Sex and the City

The book is mainly focused on Carrie and her boyfriend, "Mr. Big." I love the HBO series based on this book, but the book tells us a different story of love and dating in New York. The book is as fun and as outrageous as the HBO series. A fun read!


A good love life is hard to come by   August 3, 1998
17 out of 18 found this review helpful

I ordered this book from Amazon despite the vast number of readers who called it "soulless" and talked of the "shallow" people that it described. I found it to be nothing of the sort. From Carrie who is continuously confused about her commitment-phobic boyfriend Mr. Big, to the various other single 30-somethings who have yet to find a man worthy of settling down with, I identified with the women in this book. We are taught as girls now to strive to be successful, and yet to look for true love and not to settle for second best. But how many women can achieve this goal when there are so many men who refuse to commit, or are continuously chasing the 18-year-old model types? Bushnell's books shows that success often comes with loneliness, or at least the lack of a lifelong mate. Coupled with its fabulously written text, this book echoed my sentiments about relationships without crushing all of my hope.


Enjoy It And Do Not Compare It With The HBO Serial   August 2, 2003
Havauka (Munich, Germany)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful

When you read this book there are many things to consider.

1. The book is written in the style of a scientific work of a doctor student. Every chapter has an own topic, which has been introduced every week as a column in the "New York Observer". There is no coherent plot with the exception of the relationship between Carrie and Mr.Big. In this way the book is often very hard to digest, but once you have put up with this and swallowed the idea you can enjoy its wit and humour the more.

2. Since there is no coherent plot in this book it is quite different from the HBO serial. This serial deals with the life and sex relationships of four women, Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda. In the book only Carrie has a distinguished part, the other women are three out of hundreds. At the beginning it is quite fastidious to have to read so many names of women and men, but at the end you get the idea why Candace Bushnell is doing this: all people consist of names and sex, nothing more.

3. Is this book a moral book? In my opinion it is. The relationship between Carrie and Mr.Big has to end because it is a sexual relationship without love. At the end Mr.Big uses all his power to destroy Carrie and he succeeds, which in my opinion is also a sign that there has never been any emotional understanding betweeen both protagonists. When you have finished the book I advise you to read the first chapter again. It has the genious quality of both introducing the book and summing it up. Afterwards you understand what Candace Bushnell wants to tell us.


witty, titillating, irresistable reading!   May 19, 2000
Alan (Rosemead, CA United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

When I looked at what ratings people gave for this i was shocked...I mean how can u not like it? The book is not only insightful about relationships it also does not take itself too seriously and lets the reader laugh at the silly antics. \ The beautiful structure of the writing just makes u want to go on page after page. Although a little different from the show, we can certainly see the origins for the characters.... A MUST READ...