Sex and the City

It's so weird how the TV show portrays these characters.Truly, if you're going into this expecting the story in the TV, you may as well not read this. It's a great book, truly, written in a unique, fluid style that gets at the truth with no apologies. By comparison, the show sugar coats the pure cynicism of the characters and their experiences.It's always cool to read about the way things happen to people, unfettered. There are so many topics related to sex and being single in NYC that it makes me wish I could go back and read ALL the columns.Now I'm going back and watching the series to compare. IMO, the first season is most true to the book, but after that, it takes on a life of its own.I'm a believer that the book is almost always better than the film adaptation. True in this case, but it's a close race.

Its always interesting to read the compilation of Bushnells columns that inspired the seminal tv show of the late 90s on HBO. While there are certainly a variety of similarities this is grittier and a bit more honest and in your face than the tv show. Some of the characters made it onto the show but were vastly different in the original book. This gives a rather voyeuristic snapshot of a particular time and place in NYC that otherwise would have been forgotten.

I'm a die hard SATC fan, but this book is what the show is an adaptation of. Don't read it expecting to have everything the same. It's still a great read!

I seriously find all the one star ratings interesting! Seriously interesting because I really enjoyed this book. I was definitely able to separate it from the TV series and it could be because I'm a writer myself and I can read it while understanding that the adaptation wasn't a literal one--and a good screenwriter takes as much as they can from the text but in the end successfully translates the story to appeal to the audience of the visual medium. So I'm able to read the book as it is and that is a peek into the love lives of some professional and wealthy yuppies living in Manhattan. Period. And I definitely liked the writing style. To me it was a mix of journals and interviews and notes and pieces of an actual article all put together to form one entertaining story. It's like the wild wild west of writing! I love it! The book was daring and yeah, I bought it...I mean, I get the tug of war between societal mores, values and beliefs and the innate sense of independence. It can drive you crazy! And I think Candace Bushnell did an excellent job of capturing that in this book. Bravo! 5 stars for sure in my book! And believe me... I'm NOT easy to please.But you can't read this book and THINK Sex and The CIty the TV show because this Carrie Bradshaw and that Carrie Bradshaw are a number of ticks different. There's no way a studio exec would take the chance the book's CB. They have to make $$$. They have to make her "LIKABLE" for all the women who are inflicted with the Cinderella Syndrome. I mean, this CB, sniffs lines, smokes marijuana and drinks until she pukes. She has a lot of friends and sometimes Samantha Jones gets on her nerves. This book is grittier and is not a story for those who ascribe to the "THE SCRIPT."

Would have given it 5 stars but it was slightly hard to follow in the beginning. After reading about a third of the book, it was easier to figure out what the next paragraph was referring too. I have watched the Sex and the City series and the movies and was wondering what the original book was like. I'm glad I decided to read this book, it gives you a play by play into the lives of others, while keeping it real and interesting.

I just enjoy the show so much more.This book was a little hard to follow, personally I like when characters are more developed and there are less. However, I believe the author was trying to depict the life in New York City, which might be a little too fast-paced for me!

I am a die hard fan of the tv series and the films, so naturally this juicy book was mandatory. There is plenty of sex, drugs, parties, careers, from Manhattan to Aspen. Carrie, Big, Miranda, Samantha, Stanford, and even Skipper are all here, but I miss the tv character Charlotte not in the city or the book. There are plenty of relationship twists and fallouts and the gossip that you have with it is fun for a beach read or bedtime stories.

This book is hard to follow. Random narrative paragraphs throughout the book. I could not understand from where the story starts and ends. The characters are random also. No consistency or storyline. I will try to finish the book but having difficult time putting the paragraphs in some sequence of events. Very scattered.

It took me a while to get into this because it is a mile away from the series and even though I knew this came first, I was still expecting it to be like the series. But once you get over that, it is exactly what the blurb says, Jane Austen with martinis. It's funny in a very acerbic way, it takes no prisoners, shows no-one in anything resembling a nice light, there are almost no redeeming features. It's best read in small gulps like the articles it purports to be (or may be, I'm not sure, but I doubt it). It did make me laugh and cringe exactly as it was meant to.However, it has dated, and that's more to do with the tv series than the passing of time (though that has a part to play). It's not nearly as explicit, in places it shies away from being so, but the topics, to an officianado of the series felt a little - well, stale, occasionally a bit boring. So in that sense, not at all like Jane Austen. I suspect this book's success was built largely on its shockability and now that it's gone. then - well, it explains why I had to get it second hand and it wasn't available on kindle, I suspect.But for all that, I'm glad I read - an exercise in style with some really funny bits. Almost, in its own way, dystopian even.

If you are a big fan of the TV series then its a must buy to compare how different it is from the book.Its an easy but interesting read - I finished the book in one day. Is it a chick flick - it sure is, but its a great book to read as well :-)

Witty.This book shocked me, it's witty, dirty. It describes the women as obnoxious, money obsessed sociaites. I always felt Carrie was the worst of the characters in the series and in the book she truly shows her insecurities and faults. I enjoyed it.

Absolutely nothing to dislike and everything to like firstly item in superb condition secondly item arrived 3 days earlier than expected overjoyed all round brilliant

The story lines are banal, the writing is basic-in fact, I was most shocked by the inferiority of the writing- I dont know how this woman actually got anything published as a journalist- I dont know the quality of the column she originally worked on but you wouldnt see this calibre of writing in the Guardian or the Telegraph. It was amusing at times but the writing was so bad, I found it hard to get through it. Does Candace realise that there is another way to say, "she said" that is pretty well the only response in the entire book during dialogue- she said, he said... it makes one wonder what it really does take to sell a book- and just how many people you need to know to get it published.