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Dec 17, 2009

Sabiel rated it:

If you thought Devil Wears Prada was retarded, wait until you read this vomitous waste of valuable wood pulp, time, eyestrain and anxiety (the latter due to agitated anticipation of the novel's anticlimactic denouement).

Upon reading said anticlimactic denouement (after enduring insipid, US-Weekly-grade "plot**"), one shall either

(a) Throw 'book' violently against wall.
(b) Throw 'book' violently at photo of current Oval Office occupant. (Offended Republica More...

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Sep 21, 2011

Beth F. rated it:

I wasn't impressed with The Devil Wears Prada--too much hype--so wasn't expecting much from this book by the same author.

However, in the end it won with me because:

--I listened to the audiobook on what was a bit of an unwanted and nervewracking last-minute road trip so the distraction was greatly appreciated.
--Eliza Dushku as narrator did a really great job.
--I had low expectations so there was no way it could have been worse than what I was expecting.
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Dec 16, 2009

Jennifer rated it:

If I had read The Devil Wears Prada first, I don't think I would have read Everyone Worth Knowing.

The plots of these two books are so similar. Girl gets job. Girl hates job. Girl makes the best of her situation. Girl quits job.

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Sep 09, 2008

Hornedfroggy rated it:

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Aug 28, 2007

Beth rated it:

I am not your typical "chick lit" fan, but I must confess that I really like this author - she writes bright, funny, light-hearted books and she can actually compose a sentence! This novel contains none of the poor grammar or flimsy plot structures you would find in Sex and the City (the novel - loved the series) or The Nanny Diaries (saw this movie last night and it was a hundred times better than the weak novel). On the other hand, I think that every girl-oriented book about a youn More...

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May 30, 2007

stephanie rated it:

a disappointing sophomore book for weisberger. she seems to rely too much on the city as a character to pull off the story she wants to tell - which, when it gets boiled down, is the most boring-already-read-this-ten-times plot ever.

however, she still does nail that certain new york set with amazing ease, and while this tries to do what The Devil Wears Prada did for budding writers for the club set, the fact that it IS for the club set can't be missed. over the top, and not really More...

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Feb 13, 2009

Jennifer rated it:

I have a hard time putting an audio book on my "Read" shelf - but what the hell.

I find that I will listen to books that I don't necessarily want to read. This book is a prime example. I read Weisberger's first book and liked it well enough. This is her second and it has the same feel as the first. Well meaning girl gets caught up in glamor lifestyle - Has a melt down - repents - gets love.

I think this book would have really annoyed me to read - but for some re More...

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May 30, 2008

Christina rated it:

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Dec 29, 2008

Antof9 rated it:

I bought this during the great self-imposed No Book Buying Moratorium of 2006. Why? Because I was stuck at Newark airport due to "weather". I was halfway through the last book in my carryon when they announced that we'd be at least 2 hours delayed, and knowing that I had a 3+ hour flight in front of me after that wait, I felt confident that buying a book during The Moratorium was excusable.

This book fascinated me for a dozen reasons, not the least of which is that I find More...

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Sep 14, 2011

Betsy rated it:

The sometimes negative feedback given to "chic lit" novels is understandable at times, yet I feel that Weisberger's characters in "Everyone Worth Knowing" are written in an ordinary enough way that readers are able to more easily relate to them. The style of the writing can be seen as slightly bland because the characters are so completely normal. The are posed as every day people, doing every day things, in our often times cold world. The story is an easy read which allows f More...

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Jul 16, 2011

AJ rated it:

C'est l'histoire d'une jeune femme, Bette - 28 ans - de parents hippies. Elle travaille dans une banque - un boulot qu'elle déteste. Un jour, après s'être un peu engueulée avec son boss à la banque, elle décide de démissionner. Pendant des semaines, Bette ne fait pas grand chose d'autre que de lire les journaux et regarder Dr.Phil à la tv, avec son petit chien Millington. Son oncle Will lui trouve un emploi dans les relations publiques - où elle prépare des soirées de 'party' pour des produits o More...

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Jun 05, 2011

Rebecca rated it:

The follow-up from the author of everyones favourite chick-lit classic, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. It was just my week, Harry Potter week, of course, that all these books that have been on my list forever where back at the libary and I had to grab them all before anyone else did, even though I knew I had Harry coming up to take up who knows how much of my time. I actually read Harry before this one, but I am just entering the "reviews" as I wrote them down on my list.

