After an awkward conversation about Joe and Victory having kids, they all walk in silence. Maddie comes in past her curfew and Wendy is furious. Nico makes a late-night visit to Wendy to discuss Griffin and find out who tipped her off to the possible film rights.
While there, Victory gets a call from Dahlia to turn on the Today Show. Griffin, also watching, is unsettled. Griffin approaches Wendy to thank her for the invite and she uses it as an opportunity to set the record straight on the film project. Joe wants to help Wendy bankroll an offer to counter a studio, but Wendy lets it slip that she knows about his money troubles.
In the kitchen, Victory talks to her dad about his reservations regarding Joe. Wendy and Nico give speeches to the happily engaged couples. During the speech, Wendy notices Maddie walk into the party drunk and grab a glass of champagne.
After the speech, she quietly walks to the back, grabs her daughter and leaves. Griffin approaches Nico and excuses himself from the party. Wendy tries to hail a cab to get her and Maddie home.
That he left on tour to get away from her. Victory and Joe decide on wedding plans. Like the women in Sex and the City , the Lipstick Jungle women are charting new lives for themselves, redefining what it means to be a woman when you really are as powerful, or more powerful, than a man. Of course, you probably want specifics, so I will say that there was a moment when it all clicked.
Tina Brown used to write a terrific column in the Washington Post , and one of the things she was always mentioning was how there was a group of powerful women who were meeting and lunching at Michael's restaurant.
They'd been working for over twenty years, their children were now in their early teens and didn't need them every minute, and now, in their forties or early fifties, they had time to strive for new career goals and to spend more time with their girlfriends. I thought, "Aha--that's the Lipstick Jungle. A: To research fashion, film and publishing, I did what I always do--I talked to my girlfriends! Of course, it helps that I've worked in magazine publishing and have had my share of experience with Hollywood.
I'm also lucky enough to have a couple of girlfriends who are top designers, who offered to help me out with the specific details. I still remember the afternoon when one of my girlfriends and I sat down to talk--she was over eight months pregnant, and I was worried that we were going to have to run to the hospital! Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. Published August 8th by Hachette Books first published More Details Original Title.
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Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Lipstick Jungle. If there is an award for the most ridiculous and unrealistic book ever, I would award it to Lipstick Jungle, written by Candace Bushnell.
The one and the same author who wrote the widely-known "Sex and the City". I have always been suspicious of her writing talent though. When I finally had the chance to pick up the book and read it, my d If there is an award for the most ridiculous and unrealistic book ever, I would award it to Lipstick Jungle, written by Candace Bushnell.
When I finally had the chance to pick up the book and read it, my disappointment was so big I was practically devastated. This is just bunch of crappy short stories which have no meaning and hard to relate to", so I said to myself after I finished reading it. A lot of my friends were in the same emotional wreck as I was after reading the book.
All of them who idolise the four tough women in the series. But after awhile, the disappointment healed and I decided to give Ms. Bushnell another chance by picking up another novel of hers. A similar one, I must say where it portrays four women all above 40s - way more mature than the characters in Sex and the City who were equally successful and with men in their lives. I guessed that Ms. Bushnell was so obssessed in the characters of Sex and the City and somehow regretted at making their lives rather unsuccessful as described by their inability to find the right men and their struggle to make their ends meet after the last shopping spree at Manolo Blahnik or Chanel boutique.
She tried to fix the characters in Lipstick Jungle where the women - who are mostly CEOs or at least directors of companies - never have problem in buying a diamond set let alone a pair of Jimmy Choos. Victory Ford, a famous designer, Nico O'Neilly, a famous magazine editor eventually CEO , Wendy Healy director of a film production company and an unimportant blonde babe actress whose name I have already forgotten.
As much as Ms. Bushnell was trying to stress the importance of girl power these days, she couldn't just drop the subject that women couldn't live without men, no matter how powerful they are - which actually contradicts the whole theme. Now I begin to wonder why dildo was created in the first place, eh? I can't help to wonder that the same theme, only reversed, has existed for centuries but regarded as the most natural thing on earth as portrayed by the dumbest TV series I have ever seen called "Desperate Housewives".
Whatever happened to equality? How come a staying home dad now suddenly makes a big deal out of the fact that his wife works so hard that hasn't have time to take care of the kids? Aren't their roles reversed in the very first place? Similar to a normal family in the mid s only that now the husband is the wife and the wife is the husband? She has a perfectly good family with uptight husband who does care about her and a good daughter only that she finds it's rather frustrating that the husband is so reliable and boring.
