Sex and the City–the original stories that started it all–now available as an eBook! Sex and the City is a fantastic and sometimes terrifying foray into the hearts, minds, and mating habits of modern-day New Yorkers. Traveling in packs from lavish parties to high-end clubs, Bushnell’s vividly candid characters live out the never-ending search for the perfect relationship. Bushnell’s firsthand … relationship. Bushnell’s firsthand commentary on the behavior of the rich and famous is by turns witty and shocking, and always boldly true. In these pages you will meet “Carrie,” the young writer looking for love in all the wrong places; “Samantha Jones,” the successful proto-cougar who approaches sex just like a man; and “Mr. Big,” the captain of industry who jumps from one bed to the next.
Equal parts soap opera, gossip page, sociological study, and dating manual, Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell’s former New York Observer column, has attracted a cult following and been adapted into two major motion pictures and one of the most popular TV series of our time. This is the groundbreaking work that both decoded and shaped a culture and a generation.
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Let me start off by saying that I am a huge fan of the HBO series. So I was always curious about the original book, which was, I’m sorry to say, very disappointing. Sure there are similarities, ranging from characters, lines, and situations that were mirror images of the TV series, but the charm was almost totally lost. The story follows Carrie and some of her acquaintances, but focuses more so on a countless number of other characters. Each chapter starts off like an essay about another couple or person, but then goes to Carrie, and back and forth and on and on. This format made it really hard to focus on any specific person or portion of the book, and things just became jumbled and uninteresting. The ending also just kind of fell flat, and you just got some a bunch of quick synopses of the more prominent characters. Beyond the content, the writing is sharp, witty and funny, and kept my interest enough to keep reading. I really did want to enjoy this book, but it is probably one of the few times that I’ll say the live action version was far superior than the original story.
I loved this book, which I read after being an avid fan of the tv series. I was not disappointed. I really get pulled into their world and having lived in New York as the series was in it’s last phase I just loved being a single girl in that vibrant city with a million stories. The author also inspired me to write my “Memoir” which is more a collection of vignettes from my time as a young cop, during this era…
This is easy reading and the type of entertainment I enjoy with real , strong, sensitive, women, trying to work it all out in the world we live in today…
How to describe this book… I knew going into it that it was only the very bare bones inspiration for the tv show, so I wasn’t caught blindsided like many other readers–although I could easily pick out some of the storylines that the show writers used from the book. I also knew it was less book-with-a-plot and more “disjointed series of short stories” in format. I guess I was expecting it to be a little more like Carrie Bradshaw’s columns in the show. Instead, it was more like my least favorite part of the first season, where it felt “interview-y” and you didn’t really get to know the characters (something they vastly improved upon as the show progressed, thank God!). The only other way I can describe this book was that it left me feeling much as I did after reading “The Great Gatsby” (minus all the literary acclaim *obviously*): what a horribly sad, bitter, jaded, unlikable cast of characters, in depressing situations, blindly chasing after their own tails, in pursuit of a happiness they’ll never reach. If this is any shred of what it’s truly like to be dating in New York City, well, I am relieved and grateful to have never experienced that horror. I found Bushnell’s writing to be underwhelming, at times barely adequate, and the only reason I kept going with the book, rather than abandoning it to dwell in its own pathetic nature was because I was waiting for the library to notify me that my next books on hold were ready for me to retrieve and I had nothing else on hand to read. I rejoiced when I turned the final page.
Boring. Hard to get through. The show was better.
The same stories as the TV series, but written more like journal entries. If you are looking for your famous foursome, they aren’t here. Still an enjoyable read.
Good
Unexpectedly not as good as the series.