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Coming Out: A Novel
Olympia Crawford Rubinstein has a way of managing her thriving family with grace and humor. With twin daughters finishing high school, a son at Dartmouth, and a kindergartner from her second marriage, there seems to be nothing Olympia can’t handle…until one sunny day in May, when she opens an invitation for her daughters to attend the most exclusive coming-out ball in New ...more
Mass Market Paperback, 208 pages
Published
October 27th 2009
by Dell
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I picked this up as a book to read for the Eurostar trip; and I must say I was disappointed. While I expected a tumultuous voyage of emotions and fights, it was very... well, tame. It emphasised the positive points of each character too much, leaving nothing to the reader's own interpretation. While I am no stranger to easy reads, this book seemed to jump into my mind and kick out any of my own thoughts about the characters, replacing it with Steele's over explained points.
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This is a book by Danielle Steel. Danielle Steel wrote this book. "I wrote this book," Danielle Steel told all her friends, then she showed them the book that she had written.
If the above offended your intelligence at all merely by existing, then "Coming Out" by Danielle Steel is not the book for you. The entire book is one big repetition. Very little new information is given beyond the first ten pages. The rest is just Steel thinking so little of the compreh...more
If the above offended your intelligence at all merely by existing, then "Coming Out" by Danielle Steel is not the book for you. The entire book is one big repetition. Very little new information is given beyond the first ten pages. The rest is just Steel thinking so little of the compreh...more
Truly, this book is not good. It is written from the perspective of Olympia, the mother of 4. Her twin girls are invited to attend a coming out gala with New York's upper society. Everything in the book has to do with preparing for the ball and the struggles of getting everyone there. (Seriously, was this an important enough topic to write a book about?) Oh and it deals with the 'political' struggles of organizations that do not include all demographics, teenagers who get tattoos, and being...more
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When I was in high school I never enjoyed partying with my friends even school parties. Not because I'm an outcast but because of the eyes that looking at you from top to bottom. I don't like it when people looking at me especially strangers and I don't like to mingle with the crowd. My prom experience? Well, it was a disaster, I don't know what to wear and I don't like what my mother suggested. It was the worst nightmare I ever had when I was in high school, stupid, that I nearly decided not to...more
I've read a few books by Danielle Steel before, and never really liked them. When I was at the library yesterday stocking up on to many books, I decided to give her another try. So I picked out the shortest most interesting looking one there. As I was reading it, I remembered why I don't like her books. First, the chapters are so long. Ten pages is long enough for a chapter, her's are like thirty. Second, that there isn't a whole lot of excitement in her books. Or at least not in the one's I've ...more
I'd never read a Danielle Steel, and I wanted to try one. Now I know.
This book reads like she did some free writing in preparation for a novel, and then her publishers grabbed it, spell checked it, and shipped it off to bookstores. It's almost unreadable.
This book reads like she did some free writing in preparation for a novel, and then her publishers grabbed it, spell checked it, and shipped it off to bookstores. It's almost unreadable.
It was an interesting look at the wealthy that everyone in this troubled economy won't particularly care to read about (then again, during the 1930s Depression years many movies depicted the lives of the wealthy, so maybe not). I enjoyed the emotional struggle of a mother trying to balance her own desires with her husband's adamant wishes, but while the story was essentially cute the author went overboard is describing a Big Secret of one of the children, using a phrase early on and repeatedly t...more
Olympia Crawford Rubinstein adalah seorang ahli hukum sukses dengan kehidupan rumah tangga yang penuh kebahagiaan. Dari pernikahan pertamanya dengan seorang pria sosialite, Chauncey, Olympia dianugrahi 3 orang anak, Charlie dan si kembar Virginia & Veronica. Karena tidak cocok dengan gaya hidup Chauncey, mereka bercerai dan Olympia kemudian menikah dengan Harry Rubinstein, seorang profesor hukum keturunan Yahudi. Dari pernikahan keduanya, Olympia mendapatkan anak keempatnya, Max.
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This is a mind numbing tale of the ever important "coming out" ball and the family which whom this fantastic event effects. Each character handles their various situations of life with inspiring outlook and ease. From a run in their pantyhose to catching a cold just days before the event. Most people wouldn't be able to cope with such tragedy in their lives but everyone overcomes their obstacles to have a most perfect night at the ball. Danielle Steel does a wonderful job of assumi...more
Every so often when I am looking for some light reading I will get drawn in by the pretty cover and interesting book blurb of a Danielle Steel novel. Unfortunately I am always disappointed and this time was no different. Her books always read like a first draft. For instance, she will state a fact about a character, and two pages later she will state it again in the exact same words, as if she forgot she already told us that. I am not opposed to an easy read but it's as if her target audience is...more
A coworker of mine brings in various books throughout the year for any and everyone to take. I typically don't read the books she brings in- they typically are fiction and just not my thing. So, I thought, well, I have never read a Danielle Steel, hey, might as well try.
I read this book and I'm sorry, but just not my thing. I just love real, biographical books. It was an easy read, but really really redundant and slow moving. This story tells how 2 teen girls come out at a cotillion...more
I read this book and I'm sorry, but just not my thing. I just love real, biographical books. It was an easy read, but really really redundant and slow moving. This story tells how 2 teen girls come out at a cotillion...more
This book just wasn't for me I guess. The entire story revolves around getting ready for a debut ball. THAT'S IT. In a nutshell. A couple of people in the family don't want to go, Mother wants everyone to get along and be there for each other. Everyone has a different personality and but everyone ends up going in the end. I don't know how to make it any more simple to explain, I couldn't even make it any more difficult if I wanted to. There was nothing to this book to give it any edge at all. Pr...more
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I am not going to dwell too much on this review. I was very disappointed in this book. The characters never developed enough for me--they were very flat--no depth at all.
