Good in Bed
Washington Square Press - Washington Square Press
Release date: 2002-04-02
Paperback
Author: Jennifer Weiner
Modern fiction, Romance, Young women, Popular American Fiction, Fiction, Fiction - General, Fiction / General, Fiction / Literary, Literary, Contemporary Women, Romance - Contemporary, General & Literary Fiction
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Good in Bed
Date undefinedThis is not exactly a bad book per se, but I would like to point out that it doesn't seem to be an 'original' novel. For example, as I was reading this novel, I couldn't help but see flavors that were reminiscent of the movie "My Best Friend's Wedding" (1997), starring Julia Roberts, Rupert Everett, and Dermot Mulroney. However, these familiar flavors may be obscure enough that they may be missed by the average reader. For example, the protagonist in the book has a friend that is a food critic from which she occasionally gets relationship advice from (Julia Roberts is a food critic in "My Best Friend's Wedding" and gets relationship advice from a friend who sometimes comes along with her on her restaurant reviews). In addition, there are passages in the book that are similar to actual scenes in the movie I'm seeing parallels to. For instance, about a third of the way through the book, after the protagonist has been regretting her decision to break it up with her boyfriend and is desperately seeking to make amends, the protagonist has a conversation with her mother in which her mother helps her come to the realization that she is doing all of the chasing to get the relationship mended while her ex-boyfriend is not (pp. 119)--not much different than the conversation that Julia Robert's character gets into with Rupert Everett's character in "My Best Friend's Wedding", when Julia's character is chasing after her best friend (Dermot Mulroney) after getting caught kissing him by her best friend's fiancee (Cameron Diaz). Furthermore, the overall premise of the two storylines are quite similiar--the protagonist is trying to win back or win over someone they've come to realize that they love. These are a few parallels between this book and that movie to name a few. If the reader doesn't mind these similarities (again, these similarities may be obscure enough to go unnoticed) and can push back these thoughts well enough, then this book is quite entertaining in itself. Happy reading :-)
Good in Bed
Date undefinedCarrie Shapiro is the classic larger woman protagonist. She's opinionated and loud mouthed. In this book, the boyfriend she has recently broken up with writes about her in a popular women's magazine. His article contains intimate details about their sex life, and what it was like for him to love a larger woman.
Carrie was the one who ended the relationship with this guy, and throughout the book, we see her constantly debating with herself on whether or not she made the right decision. Since being apart from him, she's come to realise how much of an impact he has had on her life and what she has done for him, so should they get back together?
I thought this book was okay. It's pretty typical for the chick lit genre. I was quite intrigued by the boyfriend character. It was refreshing to read about the conclusion of a relationship from the male perspective, which is not something we often see from the chick lit genre. However, overall I thought this book was fairly average for me. It's good for a laugh but nothing more.
Good in Bed
Date undefinedI was a bit disappointed with this book. Although, it was well written, funny and entertaining, I felt like something was missing, and the ending wasn't as good as it could have been.
