doesn't take the easy, sweet route. No way, the guys were pigs of the first order and they gotta pay. The ways to make them pay and the methods used are most of the fun of this book.

I can't tell you how many times I have smiled in wicked glee as Elise sells Bill's collections for a dollar, I had even more fun contemplating Gil's major financial collapse and subsequent interview with the SEC, almost as much fun as imagining the paint melting off his classic jag. When Morty gets sent to prison I just had to cheer and when Annie -nicely- tells Aaron off, it was the highlight of the book. I know it isn't nice, compassionate or kind, but I was glad those caricatures of male romance hero's suffered. I felt a blow was struck in the name of justice for all the times the h's have to say "It is okay dear, all is forgiven and I still love you" and then ride off into an unbelievable HEA. I know the ladies got an HEA in this one, they made sure of it themselves.

All in all the novel is not the greatest piece of literature in the twentieth century. Parts are trite, some characters are obviously over-dramatized, but so what? Every one needs a break from the overwhelming forgiveness with no real reparation so prevalent in Romancelandia today and I am so glad Ms. Goldsmith managed to do it in a wickedly funny entertaining style that still makes me laugh every time I read it. (less)

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Dec 08, 2009 Rin Simpson rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Synopsis: Three former college friends are reunited by the death of the fourth member of their group, who commits suicide when her husband replaces her with a younger model. As 'first wives' themselves, they come together to form a club which has just one important goal - revenge.

Review: If you've seen the film of this book, forget it - save for the name and one or two basic plot points, they're completely different animals. While the film is a laugh-a-minute comedy, albeit with a good heart, th...more

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Aug 07, 2011 Lisa (Harmonybites) rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Those in the Mood For a Bit of Male-Bashing and Girl Power

Recommended to Lisa (Harmonybites) by: The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Ultimate Reading List

Shelves: chick-lit, contemporary, fiction, novels, ultimate-reading-list, humor-and-comedy, romance

If you've seen the film based on this, well, this is quite different in a lot of the details, and is much raunchier, darker, crueler, meaner and more vindictive. It's a breezy fast easy read despite its thick length, but although light in that sense, I'd hardly call it fluffy.

The novel follows three women: Elise Eliot Atchison, Annie MacDuggan Paradise and Brenda Morrelli Cushman are seemingly very different people. Elise, born to a WASPy rich, high society family, was a glamorous movie star in...more If you've seen the film based on this, well, this is quite different in a lot of the details, and is much raunchier, darker, crueler, meaner and more vindictive. It's a breezy fast easy read despite its thick length, but although light in that sense, I'd hardly call it fluffy.

The novel follows three women: Elise Eliot Atchison, Annie MacDuggan Paradise and Brenda Morrelli Cushman are seemingly very different people. Elise, born to a WASPy rich, high society family, was a glamorous movie star in the Grace Kelly mold. Annie was the good Catholic "Mainline girl" who is thin, practical and proper. Brenda is a fat brassy, funny half-Sicilian and half-Jewish. But what all three have in common is that all of them are "first wives" dumped in middle age for young trophy wives and betrayed in various ways by their husbands. Elise is drinking too much, Brenda is eating too much, and Annie is trying to cope with crushing loneliness after sending off her teenaged Down's syndrome daughter to a residential home. Then Annie's receives a letter from an old friend, Cynthia, who just committed suicide--a letter that details the various betrayals of Cynthia's husband who had also discarded her for a younger woman. After Annie shares the letter with the others, they form "the First Wives Club" and vow revenge on Cynthia's ex-husbands and their own former spouses.

No one would mistake this book for great literature--I found particularly irritating the hard-to-read attempts at depicting a heavy Spanish accent with spellings like "dey," "ees," "chou," and "asseestant" and the tendency to overuse "Well" to begin sentences. At times what's set in motion by the three seems too vindictive. With the husbands, it's more justice than revenge, but the scheme targets the new spouses too, and in all but one case, the second wives seem to me more the next victim of the ex than evil women who should be taken down.

But I nevertheless found this rather trashy book a very entertaining read and I enjoyed watching the developing friendship among the women and their personal growth after their divorces. Set in late 1980s New York City, the novel is a bit like a caper story for chicks with all the satisfaction of seeing an elaborate revenge scheme come together.(less)

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Jun 06, 2007 Anne rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I've always been mad at what that stupid movie did to this awesome book. The movie made these characters into idiots, when in the book they were smart, strong women. But hey, isn't that what life in our society likes to do to strong, intelligent women - try to take their power from them by turning them into charicatures - if you're ambitious, you're a witch, if you're angry you're just being emotional.... UGH

It's really a great read.

