About this title: Six Latina women who all went to the same college have a once-a-year reunion. Now it's their tenth, and, taking turns, each one tells her story--and each story is amazingly different. This is a Spanish-language version of the text.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780312313821ISBN:0312313829
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Description: Very Good. 0312313829 light wear and edge wear ( tiny tear repaired by tape ) to soft cover / good clean pages / good or better condition. read more
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780312313821ISBN:0312313829
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. One reading crease on spine. No chipping. Very minor corner curling. Text is clean and bright. Binding is tight. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
"Before I get into my opinions on this book, I will admit it: I'm not a fan of "chick lit." But, I think of myself as being open minded and willing to read anything (I even read the whole series of Twilight). I understand that not all pieces of fiction are meant to be the next Great Gatsby or Hamlet and I'm perfectly fine with that. Some books are there just for the fun of it and you take it for what it is suppose to be. So when I read a book that all my girl friends love, I except a fun, light read. Instead, I found myself in this painful process of trying to finish something I wish I never started and am too proud to quit halfway. One of my main problems with this book was that I didn't like any of the characters. And it wasn't like a oh-that-character-is-so-evil-like-Snape dislike but a I-don't-understand-where-these-characaters-are-coming-from dislike. This might be because the author chooses write in first person narrative for all 6 of the main characters, each telling their own story, so the reader is left with a tangled ball of different plot threads. And because each character needs to tell their stories, none of the stories are fully developed and are half-baked and the reader just has to take the author's word that character A loves character B or that character C has issues with men. I personally would have appreciated a little more showing and a little less telling. This brings me to another main problem I have with this book. From the very first chapter, I can't help but feel that the author thinks that the reader is stupid. Almost every other paragraph has a sentenced that has to be clarified by another statement in parentheses (like this). I mean is this really necessary (like is the reader really that stupid and need the clarification)? Maybe it was done for a stylistic purpose (which probably failed). Or maybe the writer didn't know how to incorporate the info in the brackets into the sentences (because that would have been too difficult you know). After the first chapter, I felt annoyed and defensive. I also now have a hatred for parentheses. If you don't care about plot development, character development, and enjoy reading about females who are successful, wealthy, and obsessed about designer labels, this is the book for you. If the thought of reading mediocre writing about girls you'll never empathize with, stay clear. Trust me - I'm so damaged that it will be awhile before my friend can convince me to pick up another chick lit."
"Five Hispanics become friends in college, forming the sucias, the dirty girls. I love all the Hispanic culture, the Spanish words and phrases, so much that I can overlook the amazing way that each of the five is from a different Spanish subculture, almost as if they were chosen for a Census Bureau study, and the happily-ever-after endings that occur for each woman, even the gay woman journalist, even the battered wife, even the girl dating the former drug dealer."
"This is my second book by this author and the one thing that I really like about her books is the different characters. Sometimes I feel like chick lit characters are all the same but that is not true with these books. However, sometimes I don't always like her characters. This book followed the lives of 6 women so it really would be hard to relate to all of them but at times, some of them were so shockingly rude that it was hard to not hold it against them. Usnavys is the specifically the one I am thinking of here.
Anyway, overall it was a good read and I will likely read more by this author. Also, I should mention that I was very impressed by the author doing the narration. In my experience, normally when an author narrators their own book, the narration is not good but I was very pleasantly impressed on this one!"
"This is a fun book to read! Very light-hearted, funny and well-written. It reminded me of a Latina version of Sex and the City. Six Latina women, all Boston College graduates get together several times a year to share, talk and support each other thru the trials and tribulations of life. Especially in the area of relationships with men! The name of their little club in spanish is La Sucia's which translates as the title of the book. The only thing I didn't like about it is the way the males were portrayed. They're are either a bunch of clueless idiots or the stereotypical latin machismo type. I hope the author thinks more highly of the male population than this! This would be a great book to bring on vacation, the beach or if you want some good chick-lit."
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