- Mass Market Paperback: 287 pages
- Publisher: Plume (2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0452283930
- ISBN-13: 978-0452283930
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.5 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 204 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #921,780 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1.0 out of 5 stars
What's with these women?,
By A Customer
This review is from: Gossip Hound (Mass Market Paperback)
Does anyone else notice this awful trend of brainless, drunken and sexually indiscriminate "heroines"? "Bridget Jones" was funny and likable. The characters of "Gossip Hound", as well as those of a host of other so-called "women's fiction" are utterly insulting. The whole point of this book and others like it seems to be to show supposedly educated urban 20- and 30-something women who make the stupidest amd most self-destructive choices at every possible opportunity.The main character of this book (I swear I read it yesterday and I can't remember her name) is a publicist. She cheats on her neglectful boyfriend during a drunken one-night stand with her client. She seems to be interested in the client, but somehow keeps making the worst and most ill-informed choices for his career and stays with the boyfriend because he's "better looking" (I'm not kidding). Later, she breaks up with the boyfriend, but only after learning he's been cheating (nevermind that she hasn't heard from him in a month). She then has a bizarre, wholly inexplicable 3-day fling with a movie star, somehow actually believes he's in love with her, and is shocked to discover that he isn't. Then, she tumbles back to the one-night stand guy because he happens to be there when she wants to hide from movie star guy. And that's just the main character. You don't even want to know about the ridiculous gossip columnist. And what the heck was that running gag about stepping on Louis De Bernieres' foot? What a bad book!
2.0 out of 5 stars
Substandard,
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This review is from: Gossip Hound (Mass Market Paperback)
This is one of the worst Bridget-Jones knock-offs I've ever read. At first I hoped that it would get better, but midway through I knew that wasn't going to happen and it was all I could do just to finish it. The characters were entirely unlikeable and the hijinks ridiculous.
1.0 out of 5 stars
I can't believe anyone thought this was good!,
By Imogen (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gossip Hound (Mass Market Paperback)
There are two things about this book that are really fascinating...1) how the hell this tripe ever got published, and 2) that the author is (supposedly) female when all the women characters in the book are so stupid, irritating and vacant. I bought this book for 25p at a jumble sale and it wasn't a bargain, it was about correctly priced (despite being hard back in perfect condition). I have struggled through it. This is desperate writing at its worst. The plot is horrifically obvious, the characters one dimensional and pathetic and the "jokes/puns" are strained and neither witty nor funny. If the two main characters were real women they would not have jobs. No one can mess up as much as these two brainless bimbos and remain employed...let alone receive promotions like these two do. The characters are so stupid that the reader is ten steps ahead of them all the time (which is so boring). Save your time and your money and read something else
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