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`a wry satire on girlish obsession.'
`I Think I Love You is a fluently told, intermittently charming tale'
--Telegraph Seven --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
`I Think I Love You is a fluently told, intermittently charming tale'
--Telegraph Seven --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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‘You’ve got to read this...funny and poignant, it will also remind you why you’d never want to be 13 again!’--Prima
‘better written than anything by Nick Horny’--Evening Standard
‘even Donny Osmond fanciers will find themselves beguiled’--Jane Shilling, Daily Telegraph
'It’s a finely tuned and satisfying plot and the writing is flawless and funny’--Chloe Rhodes, Daily Telegraph
‘doing for the pop crush what Nick Hornby has done for football and vinyl’--Sunday Times
‘Pearson (is) a natural comic writer’--Metro
‘If you had forgotten what it’s like to be 14...this is a novel not to be missed’--Daily Mail
‘better written than anything by Nick Horny’--Evening Standard
‘even Donny Osmond fanciers will find themselves beguiled’--Jane Shilling, Daily Telegraph
'It’s a finely tuned and satisfying plot and the writing is flawless and funny’--Chloe Rhodes, Daily Telegraph
‘doing for the pop crush what Nick Hornby has done for football and vinyl’--Sunday Times
‘Pearson (is) a natural comic writer’--Metro
‘If you had forgotten what it’s like to be 14...this is a novel not to be missed’--Daily Mail
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I LOVED this book - as a 1970's teenage David Cassidy fan (his "number one fan" of course) from page one I was totally caught up in the story. Totally authentic and sympathetic. How easily I identified with Petra. How fantastic my memory recall of the posters! the magazines! the white lies to parents! the rivalry with unknown fans who might snare DC before I could! The utter conviction that I was the girl for him. The thrill that my mother's name was Cassidy - what an edge that gave me over the other fans! The misery when I didn't win any of the "Meet David" competitions....! The fact that I still remember his birthday!
Here is a book written by someone who was a fan but is able to understand and put in context the emotions of a girl growing up who was too frightened of real boys and in love with a fantasy. Allison Pearson has the gift of being able to take our story (my story) and give it a meaning that I knew was there all along. (I felt the same when I read "I Don't Know How She Does It", being a working mother myself.)
This is a book that former DC fans will love - I defy you to read it and not be taken back 35 years (good grief ..that long ago?!) But this isn't just a fans' book. It's a book for anyone who can understand growing up and falling in love. It's a story of friendship. It's a book you will put down with a long satisfied sigh .............
I found this book really, really uplifting. I wish I had the words of much more articulate reviewers to do it justice but I don't. Just read it. Please. I'm off to dig out my DC concert programmes....
Here is a book written by someone who was a fan but is able to understand and put in context the emotions of a girl growing up who was too frightened of real boys and in love with a fantasy. Allison Pearson has the gift of being able to take our story (my story) and give it a meaning that I knew was there all along. (I felt the same when I read "I Don't Know How She Does It", being a working mother myself.)
This is a book that former DC fans will love - I defy you to read it and not be taken back 35 years (good grief ..that long ago?!) But this isn't just a fans' book. It's a book for anyone who can understand growing up and falling in love. It's a story of friendship. It's a book you will put down with a long satisfied sigh .............
I found this book really, really uplifting. I wish I had the words of much more articulate reviewers to do it justice but I don't. Just read it. Please. I'm off to dig out my DC concert programmes....
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I waited and waited for the second book of Allison Pearson and was soooo very disappointed, the book never really did get going and to be honest it was just a read but with no real purpose - what a shame.
Her first book was absolutely fantastic and thoroughly recommend it to anyone with young children and a busy life.
Her first book was absolutely fantastic and thoroughly recommend it to anyone with young children and a busy life.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
First of all, I recommend you to avoid reading the back of the cover if you wish to read the actual book. Why? Because the cover makes it seem like the story - which is divided between 1974 and 1998 - has most of its actual action in 1998, but it doesn't. If you're interested in reading a good description of what it is like to be a young teenager and her obsession about her teen idol, then this is the book for you. If you want to read a love story that springs out of the events from the girl's childhood, then I recommend you to choose a different book. Personally, I was hoping for a cute and funny love story, light and peppy. Instead, this book is about a shy teenager's desperate love for a pop star, that same girl's relationship with her cold and cruel mother, and briefly about her life and her rediscovery of love a quarter of a century later. If this is what you expect and want, you will probably enjoy the book, and the descriptions are very interesting indeed, but as I think the cover promises something quite different, I was rather disappointed with the story and did not really enjoy it.
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Very Poor
BLAND! This book is slow, not funny or compelling, it was very predictable. Yawn yawn yawn. I cant think of anything else to say about it.
Published 1 month ago by PM
A little prosaic and a lot of nonsense
I wasn't expecting much from Allison as I've read a few of her articles and found her overly pompous and a bit dim witted. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Kevlarjohnson
Awful
A dreadful, dreary, badly written holiday time waster that is far better at being a leg wedge for a wobbly table than it is at being literature. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Don
Mind twistingly awful drivel
I have always taken pride in sticking with books that I have undertaken to read. However, since having to painfully wade through the early part of this pathetic limping excuse for... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Atholl Lawson
A mixed bag
This wasn't what I was expecting and I did find it a bit of a slog at times. Constant use of "blimmin" got on my nerves too. (has anyone ever actually said that?? Read more
Published 1 month ago by Skaty Katie
Suz
Not what i thought this book would be at all. The cover and title gives the lovey dovey impression. But there is not one sloppy bit in the whole book. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Book-Shelf
Very disappointed
I enjoyed "I Don't Know How She Does It" and expected to also enjoy this long awaited second novel but I didn't. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Orenia
ONE OF THE GREATEST NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
This is a Jungian novel in the same way that Six Degrees of Separation is a Jungian movie. It is no accident that in both Carl Jung is mentioned once. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Syd
remember 13?
This book takes you back to being 13 better than anything else I've ever read. For this reason, you don't particularly need to have been a David Cassidy fan to appreciate it. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Rosalind
'Cherish' the memories!
A real blast from the past! This book brought back many memories of being a teenager and convinced that David Cassidy would love me if we only had the chance to meet. Read more
Published 13 months ago by osprey
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