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ive never read those chick lit books

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codwiggle · 21/09/2006 20:40

they recommend in heat
read b jones book one then that was it
a re they really bad?
i HATE the covers!
are they the new mills and boon or is ther any intelligence in htem

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sallystrawberry · 21/09/2006 20:41

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codwiggle · 21/09/2006 20:41

oh yes i love it
i read it when i am waitign to go into court
i am pleased to say i amt he ontly one who deos.

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IdrisTheDragon · 21/09/2006 20:42

Easy to read but no intelligence .

Although have never read Mills & Boon so can't compare.

alexsmum · 21/09/2006 20:42

depends which ones you choose .some are shite but some are good.

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codwiggle · 21/09/2006 20:46

the fashion is great

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southeastastra · 21/09/2006 20:49

you don't need to really read heat though, you can just look at the pictures

AChickleBorther · 21/09/2006 20:49

they are the worst kind of dreadful

MrsBadger · 21/09/2006 20:49

they are rubbish
once you've read one you've read them all - all the girls blur into one. Like Jane Austen without the biting social satire...

LadyTophamHatt · 21/09/2006 20:50

have never read any of those books...they would bore me to tears, hate the covers with loads of cartoon silettos, handbags and stuff.

Ditto the films.

groggymama · 21/09/2006 20:53

mills and boon are ace, much better imo

nikkie · 22/09/2006 19:01

Some are Ok but the majority blur into one!

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FrannyandZooey · 22/09/2006 19:06

I quite like them on occasion and some are even reasonably intelligent and witty. But possibly a bit challenging for a Heat reader

SoupDragon · 22/09/2006 19:07

Oh, they're a pile of poo but that;s what makes them so readable when you ony have 15 minute slots of peace and quiet to read in

Mamamoor · 22/09/2006 19:57

Yep they are crap but then you don't have to concentrate very hard and at the mo my brain can't cope with anything heavier - possibly Hello but then dh has banned that!. But you do need shoes to be happy!!!!! or better still boots!!! Howver I do find the desperation to find a man and settle down quite annoying! Yes, I am married and settled but obvsiouly wasn't always and did enjoy my singledom!

fatfox · 22/09/2006 20:05

I can't read women's magazine's - just can't get that exited about diets, make up, clothes and cooking and TBH and I think they are very one dimentional.

Haven't read chicklit apart from B Jones - but have been reading Meave Binchy during this pregnancy - its completely predictable and naff - absolute white sliced bread for the brain, but am so tired it kind of does the job at the moment when I'm too nackered to concentrate on a proper book.

Do like Anita Shreeve though and get cross when people describe her as Chick Lit.

drosophila · 22/09/2006 20:06

I bought one recently (3 for 2 offer is my excuse). It was called 'Recipe for a Perfect Marriage' and I quite enjoyed it. Usually I don't enjoy them but this one rang bells with me as the one of the main characters lived in my home area and had a life very similar to my Mum/Granny. It jumped between rural Ireland in the 20s and 30s and New York present day.

I realised that it is a time in Irish History that is rarely written about. The fact that women were 'sold off' or 'matched' and that a dowry was still needed. Something that happened to my granny. She had to marry a man in his 50s even though she had a beau.

So for a chick lit it highlighted something that doesn't get talked about much.

expatinscotland · 22/09/2006 20:17

you're a wise woman. they're shite.

expatinscotland · 22/09/2006 20:18

the films make me despair of life. 'secrets of a shopaholic' as a film? what is this world coming to? ffs.

fatfox · 22/09/2006 20:20

Drosophila - that book sounds really good, what was it called?

have you read Anita Shreve, she writes historial novels, with loads of research in them, but they just really good stories and very easy to digest. She wrote a great one called Resistance about the Dutch resistance movement - it taught me loads about how people risked their lives to save Jewish people during the war, but was a great story too.

drosophila · 23/09/2006 09:54

Here it is

fatfox · 23/09/2006 09:57

Thanks Drosophila, I might even buy hat for my next book club meet!

christie1 · 24/09/2006 22:16

Have to admit, embarrassed to be seen reading them wtih their lovely pink covers. But some are really funny and the writing can be good. I think good writing is good whateve the genre. I love a good mystery and chick lit is much the same, some are really well written and witty and some are formalistic and boring. POint being, there is intelligence in some of them. You need some recommendations. my first "chick lit" book I ever read was I don't know how she does it by alison pearson and I laughed out loud because I found she hit on experiences I had felt or lived, of course exagerrated for effect but I really liked it alot.