Sex and the City | Candace Bushnell | OH YES BUT DID ANYONE ACTUALLY READ IT?

Sex and the City | Candace Bushnell | Not the Series but still entertaining

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Sex and the City

	Sex and the City Candace Bushnell Grand Central Publishing, 2006 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 205 reviews view larger image
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OH YES BUT DID ANYONE ACTUALLY READ IT?

Funny of course, entertaining. This is the modern writing. Unlikeable characters, pointless, but goofy too and funny. I like the show and I know how popular it is but I am hoping against hope that women don't REALLY TAKE IT SERIOUSLY because it is a joke. And am I the only person who noticed that the AUTHOR herself admits that MR. BIG is an AMALGAM, an imaginary friend, who CARRIE made up? This is spelled out specifically and when you watch the HBO show you can notice it because NO ONE but CARRIE ever sees Big. Somehow he is always a no show and unavailable. People get introduced to him but he never responds. That's because, silly girls, the PERFECT MAN does not exist. That's why you can never find one.

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Not the Series but still entertaining

I have to admit when I first got the book I expected something similar to the series. Even though this was not the case, I was not dissapointed. A lot of the stories made me laugh out loud to myself. I saw truths in the stories. This book and the series makes one enjoy being a girl!

Pleasant but a bit dense

The book is a collection of chronicles initially published in a magazine. Put together, they don't really make a book, they make... a collection of chronicles bound in a single volume. It is pleasant to read one or two at a time. Bushnell is a kean and witty observer. But one cannot read the whole book at once. The fantastic narcissistic quest for pleasure and consumer love, and parade of money and social status of these bachelor New Yorkers between 30 and 45 quickly gets tiring.

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An entertaining read

Because I am a fan of the show, I sought out the book. I heard that the two were extremely different and often tv viewers were disappointed with Ms. Bushnell's articles. Knowing this, I gave her book a chance to be something other than the seeds by which Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda, and Samantha grew.

I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked the articles. Funny, witty, and intensely perceptive with her sardonic tongue, Ms. Bushnell manages to make fun of the painful and bizarre situations that arrive in the elite New Yorker's love life. These articles make you the fly on the Ralph Lauren painted walls of the Hamptons and the Upper East Side. And I like being a fly there. Voyeuristic pursuits are met here in her words.

True though, you will not recognize Carrie who seems to be psychotic, nor will you even find Charlotte. You can, however, see the skeletal beginnings of Season 1's episodes. But these stories were all extremely entertaining on their own.

All that aside, I say find the articles on the internet or at the library. This is not life altering literature. For a frivolous read, it does its job, but I do not need to read it again.

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