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January 31st 2003
by Plaza & Janes Editories Sa
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Paperback, 620 pages
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8401329531
(isbn13: 9788401329531)
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Mrs. Graham
I remember finishing this book, and staring at the last period on the last page saying to myself, "I WANT TO KEEP READING!" It was refreshingly funny, and although it was over 500 pages, it was such a light and quick read. As soon as I began this book, I said, "I am Lucy Sullivan...."
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Read in February, 2008
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Andrea
I loved this book. I laughed with Lucy and I felt sad for her disappointments. Most of all, I enjoyed Keyes' writing style. Her chatty style made me feel as if I was conversing with a friend. Just like some of my real life friends, I sometimes wanted to bop her on the head and tell her to get a reality check, but that's one of the great things about this book - Lucy is an honest, real life person with real life flaws (and an addiction to pop psychology and men who treat her badly).
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Read in September, 2007
This book has gotten a bad rap in the reviews on here, but I really liked it. Yes, I knew who the mystery man groom to be was going to be very early on, but who cares. Krystal, I agree that watching her develop (my only beef was that she was 26 and it seemed like this development should have happened earlier in life, but that's just me being judgemental). You can see her slowly change her attitude about herself, the men in her life, how she should be treated. There's a turning point I love i...more
Read in July, 2008
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Brit chick lit, adult daughters of alcoholics
This is a book about having faith that "the right man is out there" and the dysfunction of growing up in an alcholic family. Lucy Sulivan and her co-workers go to a psychic who tells Lucy that she will marry within the next 18 months. Rather famous among her friends for choosing undependable "party guys" as boyfriends, neither Lucy, nor her co-workers can believe the prediction. But then the co-worker's predictions come true, and Lucy is given hope that there may be a man ...more
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Read in March, 2008
I started reading this book and wondered what I had gotten myself into. I'm not one to put down a book once I pick it up -- even if I don't like it. And this one is pretty thick for a chick lit book. By chapter two I was telling my mom and husband that it sucked. Still, I read on. By about chapter ten I was really into the book and had a hard time putting it down. There were times I felt like the chick in this particular piece of chick lit was someone I knew very well -- me in a former lif...more
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Read in August, 2007
I'm a big fan of the cheesy goodness that is a Marian Keyes novel. But this book was a big disappointment. At first I thought I was going to fall in love with this book... Keyes managed to put into words so many aspects of my life that I was amazed... but then it all went to hell and I wanted to slap most of the characters around.
Sure, all of her books tend to be pretty predictable, but this one was SO predictable that it was annoying. And the book was WAY too long. I felt like s...more
Sure, all of her books tend to be pretty predictable, but this one was SO predictable that it was annoying. And the book was WAY too long. I felt like s...more
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Read in December, 2008
I love Marian Keyes so I had high expectations of this book! It failed to reach them! It was ok but not as good as some of her other stuff! My main problem with the book is that Lucy is so god-damned stupid that I just wanted to shake her! She didn't deserve the happy ending - she deserved a slap over the face with a big wet smelly fish or something!!
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Read in November, 2008
Okay...if I could give negative stars on this book I totally would! This booked stunk from beginning to end. And let me tell you the book just goes on and on and on and won't die already. BOOO!
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Read in November, 2008
I wish I could choose half stars, I woul have given this a 2.5. I love Marian Keyes, but this was far from her best book. It was predictible and I didn't find the characters particularly endearing
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Great, fun, easy book about a single girl in London who is told by a fortune teller that she's getting married - but fun book about being single, picking the wrong men, family, etc.
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Read in January, 2008
I found this book kind of dumb, and lacking the spark tht Keys showed in Under the Duvet. The only reason I kept reading it ws because I knew (from Under The Duvet that she dealt with alcoholism in this book and wanted to see how she did it. Frankly, it was with broad strokes. Not all alcoholics are sloppy drunks. The ones I have had to deal with are much more controlled, though the alcohol controlled them.
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I don't really remember this book much, but I know I liked how easy Marian Keyes' books were to read. They're light, and funny.
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Read in October, 2008
The plot was waaay too drawn out. Could have ended it more quickly. Easy, chick-lit, read. Ending was a bit too predictable.
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Read in May, 2007
Two weeks! It took me two weeks to finish this book, which can hardly be considered normal seeing that it's chick-lit, unless the book is as annoying and boring as this one. Most of the characters in these books aren't really that bright but, come on, Lucy is just too much. How can she have not realized that her father was an alcoholic? Why did she have such anger towards her mother? How could she let Karen abuse her like that? And let's not talk about Daniel! Was the ending predictable or what?...more
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Another good one by Marian Keyes. Will empower you to bitch slap your lying, cheating, no good roommate.
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Marian Keyes stands out in Women's Fiction because of her ability to capture the elusive characteristics that make emotionally clumsy but good hearted women interesting. In other hands, this sort of material (single girls, job woes, family problems) comes off as either stupid or a Bridget Jones rip-off. Somehow, Keyes rises above all that and crafts characters that are interesting, likeable, and often clever -- even when they're doing very silly things. I usually like her... and I don't normally...more
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Read in July, 2005
I liked all of the books from this author...fun chic books!
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Read in December, 2008
funny light read, love the sarcastic office humor
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