Candace Bushnell

Sex and the city

Sex and the City

The first half crackles with ‘90s energy, like Tom Wolfe in designer heels. The second half? More soap opera than social critique. Still, some essays shine—Bushnell’s take on the model scene is brutal, her sex club visit hilariously awkward. But the chapter that hit hardest? Carrie’s suburban visit, where housewife culture feels like a trap. “Can we go back to the city now?” she pleads. I have been there.

Never seen the HBO show, but my first apartment was on Perry St—just a few doors down from Carrie’s.

Liana

The first half crackles with ‘90s energy, like Tom Wolfe in designer heels. The second half? More soap opera than social critique. Still, some essays shine—Bushnell’s take on the model scene is brutal, her sex club visit hilariously awkward. But the chapter that hit hardest? Carrie’s suburban visit, where housewife culture feels like a trap. “Can we go back to the city now?” she pleads. I have been there.

Never seen the HBO show, but my first apartment was on Perry St—just a few doors down from Carrie’s.



Jessica 

Blog | Twitter | Instagram | *To clarify, this is a rewrite of an old review, as my thoughts of the novel have changed through the years. 

Ages and ages and ages ago, I loved this book. It is still something I appreciate, on some level, even if my feelings have changed in the years. I certainly loved it all those years ago. Perhaps not as much as the hit HBO television series of the same name, but, it was still up there. Sex and the City was something of a stepping stone for a lot of women through the years and still, I think, holds true even in the years its been off the air. Certainly it's a pop culture phenomenon that still stays highly relevant in popular culture.

I'm always going to appreciate it, and the show, for what they are and how they shaped some aspects of who I became as an adult. I applaud it on many levels but somehow, somewhere along the way, the novel and show have lost their sparkle to me. I don't think I'll feel inclined to reread the book again, in the future, which is strange given I still love the characters from both the novel and show, and have some sense of attachment towards them, but there you have it. It's not that it's a bad novel, it just feels like the older I get the more boring and unappealing it is to me.

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Bushnell's beat is that demi-monde of nightclubs, bars, restaurants and parties where the rich come into contact with the infamous, the famous with the wannabes and the publicity-hungry with the gossip-peddlers' EVENING STANDARD Wildly funny, unexpectedly poignant, wickedly observant, SEX AND THE CITY blazes a glorious, drunken cocktail trail through New York, as Candace Bushnell, columnist and social critic par excellence, trips on her Manolo Blahnik kitten heels from the Baby Doll Lounge to the Bowery Bar. An Armistead Maupin for the real world, she has the gift of assembling a huge and irresistible cast of freaks and wonders, while remaining faithful to her hard core of friends and fans: those glamorous, rebellious, crazy single women, too close to forty, who are trying hard not to turn from the Audrey Hepburn of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S into the Glen Close of FATAL ATTRACTION, and are - still - looking for love.

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