Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend The bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and Everyone Worth Knowing returns with the story of three best friends who vow to change their entire lives...and change them fast.Emmy is newly single, and not by choice. She was this close to the ring and the baby she's wanted her whole life when her boyfriend left her for his twenty-three-year-old personal trainer -- whose fees are paid… Product details and pricing info |
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122 Customer Reviews Posted
- Loved it!
- I had a hard time getting into the book at first, but once I got started I loved it. I would like to read a 10 years later book to update us how these characters lives moved on and changed.
- 2008-08-18, 2 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- A good summer read
- Lauren Weisberger's "Chasing Harry Winston" centered around three thirty-something women living in New York City who were single and who made a pact to change something significant in their dating lives. Emmy was recently dumped by her long-time boyfriend for a twenty-two year old personal trainer, decided that she will no longer be involved in monogamous relationship but will sleep with as many men as she could with no commitments. Adriana, a stunning Brazilian whose life involved just seducing men, will commit herself to just one man. Leigh, an editor working in a publishing powerhouse, did not make any commitment in the pact. However, she was in a relationship with the perfect man, and yet she did not feel that she was in love with him.
Having read the negative reviews of this book, I was pleasantly surprised that the novel was better than I expected. The pace of the book was fast, characters somewhat likeable, and the plot (even though it was predictable) was interesting enough to keep reading. This was no "The Devil Wears Prada" but was still a good summer read. - 2008-08-15, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Lauren Weisberger's Best Yet!
- I've read both the Devil Wears Prada and Everyone Worth Knowing and was wholly unimpressed with both. I gave this book a whirl to give the author one last chance to redeem herself and she did. I really enjoyed the story lines and while there could have been a bit more character development, I could relate to the different issues that the characters faced. There was more brand dropping than necessary, but in my opinion it did not detract from the book in any meaningful manner. I would recommend the book, but maybe my perspective is different since I did not like the author's other two books at all and was hoping for something completely different. The characters were all facing challenges that you would expect single women in their late 20s living in NYC to be faced with. This was not great literature, but it was an enjoyable read that really picked up about 2/3 of the way through.
- 2008-08-15, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Unbelievably bad...
- Three beautiful, successful women and one little problem. None of them is married. And they've all got a reason that has kept that glorious Harry Winston diamond from reaching their ring fingers. Leigh is a successful book editor. She and her boyfriend Russell have not married because of commitment issues. In this case, she is the commitment phobic. She likes her space and to have sole possession of her TV remote, doesn't want anyone -- including her gorgeous, successful and sweet boyfriend -- to invade either one. When she gets the editing job that everyone is salivating after -- working on a successful and good -looking author's next novel -- she is forced to make some changes in her life. If only Emmy had Leigh's good fortune. She has just ended her third long-term relationship. She is almost thirty, her younger sister is having a baby, and she's nowhere near finding Mr. Right. How pathetic is she? When she makes a pact with her friends to become more outgoing and have some much needed sexual escapades, she may find pleasure in single life, or will she? Adriana is a drop-dead gorgeous Brazilian with an unlimited trust fund and endless trysts with hot guys. But is she happy with her status quo? She has no job, no sense of personal accomplishment, and while she's beautiful... well, good looks don't last forever. So it may be time to give up her conquests and find a great and rich guy to marry. Luck is smiling at her, for she's found a sexy director who is crazy about her. Are things the way they seem though?
I read The Devil Wears Prada. I disliked the book, but loved the movie. Chasing Harry Winston is very run of the mill for my taste. I have read this kind of book again and again. Weisberger brings nothing new and unique to the chick lit genre. This is a book about three very one-dimensional New York women looking for some much-needed soul searching in the city. It's Sex and the City meets Lipstick Jungle, only less interesting. There is a lot of designer and celebrity name-dropping here, and the girls seem annoyingly perfect, especially Adriana, and for that reason I couldn't sympathize or relate to any of them. Some more character depth would have been nice. I like my slice of good ol' beach read as much as the next person, but this is beyond bad, and not in the good way. I'd say skip this and go for Emily Giffin or Beth Harbison instead. They bring something fresh to this otherwise overdone and cliché genre. Perhaps the film version of this, if one is made in the future, will be better, as was the case with The Devil Wears Prada. - 2008-08-14, 9 of 12 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Four hours of my life I'll never get back
- Just about everything that can be said has been articulated by other 1-star reviewers, and with more literary style and substance than the author they're reviewing. All I can add is that I find it difficult to believe that the same woman who wrote "The Devil Wears Prada" also wrote this screaming yawn. Seriously, Weisberger either had an incredibly gifted editor for her first book, an editor too intimidated to get tough with this book, a combination of both, or - and this is most likely - only one exceptional book in her.
I paid full price at an airport for the hardcover, expecting an engrossing distraction on a transatlantic flight. Instead, I twitched and writhed my way through it - basically speed-reading and flipping past huge hunks o' nothin' ... and on my way off the plane handed it to a flight attendant who had earlier expressed interest in the new title. One less customer at the book stall for this novel. Weisberger made money on my purchase, but the bucks stopped there. - 2008-08-11, 1 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
