Saturday, September 20, 2008

"Sleeping Around" by Julie Highmore

Such a dumb book and soo predictable. Although i don't deny i actually enjoyed it, it was light read, a good timepass, since i had nothing better to do!!!

What i am actually talking about is this book by Julie Highmore, "Sleeping Around". A very apt title, since that is what everyone in the book seems to be doing!!! It is more like a Desperate Housewives episode, all women in the neighbourhood falling for the same guy, who apparently cannot decide if he is in love with the person he is sleeping with, or with the wife who left him after coming out clean of her previous affair.

What i didn't like about this book is the fact that the writer wouldn't explain much as to what was going on in the characters' heads. It seemed very abrupt, the changing from one scene to the next, without actually giving us the results of what happened. It seemed more like as if she got bored of writing the current scene and didn't find time to finish it off, and probably woke up the next morning and started afresh with a new scene. And the story was very usual, and as i earlier mentioned very predictable.
However, it is probably meant to be a light read, for people in dull moods and who don't want to do much serious reading. All in all, it is an "okay" book, definitely not worth spending money on!!!

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