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    <body><![CDATA[I read this long, long ago (embarrassingly, in hardback) but it's never too late to say that you dislike a book, which might save others from making the same mistake. :)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is what Sex and the City (the series, not the book) would be if instead of a fabulous 30something with great friends, Carrie were a slovenly, mostly friendless 20something with little or no self-esteem who constantly let men degrade her so that she could have material for her column.  At f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30856138">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book caught my eye at the library, and I checked it out because the description sounded really good... a struggling actress turned writer... I thought I could relate to that.  But, I hated this book.  The main character was putting herself in situations where she was allowing herself to be sexu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52778192">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Meh. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've seen this called a guilty pleasure.  I feel guilty for having read it, but I got no pleasure from the experience.  This was part of the early chick-lit boom.  It should have stayed in the slush pile.  Irritating tripe, poorly executed.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very cool book.  Lots of humor to the narrator's voice--that sarcastic funny that I love.  This got me through my first New England summer back in 2000.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't really call this chick lit. It's too deliciously raunchy and honest. Call it Sex in the City with way bigger balls.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a little porn-y, only b/c the narrator of the book is such a horn-dog.  It's a fun read. ]]></body>
    
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