- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Mandarin; First Edition edition (7 May 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0749324945
- ISBN-13: 978-0749324940
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,583,622 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
From such a fun journalist who writes so entertainingly in the Guardian, I couldn't believe how bad this was. A dumpy sixteen year old happens to be best friends with a popstar, but runs off to be with another. Yeah, right. It's total, London- centric/ 'insert buzzword here'/ tossed off in a month/ in the media get a book deal rubbish which I couldn't even finish. Two funny lines in 300 pages, characters as real as crimpelene trousers and it thanks Nigella Lawson in the acknowledgements. Avoid.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Emma Forrest is without any doubt my favourite writer, she is unique, she has such an honest style, you can both, love and hate her characters, they seems so obvious some times, but inside the world she draws for us they are there cause they have to be....Viva sees perfectly well how Drew is but she can't help herself seeing it as a very special guy, to fragile for the real world, the same romantic idea some of us could get from Kurt Cobain when we were younger...sometimes I hate Viva, sometimes I understand her 100%, her sensibility and they way she sees herself is like 95% teenagers feel sometime, the loneliness, the way they get obsessed with things and people....I can read this book many times and each time I'll see something new, sth that connects me more with some feelings....that's Emma's magic, every time I feel the same with her books!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The other reviewer spotted two funny lines, but I'd given up by then. The book starts very well, and Emma Forrest is a great journalist, but about 20 pages in, I'd lost count of the film references (most of which contradicted each other - her best friend is Rita Hayworth and Marilyn and Ava and Bette and John bloody Wayne in one. Nice gimmick doesn't work.) I'd also lost interest in all the characters. Didn't finish it, because it was so boring. Journalists can't often write fiction. Publishers should stop encouraging them.
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