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4 Blondes

candace bushnell

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Now in paperback comes the sexy, funny, and page-turning bestseller from the author of "Sex and the City. 4 Blondes" brings together the stories of four modern women to render a vivid portrait of New York at the millennium.

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,2000

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256 pages, Paperback
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July 1, 2001 by Grove Press
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080213825X
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English

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Pdev0797
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April 17,2025
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In her first book since the cultural phenomenon Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell triumphantly returned with the national best-seller Four Blondes, which The New York Times says "chronicles the glittering lives of semicelebrities, social aspirants, and moneyed folk ...

WTF did I just read? Candace Bushnell, I know Manhattan has some vain and money/career driven people living there but please, let's not scare anyone away. I feel like I should be ashamed to live and love NYC. Yes, we are the city that loves money, hot careers, and hard to get into restaurants but we do have a heart.

I felt like the stories were getting more boring and stupider as I was reading. She makes it seem like marriage is this horrible event that you force upon yourself and only stay married for social status. Maybe, I'm not rich or posh enough to relate to this book. Also, I never had more WTF moments while reading a book.

When I read these kinds of books, I wonder how they get published.
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Axxisygg
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April 17,2025
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I got this book at my local library and I'm so glad I didn't pay for it! I hated it. I couldn't even get through the whole thing. I read 2 1/2 stories and thats all I could stand. I had never read any of Candace Bushnell's books but I love the television series Sex and the City. Apparently the writing on the series is about 50 times better than her writing. The characters in the book were so horrible I was just hoping they would all jump off a cliff. Do not waste your time on this book.
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Mahiro-Petto
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April 17,2025
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* Mild spoilers, although it doesn't really matter since I recommend not reading this book at all *

"Four Blondes" is one of the worst books I have read in a long time. Usually, I don't bother finishing a book when I don't like it, but I felt like I had wasted so much time reading this that I might as well finish it. I kept hoping the next story would be better, but they never were. I didn't mind the last one, but it was quite short and still wasn't great.

This book is composed of four short stories about women who live vapid, depressing lives. According to the back cover, this book is supposed to be a look into the lives of four elite women in New York as they choose their path and passion in life. I would have loved to read a book about that, but that isn't what I got. Instead, I got four accounts about equally terrible women with no real ending to any of them.

The first woman is a model who spends every summer with a different man so she can stay at his summer house in the Hamptons. It seems like it's going somewhere interesting as she starts a new career, but then she gets a big modeling contract and her life is exactly what she wants it to be and I'm not quite sure what the message is supposed to be. The second woman is a columnist who thinks she's better than people like the first woman because she has a real job and is married when in reality she's just as bad as the women she belittles.

The third woman is a literal princess who is like a combination of the first two, shallow like the first and in a loveless marriage like the second. She seems to have a lot of mental health issues, possibly depression with some paranoia, that is approached in a joking way like "she's so crazy" instead of being the serious issue that it is. Finally, the fourth woman is on some quest/writing an article to find a husband in the UK and there's a lot of meaningless discussions about sex but it's so short we don't get a sense of her as a character at all.

To summarize, do not read this book. I read it in two days and instead of making my life better, it made it worse because of how depressing it was.
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Brondi
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April 17,2025
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Fascinating and depressing reading a book that was published twenty-two years ago whose major themes are still relevant today. Objectification of women, how society weaponizes women's sexuality and uses it against them, the unequal distribution of household chores and child rearing duties in straight marriage...the list goes on. This book is also very funny and Bushnell writes about NYC and its social stratagem like no one else.
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Apple2k
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April 17,2025
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Honestly...this book is probably one of the worst books I have ever read...I did not enjoy it what-so-ever...I do not watch Sex and the City (i make fun more than anything) but my friend told me this is one of her favorite books and i had to read it. I hated the way it was written...The second story I could not stand all the parentheses and the third story the intitials bothered me also...I felt that the characters kind of sucked and you really could care less about them. I also did not like how the third story mentioned some characters from the first and the second but they were not really intertwined or related...it was kind of just thrown in. I usually enjoy stories where the characters are linked and that would have redeemed this book just a little but the way she did it really just kind of annoyed me more than anything...all-in-all...I did not like this book and would not recommend it to anyone...ever
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Riskzz
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April 17,2025
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Unlike those who gave it low ratings, I thought that, just maybe, the author was very subtly commenting on the meaningless of a material based society. Anyway, it certain made me feel empty
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haus444
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April 17,2025
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Ugh. that says it all. I'd like to get back the hours I spent reading this.
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xoxo__sunshine
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April 17,2025
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Bushnell is one of the worse writers of all time. I hope she wakes up every morning and thanks whichever god she believes in because however she got Sex in the City published is supernatural. That someone saw past her schlocky prose to an award-winning television series is beyond me.

Four Blondes is a trite story about four women you couldn't care about if they were on fire on the midtown bus. Their stories, remarkably, are less interesting. Read this book only if you are being threatened with death. Or worse.
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