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Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel

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Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel

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THE HOTLY AWAITED NOVEL FROM THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, SET TO BE THE MUST-HAVE SPRING ACCESSORY FOR 2008. How far would you go to change your life in a year? Emmy finds herself single for the first time in years. She vows to find a man on every continent for some pure no-strings-attached fun. Adriana is stunning and can have any man she desires.Yet she wants an eligible bachelor who'll slip a five-carat Harry Winston diamond on her finger. Leigh has a doting boyfriend that most girls would kill for. But when literary bad boy Jesse Chapman asks to work with her, she just can't refuse. Knocking back raspberry mojitos one night, the three friends make a pact - to change one thing in their lives by the end of the year. Game On. / Requires iPod or other Audible-compatible mp3 player, or iTunes software on Mac OS X or Windows

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Author:	Lauren Weisberger
Hardcover:	288 pages
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication Date:	May 27, 2008
Language:	English
ISBN:	0743290119
Product Width:	162.5 centimeters
Product Height:	237.5 centimeters
Product Weight:	1.04 pounds
Package Length:	9.3 inches
Package Width:	6.0 inches
Package Height:	1.3 inches
Package Weight:	1.0 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 225 reviews

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Average Customer Review: 2.5

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85 of 89 found the following review helpful:

Terrible! Jun 24, 2008 By K. McMahon "avid reader"
Do not waste your money, time, or effort on this piece of trash. I enjoyed Devil Wears Prada immensely and thought Everyone Worth Knowing was a decent effort as well. But this third novel by Lauren Weisberger had me groaning in agony. The characters are vapid and selfish, the story line thin to non-existent, and the writing is totally disjointed. There were points in the story where I thought I was missing pages in my books because, apparently, Weisberger and her editor forgot the meaning of the word "transition."

I also take issue with the fact that the three main female characters, who are approaching thirty, seem to be more jealous and catty than they are happy and excited when something goes well for one of them. Of course we all feel pangs of jealousy from time to time, but these young women did not one iota of emotional substance keeping them together. Nor did they have any friends besides each other. I guess that makes sense -- Who else would want to spend time with them?! I certainly wouldn't.

There is more I can say but most of it would be a repeat of what the other 1- and 2-star reviewers have already written. I am not even going to bother keeping this book around. I will donate it to a used book shop or the Salvation Army as soon as you can say "This book stinks!"

44 of 46 found the following review helpful:

Boring and empty Jun 18, 2008 By A. Shum
This is probably one of the worst books I've ever read. The plot, if you can call it that, went nowhere and the book just dragged on and on and on. I kept hoping it would get better but it never did. The characters were boring and so cliche. The story lacked any kind of depth or emotion and was just filled with superficial material. I've never written a review for a book, but it was so terrible I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

42 of 47 found the following review helpful:

Hits and misses Jun 04, 2008 By K. Huff
Having read so many bad reviews, I was surprised by Chasing Harry Winston. It's actually much better than I expected it to be.

After being dumped by her boyfriend of five years, baby-obsessed Emmy (a restaurateur) decides that she'll sleep with as many random men as possible. Tired of sleeping with many men in succession, ultra-glamorous, Brazilian Adriana decides to enter into a monogamous relationship and possibly get engaged. Leigh, a book editor, is tired of her life, despite a job she loves and a (seemingly) perfect boyfriend. One evening over dinner, two of the three decide to change their lives dramatically within the space of a year.

In Chasing Harry Winston, Weisberger dumps the format she adopted for her first two novels. In some ways, this is good, and gives Weisberger the chance to branch out a bit. This is no outsider-looking-in tale told from a whiney first-person perspective. There's no hellish boss, no glamorous fashion or PR industry. The characters in this novel are surprisingly more unique than those in Weisberger's other two books; with the exception of the perfect boyfriend, I definitely found myself relating to Leigh a little bit. However, the author doesn't seem to be able to create anything new--it seems like this plot has been seen before, most notably in Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City.

The characters, disturbingly, define themselves primarily by their relationships with men; their careers and the other parts of their personal lives repeatedly take backseats to boyfriends and fiancées. Adriana, despite her "tricks" for getting men to chase her, is really the one doing the chasing. It was tough, too, for me to believe the Leigh-Russell relationship. On the other hand, the predicament Leigh finds herself in is very understandable: you find yourself dating the "right" guy, so you feel bad about breaking up with him because you're scared. It's a dilemma I think many women can identify with.

For having reached the age of thirty, these women are very immature and shallow, and overly concerned with having the stress-and-anxiety-free, "perfect" lives that no New York woman I know has. It was also difficult for me to see why these three are friends--they're all so different, but Weisberger never explains to her readers why they were drawn to each other in the first place.

Somewhere in the plot, out of place, is a trip to the Caribbean, during which the girls find themselves in a dicey Curacao airport drinking suspect alcohol bought from a card table, and popping pills. It's pretty much the only funny part of the book. I get the feeling that this is something that really happened to Weisberger or someone she knows, and she felt she just had to put it in. But the scene just didn't belong in this novel.

Although not as funny, clever, or well-written as The Devil Wears Prada, there was much more emotional depth in Chasing Harry Winston than in Everyone Worth Knowing. Keep in mind, though, that Weisberger is pretty much a one-note author.

11 of 11 found the following review helpful:

Crappy writing, poor character development Jul 14, 2008 By Just for a read "Jamie"
Needless to say, I picked this up because I loved her book, The Devil Wears Prada." This novel in comparison is CRAP. The whole way through I kept hoping I would begin to like or relate to to care about her characters, but they always fell flat. The writing is blurry at best and cluttered with cliches. I wish I had spent my money on a better book.

10 of 10 found the following review helpful:

Yeesh Jul 25, 2008 By El Jefe
Gave up on book 210 pages in...nothing happens. Yikes. Just a lot of whining by girls with very little reason to whine. Good God. I was down on Everyone Worth Knowing as it seemed derivative but it was WAY better than this. And while the title may have been explained later, didn't make much sense. At all. Just have nothing good to say about it. Set pieces are dropped halfway through and a lot of the things this book treats as absolute truths (most notably Adriana's advice about men) may work on some men, but definitely not on others. Just not very good - it's got as much weight as reality TV and moves at a slower pace.

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