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Feb 03, 2011

Riikka rated it:

Kyllä kirjasta näki, että se oli PPP:n tekijän kirja. Asetelma oli monella tapaa saman kaltainen kuin esikoisessa, mutte onneksi ihan sama. Boss from hell ei nyt ollut uudessa vaan edellisessä työpaikassa, mutta työkaverit kyllä olivat super pinnallisia, laihoja ja yksiulotteisia. Yksiulotteisuus oli muutenkin paikoitellen sivuhenkilöiden ongelma. En tarkoita, että jokaisen sivuhenkilön elämäntarina tulisi kirjata kirjaan, mutta paremmissa kirjoissa ei tule sellainen olo, että lukee paperinukei More...

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Apr 29, 2010

Katrine rated it:

Everyone Worth knowing a novel by Lauren Weisberger is about a woman named Bette Robinson who is a twenty seven year old single woman, who moved to New York 5 years ago, is bored of her job at USB , she has a crazy boss, and no breaks. She finally quits in hope of finding another career that will entertain her. Her uncle hooks her up with a famous event planning job, and it is nothing what she had expected. Everyone at her new job is concerned about gaining weight. Bette gets the chance to More...

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Apr 09, 2010

Jessica Ng rated it:

I was looking through my library at home and found this book. The title, Everyone Worth Knowing, caught my attention because I thought it would be about networking and putting yourself out there. However, it turned out to be a novel about a woman named Bette Robinson. She quit her job working at a bank in Manhattan and while walking her dog met a woman named Kelly, the CEO of a Manhattan Public Relations firm. Bette's new job is to work in the night clubs, something far from her banking job. Wit More...

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Jan 04, 2010

Rebekah rated it:

The main character, Bette, in Everyone Worth Knowing loves romance novels of the Harlequin style, and it is apparent that Lauren Weisberger loves them too. Bette goes from a banker dragging though a meaningless existence to New York party-girl in all the gossip columns and finally to finding her own place in the world.
Along the way we meet a metro-sexual brit with debatable sexual preferences. A smart, talented, and gorgeous bouncer, and a whole slew of crabby alcohol filled co-workers wh More...

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Nov 20, 2009

Ivana rated it:

Here's how they put it on Amazon. I really don't know how to summarize it myself.

Bette Robinson is a twentysomething Emory graduate who shunned her parents' hippie ideals in favor of a high-paying yet excruciatingly boring job at a prestigious investment bank. One day, after a particularly condescending exchange with her boss (who sends her daily inspirational e-mails), Bette walks out on her job in a huff. After a few weeks of sleeping late, watching Dr. Phil and entertaining her dog More...

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Sep 14, 2009

Julie rated it:

Bette, an overworked piss-ant in the banking industry up and quits one day on a spur-of-the-moment whim. Not really knowing what she's going to do with herself, and after a few months of blissful unemployment the whole paying-rent issue rears its ugly head.

Finally Bette's semi-notable uncle calls in a favor and Bette finds herself flung into the mysterious world of A-list celebs, all-night clubbing, drugs, alcohol, and the outrageous gossip columns that are the lifeblood of NYC. As a More...

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Aug 28, 2009

Cara and Ashley rated it:

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Aug 27, 2009

Joanne rated it:

After 'The Devil Wears Prada' Lauren Weisberger's 'Everyone Worth Knowing' was a let down. An enjoyable let down (however odd that sounds) but a let down non-the-less. Skimming through the first few chapters - which really make you want to return the book and pretend you haven't opened the cover - you pick up the begining of the thread of the storyline and hold on gently for fear it might break from thinness. The people being exposed as skinny, bitchy, glamorous career girls are almost identical More...

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May 25, 2009

Jennifer rated it:

Read "the Devil Wears Prada", change the names. I can't believe the author ripped off her own book like that! HORRIBLE.

I'm assuming that Weisberger has the shortest memory in history, and her publisher also suffers from the same affliction. "Everyone Worth Knowing" is the EXACT SAME BOOK as "The Devil Wears Prada"- all she did is change names and evil, soul sucking jobs and kept the format so predictably familiar that I was laughing half way through. T More...

