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| Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Lauren Weisberger
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
List Price: $25.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  122 reviews
Sales Rank: 907
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0743290119
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780743290111
ASIN: 0743290119
Publication Date: May 27, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Prada Fans Beware! June 2, 2008
12 out of 16 found this review helpful
I almost gave up on this book, and it finally started getting interesting about 2/3 of the way through. I would definitely put this book in the "light reading-trash novel" category.
I really enjoyed Devil Wears Prada and Everyone Worth Knowing, and I was very disappointed in this latest effort by Ms. Weisberger.
As a designer label junkie, I expected the characters to have higher standards in regards to their grooming, attire, etc.
There was no tie in to the book title until almost the end of the book.
All in all, I would recommend that you wait until the book comes out in PB before spending your hard earned money on this one.
Respectfully submitted, Linda H aka L A Jewel
 Boring and empty June 18, 2008
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
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.
Painful June 1, 2008
9 out of 14 found this review helpful
The book felt contrived and empty. The only authentic emotion involved is the pain of the reader when you realize that you actually paid money for it.
Unbelievably bad... August 14, 2008
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
Three beautiful, successful women and one little problem. None of them is married. And they've all got a reason that has kept that glorious Harry Winston diamond from reaching their ring fingers. Leigh is a successful book editor. She and her boyfriend Russell have not married because of commitment issues. In this case, she is the commitment phobic. She likes her space and to have sole possession of her TV remote, doesn't want anyone -- including her gorgeous, successful and sweet boyfriend -- to invade either one. When she gets the editing job that everyone is salivating after -- working on a successful and good -looking author's next novel -- she is forced to make some changes in her life. If only Emmy had Leigh's good fortune. She has just ended her third long-term relationship. She is almost thirty, her younger sister is having a baby, and she's nowhere near finding Mr. Right. How pathetic is she? When she makes a pact with her friends to become more outgoing and have some much needed sexual escapades, she may find pleasure in single life, or will she? Adriana is a drop-dead gorgeous Brazilian with an unlimited trust fund and endless trysts with hot guys. But is she happy with her status quo? She has no job, no sense of personal accomplishment, and while she's beautiful... well, good looks don't last forever. So it may be time to give up her conquests and find a great and rich guy to marry. Luck is smiling at her, for she's found a sexy director who is crazy about her. Are things the way they seem though?
I read The Devil Wears Prada. I disliked the book, but loved the movie. Chasing Harry Winston is very run of the mill for my taste. I have read this kind of book again and again. Weisberger brings nothing new and unique to the chick lit genre. This is a book about three very one-dimensional New York women looking for some much-needed soul searching in the city. It's Sex and the City meets Lipstick Jungle, only less interesting. There is a lot of designer and celebrity name-dropping here, and the girls seem annoyingly perfect, especially Adriana, and for that reason I couldn't sympathize or relate to any of them. Some more character depth would have been nice. I like my slice of good ol' beach read as much as the next person, but this is beyond bad, and not in the good way. I'd say skip this and go for Emily Giffin or Beth Harbison instead. They bring something fresh to this otherwise overdone and cliche genre. Perhaps the film version of this, if one is made in the future, will be better, as was the case with The Devil Wears Prada.
Do not want. June 18, 2008
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
In the end, the joke is on me. I have read all of Lauren Weisberger's books and haven't found one of them to be worth her advance (I don't even want to know...). The story of the Devil Wears Prada was interesting, but for God's sake, the writing was atrocious.
I don't know why I bothered picking up the other two as they were just as horrible with an even crappier story. How this woman continues to write such vapid characters and has an editor who lets her get away with it is beyond me.
I wish I hadn't wasted my time, or money, on Chasing Harry Winston as it's hands down the worst of her books. The writing, as another reviewer stated, doesn't flow at all. There were times that I was sure the pages had stuck together and I'd missed something as there was no logical way she'd gone from point A to point B. The characters were flat and I could barely muster any enthusiasm for their stories.
In addition, there were times that I actually wondered if certain companies had paid for product placement in this book as the dropping of brands and websites seemed to not have any relevance to the (lack of) story.
In the end, the book fell completely flat, like Weisberger whipped it out on the way to a much more important spa appointment. That's the last time I read one of her books for sure.
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