Where does she run to when she's bored? An underwear male model, of course - what else that is more effective in getting rid of boredom than having a steamy hot sex with an underwear male model?
How come this is all so predictable? The only character that is somewhat normal in this book is probably Victory Ford, the single designer who is trying to make a fortune with her clothing and her brand name. She's probably the only character in the book that is worth reading about although every single of her personality aspects scream the word "cliche". So what's left? What's so original about the book that is worth reading?
I read it and I got disappointed. Another zero for Ms. Bushnell, unfortunately. Oct 19, Prabhjot Kaur rated it it was ok Shelves: humour , contemporary , adult , adult-romance , chick-lit , romance , fiction.
This book is marketed as more mature Sex and the City. I didn't like Sex and the City book but because I had already bought few books from the author, I thought I may as well read them. Lipstick Jungle doesn't fare much better than Sex and the City. In this book, the characters are in their forties and they are all successful in their own rights.
This could have been a great book at empowering women and telling their stories in their forties and saying that you don't need no man to feel accompli This book is marketed as more mature Sex and the City. This could have been a great book at empowering women and telling their stories in their forties and saying that you don't need no man to feel accomplished and powerful and successful and complete and happy but it tells a completely different story.
All the characters had no depth and no character development from the start to end. They were all too obsessed with image, money and glamour which isn't a bad thing but the way this was written made them sound like whining, selfish and immature characters who are out for themselves only. I mean I have read other books with selfish and immature characters and actually enjoyed those but this I was not able to enjoy.
I was going to rate it 1 star but then thought that the writing wasn't that bad so I am going with 2 stars. I just wish it had a better plot or better characters. Feb 06, Lora rated it did not like it. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Since the television series was about to come out, I thought I would read this book. I just saved myself and my tivo a lot of hours if the series is anything like the book.
Nico, the magazine Editor-in-Chief, fights her way to the top, has an affair with a younger man, and ends it but never tells her husband. Victory, a famous fashion designer, falls in love with a billionaire and decides she too would like to have that kind of money by working hard at fashion.
I see this book as a ridiculous attempt to capture the experience of Sex In The City without any real drama. View all 3 comments. I was very happy to find that this novel is not your typical chick-lit book and not at all like the Sex and the City novel which I found jarring and strange. Bushnell basically tries to answer the following questions: What happens when women act like stereotypical men? Can they be respected and treated the same way in the workplace?
How do high-powered careers affect a woman's relationship with her husband and family? I am a big fan of the Lipstick Jungle TV series and was interested to see wh I was very happy to find that this novel is not your typical chick-lit book and not at all like the Sex and the City novel which I found jarring and strange. I am a big fan of the Lipstick Jungle TV series and was interested to see what choices were made in the creation of the series.
While the same familiar characters are there harried Wendy, cool calm Nico, and cute Victory , they seem a lot more career-focused and more ruthless than their TV show counterparts. The struggles they have with office politics and family duties are shown in more detail and in a much less frivolous way.
For example, in the novel Wendy is very overwhelmed with her responsibilities at work and struggles a lot more with achieving a perfect work-family balance than she does in the TV show. Victory, a very successful fashion designer, is older and only a little bit flighty; she shows the scars of a woman who has had to fight for her place in the world.
Nico is a lot more cut-throat than in the TV show, necessarily so for her job I think. The book is not perfect. I am not sure that Candace Bushnell achieves three distinct voices for her three main characters. Occasionally it just seemed like she had one ambitious character who was thrust into three different situations. Also, the ending felt very rushed, as though she realized that her word count was getting out of hand and decided to throw a happy ending together. But all in all, this was definitely a good read, and would probably be better received by those less interested in a fun, romantic romp and more interested in a serious-minded read.
View 1 comment. Jan 09, jennifer rated it did not like it. As a "Sex and the City" viewer, I thought I was going to enjoy this book; however, that was not the case. I think that the book could have been much better and that a few times hit on deeper thoughts that should have been further developed- but instead were just dropped I suppose that after watching SATC for several years- you naturally develop relationships with the As a "Sex and the City" viewer, I thought I was going to enjoy this book; however, that was not the case.
I suppose that after watching SATC for several years- you naturally develop relationships with the characters so even though they are superficial- you still care about them. Should Lipstick Jungle be given another chance? It's a great show! It's okay. It's terrible! Next Post ».
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