The Boy Next Door (Boy series, Book 1)
by Meg Cabot
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Read in December, 2007
recommends it for:
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Before I say anything else, I'm going to say that the format of this book is e-mails, This book was about a girl named Mel, who found her old neighbor next door, who was face down on the floor. She e-mails her neighbor's nephew Matthew and tells him, he says that he'll come to the city to visit and take care of her aunt's dog Paco. But Matthew was going to go on a trip with a supermodel named Vivica, so he asks his friend John to take over for him, and pretend to be him. John doesn't want to but...more
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Read in December, 2007
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No onerecommends it for: Romance lovers
Title: Boy next door
Author: Meggin Cabot
Copyright date: 2002
Publisher: HarperCollins publishers
How many pages: 374 pgs
How long it took me to read: 10 days
Category: Fiction
I learned about this book from: borrowing it from the library in the beginning of the year but not getting to read it.
This book was purchased at: G books
This book is: amusing
Other books by these authors: Princess Diaries series, Pop idol, big boned, jinx, queen of babble in the big city, size 12 is not fat...more
Author: Meggin Cabot
Copyright date: 2002
Publisher: HarperCollins publishers
How many pages: 374 pgs
How long it took me to read: 10 days
Category: Fiction
I learned about this book from: borrowing it from the library in the beginning of the year but not getting to read it.
This book was purchased at: G books
This book is: amusing
Other books by these authors: Princess Diaries series, Pop idol, big boned, jinx, queen of babble in the big city, size 12 is not fat...more
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Read in March, 2008
This is one of Meg Cabot's Boy Series books (Every Boy's Got One and Boy Meets Girl) which are written in 21st Century epistolary style, this particular book in all email messages.
Melissa Fuller lives in New York at a small newspaper and lives next door to an older woman who has an "accident", forcing Mel to tend to her neighbor's three pets. Mel suspects foul play while the police hunt down the neighbor's only living relative, a nephew named Max. Max is too busy vacationing with a...more
Melissa Fuller lives in New York at a small newspaper and lives next door to an older woman who has an "accident", forcing Mel to tend to her neighbor's three pets. Mel suspects foul play while the police hunt down the neighbor's only living relative, a nephew named Max. Max is too busy vacationing with a...more
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Well it is almost 1 o'clock and I just finished this book. I couldn't put it down. I really enjoyed it! I gave it 5 stars, the definition for 5 stars is "it was amazing" and I probably wouldn't say that because I don't think you can say that chic lit is "amazing". If I had to give it a score out of 10 I would give it a 9 1/2 only a couple things bothered me, first there is swearing not much though but that always bothers me it really isn't necessary and the other thing is...more
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Read in February, 2004
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Read in May, 2008
maybe i should read this book first not the second book: boy meet girl. coz i found a lot of similarities of this book and the other one.
both of the setting is on The NY Journal. on both books I found same characters such as Dolly Vargas and Amy Jenkins, same e-mail address as ih8barney@freemail.com and weluvbarney@freemail.com (which both of them were used for mother and her twin daughter--> Brittany and Haley), the same plot of story and the same form of story : e-mail form.
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both of the setting is on The NY Journal. on both books I found same characters such as Dolly Vargas and Amy Jenkins, same e-mail address as ih8barney@freemail.com and weluvbarney@freemail.com (which both of them were used for mother and her twin daughter--> Brittany and Haley), the same plot of story and the same form of story : e-mail form.
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Read in January, 2004
recommends it for:
people looking for a quick, easy, fluffy read
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Read in June, 2008
A superficial, fast read that kept me entertained, despite being entirely composed of emails. A perfect fit for a rainy afternoon.
I really enjoyed this book, though I was a little skeptical at first. For starters, it was totted as a "Reading with Ripa" (as in Kelly Ripa from Live with Regis and Kelly) Book Club Pick and I initially thought hmmmm...really, what kind of depth will this book have? And it really didn't have any depth. At all.
Melissa finds her elderly neighbor u...more
I really enjoyed this book, though I was a little skeptical at first. For starters, it was totted as a "Reading with Ripa" (as in Kelly Ripa from Live with Regis and Kelly) Book Club Pick and I initially thought hmmmm...really, what kind of depth will this book have? And it really didn't have any depth. At all.
Melissa finds her elderly neighbor u...more
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Read in August, 2008
This book started out making me want to throw things and ended up being only marginally preferable to staring out the subway windows or reading the AM New York.
It's got all the trappings of your classic chick lit novel - girl with fabulous-but-not-that-fabulous media job meets boy. Boy disappoints girl. Predictable mystery b-plot. Girl forgives boy. They get married. The end. The fact that it's written in epistolary style, as a series of emails among too many characters with too-similar v...more
It's got all the trappings of your classic chick lit novel - girl with fabulous-but-not-that-fabulous media job meets boy. Boy disappoints girl. Predictable mystery b-plot. Girl forgives boy. They get married. The end. The fact that it's written in epistolary style, as a series of emails among too many characters with too-similar v...more
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Read in April, 2008
The one thing that caught me right away is the format of this book. The entire thing is set up as emails between the characters.[ this only got annoying when i dropped my book, and had no Chapter marker, because there are no chapters:]. Other than that, the story is a very light, easy read. You pick it up and fly right through it; not that it is completely different from any other chick lit book out there, however. I did like the humor in it though, and was literally laughing out loud numerous t...more
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Read in October, 2007
Meggin Cabot's The Boy Next Door is what I like to call a "fluff" book--it's all about fun. Cleverly structured and written, it truly is entertaining from the first page to the last. It was a little difficult to get used to only hearing part of the story in the beginning; the entire thing is written in emails between the characters. But, once you get used to hearing about everything that happens after the fact, it's quite enjoyable, not to mention extremely creative.