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Feb 18, 2010

Lily rated it:

Bette Robinson is a 27 year old banker who works eighty hours a day at her boring and claustrophobic job. Bette has the desire to move on with her life, and one day, completely out of character, she quits her jobs. In hope to find somewhat of a more exciting direction for her life, she leaves her best friend Penelope and her old job behind. Bette is offered a job, by her gay Uncle Will's friend, Kelly. Kelly is the owner of one of the most elite and well known PR firms in New York City, "Ke More...

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Mar 05, 2007

Eunhye rated it:

I will also help you save time through this website [that's only, if you want to]. just b/c it thinks it's nytimes bestseller -- it doesn't mean anything: i picked it up at the airport, and threw it out the window by the time i got off the plane. ... but.. good way to find out what ppl are like in the niche market. pertains probably .005% of the population in the world who *might acts like they know the 99.995% of the world. might be actually the good market to study.

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Dec 11, 2008

Amy rated it:

I feel like I need to give this review in the context of its predecessor "The Devil Wears Prada," which was good. I like the theme of finding who you really are despite the lure of all things beautiful and cool.
This book's theme: Finding who you are despite the lure of all things cool and beautiful. Wait!? Did I just read the same book over again!?
She name-dropped people who aren't even really that famous or cool anymore. And I got kind of annoyed when she quit her job More...

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Jan 12, 2012

Katieeoh rated it:

One word to describe this book: CHIC.

I honestly enjoyed reading this book, its that total “chic-lit” just like Lauren’s first book, The Devil Wears Prada which we enjoyed a lot and was turned into a gorgeous movie! Well, this is her follow-up. But to be very precise about this book, “Everyone Worth Knowing” is the EXACT SAME BOOK as “The Devil Wears Prada” , she just changed the names of the characters and their silly jobs that makes up practically the whole story. It was an ordinary r More...

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Mar 11, 2011

Gina rated it:

I finally pin-pointed why I like Sophie Kinsella's work more than Lauren Weisberger's. It took me reading three books by each author in a short amount of time to finally narrow it down, but I finally figured it out. Weisberger is mean, plain and simple. Kinsella's characters are imperfect, her stories funny in a "I've been there!" kind of way. Weisberger's characters are holier-than-thou, considering themselves morally superior than all around them because they don't wear designer labe More...

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Aug 19, 2011

Brandy rated it:

This book was interesting. It was VERY DIFFERENT than what I normally read. It's by the author of 'The Devil Wears Prada.' Tweny-seven year - old Bette Robinson is BORED with her horrendous banking job. NEVER having been impulsive in her life she quits her job. After weeks of watching daytime tv, and walking her 4lb Yorkie, Millington wears thin, Bette meets Kelly. Head of Manhattans hottest PR firm, with some help from her much loved Gay Uncle, Will, Bette suddenly has a brand-new job, where he More...

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Aug 25, 2011

Carolyn rated it:

Is this book pretty predictable--yeah. But if you've ever wondered what it's like to live the fabulous party life of the rich and famous in upscale New York, New York, this book really brings to light that lifestyle. The main character, Bette, gets a job working for the PR company of Kelly and Company whose job it is to plan parties. While going out to the most exclusive clubs in New York, as a job, might seem fun, Bette gets to know what these spoiled rich kids are really like.

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Jul 27, 2009

Courtney rated it:

I recently finished reading this book and thoroughly enjoyed it. Weisberger outs the celebrity PR machine in entertaining fashion, much as she did the fashion magazine world in The Devil Wears Prada.

I feel that I actually learned a little bit about how the industry works as a result of reading this book. Not something I expected from a chick lit novel!

I read some of the other reviews and I'm having a hard time understanding why those reviewers disliked the book so much. More...

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Sep 09, 2011

Joyce rated it:

I really liked "The Devil Wears Prada" so I thought I'd give Lauren Weisberger's second novel a shot. It starts out like a pretty standard chick-lit. Bette is sick of her job and decides to make a change. When she does, she enters a world filled with glitter and glamour, parties in the hottest clubs in town and she's surrounded by celebrities. Her job soon becomes her main priority, when Bette would normally never choose her job over her private life. Well... sounds familiar? It's not More...

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