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| Good in Bed | 
 enlarge | Author: Jennifer Weiner
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (772 reviews)
Sales Rank: 4006
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0743418174
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780743418171
ASIN: 0743418174
Publication Date: April 2, 2002
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Product Description
For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her friends, her rat terrier, Nifkin, and her job as pop culture reporter for The Philadelphia Examiner. She's even made a tenuous peace with her plus-size body. But the day she opens up a national women's magazine and sees the words "Loving a Larger Woman" above her ex-boyfriend's byline, Cannie is plunged into misery...and the most amazing year of her life. From Philadelphia to Hollywood and back home again, she charts a new course for herself: mourning her losses, facing her past, and figuring out who she is and who she can become.
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 Ok for a beach read December 1, 2008
I liked the book, but didn't love it. I kept reading b/c I am from Phila and could relate to the Phila references. I liked Cannie and wanted to find out what happened to her, but I could not really relate, and didn't like the references to thin people as the enemy (maybe b/c I'm thin)! I think Jennifer is a good writer, but this just wasn't my favorite book.
 My collection is complete! November 25, 2008
Good in Bed was Jennifer Weiner's first book. I have all of her books in my library, however my edition of Good in Bed was loaned-out one-too many times, and was in poor condition. I was so happy to find a hard-cover copy to replace and complete my collection. It arrived in perfect condition, and I am happy.
Pluses and Minuses November 25, 2008
Spoiler Alert.
I will say that this book kept me reading, which is certainly a plus.
It is rare in a "chick lit" book to witness the protagonist melting down. That attribute speaks of deeper writing, plus it builds your interest in seeing how the main character will come through it.
A big minus is what a poor example this gives to single women who may be on the brink of a quality relationship.
If a promising man appears to be interested in you, the last thing you want to do is show up on his doorstep at your worst, both inside and out. This will send most men screaming into the night, rather than to the jeweler for a diamond ring.
Doctors tend to be affluent, with a lot to lose if they end up in a relationship with the wrong woman. If this is the type of man you are interested in, you should only allow him to see you in a competent - not to mention well-groomed - state.
A lot of single women read "chick lit" books. Therefore I think these authors should be more careful to present plausible and realistic scenarios as to how a woman can successfully connect with a quality man.
Escape from reality can be fun to a point, but this book really broke the bounds of feasibility and may well have given young and impressionable women some damaging ideas.
That said, I still believe that Ms. Weiner is talented and she does have the ability to keep the pages turning. This was her freshman effort, so I would not allow this to scare me away from giving her more recent books a try.
Amazing November 14, 2008
It has been a long time since i've connected with a character that i have so much and yet so little in common with. This is a book i can read over and over again
 Cringe Worthy November 9, 2008
I really thought I liked Jennifer Weiner. I read Goodnight Nobody and found it funny and mindlessly entertaining and Little Earthquakes was a good beach read as well. This book started off well enough but it seems like the editors focused on the first chapter and then didn't read the rest of it. It's interesting how Cannie met her ex by impersonating her mother's lesbian lover, but then towards the end she tells readers how she had run home to said ex to whine when her mom came out of the closet. HUH? Speaking of whining, if you took out all of the "poor me" tangents the book would be about 2 chapters long. The part that really got me though was when she threw herself at her ex. We all have had our pathetic moments but this really takes the prize. It was all I could do to keep reading. The main reason I did continue is because I was hoping that by the end she would stop blaming everyone else in her life (Dad, mother's girlfriend, ex, co-worker, random guy she met in the park, former shrink, ex's current girlfriend... shall I go on?) and show some kind of growth as a character. Can't say that happened for me, but I'll leave it at that in case you want to see for yourself.
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