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Writes about Read Online Chasing Harry Winston Book PDFSo far this book is like a martini topped with mini marshmallows. Update: I'm past the halfway point and the book is now a martini topped with marshmallows poured over a steaming pile of dog excrement. Update the second: I retract my earlier statement, as it is demeaning to the martini. Martinis are fabulous and should never be associated with dreck like this. It is, however, like marshmallow-dotted dog poopie, as it is cloyingly sweet, fluffy, and a real stinkeroo.Update the third: WARNING. I am not going to mark this review as spoilerific, because I'm assuming that after the above comments no one wants to read the book anyway. And if you do still plan to read this, well then, you're an idiot and deserve to be spoiled.Adriana, Leigh, and Emmy are best friends in New York who are about to turn thirty. Adriana is the wealthy daughter of a former supermodel (even though the term "supermodel" wasn't really coined until the nineties), has no job, lives in her parents' NY penthouse apartment, and sleeps with any man who looks at her. Not because she's insecure, mind you. She's just Leigh is a book editor with the perfect apartment and sportscaster boyfriend but she's suffering from panic attacks and some kind of strange OCD-like symptoms. Emmy is a serial monogamist who has just broken up with her boyfriend of 5 years.The girls decide to shake things up. Adriana pledges to settle down within a year, Emmy wants to whore it up all across the globe, and Leigh wants to do something (she just doesn't know what).The novel alternates between characters. Adriana whines about no one taking her seriously, Leigh whines about her job and her boyfriend, and Emmy whines both about wanting to have random sex and not thinking she can go through with having random sex.The biggest problem I have with this book, beyond the basic boring insipdness of the plot, is that Weisberger doesn't seem to know her characters. They are not only underdeveloped but they constantly contradict themselves. Adriana is oh-so-cool that men want her and women want to be her, yet she very uncooly gushes over Salma Hayek, "Brangelina," and, inexplicably for someone who doesn't want children, Angelina's son Maddox.Leigh isn't in love with her boyfriend (who later becomes her fiance) but Weisberger makes a point of telling us that while she doesn't want to have sex with him, she isn't repulsed by his touch, either. The significance of this revelation is never explained. When she later and very predictably has sex with one of the married authors she's editing, she feels exhilarated in one sentence and in the next, with no explanation for the mood change, is angry/shamed/insecure. She is so upset that the author is married, yet when it is revealed that he only married his wife so she could get her green card, she no longer cares that he has no plans to get a divorce.Emmy insists all over the place that she's ready to give up her monogamous ways and slut it up with at least one man from each continent (she travels for work) but this isn't really what she wants to do, nor is she very good at it. Later, one of the girls comments that Emmy has slept with every strange man she'd met over the past year, when in reality she only slept with three. She's also so unaware of herself that she can't figure out why she scares off a would-be one night stand by asking him if he wants children.It would have been much more interesting if Weisberger had given a reason for these inconsistencies, such as the characters having an internal struggle over doing what they want to do and doing what everyone expects of them. I suspect this was Weisberger's intention but she never really made it clear which version was the facade and which was the real girl, especially in Adriana's case.It also wasn't very believable that these girls were best friends. When Leigh calls Emmy to tell her of her engagement, she tells Emmy flat out that she doesn't think she's in love with her fiance but all Emmy wants to talk about is the proposal and the ring. A real best friend would have jumped all over it and told her friend that she shouldn't marry a man she doesn't love. It also isn't believable that Emmy and Adriana wouldn't confide their problems to each other.There are also huge holes in the action. The three girls go on vacation to Aruba, ostensibly to give Emmy the opportunity to sleep with someone, but the narrative ends just as she meets someone and jumps ahead several days, and the result of their Aruba trip is only mentioned in passing several pages later. The lengthy description of their flight to the island is utterly pointless.The ending is so contrived and predictable that one can only assume Weisberger was up against the deadline, couldn't figure out how to end it, and just wrapped everything up without any creativity whatsoever.I'm pretty pissed off that I paid for this book, and that I've contributed to its sales as it will surely be a best seller. I can only hope that people will begin to see that was an anomaly, and that Weisberger can't write interesting fiction.
