Falling Out of Fashion Review
I really enjoyed this book! I probably would've even paid for it, but the fact that it was free was an added bonus. It's a fun "beach read".
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- ISBN13: 9780755339532
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Needs a good editor - C. Kim -
I got this as a Kindle freebie, which tends to instantly lower my expectations, but maybe I should have gone even lower. This book is just dull. It reads more like a teenage girl's diary than a novel. It tries to be hip and funny and edgy and insider-y and cool, but it's just plain dull. Obviously the writer has no idea what the New York publishing world is like. The narrator is whiny and weak and also somehow a mega-celebrity magazine editor? She started her own magazine but is cowed by some witchy bosses whose only goal in life is to conspire against her to ruin her life? The plot goes from childish to just plain dumb as things unravel. And the only the names have been changed paralleling of the Jane magazine/Jane Pratt story is so obvious its ridiculous. If Jane Pratt really did have anything to do with this (as some reviewers have speculated) I've lost all respect for her.
And don't get me started on mundane writing, unimaginative dialogue and grammar errors. A good editor would have gone a long way toward punching this up to the level of decent chick lit.
Ho-hum - Laurie Gold - Dallas, TX USA
The Devil Wears Prada didn't do much for me. The idea of writing about the experience of working for one of fashion's most notorious bosses was terrific. Lauren Weisberger's writing style and ability...not so much. I had higher hopes for Karen Yampolsky's Falling Out of Fashion, a 2007 roman à clef about her ex-boss, Jane Pratt, because I faithfully read the snarky and irreverent Jane magazine on a regular basis. I liked Yampolsky's book more than I did Weisbergers, but not by much. Had it not been a free download for Kindle last month, I'd have felt ripped off because the book reads less like a work of fiction than it does a book-length "as told to" biography of Jane Pratt, where only the names have been changed to protect the guilty.
The details of her protagonist's life are presented in a matter of fact fashion, the good, the bad, and the selfish, and the honesty is never begrudging, but that positive quality is also its main flaw. If you're a true Jane Pratt watcher, you probably know the answers to the "who is she writing about?" guessing game presented in the book, and if you're more casually interested, try Wikipedia. But there's really no need to read the book itself as it's impossible to separate the fictional Jill White from the real Jane Pratt. For a work of fiction, that's an unsurmountable problem.
Falling out of fashion - janice -
i enjoyed this book. It shows a strong woman in Jill, and how working with women can be a back stabbing experience.
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