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Jun 25, 2012 Carol rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I found this book in the discount section at one of my local bookstores. Until reading more here I had not even known it was a movie.

The plot and charaters are interesting enough to me to get me through the novel, but if it weren't for that I don't think I could have made it through the novel in its entirety. Her basic style of writing is ok, but her character jumps. Oh god the character jumps. Now, I love novels that have many "main" characters. It usually adds greatly to a story. But when I ha...more

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Jun 21, 2012 Jessica Workman Holland (Tales Between the Pages) rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: chick-lit, north-american-fiction-20th-centu, reading-challenge-2012

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This book surprised me. I came into it having watched the movie, which was very light hearted. The first half of the book was quite a bit deeper than I expected. There were moments of beauty and heartache and despair. Annie's story resonated with me more than any of the other women, which surprised me. Her emotions felt the most real to me. Her husband was the most despicable out of all of them (even the megalomanic/woman beater). Annie's husband on...more Read the full review at Tales Between the Pages

This book surprised me. I came into it having watched the movie, which was very light hearted. The first half of the book was quite a bit deeper than I expected. There were moments of beauty and heartache and despair. Annie's story resonated with me more than any of the other women, which surprised me. Her emotions felt the most real to me. Her husband was the most despicable out of all of them (even the megalomanic/woman beater). Annie's husband only left her but refused to acknowledge their daughter with Down's Syndrome. AND he only really liked his first born son. The middle son was always neglected because he saw how special his sister is. OH. And he gambled away his daughter's trust fund on the stock market. That was the money that was supposed to sustain her lifestyle at a special school. Annie had to sell everything she owned in order to make sure her daughter would have a happy, healthy, and normal life at Sylvan Glades. Despite all that, I think it was Annie's loneliness really resonated with me. I've been that lonely before so I could relate to her on a very deep emotional level. Annie's character is so much deeper than the Diana Keaton portrayal of her in the movie.

Right around the 50% mark in the book, Olivia Goldsmith changed her writing style. The chapters shifted from these detailed character moments that were really introspective to these choppy chapters that jumped around. You know what I'm talking about when I say choppy chapters -- the kind of chapters that jump POV's and are separated by a few line spaces and a ***. I might not have had a problem with this if she hadn't just decided to start doing it in the middle of the novel. To be honest, I didn't care what the minor society characters were thinking/talking about. I was invested in and cared about the main characters. To have moments without them showed me that Goldsmith lost her way a little bit toward the end. It seems like she felt compelled to include ALL THE THINGS rather than the most important. My little gripes here are what kept me from giving this a four star review.

However, I found The First Wives Club by Olivia Goldsmith to be the precursor to what we think of as chick lit. I read a review on Goodreads that called the book "the grandmother of chick lit." I think that's an apt description. This was published before Carrie Bradshaw and Bridget Jones hit the scene. I can't say that Goldsmith intended on creating a new genre that's marketed to women but I think she and the book are probably as close as we can get to that moment where authors and publishers realized that female readers were their most powerful demographic.

All in all, the book was DEFINITELY better than the movie and quite an enjoyable read. If you've ever been scorned and/or lonely, you'll be able to identify with Elise, Brenda, and Annie.(less)

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Nov 21, 2012 Jamie rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Jul 08, 2009 Olivia rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read Goldsmith's The Bestseller for my ELang 410 Editing Fiction class--it really is a good look into publishing if you are interested in that field. After finishing Bestseller, which talks a lot of the difficulties of getting published, particularly with a first novel, I was curious about Goldsmith's first novel: how she broke in. I had also heard about The First Wives Club the movie, though I had never seen it.

