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Citizen Girl
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Dear Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Krauss:
Please stop. Stop writing books. OK, The Nanny Diaries had it's moments and was a compulsively readable little tale. Congratulations, your first book was successful and made you probably richer than you'd ever dream possible. Why didn't you just stop when you were ahead?
You must realize that Citizen Girl is absolutely abhorable. I wanted to give it zero stars, but I didn't want anyone to think I had forgotten to rate it.
Your protagonist (the idiotically named "Girl") gives women a bad name. She gives feminism a bad name. The boyfriend, Buster and the boss, Guy, give men a bad name. Why is everyone in your books absolutely loathesome and stupid? While I was reading it, I actually got the feeling that you wanted me to feel sympathy towards Girl. Sorry, not going to happen. Girl's predicament is all Girl's fault. I never quite figured out why she wanted the job at Mycompany so badly...because they were located in a hip former warehouse in a cool part of the city? She got what she deserved. She got canned from one job, took a crappy second job and found a semi-retarded boyfriend.
I can't believe you two get to call yourselves authors. There is no justice.
So, like I said, please stop writing books. Please. I may be forced to break into your homes and steal your hard-drives if I learn that any more trees will be sacrificed for the paper used to make your books.
Thank you,
A very concerned reader.
Please stop. Stop writing books. OK, The Nanny Diaries had it's moments and was a compulsively readable little tale. Congratulations, your first book was successful and made you probably richer than you'd ever dream possible. Why didn't you just stop when you were ahead?
You must realize that Citizen Girl is absolutely abhorable. I wanted to give it zero stars, but I didn't want anyone to think I had forgotten to rate it.
Your protagonist (the idiotically named "Girl") gives women a bad name. She gives feminism a bad name. The boyfriend, Buster and the boss, Guy, give men a bad name. Why is everyone in your books absolutely loathesome and stupid? While I was reading it, I actually got the feeling that you wanted me to feel sympathy towards Girl. Sorry, not going to happen. Girl's predicament is all Girl's fault. I never quite figured out why she wanted the job at Mycompany so badly...because they were located in a hip former warehouse in a cool part of the city? She got what she deserved. She got canned from one job, took a crappy second job and found a semi-retarded boyfriend.
I can't believe you two get to call yourselves authors. There is no justice.
So, like I said, please stop writing books. Please. I may be forced to break into your homes and steal your hard-drives if I learn that any more trees will be sacrificed for the paper used to make your books.
Thank you,
A very concerned reader.
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Feb 16, 2008 07:17AM
Nikki, I haven't read this but I did read The Nanny Diaries & it was horrible. I felt ripped off & engraged. I was also alarmed that so many of my "friends" just loved it - I am no longer friends with the girl who recommended it to me. Not because the book was bad, but for other reasons, but this testifies to what an idiot she truly was. LOL
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Could not agree with you more.
I am tired of reading books and stopping halfway through because they just don't tickle my fancy. I stuck this book out until the end. It took me FIVE months to read it, that is how painful it was. I just this very minute finished this book and am so disgusted that people get book deals with this crap. The last 10 pages of the book made no sense and I think part of my soul died a little.
Great review!Personally, I enjoyed The Nanny Diaries (but hated the movie). This book, I couldn't even finish.
abhorable = interesting. a mix of horrible and abhorrent?
Thank you!! I made myself finish this book (because it was the only one I brought with me on an overnight trip), but I couldn't stand Girl (and her fake commitment to feminism) by the time I was halfway through, and I felt like the authors were just trying to torture her (or us).
Natalie-From the transitive verb abhor: to regard with extreme repugnance. In SAT terms, Love is to Lovable as Abhor is to Abhorable.
Is it a real word or did I just make it up, thinking it sounded correct? *shrugs* I dunno.
But if it's incorrect, you can feel damn good about yourself for picking that up.
If this review had a like button, I'd click it.
I've just started reading this book, and reading the many negative reviews on this page, I am wary whether I should continue reading it!
Citizen girl was LITERALLY the only book I brought to Dominican Republic on vacation. There were no other english language books for sale anywhere. I was trapped on an island with only this book and I was tempted to cut and re-arrange all the words into anything other than this book, I am so happy to come across your review because I feel exactly the same way. Negative infinity stars.
I was lost through the whole thing, ended up skimming to the end.
I repressed the fact that I actually read this nonsense until now :-) It was pretty terrible.
I agree with Nikki and others. The book has not improved in eight years. Did not finish which is unusual for me.