Opal
Writes about Reading Chasing Harry Winston BookI absolutely LOVED "The Devil Wears Prada" and "Everyone Worth Knowing." I live in NYC and love reading about places I've been to, or places I've heard of. I understand what it's like to work in NYC. I could not wait for this book to come out, and even splurged and bought it before it was out in paperback. I am on page 115 and I'm completely regretting it. The most annoying parts are the following:-Otis, Emmy's ex-boyfriend's African Grey parrot or bird that he left behind. I cringe every time I read about him. Hearing him constantly yelling out demands and criticisms is beyond boring, and I could care less what it eats. Who let's their boyfriend brutally dump them, and then say, "Sure, I'll take care of your pet that I hate." What kind of person leaves their pet behind? If she loved it, I'd understand, but she hates it so why doesn't she sell it or give it to a pet store so that someone can love it, give it attention and not constantly be covering it with a towel? There have been two long passages about Otis already in this book, and the worst part was when Emmy decides to travel and dumps the bird on her friend Adriana. The fact that the bird can shout out that Adriana is a "Fat Girl" and her actually contemplate losing weight makes me furious.-Adriana's use of the word querida in EVERY sentence. You can open the book to any page and find it. Since she is Brazilian, I assume that this is Portuguese for something. Upon translating it, I found that it means "wanted" rather than what I thought, which was "Sweetie" or "honey." Can someone please enlighten me? Do Brazilians use the word querida to mean something else? Otherwise, her saying, "Yes, [wanted], I'd marry you in a second," just doesn't make sense. All I'm saying is that I don't know why she says it, why it's the only Portuguese word she ever says, and why she says it in EVERY sentence. I'd kill my friend if she did this.This doesn't even start with the fact that I can't identify with any of the girls or why they are friends. Adriana, the only thing the novel has her ever thinking about is how beautiful she is, how people look at her, how everyone loves her, how 8 men wanted her, etc. It is sick. Leigh knows she's not in love and gets engaged anyway. This may be understandable at 22, but she's 29, get ahold of your emotions. And Emmy, allowed herself to be with a man for 5 years who wore her thongs and cheated on her so many times he gave her STD's - come on. It is just something disgusting I don't want to read about - again, she's 29 and I'd hope she'd be thinking of a future and realizing that this was NOT the man. I try never to give up on books, but we'll see how much farther I can get it.
Jaye
Writes about Read Online Chasing Harry Winston Book PDFAbsoulutely one of the worst books I've ever read. I am completely done reading the vapid crap that this woman purports to "write". She's a no talent-hack, who I'm convinced just knew the right people and got a contract for telling-all about Anna Wintour. When people bought that admittedly interesting, albeit horribly written book, it perpetuated a book deal and now she won't stop writing. And she should. She's HORRIBLE.
Nic
Writes about Read Online Chasing Harry Winston Book PDFI'd never read anything by Laura Weisberger before. I'd seen the movie "The Devil Wears Prada", and to be honest, that was pretty rubbish storyline-wise, but I thought hey, I'll give her a chance. So I saw this book, thought it might be a laugh. Gave it a go.One of the first things I noticed was that every time I picked it up, I wanted to put it back down again about a minute later. It was that unreadable, clearly. But I did get through it. Although I really wish I hadn't wasted my money on it.It had the potential to be quite a good book. You read the blurb, and think ok, this could be good. If a really good author had written it, it could be really good. But nope, it was written by this one. Then again, I bet the blurb for the Devil Wears Prada looked good as well.Adriana was quite honestly the most annoying person I've ever met. I was begging she would get pregnant or get an STD and maybe, just maybe, think "oh, maybe being a slut ISN'T the best way to spend your life as a 30+ year old". I thought that might've been what the author was going for, this woman you're meant to laugh at. But things continue to play out for her, and she soon becomes a columnist. Oh come on, a columnist! It's like the bloody Wag diaries all over again. And then a movie comes. Come on!I wanted to slap Emmy for being such a pushover. Seriously, she was absolutely pathetic. And Leigh... Leigh could have been a likeable character. Kind of someone you could relate to. But then she gets proposed to and doesn't have enough backbone to say "err, no, actually, I'm not ready". And has an embarrassing sex scene with some bloke she hates. And then you just want to slap her as well.Not only that, but the entire book promotes the idea that being a slut is the only way forward. It really isn't. It made Adriana look pathetic. Yes, querida, it did. I bet she'd be having sex with that bloody parrot given half a chance.It also has such pointless moments. Like when they randomly went on holiday very briefly. Smack bang in the middle of their working lives, for some reason, they just go on holiday, and you learn about the plane trip. And that's it, really. It just ends and suddenly, everything's back to normal. I'm sorry, but what? Why would this still be in here?The ending was appalling. It collapsed completely. Perhaps her editor saw it and thought "you better end this quickly... hurry up!"Speaking of editors, it's dead ironic that one of the characters was one, and was complaining about a book that was poorly written. But the funny thing was that she didn't have the guts to really tell him it was bad, because he was such an acclaimed author. This, to me, sounds like exactly what must have happened when this book was being published. Weisberger's editor didn't have the guts to tell her "umm, your book stinks" because she was so well known and loved after The Devil Wears Prada. So the gutless editor just let it get published, and the book went down.I guess my experience with Laura Weisberger hasn't had a good start. But if I see another book with a shoe on the front sitting on the bookshelf, I'm steering clear of that.I guess my review turned into a bit of a rant. Apologies for that.