In a nut shell, Olympia, mother to twins Veronica & Virginia was a southern debutante and now it is time for her daughters to "come out" in the formal debutante ball. Olympia's husband, Harry (the step-father) who is Jewish and a big-wig judge is totally appalled by the idea of the gathering and presen...more
In a nut shell, Olympia, mother to twins Veronica & Virginia was a southern debutante and now it is time for her daughters to "come out" in the formal debutante ball. Olympia's husband, Harry (the step-father) who is Jewish and a big-wig judge is totally appalled by the idea of the gathering and presen...more
I picked this book up purely because I had never read a Danelle Steel novel before. I figured that I should try considering she is a best selling novelist and this book looked harmless enough.
I must say that I was disappointed. It wasn't the language; I had expected it to have some. It also wasn't the topic that let me down, it was the writing style. I found something lacking. I had a hard time putting my finger on it at first, but I think it might be the way she "told"...more
I must say that I was disappointed. It wasn't the language; I had expected it to have some. It also wasn't the topic that let me down, it was the writing style. I found something lacking. I had a hard time putting my finger on it at first, but I think it might be the way she "told"...more
Was a very quick read. Lots of drama that ended out to be alright in the end. I don't think this book was meant to be earth shattering or it would have been a longer novel. Not that everyone's lives end up like the characters of this novel, it just goes to show you the turmoil that goes on in life as a human. We all go through ups and downs it all how you handle and clean up the mess.
One would THINK this is a book about "coming out" - and as you can see, the cover has two women on it.
W--R-----------Rong!!!!
This was when "Do not judge a book by its' cover" come in play!
BUT in the end, hm!
This book was another typical Danielle Steel novel - not only that, but it was a short one, as well. It was shy of 200 pages and had only nine chapters. It was about this woman, Olympia who was going through an issue with her...more
W--R-----------Rong!!!!
This was when "Do not judge a book by its' cover" come in play!
BUT in the end, hm!
This book was another typical Danielle Steel novel - not only that, but it was a short one, as well. It was shy of 200 pages and had only nine chapters. It was about this woman, Olympia who was going through an issue with her...more
This book had a good overall moral, I felt the author didnt go very far with the book but did indeed put her point across. These two twins have very opposite views on the "coming out" ball, No matter what Olympia (the mother) has to do, she will make sure her daughters get to it. No so much suspensful, but definitely ends with a beautful anti-predjudice outcome.
The story is about a mother to twin girls, and 2 boys, and how she handles the events that unfold during their debut in NY's upper society. Her ex-husband is a jerk, and her new husband objects to the party, so the book revolves around the shenanigans during the planning of the party.
It was ok-the ending fell flat, and I got the impression she re-told the same lines over and over to fill up space like I used to do on a college term paper.
It was ok-the ending fell flat, and I got the impression she re-told the same lines over and over to fill up space like I used to do on a college term paper.
Danielle Steel is another author whose writing career has spanned decades, and whose style has evolved from the Glitz and Glamour Romances so popular in the 1980s into more of a focus on Women's Lives and Relationships. Fans of Michaels's earlier novels, as well as her current readers, may enjoy the many parallels between the authors.
A quick book by Danielle Steel's standards.. Good read nonetheless.. Twins are "coming" out in a coutillion and their stepfather (who is Jewish) doesnt agree and fights it all the way.. The overbearing father threatens not to pay their college tuition if they don't come out.. In the end, the older brother also comes out and sets a sigh of relief over the family..
I usually don't read Danielle Steel but a friend gave me this and said it was good. I have never not liked a book so much. I thought it moved so slow. I need a book to draw me in immediately and 100 psges into the book (which only has about 250 pages) I continued to find myself waiting for the action.
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I do not like giving a book such a low star rating but unfortunately I read this little book on the heels of two of my all time favorites. Coming Out was a little slice of time in a families life preparing for the the big debutant event in NYC. The family has all kind of turmoil and incidences preparing for the event like colds, broken ankle, work, boyfriend problems, divorced parents, torn pantyhose.....need I say more?
This is one of the lamest books I have ever attempted to read. I've heard so many people who like Danielle Steel, even love her. There were so many problems with this boring broken story, I must have picked up her worst bit of writing that never should have been published. What is a good example of Danielle Steel? I'd like to understand why she has such a following.
This book felt like Danielle Steel had a deadline she had forgotten about for a new book and wrote this one over the weekend to turn in. Very easy read - start and finish in the blink of an eye. I predicted the ending after the first chapter - she's almost telling you in the first few pages how it'll end. Not my favorite by her.
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needed something fluffy for the car, so i grabbed this. i've never read anything by her before. hmmm.
addendum: this was a terrible idea. only a disc in, i got so bored. basically it is a family fighting endlessly about whether or not the two daughters will go to an old-fashioned coming out ball at some club. so they fight, and discuss, and go on long perfectly-scripted and horribly redundant monologues about why or why not these eighteen year old girls should not be allowed to make t...more
addendum: this was a terrible idea. only a disc in, i got so bored. basically it is a family fighting endlessly about whether or not the two daughters will go to an old-fashioned coming out ball at some club. so they fight, and discuss, and go on long perfectly-scripted and horribly redundant monologues about why or why not these eighteen year old girls should not be allowed to make t...more
Though I liked how the evening turned out, this was a very slow book and seemed very insignificant as far as stories go. the "coming out" was very predictable. I would not read this book again, I'm sure this is not danielle's best work.
Very light novel about a mother and her two daughters , their perspective to attend the "coming out" ball party. The old days formal way to introduce the young girls to the society to find them the husband.
This was an okay read. Really quick and predictable. I used to read her all the time, but she's typical and contrived, so I gave up. Nice to see she hasn't changed though. :)
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