Eddy knows how to play the game.
He is, after all, the writer, director, and cameraman--the mastermind, really--behind the hit online TV show... read full description
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Feb 17, 2011
Kelsey
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I own all of Laura Ruby’s books (Good Girls, Bad Apple, & Play Me) but haven’t read any until Play Me. The narrator was male, which made me like the book a little better. I don’t think I would have liked it as much if Lucinda or Gina was the narrator. Now from the summary I was expecting the book to be mostly Eddy chasing after a bunch of different girls. This wasn’t the case. His being a “player” wasn’t really a big part of the book and I liked that his film making took more of an up front role
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Feb 24, 2009
Jennifer
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Eddy Rochester is a movie fanatic and a wannabe famous filmmaker.
When his hit online show, "Riot Grrl 16," is in an MTV contest to be on a reality show called The Producers, Eddy and his team have a lot of work to do.
"Riot Grrl 16" is about Eddy and all the girls that love him. All of the girls except Lucinda Dulko, who isn't as easily charmed by Eddy.
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Eddy Rochester is a movie fanatic and a wannabe famous filmmaker.
When his hit online show, "Riot Grrl 16," is in an MTV contest to be on a reality show called The Producers, Eddy and his team have a lot of work to do.
"Riot Grrl 16" is about Eddy and all the girls that love him. All of the girls except Lucinda Dulko, who isn't as easily charmed by Eddy.
With Lucinda being so u More...
Nov 22, 2008
Becky
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Most people turn into complete morons when you put them in front of the camera, and thank God for that.
I liked the first line. In fact, that's probably my favorite thing about this one. I think this is a case of a reader being disconnected from the book in hand. I don't blame the book for the disconnect. I just failed to connect with the characters and the story. (If I'm going to blame anyone, then I'll lay the blame fully on Tippi Hedren. Tippi is the narrator's pet bird--I'm suppos More...
I liked the first line. In fact, that's probably my favorite thing about this one. I think this is a case of a reader being disconnected from the book in hand. I don't blame the book for the disconnect. I just failed to connect with the characters and the story. (If I'm going to blame anyone, then I'll lay the blame fully on Tippi Hedren. Tippi is the narrator's pet bird--I'm suppos More...
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May 19, 2011
Martinc.
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What happens when a player get’s played?
What a great line!!
I have tons of reasons about why I loved this story.
But I think the main one is, how the author (being female) really knew how to capturate the male essence, I mean the entire guy talking and the funny comebacks between the boys are things that a man will write about so easily. But Laura Ruby really did a great job! So yay you Laura!
To be honest I don’t have any complains about any character.
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What a great line!!
I have tons of reasons about why I loved this story.
But I think the main one is, how the author (being female) really knew how to capturate the male essence, I mean the entire guy talking and the funny comebacks between the boys are things that a man will write about so easily. But Laura Ruby really did a great job! So yay you Laura!
To be honest I don’t have any complains about any character.
The ma More...
Feb 23, 2010
Kayla
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Play Me By: Laura Ruby
This book was also a book that I got the same night with my mommy at Barnes and Noble! At first I found it a bit hard to get into, but as time went on I found it hard to put it down. There are two I’d say “main characters” in this book. One of them is a boy named Eddy. He seems to be the ladies man who tries to get a lot of girls. Because he is the producer of the web show, he thinks all the girls like him. Witch is kind of true, because they always try a More...
This book was also a book that I got the same night with my mommy at Barnes and Noble! At first I found it a bit hard to get into, but as time went on I found it hard to put it down. There are two I’d say “main characters” in this book. One of them is a boy named Eddy. He seems to be the ladies man who tries to get a lot of girls. Because he is the producer of the web show, he thinks all the girls like him. Witch is kind of true, because they always try a More...
Apr 11, 2009
Sara
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4.5 stars. I loved Laura Ruby's book Good Girls a lot and was quite excited to start reading this follow up, which turned out to be set in the same "world" (ie, the kids go to the same high school and the main character knows who the main character of Good Girls is) but otherwise completely unrelated and not at all a sequel.
In Play Me, Ed is an aspiring filmmaker about to graduate from high school and produces an online video series in an MTV-sponsored contest. His family More...