Jen Covey
Writes about Reading Chasing Harry Winston BookI'm not sure why I am still reading this dreck. I didn't purchase it on my kindle because it had such horrible reviews, but when I saw it at the library I thought I would give it a chance. I think I am just avoiding housework but the pile of laundry is starting to look more appealing.
Suzanne
Writes about Read Online Chasing Harry Winston Book PDFLeigh, THE BOOK EDITOR, got engaged and went to visit her mom. Her mom says "I can't believe I had to wait TWELVE DAYS to see this sparkler." Then, two pages later, an incident that happened the day of the engagement is referenced as "it had been TEN DAYS since." About 200 pages later Leigh's name is spelled LEAH. This is the kind of crap that makes me want to burn books and then back over their ashes with my car. Or just complain incessantly to anyone that will listen.Anywho, over the top characters, far fetched ending--standard chick lit. Although I doubt Anne Hathaway will be starring in this one, it's a beach read worth reading at the beach.
Jordana Horn Gordon
Writes about Download Chasing Harry Winston PDFLike eating a whole sleeve of not particularly great cookies and then feeling like, "Why did I do that??"
Angie
Writes about Reading Chasing Harry Winston BookI got this book from the library. I quite enjoyed "The Devil Wears Prada" and wondered what the author was writing now. I wish I hadn't.Now I suspected as much, but I still had to double check to find out that Harry Winston was an American jeweler, and the Harry Winston empire is known for diamonds. Uh Oh. Quick plot synopsis (some minor spoilers): three women, each around 29. They are friends. Leigh is an overachieving and not overly successful editor at a publishing house who is dissatisfied with her romantic relationship, so she screws the author of the book she's editing. Adrianna is Brazilian American. She doesn't work, lives in her parents' apartment in Manhattan and literally screams and throws tantrums when they want to stay in their own apartment when they come to visit. Emmy has recently been broken up with after a 5 year relationship. The guy, Duncan, leaves her to be with a 22-year old virgin cheerleader (??) and Emmy is surprised and upset even though they guy cheated on her throughout their relationship. Her solution? To take a job traveling and have sex with as many men as she can.Now, I appreciate all kinds of literature, and this includes what we call 'chick lit'. I loved Bridget Jones, The Shopaholic series, and many more. I even like teen chick lit, like Gossip Girl and the Au Pairs. It's all good, silly fun, and can even be clever in some cases.Unfortunately, this is not the case in terms of "Chasing Harry Winston". Technically, the book didn't work. It jumped all over the place and ended abruptly. It seemed as though Weisberger was trying to write like Candace Bushnell, with less than desirable results. Even though it was a short read, I found myself finding it hard to get through it; The three main characters are superficial in terms of character development and still unlikeable. They are always talking about how 'old' they are and bitching about not having a 'rock' on their finger. Leigh has a boyfriend who seems like one of the only decent characters in the story, yet she cringes at the thought of being with him any longer. He proposes to her, and instead of telling him she doesn't want to marry him, she acts like a bitch for months, and then cheats on him. Lovely. Adrianna doesn't contribute to the story. We just hear about how hot she is and how she could get any man even though she is 'almost thirty'. The author has stereotyped her ethnicity to the point of ridiculousness. It drove me nuts. She said "querida" in almost every sentence she uttered. You know, because that's the way all Brazilians have to speak. I found the book more than a little insulting as a woman. It's unsettling that Weisberger has fed the false notion that a woman is virtually useless once she turns thirty if she hasn't landed a man and a rock. Emmy's character is absolutely obsessed with getting married and having a baby. In one cringe-worthy scene, a waiter asks if she would like anything else, and Emmy replies, "A husband? A baby? Some sort of life? Any of THOSE on the menu?" How embarrassing. What decade are we in here? A woman's sexual liberation is great as well, but when Emmy decides to sleep with people to get over her boyfriend, all she does is refer to herself as a slut, calling her new way of being the 'Tour de Whore" (ew). Thank you, Ms. Weisberger, for giving us another nice big step back. If a man had written this book, people would have been outraged!I guess I don't have to say that I don't recommend this book.
