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Straight Talking [Paperback]

Jane Green (Author)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin; Re-issue edition (5 Sep 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141011513
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141011516
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (56 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 86,649 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Tasha, the anti-heroine of Jane Green's Straight Talking, is sassy, sexy and out for all she can get, or so she would have you believe. Straight Talking aims its arrows of truth directly at you, as its narrator, Tasha, openly discusses issues as if you were part of the world on the page and could answer back. The book is a no-holds-barred, frank take on sex, friendship and relationships for the single thirtysomething. A ladette in her 20s, sleeping around happily with a series of men, Tasha begins to retrench in her 30s and it becomes all-out open warfare to capture a man.

Will she fall for the suave, arrogant Andrew, who has females falling at his feet? Or will she fall back into a relationship with her treacherous ex-boyfriend, Simon? Or will she come to lean on nice, but not terribly sexy, Adam? Green's/Tasha's style is irreverent and self-deprecating as she points the finger at the clichés of singledom: "Of course I have cats. What self-respecting single career woman of 30 who's secretly desperately longing to give it all up for the tall, rich stranger of her dreams doesn't have cats?" She has a keen eye and a cutting tongue, which sustains the action and pace of this sharply observed and witty first novel. --Nicola Perry --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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This could be about your best friend. Or your girlfriend. Or it might be about you.

Are you Tasha - single and still searching? Are you one of her three best friends? Andy, hooked on passion; Mel, stuck in a steady relationship with a bastard; or Emma, endlessly waiting for her other half to propose? Do you know an Andrew - suave, goodlooking and head over heels in love . . . with himself? Or a Simon - allergic to commitment and dangerously treacherous? Or an Adam - handsome, kind, humorous, but too nice to be sexy?

Follow them all in their journey to find fulfilment and love.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Long winded 10 Sep 2001
Format:Paperback
Straight Talking is rubbish in comparison to say Bookends. It was long winded and boring, with a self obsessed, self pitying, unrealistic central character who didn't win my empathy in any way at all. If you've already read any of Green's other books DO NOT bother with this one as you will only feel let down. However, if you haven't still don't bother, read Bookends instead!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Really rotten 28 April 2009
By M
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
In a nutshell the book is about a self absorbed tramp. I can't believe that her cat would bother to stay with her much less any man with half a brain.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Narcissistic Nonsense 25 Oct 1999
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Format:Paperback
I think I must be missing something here, as I'm not of the chi-chi places to hang out in & designer clothes to be seen in school. Or maybe it's because fantasising about my wedding day & trying on wedding dresses has never even occured to me (and yes I am married before anyone accuses me of being a sad, jealous singleton).

I am staggered by the number of readers who appear to empathise with this character. I am yet to be convinced that Tasha typifies your average 90s woman, as some people claim. However, she is marginally less offensive than another of Green's charcacters, the vacuous Libby of 'Mr Maybe'. I think the dilemmas these women face are real 90s ones but they're not dealt with in a sympathetic way as the characterisation is so appalling. They are not real women, they lack depth. The storylines are also extremely predictable. Summing up, I would say these books are lacking in wit, profundity, humour & compassion - all 4 of which I consider to be essential elements in a novel of this genre. Do not waste your money.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Boring
This is the most boring book i have ever tried to read! I normally love Jane Green but not this time :(
Published 11 months ago by S. Caffrey
A wate of time
Have to agree with the reviewer who said "a self obsessed, self pitying, unrealistic central character who didn't win my empathy in any way at all". Read more
Published 17 months ago by disappointed
Brillant,laugh out loud
I have just finished this book and it took me 2 days,i found it very refreshing and realistic about relationships,friendships etc. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Ana
Awful Character.
After reading most of Jane Green's others I thought I would try Straight Talking, but was only let down. Read more
Published 21 months ago by L. Barber
what more can you ask from a friend, than some "Straight Talking"?
I have loved this book since I read it on New Years Eve the year it was originally published! I had just had my heart broken. I did not want to see anyone. Read more
Published on 24 April 2010 by Avid_Reader_London
boring
I like Jane Green books in general and yet i found this one showed how she has improved writing since she wrote this years ago. Read more
Published on 4 Sep 2009 by Thinker
Too much information for me
If lurid detail of the sex life of a sex mad, narcissic central character is your sort of thing, read this book. If not, do what I did and ditch it half way through. Read more
Published on 29 Aug 2009 by bagmad
very easy to read and very believable
This was my first Jane Green novel and from then on I was a fan.
Awesome
Published on 18 Aug 2009 by Diandra
Depressing
I can't believe that so many women can relate to Tasha the main character. I found her lifestyle totally depressing and couldn't believe she would go to bed with a man just... Read more
Published on 4 Mar 2009 by Lauren
Loved this book....
i got this book free from a magazine, and i wasnt disappointed, its an amazing book..... its one of the books that defiently makes you laugh out loud and dont want to put down. Read more
Published on 28 Jun 2008 by S. Hauxwell
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