As you can see, I was not very impressed with the book. I'd call it "trashy." I t...more

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Dec 27, 2011 Roberta rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2007

Cosa succede quando un gruppo di amiche si rende conto di essere state usate, scartate e gettate dai loro ex mariti? Nella vita normale, le donne in questione si sfogherebbero parlandosi, mangiando e uscendo insieme.
Nel mondo di Olivia Goldsmith le cose sono un po’ diverse.
Tutto inizia con il suicidio di Cinzia, che prima di togliersi la vita spedisce una lettera alla sua cara amica Annie, che però non ha visto per lungo tempo. In questa lettera, Cinzia racconta i continui soprusi subiti in sil...more Cosa succede quando un gruppo di amiche si rende conto di essere state usate, scartate e gettate dai loro ex mariti? Nella vita normale, le donne in questione si sfogherebbero parlandosi, mangiando e uscendo insieme.
Nel mondo di Olivia Goldsmith le cose sono un po’ diverse.
Tutto inizia con il suicidio di Cinzia, che prima di togliersi la vita spedisce una lettera alla sua cara amica Annie, che però non ha visto per lungo tempo. In questa lettera, Cinzia racconta i continui soprusi subiti in silenzio dal marito, che alla fine l’ha lasciata per una donna più giovane e bella. Al suo funerale, il suo ex marito non si degna neppure di pronunciare l'elogio funebre e di accompagnare la bara al cimitero.
Annie, a sua volta divorziata e amica di Brenda, divorziata anche lei, ed Elise, ex diva del cinema con un matrimonio in crisi, realizza che questo è il destino che aspetta tutte loro. E’ proprio Elise a un certo punto a capire che la vendetta è un buon surrogato della felicità, e che causare la rovina economica e familiare dei loro ex mariti sarà solo una soddisfazione.
Pian piano però l’intento distruttivo viene accompagnato dalla volontà di ricrearsi una vita di tutte queste donne e dei vari personaggi che le circondano. Esse scoprono che nella vita c'è ancora spazio per loro e pian piano iniziano ad allacciare relazioni, ad intensificare la loro amicizia e a circondarsi di persone positive.
L'intreccio è rapido ed avvincente, nonostante una lieve "polverosità" nello stile. I personaggi non sono di particolare spessore (rispondono più che altro ad esigenze di trama) ma risultano comunque simpatici od antipatici. E' divertente inoltre la tendenza della scrittrice ad intrecciare continue relazioni tra i vari personaggi che finiscono con il "cozzare" continuamente fra di loro quasi New York fosse un quartierino di provincia.
Nonostante le tematiche proposte siano di grande interesse (violenze familiari, la relazione dei genitori con i figli portatori di handicap, le relazioni di donne con uomini più giovani, relazioni interrazziali, relazioni omosessuali, la droga) il trattamento delle stesse e la risoluzione dei problemi è più legata alla volontà di costruire una trama avvincente e divertente che a produrre un'effettiva critica di quel brillante mondo del jet set che, a quanto pare, brilla assai poco. Gli stessi problemi affrontati dai vari personaggi, esposti in maniera un po' superficiale ed ambientati in un contesto in cui tutti sono ricchissimi e amorali, difficilmente riescono ad indurre nel lettore una considerevole dose di empatia.(less)

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Apr 12, 2011 Katie Paulson rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book is hilarious. It's no great feat of writing, but if you're bitter and need something funny, this is the way to go. The premise of first wives getting back at their husbands for trading up for new and better models plays out well with Olivia Goldsmith's writing style, and like all good revenge books, you're rooting for the schemes to work (and work they do, in satisfying ways). It may not be for everyone, but what good revenge novel is? Men may find themselves a little intimidated after...more

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Dec 08, 2008 Leigh rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

1000000 times better than the film! The stories of the three women seem very realistic.

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Jun 03, 2013 Sorcha rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2008, american

Don't get mad. Get everything.
When their best friend commits suicide over her divorce, Elise, Brenda and Annie decide enough is enough. Each was crucial to her husband's career. But now that the men are successful, they've traded in their wives for newer, blonder models.
Over lunch one day they form the First Wives Club. But this is no support group. This is the SAS in Chanel. Painstakingly, inexorably, they plan the downfall of the men who've wrecked their lives - and know that revenge has never...more

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May 09, 2011 esterb rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: books2movies

I have to be honest here, I struggled to get through. The plot never became interesting enough to really grab me and the characters were too “one-dimensional” for my liking. That may work in a film, the movie version is funny, but it isn’t enough when you want to make a funny book. And that’s another thing:
Where authors like Helen Fielding and Marian Keyes are funny, Olivia Goldsmith tries hard to be, but she just doesn’t get it done in my humble opinion.

