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    <body><![CDATA[During the particularly bleak summer of my 11th year, I spent a month hiding from my wicked step-mother in the basement bedroom I shared with my sister. No TV, no movies, and very little radio reception meant I read more than usual, and when I went through my own summer reading, I started borrowing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6736302">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i thought about giving this book five stars, not because it's so great, but because i think everyone with daughters should at least look at it -- my 14 year old has devoured all eight or nine in the series (good god!) and i felt like i ought to know what she was reading.  gossip girl is absolutely t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4533592">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Look. I don't want to sound too much like Tipper Gore in the 80's, or too much like Maude Flanders of The Simpsons, tearing out my hair and screeching &quot;WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN!?!?&quot; ... but this book? Are you fucking kidding me? Have teenagers really grown up so much in the 9 years since I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33648981">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't seem to much like actual teenage girls. Then again, the <em>Gossip Girl</em> characters don't act much like actual teenage girls. Or actual humans really. They are all basically insane in their own individual ways. The main character, Blair, is probably the most insane. I think the reader is possibly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30313361">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is very possibly the worst book I have ever read.  The author clearly knows nothing about 16 year olds aside from what she's seen in horrible television shows (all the ones just like the show this series spawned).  The characters are all 2 dimensional and predictable - all super hot, super tren...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22958888">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book Gossip Girl the first of the Gossip Girl series written by Cecily Von Ziegesar, was one of the best books i have <strong>ever</strong> read. The gossip girl series is already my favorite series, and ive only read the first book. The most important characters in the series so far are Blair, who is a down to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10824639">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really wanted to like this book. In fact, I expected to devour it. I heard the author speak on a panel at ALA this year and found her articulate, charming, and thoughtful about her series. Many of my co-workers at a suburban library hated the Gossip Girl books because of their vapid influence on a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2776745">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't remember the last time I was this horrified by a series of young adult novels. I mean, no, I'm not naive and stupid and yes, I do realize that there are teens out there like this (My Super Sweet Sixteen, anybody?) but honestly, just because they're out there doesn't mean they need to be immo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5304862">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't seem to much like actual teenage girls. Then again, the Gossip Girl characters don't act much like actual teenage girls. Or actual humans really. They are all basically insane in their own individual ways. The main character, Blair, is probably the most insane. I think the reader is possibly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50677090">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[	Cecily Vonziegesar wrote the book Gossip Girl. It is a fictional book that is about a group of kids living in New York. Theses kids either go to an all girls school or an all boys school in the Upper East Side. They live in huge, fancy apartment buildings, buy expensive things, and do whatever they...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19381756">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So my first review since my friend invited me to Goodreads is this book. It is my guilty pleasure, obviously. Before you judge me for reading the series (yes, I am addicted and I do have all the GG books), let's see what the book offers.<br/><br/>The series begins with this pilot edition. The main...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9343479">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ugh. I read this in a few hours, and it's pretty horrendous. I found a few punctuation mistakes—without looking, which bothers me—like &quot;...Cyrus Rose was a completely annoying, fat, loser.&quot; Honestly; that's one of the first things you learn about punctuation.<br/><br/>It's a book abo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6423609">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I sort of feel guilty rating this book so low because it fulfilled my expectations - it was a quick, trashy young adult read that gave me an idea of what the (probably) trashy teen CW show will be like.<br/><br/>But, this is really not a good book.  The characters aren't really developed (although...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6384268">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up at a book sale, determined to give it another chance.  I was disgusted by it when I first read it in 2004, but I got drawn in to the television show based on the series, and wondered if I had just been in one of my &quot;anti-fluff&quot; phases.  Maybe it was more entertaining than ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5237522">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had wanted to read the books before but never really found them in English. Then I got hooked on the TV show so I just HAD to get them, got them from all over the place.. I started and felt that the TV-screenplay-writers had done a real good job with a lot of things.<br/><br/>What I didn't like ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8282810">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 07 17:59:12 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I figure I should read some of the trash that I'm buying for the teens, so here I go!<br/><br/>I'm trying to read this book. I'm really trying. But it's so boring. I don't know why teen girls like this crap. I mean, Princess Diaries are funny, I get it. I like Mia. But this is rubbish, and rubbish...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11478527">more...</a>]]></body>
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      <review id="8991519">
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in my local Raleys grocery store.<br/><br/>(a) It was available in a Raleys<br/><br/>(b) I could quickly read it (and I'm usually not a particularly fast reader) during the course of shopping<br/><br/>I thought it was utter garbage.<br/><br/>However, I realize I am not the target ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8991519">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A student left a copy of this book in my room, and one afternoon I picked it up and read it.  While I'm sad to say that I probably stuck with it for 100 pages or more, I couldn't have been less thrilled.  The way this book glamourizes drugs,sex and alcohol makes me realize why TV is getting as bad a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19723015">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been wanting to read the Gossip Girl series because I'm interested in the television series that is coming out this fall...  Then I found out that my local library now has eBooks and Audio Books that can be checked out online.  I have discovered now what a joy an Audio Book can be in the life o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5042879">more...</a>]]></body>
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