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Bad Boy [Hardcover]

Olivia Goldsmith
2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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17 April 2001

Fast and funny and romantic – a charming and sophisticated comedy for fans of Friends and Sex and the City by the inimitable author of The First Wives Club and Young Wives.

Jon and Tracy, two friends in their twenties, meet regularly at a hip late night cafe in Downtown Seattle to discuss their problems over a cup of mochaccino. Jon is Mr Very Nice Guy – he can’t understand why he can’t attract a girlfriend. Tracy, on the other hand, is never short of a man, but they seem to treat her so casually – for example, her present guy, Phil, plays guitar in a band, and comes back to the apartment in the middle of the night expecting her to get up and produce supper. Jon will only pull the girls, Tracy explains, when he learns to be a Bad Boy, too, and she undertakes to effect the transformation.

The results are astonishing. A trendy haircut, cool new clothes and endless lectures on behaviour later, and Jon’s nerdy friends and Tracy’s man-hungry female colleagues are hot with jealousy (in the case of the former) and desire (in the case of the latter.) But stories like this one always have a nasty twist in the tale – and this one is no exception…


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  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins; 1st Edition edition (17 April 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0002261294
  • ISBN-13: 978-0002261296
  • Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 16.3 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,660,580 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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‘Lisa Jewell with knobs on‘ The Mirror

‘a sparkling page-turner which is alternately amusing and touching, and always entertaining’ Hello

‘wickedly funny’ Real magazine

‘Think My Fair Lady with coffee bars’ Company

Praise for Bestseller:

‘Goldsmith hands out her characters’ rewards and comeuppances like Jane Austen dealing blackjack… You keep licking your fingers and reaching for the next page as if it were another poato chip’
Newsweek

Praise for The Switch

‘Fizzing with acerbic dialogue and high-level sexual slapstick, this is a very funny romantic comedy, offering plenty of catharsis for women at both ends of the marital spectrum, and very little comfort for the husbands in between’
Good Housekeeping

From the Back Cover

'A romantic, sophisticated and wickedly funny comedy by the author of 'The First Wives Club' and 'Young Wives''

Two friends meet regularly at a hip café in downtown Seattle to discuss their problems over a cup of mochaccino. Jon is Mr Very Nice Guy – so why can't he get a girlfriend? Tracie, meanwhile, is never short of a man, although they treat her so casually – like Phil, a wild and crazy rock musician. But women secretly love this behaviour, Tracie explains, and even Jon can become irresistible, once Tracie has taught him to be a Bad Boy too.

A trendy haircut, cool new clothes and endless lectures later, and Jon's nerdy friends and Tracie's man-hungry female colleagues are green with envy and hot with desire respectively. But has Tracie created a monster?

"Goldsmith hands out her characters' rewards and comeuppances like Jane Austen dealing blackjack"
NEWSWEEK


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2.0 out of 5 stars Wait for the library to stock this... 1 May 2001
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
I have always enjoyed Olivia Goldsmiths books, they are funny, witty and often have a twist in the tale. This story is no where near imaginative as 'Flavour of the Month' or 'Young Wives', in fact if her name wasnt on the cover I wouldnt have wasted my money. The concept is quite fascinating,I would love to scrub up some of my male friends, but I am sorry to say the story does not live up to expectations. I am deeply disapointed as Ms Goldsmith generally writes such good stories. I am still a fan, and will wait with eagerness for her next book in hope that its better than this one.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Pleasant 9 May 2007
Format:Paperback
This is the first novel I have read by Olivia Goldsmith and I'm not entirely impressed. The story is predictable and has been done by many authors but just with their own twist added.

The plot starts of slowly and is really bland with no life to it, the narrative needs to grip the reader and sadly this just doesn't do that.

The ending is rushed as the reader is trying to read faster just so they can move on from the annoying arguement tracie and jon have.

The only enjoyable bit of the book were the lessons jon were receiving from tracie.

If men believe they have to act like that to get a woman then they really don't know.

Read this book for something light on holiday because it doesn't take much attention to find out what is happening
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2.0 out of 5 stars Raises a smile, but not great...... 10 Dec 2005
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Format:Paperback
This is the story of a geeky IT exec (Jon)and his journalist female friend (Tracie). Exec is too nice to get any 'action'. He begs journo to help him lose the niceness, develop some fashion sense, and the heartlessness to go with it. He becomes successful with women, and she worries that she's created a monster!

It's a good plot, and it'll make a good film someday. But the plot is slow to start off and it has something of a rushed ending. The bit where Jon is delivering Mother's Day gifts to all his stepmoms is too long drawn out, and barely believable. Also, the character of Molly has some of the worst 'Cockney' dialogue I have ever read!

There's a fair amount of gratuitous man-bashing which is par for the course in Olivia Goldsmith's books. Character development is good, though...by the end, both Jon and Tracie (the journo) have learnt that it's wrong to manipulate people and use them for your own ends. There's also a subliminal bad-karma-gets-you-in-the-end message when a ghost from Jon's past seems to get a comeuppance for past misdeeds.

One problem though...throughout the book we're encouraged to hate Phil, Tracie's loser boyfriend. But he too goes through positive change, and at the end we actually feel sorry for him!

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