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Apr 05, 2013 Kellijonee rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorite-reads-of-the-year-2013

This is a must have in paperback and on my e-reader. I enjoyed this book so much.. Unfortunately, just after I finished it, I lost it. That means that I will have to pay the library for it or buy them another copy. I will definitely get one for myself. :) I loved this book. This is the elder sister to Sex & The City. Olivia Goldsmith has outdone herself with this novel. I loved it.. An absolutely awesome read and a must have wherever you can have a book(either in paperback, a printed manuscr...more

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Oct 04, 2012 Mademoiselle Charlotte rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: female_characters_the_best, chick_lit_awesome, romance_light_read

WARNING:This book SHOULD NOT be compared to the movie. This is a 5+ read

Awesome book,awesome characters,awesome plot,just simply awesome awesomeness...

I read this about 5 years ago,but I remember that this book introduced me to the world of powerful,no-nonsense,tough,quirky female characters.

It was funny,exciting,interesting,but serious read and I didn't regret reading it even for one second.

I would recommend this to those who are into funny,light-reads(but not too light),exciting books with BRI...more

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Jun 14, 2009 Ami rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary-fiction

Much more graphic than the movie in terms of language and sex scenes. But on some level, much more realistic than the movie. The book deals with high Manhattan society, alcoholism, obesity, down's syndrome, and lesbianism while the movie glossed over or skipped entirely these topics. The characters in the book aren't as likeable as the actors in the movie, but you do know them better. If you are looking for something light, this is not your book.

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Jan 18, 2011 Kellie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011-reads, fiction-literature

I think the most interesting aspect of this novel is the person who wrote it. Olivia Goldsmith went thru a messy divorce which prompted the writing of this and many other novels where women are treated badly by the men in their lives, the men leave and the women end up better off. In this case, revenge is sweet. Sadly, the novelist died in 2004 due to complications from plastic surgery. This novel was just OK for me. The plot was interesting, the characters were likeable enough but there was som...more

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Sep 29, 2012 Kirby rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I hadn't read this book since the movie came out (oh my god- was that really 1996?!), but I remembered loving it. Having just reread it, I may have to knock off one of the stars on my original rating...

I still loved the premise of the story- the discarded wives engineering the downfall of their cruel exes, finding true love and happiness along the way- and I still loved the characters. They all felt very real and nuanced, flawed but likable (especially Brenda Cushman- her humor was great). Some...more

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Jan 11, 2010 Ria Tumimomor rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

DON'T GET MAD, GET EVEN....

That's the lesson by learning from this book about women who got dumped by their husband simply because they are getting old and how society make it worst by turning their back....

Don't disgrace yourself by doing something stupid when someone do terrible things to you.... GET EVEN!!! In the smartest way :)

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Dec 29, 2012 Lover-of-Good-Books rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this book years ago. I was a fan of the movie and thought I'd give the book a go. The book, in my opinion, was leaps and bounds better than the movie. The stories of each character including Cynthia went much deeper than the movie and it is definitely one i have been pushing onto people who enjoyed the movie.

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Jun 30, 2010 Joanne rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is one of those "male bashing with cause" scary (to men especially) reads that many of us guiltily succumb to at the beach every so often. Ashamed and embareassed; but I kept on reading. The main characters could be (and perhaps are) you and your friends. You don't have to be done in by a spouse to relish this.

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Apr 02, 2009 Jennifer rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Got to page 69 and stopped so I don't know if I'm really qualified to rate it. But in those 69 pages there were already two intimate sections, one described in detail, and more language than I cared for. I tried skipping to the end to see if it got better. Nope. If I could give 0 stars I probably would.

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Jul 18, 2010 Kristin Hanes rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I tried to read this book because I knew it was popular and they even made a movie about it, but I just couldn't get into it. I thought it took too long to get into the meat of the story, and I didn't really enjoy reading about vindictive wives who'd been screwed over. I found it too dark for my tastes.

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Jul 22, 2011 Mamajoy333 rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A good summer fun fluff read; was made into a movie several years back with Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler. Several first wives get jilted for younger models, and give their husbands a run for their money (literally). Not a model for life mind you, but a good way to vicariously get some sweet revenge.

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Oct 02, 2012 Joanne rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I am not a fan of reading a book once I have seen the movie, but I loved the movie so much I decided to read the book. I have to say that I am glad that I did - it should not have surprised me that they were so different.I loved this book and in fact read it in one sitting.

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Olivia Goldsmith (January 1, 1949 - January 15, 2004) was an American author, best known for her first novel The First Wives Club (1992), which was adapted into the movie The First Wives Club (1996).

She was born Randy Goldfield in Dumont, New Jersey, but changed her name to Justine Goldfield and later to Justine Rendal. She took up writing following a divorce in which she said her husband got almo...more

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