Liisa
Writes about Reading Chasing Harry Winston BookBy page nine, I had already laughed out loud and at page 38, I already LOVED by It's the story of three best friends: Emmy, Adriana and Leigh and a year in which they plan to change their lives. Set in New York, focussing on dating and sex, you can't help but compare it to but it isn't a carbon copy nor are the similarities a bad thing.I found highly entertaining and incredibly easy to read. The characters are all likeable and the plot unfolds pleasantly. If you want a high-brow Pulitzer’s contender, then this the book for you but if you want an easy, fun and fabulous Summer read, I highly recommend .
Erin
Writes about Reading Chasing Harry Winston Bookthis book made my angry. i really had to put it down several times and walk away. aside from the fact that it reads as if it was written by a ninth grader, the overall tone and subject just supports the stereotype that all women (or at least those in a certain age bracket) are consumed with material things and status, and that true love is not quite as important as the size and make of your ring or the number of men with whom you have slept. i have known women like this (thankfully, not that many) and they are no more endearing in life than they are on the page.i know that this is supposed to be an easy summer read. but, really? all three characters were the same, but for their "quirks", which are not really all that interesting. "fix your stupid problems", i wanted to scream at them! and for the record, not being a whore is perfectly fine. no matter how they tried to dress it up (as being seductive and mysterious, behaving 'like a man', if it walks like a duck...) this book promotes demeaning behavior. although i am sure that the author thought that she had found a clever way of being 'feminist'. but don't get me started on feminists either...the other thing that really ticked me off is that i couldn't find the book in paperback. what a waste of money.
Yamna
Writes about Read Online Chasing Harry Winston Book PDFThis book is basically about three best friends and their pacts. And it is one of my not-so-favorite books of 2016. Thus my long hiatus. I haven't been able to come back to goodreads to review this book for months because it took me weeks to finish this book. The main reason isn't that the book is boring, it's quite interesting actually. But I think what made the book unbearable to me at times was Adriana. Supposedly "gorgeous", beautiful, sexy Adriana with an accent. Ever seen those beach blonde barbies in movies who are the evil characters that try their best to sabotage the heroine's happy ending? Yep, that's Adriana for you. Even though she's Emily and Leigh's bestie in the novel, I constantly got the feeling that if there was ever a time when she had to ruin her two best friends' lives to get her happiness, she'd do it. Sadly, that's not even the main part about her that irked me. What bothered me was how the author spent countless paragraphs describing Adriana's so-called beauty. Let me tell you something. I girls who think they're the most perfect creatures on earth. And girls who consider themselves perfect after getting a breast surgery? Yea, I hate them the most. And, unfortunately, Adriana is one of those girls. So you can get why I wanted to strangle the author at times for including such a petty person as one of her MCs especially since she had next to nil redeem-able qualities. See, I'd love the book despite Adriana if it weren't for the fact that I wasn't much of a fan of Emily either. Let me describe her in a few words: Emily is that girl who has no self-respect up until 80% of the book and makes sure to show it to you by stalking, emailing, phoning, chasing her ex-bf (who left her after cheating on her) until he pleads her not to. And don't even get me started on her The only character I did like in this book was Leigh since she took a stand for herself in the book and made the right choices despite people telling her otherwise. Plus, she had those "no human contact mondays", an idea which I simply adore and plan to exercise in the near future.Overall, the book was a nice read and perfect for someone looking for a book about girls in the big city.
Dana Kenedy (Dana and the Books)
Writes about Reading Chasing Harry Winston BookThe characters are all self-centred and unrelatable, but Weisberger wants them to be regular girls who just so happen to sleep with A-list directors, actors, and authors. Yup, happens to me every day. Nothing really happens until halfway through the book. Even then, when something does happen, I find out about it when the characters talk about it over coffee rather than Weisberger narrate the situation herself. Apart from creating one of the worst female characters I've ever read, the author also makes Andriana say 'querida' every other word just to remind you she's Brazillian in case you forgot after all the meaningless mentions. The book could have been a third shorter if she deleted half the 'querida's. Only thing I did like was that it was in third person and not first, which is rare for chick-lit.
