Sara B. is losing her cool.
Not just in the momentary-meltdown kind of way--though there's that, too. At the helm of must-read Snap magazin... read full description
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Mar 03, 2011
Kim
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I do not know how or why some people feel that they get to say what is right or wrong to wear. In this "All About Eve" tale, Sara B. gets usurped as a fashion maven by her assistant. No one who needs to learn anything does, no one who needs a come-upance gets one. Big let down.
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Jul 09, 2011
Sara E.
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Meh. So this book is about Sara B. a thirty-nine year old (OMG, her baby-making potential is fading away, y'all) Canadian fashion person/style guru (she is co-owner of a magazine that made it big with those Do's and Dont's pages, like the ones you see in the back of Glamour). Sara is not coping well with getting older, and she also hates her job, her boyfriend, and apparently her life.
I am really beginning to hate books like this. Sometimes, I just want a fun and easy read, but I ke More...
I am really beginning to hate books like this. Sometimes, I just want a fun and easy read, but I ke More...
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Jan 01, 2012
Sian
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Unfortunately I only made it to 60 pages in, and when a book is only 246 pages that says a lot about how much I didnt enjoy those pages I did read.
It wasnt the writiing style, in fact I actually thought the author's writing style was quite good.
Unfortunately I did not like the main character, and I didnt like any of the other characters. And for me, its essential that I like at least 1 character.
Maybe its because I cant relate to the main character. I am only 24 wh More...
It wasnt the writiing style, in fact I actually thought the author's writing style was quite good.
Unfortunately I did not like the main character, and I didnt like any of the other characters. And for me, its essential that I like at least 1 character.
Maybe its because I cant relate to the main character. I am only 24 wh More...
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Feb 22, 2011
Amanda
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Snapped is the story of Sara B, who has made her living from taking snaps of people and categorising them as DOs and DON'Ts for fashionista mag Snap, which she co-founded. As she approaches forty, Sara starts to realise that she is losing her ability to tell the DOs from the DON'Ts and what follows is an entire self-destruct of her life - and the discovery that life can be more than fashion.
This was an odd little book - at times very funny, at times extremely dark, at times dull. If More...
This was an odd little book - at times very funny, at times extremely dark, at times dull. If More...
Feb 13, 2011
Ace
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This book is about an aging hipster alcoholic in denial about her self-loathing and is quite depressing. I thought of not finishing it but I was procrastinating so I skipped through it (pretty fast once I got tired of the unlikable narrator's voice).
39 year-old Sara B makes a living taking pictures of people on the street and categorising them into Dos and Don'ts for a fashion/pop-culture magazine in Montreal. We watch her lose her touch at work and in relationships. In a drunken da More...
39 year-old Sara B makes a living taking pictures of people on the street and categorising them into Dos and Don'ts for a fashion/pop-culture magazine in Montreal. We watch her lose her touch at work and in relationships. In a drunken da More...
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Nov 17, 2010
Merredith
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This is a book about the 39 yr old editor and cofounder of montreal magazine snap (which doesnt exist in real life). She was known for taking people's photos for a do and dont section, like the one that's in, i think glamour, but without the black bar over the eyes. she has a sort of midlife crisis and her life falls apart, oh and she's a big alcoholic who never gets help. and shes stupid and whiny. i never liked this character, or any of the characters. they all acted really absurdly. why would
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Dec 20, 2011
Wendy
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Jun 20, 2011
Midwestocean
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Sara B. has made her minor fame and small fortune from snapping photos of Montreal hipsters and nerds for the last fifteen years for her publication ‘Snap’. Ted, who is her business partner and one time only lover, is married to her best friend Gen who was a late 80’s singing sensation whose fame might be getting another fifteen minutes after her reality show debuts. John is her boyfriend and nine years younger than her…they also have an arrangement that they can have sex with others as long a
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Feb 16, 2010
Alea
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Snapped was sort of a mixed bag for me. At first I loved the author's humorous voice and the setting and the characters and in the end I did as well but in the middle it got a little bizarre. Let me explain, Sara goes off on these tangents in her mind where she thinks of all these horrible things that can happen and some of them were a little bit revolting. I think if that was toned down a bit it wouldn't have distracted me so much from what I liked about the book.
I really admire the More...
