Lipstick Jungle : A Novel | Candace Bushnell | Very similar to Sex and the City

Lipstick Jungle : A Novel | Candace Bushnell | Women can't have it all, even in fiction!

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	Lipstick Jungle : A Novel Candace Bushnell, 2005 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 123 reviews view larger image
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The new novel that fans of the bestselling author have been waiting for, about three sexy, powerful career women who will do anything to stay at the top of their fieldsVictory Ford is the darling of the fashion world. Single, attractive, and iconoclastic, she has worked for years to create her own signature line. As Victory struggles to keep her company afloat, she learns crucial lessons about what she really wants in a relationship.Nico O+Neilly is the glamorous, brilliant editor of Bonfire Magazine-the pop-culture bible for fashion, show business, and politics. Considered one of the most powerful women in publishing, she seems to have it all. But in a mid-life crisis, she suddenly realizes this isn+t enough. Wendy Healy+s chutzpah has propelled her to the very top of the cut-throat movie industry. When it becomes clear that a competitor is trying to oust her, something has to give-and Wendy must decide between her career and her marriage.In Lipstick Jungle, Bushnell once again delivers an addictive page-turner of sex and scandal that will keep readers enthralled and guessing to the very last page.

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Very similar to Sex and the City

Lipstick Jungle is written by the same woman who wrote Sex and the City so it has extremely similar themes. If you liked the show Sex and the City or the book, then you are guarenteed to like this one. This book focuses on women who are at the top of their careers but are having romantic troubles. It's funny, racy, and perfect for a rainy day or a day on the beach. It is not an intellectual book by any means and you can finish it in one day. It's not a bad book, just does not have anything of real weight or consequence to it.

It's an entertaining read but you are probably better off just grabbing a copy from your library instead of buying it. I bought my copy but I got it used so it was only a couple dollars.

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Women can't have it all, even in fiction!

I'm not sure what message Candace Bushnell was intending to convey, but the one I came away with was that women can't have it all, but it's maybe OK if you make an obscene amount of money and have great girlfriends.

The author does a great job of portraying good female friendships. Wendy, Nico and Victory are slightly older than the Sex and the City women but significantly wealthier and more powerful. But they have two things in common with their SATC predecessors: a long-lasting deep friendship and lousy love lives. The latter is more sad in this book because two of the three women are married and have children!

I thought the book was an interesting look into the ficticious lives of highly successful women in the fields of magazines, movies and fashion. It kept me interested even though it made me a little sad that the characters were too often anxious or unhappy. And like SATC before it, I'm guessing there is a lot of truth written into the fiction.

Just don't read the book expecting the characters to have perfect careers and perfect families!

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Okay for a summertime trash novel

Lipstick Jungle reads exactly like what it was meant for: a script for Bushnell's next television show. I deliberately plucked it out of sales bin as I was looking for my next no-brainer-entertainment-purposes-only-summertime-reading novel. I was not disappointed. Ms. Bushnell's writing certainly isn't the most eloquent I've ever encountered, and she does overuse the thesaurus a bit, plugging in seldom-used "big" words that seemed a clumsy attempt at sophisticated writing. While the characters have completely no relevance to my life, it stayed with me enough so that I could finish it... and frankly, I was entertained. My only criticism with her novel is the contemptuous attitude towards men. These high-powered women who are in constant competition with men is really a testament to what little self-esteem these "modern" women possess. I, for one, miss those days when being referred to as a "[...]" was an insult, now women wear it as a badge of honor--pathetic! And for being "smart" women, they make idiotic, desperate choices in men. The two married characters in her book allow themselves to be treated badly by their husbands -- for years -- and they put up with it? A true woman in control and empowered has the courage to speak her mind, expect respect, gives respect, and yet fearless of being vulnerable to the right man, and because of that she is treated well and adored and respected. Those lipstick jungle broads can have that high-flying lifestyle, because when you're at the top, the only place to go is down. The whole time I'm reading this novel all I can think of is how emotionally, physically, and mentally exhausting it must be to maintain it.

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