Ivonne Marie
Writes about Download Chasing Harry Winston PDFI love this book. Totally girlie and predictable, but fantastic!!!! I really enjoyed the way the author presented three female personalities whom I could either relate to, or identify them among my female friends. All three girls are fantastic and easy to love. Great writing too. I couldn't put it down. Not in the suspense thriller kind of way, but in the I really want to know what's going to happen with the characters and what turns are their lives taking.
Kate
Writes about Download Chasing Harry Winston PDFClearly one data point* does not make a trend.1.5/5 Dire.*because The Devil Wears Prada was good fun.
Jill
Writes about Download Chasing Harry Winston PDFI'm not sure why this book has been getting such terrible reviews, because I didn't really see much wrong with it at all. No, it wasn't - which, coincidentally, is a fabulous book and especially great for summer - but I don't think it necessarily deserved the bad rap it got.Sure, the characters can, at times, be so frustratingly typical and absurdly blind to their own mistakes that you find yourself wanting to yell out loud, perhaps in an effort to channel them and somehow change their (somewhat predictable) course. [This being particularly true regarding Leigh, a rather crass character who I could never quite relate to and was constantly bothered by..] And yes, if you let the book, as well as the absurdity of the bird one girl inherited from an ex and felt bad getting rid of (any rational, real-life person would sell the damn thing), get you down - well, you probably wouldn't open yourself up to any type of good conclusion.Yet, I found myself re-thinking this book a couple days after I read it, and I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. There's somethign about Weisberger's characters in which I can find a little something I relate to in each one of them, and it's always nice to know you're not alone - even if the one you're relating to isn't really real. Plus I think it's great to subscribe to the adage that you can't change yourself, but you can change your outlook, and this story does that superbly.Read it with an open mind, chug through it in a day or two, and I think it's a pretty good read.
Ummi
Writes about Download Chasing Harry Winston PDFAdriana, Emmy and Leigh are best friends living in Manhattan, New York.Adriana - The Brazilian goddess, the ultimate socialite who will sleep with just about anything male.Emmy - The flat-chested serial monogamist who had been dumped by her five-year boyfriend for a virgin cheerleader (like I would believe that for a minute!).Leigh - The obsessive and compulsive one with lots of issues despite having perfect everything i.e boyfriend, job, place... or so her friends thought.One day, the two of them made a pact of changing their lives in a year. Adriana is to settle with ONE guy while Emmy will sleep around as she trot around the globe within a year. Leigh? Well, she has it all, no? The perfect boyfriend every women drool upon, the job with one of the top publishers, a place of her own with lots of space, unlike Emmy's. And she has this No-Human-Contact every Monday night. It is the story of 3 not-so-young women in the big city. Each with their own issue and conflicts.Coming from Lauren Weisberger (The Devil Wears Prada), I was expecting a good read, if not a great one. The result: DISAPPOINTING! It was a HUGE letdown for me as I went through page by page. It's like reading a novel wrote by a lazy and amateurish author! There's nothing interesting or anything remotely new in this novel. It's bland. It's meaningless. It's just downright stupid. Even the title doesn't fit the story. At all.I have only one word for this novel: BLEARGH!!!
Sam
Writes about Download Chasing Harry Winston PDFCute. Not realistic and sometimes frustratingly so.I mean isn't kind of ridiculous for a writer to write with three characters that are three different versions of most girls perfection? All went to Cornell one is a publishing titan in training, one travels the world searching for great recipes and gets paid for it, and one is a gorgeous Brazilian heiress. It's a fun silly read but at points I was just angry at the fact that a writer would so casually write about three perfect girls with problems that are, well, still within the realm of perfection. Hell, let's me be honest, these women's lives don't even really fit at all into what the average Manhattan woman's life looks like. Also I beg the question: If The Devil Wears Prada was autobiographical as we've been led to believe how can she paint herself as this intelligent, thoughtful young writer fresh out of an Ivy League school who should be working for somewhere serious like The Washington Post or New York Times when in realty what Lauren Weisberger resorted to writing in the end are cheap paperbacks with different colored pumps on every cover and titles like Chasing Harry Winston and The Devil Wears Prada?Me thinks someone painted themselves a little to well and their boss a little to ungraciously.
stephanie
Writes about Read Online Chasing Harry Winston Book PDFit was okay. i don't know if it's necessarily weisberger's fault - it's that after , i expected so much from her. and she hasn't delivered that blend of sarcasm, satire and naivety that made me like the first book so much. this is the story of three girls who make a decision to basically change their lives in one year - the chronic commitment-phobe will be engaged, the serial monogamist will go on a "fuck tour", and the one in the perfect relationship will do . . . something. sound like minus miranda? yeah. it's a little too perfect, a few too many cliches, and way too many moments where adi exclaims "quierda". i wanted to like it, i really, really did. but i read it quickly and it was both because i wanted to get it over with, and because i just didn't care about the characters. they were so one-dimensional and stereotypical, it would have made me grit my teeth and pull out my hair if i cared that much. as it was, i brought it back to the library the day after i got it. so glad i didn't crack and buy this one before it came to me.