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Feb 10, 2009
Steph Su
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Eighteen-year-old Ed Rochester thinks he has it all. He and his friends’ movie production, Riot Grrl 16, is doing well in MTV’s movie contest, and Ed thinks he has a good shot of winning and becoming the next Orson Welles. He is also a successful ladies’ man, something that he prides himself on but otherwise doesn’t give much thought to. His family is odd—his mother abandoned him, his dad, his stepdad, and his young half-brother for an acting role in Miami—but he doesn’t let that get him down.
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May 09, 2011
Dani
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Feb 09, 2010
Libro Joven
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This book started OK. It was funny, it was original, it was great. I even enjoyed the movie references.
But that didn't last much. After a while, the originality got exhausted, the movie references were boring, and... Well, for instance, the relationship between Eddie and Lucinda was kinda cute, yes, but it felt like plastic.
And maybe it's my fault, because I've been reading too many depressing books lately (no wonder: if they start by making me laugh and they turn depress More...
But that didn't last much. After a while, the originality got exhausted, the movie references were boring, and... Well, for instance, the relationship between Eddie and Lucinda was kinda cute, yes, but it felt like plastic.
And maybe it's my fault, because I've been reading too many depressing books lately (no wonder: if they start by making me laugh and they turn depress More...
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Sep 30, 2009
Savannaa
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Yeahh, I wasn't really intrested in this book. The title might have caught my attention, but the book in general did not. It was about an 18 year old guy who loves movies, flims and he makes them too, him and his friends entered a contest for their flims, Eddy was driving to the store one night and ran into a girl he knew back when he was little and they started talking, hanging out, Eddy went to all of her tennis matches, they started dating, and after awhile, he thought she was perfect, he tho
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Sep 05, 2011
Amy
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I had a really hard time connecting with Ed, the narrator of Play Me. I've tried reading other books that are solely narrated by male leads and it's rare that I can connect enough to really like the book. I had hoped Play Me would be an exception but it wasn't. This is all me and by no means anything negative about any of those books or this one. Play Me was well written and had some funny scenes. I liked how the author wrote in pop culture references and movie quotes throughout to tie in Ed's
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Sep 21, 2010
Liyah
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I Liked the book it was a good book but It deffinately wasn't the best! I Did in fact like the concept of the book. Even though i Didn't like the movie side of the book,the relationship side of the book was good. That's what pulled me into the book.
The book is about an 18 year old boy named Eddy, Who has entered a movie making contest that was put on by MTV. While dealing with his friends and the movie contest he also was dealing with his relationship that recently started with the local More...
The book is about an 18 year old boy named Eddy, Who has entered a movie making contest that was put on by MTV. While dealing with his friends and the movie contest he also was dealing with his relationship that recently started with the local More...
Jan 11, 2011
Ce-ce
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this book waz....okay i personally thought looking at the cover it would be interesting BUT it wasn it started off gud and the in the middle it got idk flat i thot the break up between eddie and lucinda waz short and boring i thot it wud make me.....mad...sad but it didn make me any of those i also didn like how stubborn eddie waz he kept getting warningz from lucinda'z ex's and ignored them ALLLL!!! this book only deservez 2 maybe not even 2 starz
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Apr 10, 2010
Angela
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Eddy thinks he have everything. All the girls are all over him. He and his friends are making their own movie.But things starts to change for Eddy. A girl, Lucinda, has Eddy's heart. But she is unattainable. MTV doesn't pick his show. Can Eddy make everything back to normal or will his whole life change.
In the beginning the book was kind of boring. Towarsd the middle it got interesting and the end was boring. In the beginning it show Eddy was perfect and everything. Then came More...
In the beginning the book was kind of boring. Towarsd the middle it got interesting and the end was boring. In the beginning it show Eddy was perfect and everything. Then came More...