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Aug 03, 2011
Mary
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I loved this book. Was it the most well written book I've ever read? No. Was it the most original storyline? Not particularly. But for some reason, reading about this woman who goes through some slow sort of revelation about the horrendous way she has been treating people and then her mental path through life really interested me. I genuinely wanted to know what happened with each of the characters-sleazebag ones included. I tried to imagine myself as her throughout the entire book and co
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Jan 26, 2011
Leah
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Sara B. is losing her cool. Not just in the momentary-meltdown kind of way – though there’s that, too. At the helm of must-read Snap magazine, veteran style guru Sara B. has had the job – and joy – for the past fifteen years of eviscerating the city’s fashion victims in her legendary Dos and Don’ts photo spread. But now on the un-hip edge of forty, with ambitious hipster kids reinventing the style world, Sara’s being spit out like an old Polaroid picture: blurry, undeveloped and obsolete. Fueled
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Jan 23, 2010
Robin
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Inside this All About Eve Story is a less-likable Margo Channing set in the insta-friend Canadian midwest. Episodic at best and repetitive at worst, Snapped's geratest flaw is a narrative voice you don't want to spend time with. Her big revelation (this is not a spoiler) is that she is an asshole, and well... what to do about that? A few too many plotlines, some funny secondary characters, a behind-the-scenes-in-magazines view about as deep as "Just Shoot me." And please do. I did
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Oct 17, 2011
Amy
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Ssome of the reviewers here complained about the narrator being unlikable, but I found her unlikability to be part of her charm - sure, she does some asshole stuff, but then she immediately acknowledges it and feels bad about it. And a great portion of her asshole thoughts are things I've thought from time to time.
The only thing I didn't like was how uncannily lucky the main character was, she gumps her way in and out of careers and relationships and the only bad thing that happens to More...
The only thing I didn't like was how uncannily lucky the main character was, she gumps her way in and out of careers and relationships and the only bad thing that happens to More...
Mar 03, 2010
The reviews on FB for this book were negative, but so far, I think it's hilarious. Klaffke is not trying to write "Heart of Darkness"--fluffy, silly fun.
After page 50, the silly fun turns into continuously sexual daydreams and reality, disturbign imagery and language.
If you like Cosmo, you might like Snapped. Not on my list of good reads.
After page 50, the silly fun turns into continuously sexual daydreams and reality, disturbign imagery and language.
If you like Cosmo, you might like Snapped. Not on my list of good reads.
Mar 10, 2011
Nikki
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Sometimes vulgar, sometimes funny, but mostly eh. I was happy with the transformation of the character from beginning to end, but the transformation itself made me want to put this book down and not finish reading it more than once. I'm glad I pushed through to see the character come out as a better and happier person.
Jul 01, 2010
Scotchneat
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Sara B. has made a living as a snarky fashionista/trendhunter, but her full-time professions is getting drunk, loathing herself and boinking young men.
When the tables turn on her, courtesy of Sara B. 2.0, she falls hard, learns some things and finds a different way to be cool (and of course, finds some redemption).
When the tables turn on her, courtesy of Sara B. 2.0, she falls hard, learns some things and finds a different way to be cool (and of course, finds some redemption).
Feb 03, 2010
Celeste
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A good, interesting novel about a lady who obviously is not happy in her life, and the effort she goes through to fix what ails her. She's a bit of an antihero at first (how much did I hate her!) but she grows on you, and the situations she finds herself in are amusing and sometimes cringeworthy.
Mar 02, 2011
Filla
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This book was as vapid and vacuous as the world it attempts to satire at times. Plus it's depressing. It was not funny or smart. Just the rambling story of an aging alcoholic loser. Avoid.
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May 19, 2010
valerie
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Thought this book was eh, ok. It was humerous in parts but kind of pathetic in others. I don't regret reading it but highly doubt would read it again.
Nov 05, 2010
screams, canadian version of VICE magazine's DO's and DON'Ts. not sure if i can get behind this book.
Feb 15, 2010
Jody
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Very comical as well as inspirational. Some strong lanuage but very well written. It held my iterest.
Feb 03, 2010
Cathleen
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I wasn't expecting gentility, but why does being sassy and contemporary so often mean vulgarity?
Apr 10, 2011
Stephanie
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I enjoyed this. I would check out other books by her if there are more.
Sep 04, 2011
Lindsy
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SOOO glad to be done with this book. The fact that it took me over a month to read some 250 pages is pretty evident, I think. I wouldn't say it was a terrible book, but it was very angsty and pathetic in a my-life-is-so-terrible-and-it's-all-my-fault kind of way. The book does end on a happy-ish note, but it's kind of unrealistic. Meh.
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