Shrabonti
Writes about Download Chasing Harry Winston PDFIt was one of those books I wanted to throw with great force (thanks Dorothy Parker) but still had to finish just so I could see how bad it could get. The unforgettably bad bits:1. Yes, I too was constantly checking the cover to see if I was mistaken in thinking those were rings coz nothing in the narrative justified that design. Except the art department wanted it to connect with 'The Devil Wears Prada', correctly guessing that was the only reason people would buy this book, and they also wanted to throw in some bling. 2. That sex scene between Leigh and Jesse? Totally Mills and Boon type thing with the woman suddenly filled with self-loathing, in fact so much self-loathing that even you start wondering what on earth the guy sees in her.Lots of terrible things besides, including some unnecessary side-plots such as that pet bird, and the fact that it's way, way too long. Really bad job by the editors, really ironic considering one of the protagonists is one!
Love Fool
Writes about Reading Chasing Harry Winston BookI love books that show the friendships of ladies. Maybe because I can picture my friends and myself as the ladies. I found this book to be funny and an easy read. I recommend this book over Lauren Weisberger's other books. Honestly, until I read this book I had a hard time understanding why people loved Lauren Weisberger's books.
Lauren Fidler
Writes about Reading Chasing Harry Winston Bookoh, lauren weisberger. why must you write such ugly people. not physically ugly, naturally. since all three of these BFF 4 evas are gorgeous in their own ways. there's leigh, who we start off with, who is like a totally neurotic version of andy from the devil wears prada. and emmy who reminds me of bess from nancy drew, even though she's supposed to be flat chested and skinny. and adriana the brazilian goddess who puts both the other girls to shame.i don't know. the premise here is a bit iffy. leigh is almost always on the outskirts of the main action. while her friends make life-changing resolutions, she just thinks of things she'd like to change. oddly, her suffocating paranoia and prickliness aren't the top things on her list. no, no, she wants to get rid of the amazing, hot, rich man she feels is suffocating her with his endless understanding. right.the other girls are just as awful. the brazilian is worried that, at 30, her looks are fading fast and she best use her tried and true brazilian methods of seduction to hook herself a real man. a husband! and the poor not-fat fat one has been dumped by her asshole-loser of a boyfriend and decides to go on a world-wide excursion to sleep with as many men as humanly possible. considering she is a serial monogamist, this proves to be difficult for her - even after she swears she gets the hang of it after some creepy poolside sex after her sister announces she's pregnant.yup. we be dealing with some major sluts and assholes here.whatever. it's a quick summer read that makes you briefly remember your tumultuous youth while simultaneously making you wish you were both younger and richer. then, you realize how incredibly insane all these women are and you silently rejoice at your good fortune to be happily settled and wrinkly.2.5 stars. i liked it much better than devil wears prada but not enough to read it again.
LaFleurBleue
Writes about Read Online Chasing Harry Winston Book PDFBad, very bad, awfully bad.There's just nothing to redeem this book. It's one of the very very few books I feel should be all burnt, to avoid anyone else the displeasure to read something this bad. Even years after, I still remember the horror I felt all through this.I'm not a huge fan of chick lit, but some of it can be enjoyable, relaxing and fun. It is none of the three.The three, supposedly heroine, girls are tarts and there is no nicer way to describe them; none has anything that might be likable, their only dream in life is scoring the biggest diamond; it does not really matter whom from, as long as it's big and expensive.Each time one object is mentioned the author felt forced to mention a fashionable and/or outrageously expensive brand.The plot is weak, several scenes are stupidly stupid. And the overall did not held any interest and was boring.That was my first and last book from this author. I'm sincerely surprised that she could write something that was remotely acclaimed, like The Devil Wears Prada, which I wanted to read and decided not to, after this failure.I would not even recommend my worst enemy to read this book.