May 30, 2011
BookWhisperer
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Play Me seems like a gothic Dawson's Creek. Although, unlike Dawson, Eddy is quite the ladies man. In the beginning my first impression of Eddy was terrible; he is a young kid that only has one thing on his mind involving every girls pants. Then once Lucinda enters the picture my impressions of Eddy changed drastically. He may be a young man with an overactive sex drive, but I also found him to be a very well rounded character and a genuinely good person that makes many bad decisions. Lucinda on
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Apr 21, 2010
BookWhisperer
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Play Me seems like a gothic Dawson's Creek. Although, unlike Dawson, Eddy is quite the ladies man. In the beginning my first impression of Eddy was terrible; he is a young kid that only has one thing on his mind involving every girls pants. Then once Lucinda enters the picture my impressions of Eddy changed drastically. He may be a young man with an overactive sex drive, but I also found him to be a very well rounded character and a genuinely good person that makes many bad decisions. Lucinda on
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Jun 03, 2011
Kaethe
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Eddy is all about making movies, and occasionally, making moves. It's all going his way: he's 18, about to graduate, about to win a contest with MTV, and girls are practically throwing themselves at him. He has an unusual family: there's his dad, his half brother Meatball who reads nothing but Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and practices being dead, and Meatball's father, Marty. There's also a bird named Tippi Hedren, who talks in movie quotes. And then there's Lucinda, a reader and
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Feb 06, 2012
Katie
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I don't know that I have ever given a book a D before but this one, I hate to say, deserves it. I barely made it through this book and I only did because I hoped it would get better. It didn't.
Let's start with the characters. I didn't like any of them. They were impossible to sympathize with and pretty impossible to like. Eddy was a greedy cheating jerk. Lucinda was a bitch. Joe was a terrible friend. Rory was an idiot. Eddy's family was quirky but not in a fun way. His bi More...
Let's start with the characters. I didn't like any of them. They were impossible to sympathize with and pretty impossible to like. Eddy was a greedy cheating jerk. Lucinda was a bitch. Joe was a terrible friend. Rory was an idiot. Eddy's family was quirky but not in a fun way. His bi More...
Nov 13, 2008
Nian
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I was pretty impressed with Laura Ruby’s first book, and still pleased with her second novel. Her change in point of view, from Audrey in Good Girls to Eddy in Play Me was smooth. If you hadn’t taken a peek at the author’s name and realized it was a woman writer, you would have thought a man wrote it. For a female to tackle a main narrator is hard. Men don’t know what women think, and vice versa. But I have to say—from my knowledge, anyway—that Ruby did an excellent job.
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Jul 29, 2008
Rachael
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Eddy Rochester is a movie fanatic, a wannabe famous filmmaker, and a player. He’s figured he’s pretty much on the fast track to success with his popular online video series Riot Grrl 16. It’s all about him, and the girls love him – at least most of them do. But Lucinda Dulko is different; she’s not as easily charmed as Eddy’s other conquests. Play Me followes Eddy through his ups and downs with Riot Grrl 16, his relationship with his actress mother, and his various female friends. Eddy has to re
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Sep 26, 2009
Doofenshmirtz
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One thing I love about Laura Ruby is how she seems to be able to capture the voice of a young adult authentically. I also appreciate how she shows, rather than tells, what a charming person Eddy can be and why many girls would fall for him in spite of his reputation. That the identity of Tin Man isn't revealed is an unsatisfying ending, though perhaps Laura Ruby is saving that character for another novel?
Sep 15, 2011
Michelle.
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I wanna start of saying that the blurb on the back isn't even mainly what the book is about which kinda put me on edge...
The romance was good while it lasted. The characters weren't all that connect-able but I liked the settings in the book. The ending sucked since it was disappointing and just kind of random.
SO overall, three stars.
The romance was good while it lasted. The characters weren't all that connect-able but I liked the settings in the book. The ending sucked since it was disappointing and just kind of random.
SO overall, three stars.
Aug 01, 2010
Catalina
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I really thought I was going to like this book. I did. However, I found myself skipping through most of it just to finish it. It lacked depth I suppose. The story could have been much better, seriously it had the potential, but I don't know, maybe it was just me, because I have read amazing books. I was a bit dissapointed this one didn't keep me as entertained. Oh well. It was an okay read.
Nov 10, 2011
Marie
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not that good. I just had a hard time understanding Eddy. And while he and Lucinda had some chemistry at first but ahhh. It's Eddy. It's quite hard to connect to him even as a reader myself.
Jul 18, 2011
Sabrina
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I really enjoyed this book, but I felt that the ending was lacking something. it just didnt seem finished to me, but I still liked it all the same!
Jul 07, 2011
Munz03
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i really enjoyed reading this book... Loved Ed's character... You typical boy... Its his journey about his passion and love...
Nov 07, 2011
Lianna
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I liked the pop culture in here. But that's about it. I think I was expecting something else.
Aug 22, 2011
Sabrina
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I was disappointed!! it was okay-ish...not a terrible story but wasn't the best one I have read
