- Hardcover: 259 pages
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (9 May 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1582345015
- ISBN-13: 978-1582345017
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14.7 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,551,007 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a clever, funny and sharp book, from the author of the wonderful 'How To Cook A Tart'. Nina Killham is very successful at getting into the mind of a (male) romantic novelist, with issues of his own. Jack Carter, the central character, is searching for the perfect woman while making a living writing steamy romantic page-turners in the classic style. Killham makes good use of the genre without mocking it, creating as she does a hilarious yarn with a cast of crisply-drawn characters. Recommended and some!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book pretends to be a romance, and a satire, but it fails badly. The hero is a romance novelist who writes pretty bad romances, judging from all the quotes. The heroine sleeps with everyone indiscriminately. The hero is a "born-again" virgin, who behaves very arrogantly to all women ("they are all sluts", even if he doesn't say so directly). He never learns. He and she are together very few times in the book, and I don't see what would attract them to each other. Towards the end of the book, he ends up in bed with a prostitute (really!). It was definitely unromantic. The jokes weren't funny, either - I want to like my characters, even if I laugh at them, and both of them are pretty unlikable.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I had read the synopsis of this in the back of another Little Black Dress book, and thought it looked entertaining. The book itself was rather diappointing, the hero seemed immature and arrogant while the heroine was just easy and very one dimensional.
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Not very impressed...
I am currently working my way through the little black dress books and though I have found some brilliant authors - Rachel Gibson, Phillipa Ashley, I have to say this book was one... Read more
Published on 26 Jan 2008 by Ms. J. M. Chalmers
Okay could have been better.
I've had an obsession with "The Little black dress" books recently and am slowly working my way through as many as possible. Read more
Published on 17 Sep 2007 by Ocean fairy
Funny and smart!
I am a chick.
I read books.
Not all of them literature.
But since the term is 'chick lit', I'll just play along. Read more
I read books.
Not all of them literature.
But since the term is 'chick lit', I'll just play along. Read more
Published on 6 Aug 2007 by Mar10e
Not very good
The main character is a guy who writes romances and is a born again virgin while the female lead is not particularly choosy in who she has sex with and winds up out of work through... Read more
Published on 31 July 2007 by Brissygirl
Another good Little Black Dress read
I am currently working my way through all of the Little Black Dress books lol and this one wasn't one of the best I read, but it was still good. Read more
Published on 5 Jun 2007 by Sian Louise
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