Hope
Writes about Reading Chasing Harry Winston BookAll the "nice guys" got to me! That nearly every man (even one night stands?) seemed to be overly considerate and romantic and unbeliveable in the least kinda wanted to make me gag a little. I suppose that is the kind of men to expect in chick lit, though? Altogether it was a very easy and quick read. Not the best or worst. A mostly predictable plotline, and characters that are one-dimensional take away from the enjoyment. Having said that, it was a fun story about fabulous neurotic characters (who while annoying, you do want to root for) and their fabulous neurotic fairytale lives. I wouldn't spend money on the book, but I would recommend it to any woman looking for something fun and light with a few hours to kill.
Elizabeth
Writes about Reading Chasing Harry Winston BookThis is the first Lauren Weisberger book I've read, so I don't have the ability to compare it to The Devil Wears Prada or any of her other titles. I loved this book! It's a light and fluffy read. I liked that the characters all had such different personalities, you got to follow separate stories and become invested in each separately for different reasons.Some parts were quite predictable, but I loved it regardless.
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Writes about Download Chasing Harry Winston PDFGood book that makes you laugh a lot sometimes, but at some point in my reading process, I got bored... Just because there are too many long paragraphs to say nothing wich was kind of disappointing...I remember reading it when I was 15 and loving it !This is how you know you grow up :)
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Writes about Read Online Chasing Harry Winston Book PDFI can handle a great deal of questionable material in my reading, if I feel like it has some merit. Within the first fifty pages, this book has superfluous language and sexual content that really had no redeeming quality. I set it aside without finishing.
Heather
Writes about Reading Chasing Harry Winston BookI read (and watched) "The Devil Wears Prada" several years ago and I liked it so when I came across this one, I decided to read it too.I didn't expect this to be a literary gem by any means, and in that respect it did not disappoint. I would definitely classify this as a mindless, quick "beach" read. Around page 66 I started to feel like I was losing brain cells yet at the same time, I couldn't seem to put it down either. Part of that was because I didn't want to start a book in 2012 and have it count towards my 2013 goals so I was trying to end the year with a clean slate. And part of it was because there were some ways in which I could actually relate to two of the three main characters."Chasing Harry Winston" is about three best friends living in NYC who are about to turn 30. Emmy has always dreamed of the perfect wedding, the perfect husband, the perfect children, the perfect life. Adriana, a trust fund baby and the daughter of a former Brazilian model, has never needed anything other than her looks to get through life. And Leigh has it all: the awesome apartment she saved up to buy herself, promising career with a prestigious publishing firm where she's on pace to become one of the youngest senior editors, and a boyfriend who worships her-who just happens to be the city's most popular sportscaster.The book starts with Emmy's boyfriend of 5 years leaving her for his 23-year-old personal trainer-whose services she paid for. Newly single, she decides to take the promotion her boss has been offering her which will allow her to travel around the world to scope out new menu ideas and locations so he can expand his restaurant business. During a conversation with Leigh and Adriana over drinks, it is decided that since she's only been with 3 men in her life, she needs to use her travels as the opportunity to stop seeing every man as husband material and just have a series of "affairs": one from each continent, except she gets a pass for Antarctica. This becomes a bet with Adriana, who vows to stop sleeping around and find a husband. They have a year to complete this challenge. Leigh wants to participate but her life is perfect so there's nothing she can think of to change in herself.Leigh's story was the one I was most fascinated with. I was curious to see if she would realize that her "perfect" life was really not so great after all-mainly, her relationship with Russell, whom she was dating because everyone else thought was wonderful and whom she did love but was clearly not in love with. She was also the one I could actually relate to-mostly because she's pretty neurotic about some things and because she worked hard to get where she was in life. Adriana made me glad I'm not a bored socialite but she was the one who seemed to grow up the most in the year of their challenge. I found Emmy's struggles of trying to be happy for those around her (Leigh getting engaged, her sister and brother-in-law having a baby) even though she was jealous they were getting the life she always dreamed of to be realistic. The book did have a cute, but tidy ending. The three girls didn't exactly end up with their idea of "happy ever after" but all three were clearly heading in that direction.The one thing I hate more than anything when I'm reading a book is obvious typos. I have to say they are much more glaring when one of the characters is supposed to be an editor! I also felt the pop culture references were way overdone. There was a lot of "name dropping," but in the form of companies vs people-to the extent I found myself wondering if "Us Weekly" was a paid sponsor. Overall, this was a quick, fluffy read and I'm glad I didn't devote more than a couple of days to it.
