This 3 star rating is based on my much younger self who loved these kinds of books. Me, as a reader today, would probably not even give it 1 star because I don't think I'd be able to finish it.
However, if you're into this genre, it's one of the better kind, in my opinion, if you like girly chick-lit kinda girl who likes a bit more substance and not entirely appalling writing, such as I find Cecelia Ahern and Sophia Kinsella, this might be your thing.

On one level, this is a bland enough book that would pass by the reader as soon as the book was put down. It tells us about three ruthless female executives in New York who "do lunch" together whilst in pursuit of the "American Dream". This apparently involved backstabbing, sniffing out more money, more backstabbing and generally acting completely immorally whilst looking for even more money again. One of the more poignant moments - and there are one or two - is when one of the characters questions what you actually do with all this money you can't spend. But the question is frivolously rhetorical - no attempt is made to answer it. I can't remember which character asks it because despite the author's best attempts to persuade us otherwise, I really can't distinguish between the three main protagonists of the novel. Even their assorted, constantly changing "other halves" generally merge into the same bland, faceless goo to be honest.

On another level though, the fact that a book like this can be written, obviously read quite widely, and can be repeated again and again by simply changing the names of the characters, the title of the book, the TV series or the film really should be quite disturbing. If our world is in a mess - and many would say in the second decade of the 21st century that it has been in better shape - then it's the fact that somehow our society allows people like this to run roughshod through it, answerable to no one except the mighty dollar (or Euro, or Pound or Yen etc.) which is at the root of many of our travails.

"The Great American Dream"? More like the dreadful worldwide nightmare.

warm and fuzzy with just enough drama to keep me going. just what I needed.

So, at first I was going to write this whole review about the book and why I SHOULDN'T have liked it. But the truth of the matter is that it was entertaining enough and it's okay for a book to be just that. I'm allowing myself to find the good in things for what they are. And sometimes you want a fluffy, no brainer. It's called ENTERTAINMENT. Something I normally make myself feel guilty over enjoying.

I truly didn't appreciate the whole, "women can and should have it all and be the best" attitude because I really don't think that's true. See? Here I go with the whole, why I shouldn't like it stuff. I'm stopping.

If you try not to read too much into anything and just look at it as mindless entertainment, it's fine.

Romanas perdaug perkrautas moterų feminisčių. Perdaug, nesveikai daug, feminizmo, netikro netgi sakyčiau, perdėto. Netikiu, kad Amerikoj tikrai toks stiprus moterų kultas, tokia stipri ir akivaizdi kova tarp vyrų ir moterų. Baisu ir netikra. Jokio žavumo nebelieka, tik materializmas ir kova, kova, kova prieš vyrus, už geresnį postą, daugiau vietos po saule.

¿Cómo se ve el éxito a través de los ojos de una mujer?

Bueno este libro nos permite verlo a través de la vida de 3 exitosas mujeres de Manhattan, quienes nos muestran que a veces la vida no es como te la imaginas, que siempre hay matices y que cada vez que caigas debes levantar con más fuerza.

Este libro muestra un lado diferente del éxito de los ejecutivos y grandes personalidades de la moda y del cine.

¿Hasta donde serías capaz de llegar por tener más poder?
Si bien en su mayoría el libro me gustó, he de decir que pudo ser mejor.
Me hubiera gustado un poco más de trama y de drama, ya se que es un poco mas realista pero aún así una pizca de drama no hubiera estado mal.

Lipstick Jungle echoes the idea from the first episode of Sex and the City: what if women behaved like men? Specifically, like high-pressure New York career alphas. Lipstick Jungle has its female protagonists have an affair with a model, go for the big money, backstab colleagues and climb the corporate ladder, abandon reproductive work to a trophy husband, substitute ponies for parenting. What makes the novel interesting is that the characters care very much about their work and do it for passion and creativity and ambition for high standards, not for the money. They own their work and can't imagine leaving it to mediocre competitors. Neither they nor the reader ever think they should solve their problems by working less. The professional details from fashion, film and publishing about the shark moves of corporate machinations, recovering inspiration after the spring collection flop, getting the diva director to do his job on set in Romania - all fascinating.
Meanwhile the characters are human, in their forties, fallible and female need to solve breastfeeding, relationship therapy, being good to their daughters, compromises with more or less obnoxious husbands, hangovers. Personally I found it invigorating to imagine such unapologetic professional drive. It gave me a bit of empathy for the twitchy, steely-eyed sidewalk-clatterers, some of whom
I imagine are screwing over our economies and planet. And in a book it's always restful to read about people who don't have to even think about money and who can always look gorgeous.

Sei que este livro passou para uma série de televisão e que não durou muitas temporadas, mas gostei mais de ler o livro do que a série.
Fala sobre uma amizade entre três mulheres, e na sua luta diária para vence num mundo que é de homens, fantástica leitura posso vos garantir ;)

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If Miranda, Carrie and the gang were high-powered businesswomen, this would be their story. It's the same old "Sex and the City" tale: Can women find happiness, friendship and success in the Big Apple?

Bushnell is a smooth, entertaining writer. A perfect beach read.

A feminist book and the old issue of can women build a successful career and still have a healthy family life. Love the idea of women can choose what they want to do and men will need to learn to live with it.

Wonderful writing but awful book. The characters had no redeeming value, so much so that instead of rooting for the characters I was happy to see bad things happen to them. These characters are the exact reason why some men hate feminists; there is nothing wrong with being a strong woman but these women took it to another level of belittling and disrespecting the men in their lives. These women seem to think that being a strong woman is about being as big of a jerk as you can to men, which couldn't be further from the truth. Being a jerk, makes you a jerk, plain and simple, whether you're male or female. Their shallowness and selfishness was appalling--their failure to recognize how their actions affect their entire families, their quest for power and money put above being good decent people. They are the kind of people who create awful situations in their lives and then blame everyone else when these situations go awry. They are great businesswomen but it is possible to be smart, beautiful AND have a conscience and morals.

Me ha gustado bastante, me fascinó por ser un libro original que muestra cómo es la vida que regodea a tres mujeres poderosas que están por encima de sus maridos (en lo que a trabajo se refiere), porque bajo mi punto de vista, tampoco creo que haya nadie por encima de otro ser. Al mismo tiempo enseña el vacío y los problemas que dicho éxito crea en sus vidas. Adictiva y entretenida, que te engancha de principio a fin. Pero no deja de ser un libro básico.