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| Original Title: | The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing |
| ISBN: | 0143035479 (ISBN13: 9780143035473) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (1999) |
Melissa Bank
Paperback | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.33 | 130328 Users | 3172 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing |
| Author | : | Melissa Bank |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | March 29th 2005 by Penguin Books (first published December 29th 1998) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Short Stories. Contemporary. Romance |
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Generous-hearted and wickedly insightful, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing maps the progress of Jane Rosenal as she sets out on a personal and spirited expedition through the perilous terrain of sex, love, and relationships as well as the treacherous waters of the workplace. With an unforgettable comic touch, Bank skillfully teases out issues of the heart, puts a new spin on the mating dance, and captures in perfect pitch what it's like to be a young woman coming of age in America today.Rating Epithetical Books The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Ratings: 3.33 From 130328 Users | 3172 ReviewsWrite Up Epithetical Books The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
I found this somewhat disappointing. Not that it was a bad book - but it really meandered and it wasn't as enthralling as I had hoped. It had moments but over all not what I thought I was getting into.Ugh. In the annals of great Chick Lit (Bridget Jones' Diary, Sex and the City, et al.) this book wouldn't even be a footnote. Sporadic, pathetic, and droll- steer clear fellow readers! The only reason I gave it two stars is that the main character references some good literature- although she fails to emulate the strong female ideals she professes to enjoy. Bleh.
I could not get through this book! I hated the main character!
This book was lent to me against my will. A dear friend said it was good and I should read it; I asked whether it was just about romantic relationships, as the blurb suggested it was, and would thus not be to my taste. She said maybe, but that I should read it anyway. So I have done so, as fast as I could in order to be able to give it back. I was correct in my initial assessment. [EDITED TO ADD: My dear friend has since admitted that she lent me the book because she didn't want it! A book-based
I picked up this book expecting it to be a novel and was startled to find that it was a story collection. I tried hard to convince myself it was maybe a mosaic novel, but even that's not right. Most but not all of the stories are linked, having as their central character Jane Rosenal, who's a precocious teen in the first tale, learning about relationships through watching her elder brother create and then destroy one, and who by the end is, at a guess, in her mid-thirties and beginning to think
I couldn't believe the disconnect between the reviews of this book and its content. The New Yorker actually compares it to Bridget Jones, because, you know, all books written by women with a female protagonist in her 20s are the same. I thought this read like serious literary fiction. If a guy had written this book, he'd be called the next Salinger. If an older woman had written this book her name would be Abigail Thomas and it would be a memoir titled Safekeeping . To be fair, I picked this
This book has been sitting on my shelves for almost 10 years because when I first acquired it, I read somewhere that it was like a cross between Bridget Jones and the Shopaholic. And I HATED the Shopaholic books with a passion, so I filed this under 'maybe someday' and promptly forgot about it. I was doing some bookcleaning over Christmas and pulled it out with the intention of stuffing it into a Little Free Library, but decided to give the first few pages a glance before sending it away. I am
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