theundecidedcat's reviews
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Personally I’m more of a Samantha or Carrie fan but I like Miranda more than Charlotte and I do think all four characters serve a purpose in Sex and the City. I was curious about this book and I found most of it interesting and enjoyable but I did have some issues with the book. First of all I think all four characters have pros and cons, they all are flawed, imperfect humans. Secondly I didn’t really understand why they needed to put down the other three characters in order to make Miranda look good. Thirdly, some information was incorrect about the show and movies. Sure it’s meant to be a satire or a parody but it wasn’t very funny, mostly it just seemed biased.

A really interesting and fun read for Sex and the City fans. Love all the interviews from the cast and crew and the cool lil’ behind the scenes and tid-bits throughout the book.

I’m not surprised this book was turned into a tv show since the book was episodic but I have to say that the tv show was a vast improvement on the book. I was disappointed reading this as I knew it was different to the show but I still hoped it would be good but I can tell you it isn’t. The book’s episodic structure gets tiresome, none of the characters are fleshed out or likeable characters, there is a lot of violence against partners/friends by both female and male characters, every character is either a jerk or bitch, a lot of characters seem like high school students with adult lives because no one seems to be able to hold themselves accountable or function independently. Carrie specifically is childlike, immature and toxic. The dialogue between Carrie and Mr. Big towards the end is so immature and toxic it’s ridiculous. Also there’s heaps of slut shaming for a book that was meant to be open to casual sex and the descriptions of sex workers and the sex industry really makes me question whether Candace Bushnell has indeed had any experience with the sex industry or sex workers. My advice; watch the show and movies and don’t read the book.

A fun and interesting read but a bit too judgemental of the show at times. Still worth the read if you’re a massive Friends fan like me.

I can understand why this book is considered a classic and how it has some interesting things to say on class and life but I don’t know if it was the audiobook I was listening to or what but this book was one of the biggest slogs to read, I really struggled. At least I finally finished it. I’m hoping that I’ll like the story more if I watch a television or film adaptation of the book.

Alright, not as interesting as I had hoped but a good book to start the year on I think (:

The audiobook I listened to kind of ruined the book a bit for me, each chapter was a different reader and varied in audiobook quality with some having white noise and some readers being better than others.

Aside from the audiobook troubles I enjoyed learning more about Peter Pan than what I had previously known from films and television shows but it is slightly darker and at times hopeless compared to most adaptations. I’m interested in reading the other Peter Pan/ J.M. Barrie books. It’s kind of cool reading the classic books that these well known fairytales originally come from.