4.3

Me gusto mucho ver la forma en que se iban desarrollando la historia de las 3, Victory, Nico y Wendy. No es una historia que se centre mucho en los sucesos y eventos en sí mismos considerados, si no que se enfoca más en los pensamientos y carácter de los personajes mientras atraviesan esas situaciones.

Me divertí mucho

It's hard to understand why soulless, ignorant, vapid, shallow golddiggers are of interest.

I gave this book 4 stars for several reasons. The book is worthy of 5 stars as far as the storyline is concerned, but the way it is written makes it live up to only 4. Lipstick Jungle was a bit hard to follow due to the fact that per chapter, Bushnell jumps from character to charter. Just as you're finally getting into one character, she cuts that one off until the next chapter and picks up where she left off with another character. This was a bit difficult to follow because I found myself confused and questioning, "Wait, who is Victory again, what does she do?" This lasted all the way through the book. Each character is complex and well created, but when you've got 3 to follow, this becomes a confusing mess when you haven't read anything about said character for 20 pages and now you're facinated with the current character and what's happening in their life. Apart from that, I hate chapters that are 25 pages long.
On the plus side of things, Bushnell is talented and knows how to write about the powerful, successful women in the New York district. I would have liked more details about the city, but she gives enough to allow your mind to invision the scenes... just enough, though, not a drop more. I'm a very detail oriented reader/writer, so when someone say "it was a busy day in New York..." and nothing more, I'd like to know HOW it was busy... was there a concert of taxi horns sounding off in unreheased intervals?, were the New Yorkers plowing into each other in their hustle to get to their destinations?, etc.
The book is worthy of reading, but you'll find yourself exhaugsted from the jump just trying to keep the characters from molding into one another.

Nico, Wendy, and Victory-oh my goodness ladies. Other reviewers said they couldn't believe the superficial bs or that any of this could possibly happen *sigh* happens more often than you think! They say running a business and being a sniper use the same tactics and strategy; if you don't believe it stay out of business.

I stopped reading at page 48 and will sell or donate the book. Same NY characters, same lifestyles and interests, same actions and passions as Sex in the City. So, I decided to abandon ship and start something else.

Skoda, ze som to necitala v originali, takto neviem, ci to bolo zle napisane alebo ci to bolo prekladom. Inak ma to bavilo, ale stylistika fakt nepekna.
Aha a este som mala zmatok v postavach, co je dost divne na taky zaner. Prislo mi ze sa vsetci chlapi volaju na S alebo na L a dokonca aj hlavne hrdinky sa mi plietli...no neviem cim to bolo.

The story line can be so realistic you can place yourself in it.

A nők hiába sikeresek, nagy hatalmúak, meg kell küzdeniük a férfiak uralta világgal és a magánéleti nehézségeikkel egyaránt. S ugyan megállják a helyüket, ám szinte semmi se választja el őket a hozzájuk hasonló pozícióban lévő férfiaktól, ugyanúgy viselkednek, mint a hímek. Szeretőt tartanak, úgy válnak el, mint sikeres férfiak és gyerektartást meg férjtartást kell fizetniük stb.

Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell
⭐️⭐️

Publication Date: September 6, 2005
435 pages (print)

Nico O’Neilly, Victory Ford, and Wendy Healy are all successful women living in New York City. Nico is the editor of Bonfire Magazine, Victory is an established fashion designer, and Wendy is the president of Parador Pictures. All three women are balancing the stresses of being successful, relationships, and friendships. Nico is struggling with her marriage and hoping to land a promotion at work. Wendy’s marriage is crumbling due to her hectic work schedule and Victory has just bombed her spring fashion show. All these ladies are trying to work past all their obstacles to be successful in New York City.

This story will catch a reader’s attention as a feminist read. It is a feminist read and the writing and story will remind you of that fact throughout almost to an insufferable degree. The characters always remind themselves that the men around them are weak and they deserve better. Sometimes the attitudes of the main characters drove me crazy. Also, about half way through the story, I noticed the style of the writing. Every chapter started with a character on a plane, hung over, or in some state that the reader was unaware of and then the character sat and contemplated about their previous week, month, etc. I don’t understand why big chunks of the book were written as though everything already happened and now the character is sitting on a plane and recounting it in their head. I finished but the book was way too long.

This is the 2nd book I have read written by Candace Bushnell. It is different from One Fifth Avenue. But overall I enjoyed reading this story. It is funny and keeps my eyes rolling. Quite an easy read and I would say a page turner....the characters are funny and very down to earth. I am considering watching the series online.

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.

¿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.