Kristan
Writes about Read Online Chasing Harry Winston Book PDFOMG! This book was terrible; boring, shallow, bereft of heart, or story for that matter. Lauren Weisberger wrote one of the greatest chic lit stories of all time; The Devil Wears Prada, then begins her downhill slope with Everyone Worth Knowing to end up and the very bottom of the mountain with this piece of trash. I'm going to rename Lauren Weisberger, Picabo Street, for her ability to maneuver the Downhill, only with not as much grace - and certainly No gold medal waiting to be awarded. Ms. Weisberger obviously just wants to ride the Sex and the City lift, why else would she write her own version of 3 women navigating life in NYC - one, Adriana, just so happens to get a column for Marie Clare, while another, Leigh, is a book editor.Emmy would be Carrie Bradshaw, Leigh would be Charlotte and Adriana is, of course, Samantha. Lauren Weisberger, the author, even mentions Candace Bushnell in her book when describing the Samantha/Adriana character's future job. I don't know why I completed this book; why does anyone watch with shocked amazement as an Olympic athlete fails to live up to the hype they were imparted with before leaving for the Olympics. Why do we gape at car accidents? Why do we follow fire trucks? Why do we watch the news? The same logic can be applied to this complete disaster of a book.Everytime I feel like writing a book of my very own, I think of the hard work involved, the years that countless authors before me spent at college being groomed for writing. The years spent at their college newspaper writing about the football team's latest defeat or the controversy over a Sorority's latest antics and I think how I could never compete with that kind of discipline -having never actually obtained a scholastic degree of my own. Then I read a book like this which makes writing even a mildly interesting novel seem effortless.I'm sorely disappointed with "Chasing Harry Winston". Usually I can tell how good or bad a book or movie will be simply from its title; I should have known. Any title touting the name of "Harry Winston" was going to be a pathetic waste of my middle class time.
Mafalda
Writes about Reading Chasing Harry Winston BookGanhei este livro num concurso da Editorial Presença e, tendo em conta o tÃtulo, não esperava nada daquilo que o livro me ofereceu.Leigh tem a vida perfeita! Um rapaz famoso e perfeito e qualquer rapariga sonha ter, um emprego de sucesso como editora, e toda a gente acha que ela é feliz, mas as aparências enganam. Ela sente que falta algo... Se calhar, a sua relação não é assim tão perfeita, não tanto quando ela gostaria que fosse. Mas houve um pedido de casamento que ela não recusou, e agora como há-de voltar atrás?Adriana, por sua vez, é a mulher dos sonhos de qualquer homem! Aquela mulher que mesmo mal vestida e despenteada faz os homens ficarem parados a olhar. Filha de uma modelo brasileira, leva uma vida de rainha! Tem uma lista infinita de homens e casos de uma noite, e não há meios de ela assentar. Mas os 30 estão a aproximar-se e a beleza e o corpo perfeito não duram para sempre, não é?Já a Emily, a minha preferida por ter sido a personagem com quem mais me identifiquei, é uma pessoa de relações monogâmicas que duram anos, mas acabam mal. Ela vê a Leigh de anel no dedo, a irmã mais nova casada e à espera de um filho. Toda a gente de vida endireitada e ela, que sempre foi certinha, vê a sua vida destruÃda, de coração desfeito, por ter sido trocada por uma rapariga muito mais nova!Após ter feito um pacto com a Adriana, Emily dedica-se à sua carreira e resolve tornar-se um pouco "Adriana". 5 homens num ano. Casos de uma noite.Será Emily capaz de ir contra aquilo que sempre desejou para a sua vida, o seu futuro, e contra aquilo que sempre foi? Será que haverá por aà outro amor escondido à espera da sua monogamia?Uma leitura bastante descontraÃda, mas que nos aquece o coração!
Jennifer
Writes about Download Chasing Harry Winston PDFLauren Weisberger has delievered another great chick lit novel. Her characters were compelling, well-developed, and facing many of the same issues that single, late-20 to early 30 year-old women face. I saw a little bit of myself in both Emmy and Leigh (not so much Adriana). While the plot was relatively predictable (as most chick lit novels are...), Weisberger delved into the subject of sex and the single woman in a frank and refreshing way. Emmy began her quest to increase her "number" with a series of romantic entanglements, while Adriana was challenged to try her hand at monogomy. Both women learned something new about themselves as a result of their "experiment". My only complaint about this book was the "happily ever after" ending. The story ends with each woman happily involved in a relationship, or in Adriana's case, entertaining several men... Life isn't like that. I'd love to see a chick lit novel end with the heroine still struggling to find her "one true love". I'd relate to a character like that much better than the one who ends up finding her Prince Charming in 350 pages.
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