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Read in January, 2003
I read this book for the first time when I was, like, fourteen and adored it immensely. Meg Cabot's writing isn't exactly high art, but it is fun and charming and completely unpretentious. It's like reading an email from your geektastic, boy crazy best friend who may or may not have an unhealthy fixation on her Xena action figures (boy crazy + Xena = paradox?). This book is light and fluffy--perfect for teens or, for instance, English majors who just read Joseph Conrad for t...more
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Read in December, 2007
I tried to listen to this on my commute - LAME! I only got about half way through the 1st CD before I turned it off and listened to commercials on the radio instead. The narrators voice grated on my nerves. The story is told in e-mail form which had potential to be cute and funny. I don't know about you all but I never write e-mails like the ones I read in this book. Also they made HR out to be skill less wenches with nothing better to do then make sure you are on time to work. And with no...more
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Read in August, 2003
An epistolary novel is hard to pull off, but Cabot does it well--and makes it a great romance novel to boot. Having experimented with a limited epistolary style in her Princess Diaries series, Cabot now makes the leap to a novel told entirely in monologue. Readers unfamiliar with the multiple viewpoint style and and complete lack of traditional narrative will probably have difficulty getting into the story, especially since the light romance story disguises the complexity of the writing. If y...more
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If you like humor, romance, cooking tips, Great Danes, heroines in peril, and dolphin-shaped driftwood sculptures; then this is the book for you! Melissa (Mel) Fuller works for the New York Journal and is just about ready to give up on love. She's tried numerous times and hasn't once found "the perfect man." Then, when her neighbor gets attacked in her own apartment, Mel finds herself meeting the perfect guy after all. Unfortunately, Mel's perfect guy isn't who he claims to be. Does Me...more
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Read in March, 2008
I love Meg Cabot's books. All of them include affable, normal women in comedic situations and of course the high-romance factor. As far as Chick-Lit goes, Meg Cabot (along with Sophie Kinsella and Jennifer Weiner) reigns supreme. This book is told expressley through the character's e-mails, though as a mystery sometimes that is hard to manage. Mel Fuller, small town girl making it as a gossip columnist at a New York rag, stumbles upon her comatose, 80 year old neighbor after she had been bludg...more
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Read in January, 2003
buku keren juga...
menuliskan ceritanya lewat email2 yang diterima antar sesama kawan. jadi agak sedikit "tidak biasa"
ceritanya berkisar tentang seorang cewek bernama mellisa Fuller, yang jatuh cinta sama tetangga sebelahnya, yang seharusnya bernama Max. padahal, sebenarnya itu adalah John Trent, sahabat Max. nah, dari sini timbul intrik2 lucu & ringan tapi sedikit menggemaskan dan membuat penasaran. gimana akhir cerita antara Mel & Max aka John Trent?
ketebak sih, namanya...more
menuliskan ceritanya lewat email2 yang diterima antar sesama kawan. jadi agak sedikit "tidak biasa"
ceritanya berkisar tentang seorang cewek bernama mellisa Fuller, yang jatuh cinta sama tetangga sebelahnya, yang seharusnya bernama Max. padahal, sebenarnya itu adalah John Trent, sahabat Max. nah, dari sini timbul intrik2 lucu & ringan tapi sedikit menggemaskan dan membuat penasaran. gimana akhir cerita antara Mel & Max aka John Trent?
ketebak sih, namanya...more
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This book was interestingly written. The entire book was written in emails. I think the author did it really well. It was a very cute story- A girl's neighbor gets hurt and goes into a coma. The neighbor's nephew is too occupied to come and take care of his aunt's pets so he calls on a friend who "owes him one" to pretend to be him and take care of the pets. The friend of the nephew ends up falling with the girl neighbor-but he's pretending to be someone else so it complicates th...more
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Read in July, 2008
I love the format of Meg Cabot's "Boy" books. I started with Boy Meets Girl and then read Every Boy's Got One (I could not find this one in the book store). I finally got a copy of this one from the library. It was like the others, just fun and easy to read. I like how the characters in all of the books are tied to one another through the NY Journal (as well as the Trent & Hertzog families). I know she's not doing anymore of these books and I will really miss the employees of t...more
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This is one of those chick-lit books that can easily be read in a day or two. It lacks, however, the cheesy irritating element that so many of those books tend to have. The story develops through emails that are sent between the characters. The emails are hilarious and totally enjoyable to read!!
The main character, Mel, tries to help an elderly neighbor and ends up getting involved with her famous nehphew, or so she thinks. My gosh, girls, go read this book. You'll love it!!!
The main character, Mel, tries to help an elderly neighbor and ends up getting involved with her famous nehphew, or so she thinks. My gosh, girls, go read this book. You'll love it!!!
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