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Little Pink Slips (2007)

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0399154159 (ISBN13: 9780399154157)
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English
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g.p. putnam's sons

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For a little while, this was an interesting book. It was fun getting an insider’s perspective on the magazine industry--the general craziness of it, and the clubby atmosphere of Manhattan publishing executives. But overall, I didn’t think Little Pink Slips worked as a cohesive novel. It was too much like discrete episodes strung together in an attempt to make a narrative. Not to mention that several of those episodes were impossible to believe. I don’t mind a little chick-lit silliness, but I do expect to find such events at least slightly plausible. And I always find it annoying when an author does not end a book at its natural conclusion. There’s nothing more tedious than reaching a book’s climactic moment, only to find it dragging on for several more chapters. And since I listened to this book on audio, I have to mention the narrator, Laural Merlington. She did a mostly good job, but often mispronounced words, and had a strange habit of adding in phony laughter, even when the ensuing dialogue was tagged with “he laughed” or some such thing. It was annoying, as was the author’s constant name dropping, and the ridiculous having-it-all ending. Perhaps as a former magazine editor, the author was not amenable to suggestion, but she could have used a good editor who would have tightened the book, taken away some of the more ridiculous moments, and smoothed out the story arc, to produce a more enjoyable story.

My dream job is to edit a magazine, so any book that talks about the exciting world of magazine publishing is crack to me. Thus my disappointment in "The Devil Wears Prada," through which this career area looks like the worst kind of punishment and where secretary is the stepping stone to writer/editor."Little Pink Slips" is SO much more upbeat but nevertheless cruel in its reality-based focus on competition, circulation, tyrannical bosses and the perfidy of jobs in the biz. YET...it's still engaging. Magnolia Gold (really?) loves her job and works hard at it. No Miranda Priestly, she's great to work with and for, so her downward spiral at the hands of a callous boss is all the more frustrating (for her and for the readers).Another YET...the story doesn't end with Maggie walking away from her dream. And more, you'll have to read to find out.

What do You think about Little Pink Slips (2007)?

This is a "Dollar Tree" book. I'm fascinated by the kind of books that they sell at the Dollar Tree ... usually Christian inspirational works or remaindered(?) hardcovers. I picked up LITTLE PINK SLIPS and CELEBUTANTES last night. I started LITTLE PINK SLIPS first because a skim through CELEBUTANTES virtually guaranteed that I would find it annoying in my present state of mind.***OK, now I have finished this book. It was all I expected it to be, which is not saying too much as my expectations were rather low. Trying to write a review of this would be like trying to write a review of an episode of "The Real Housewives of New York." I mean, it was a diverting enough pass-time, I guess, but there wasn't much to it other than that.I can say that I didn't much care for the heroine. She was really judgy and uptight, and unquestioningly overpriviledged. It was hard to sympathize with her. I might have liked her better if she had even the tiniest shred of humor, or showed just a little bit of perspective on her situation.
—M.K. Hobson

learned lots about the magazine world, not sure i'll ever pick one up again without thinking of this book, but then again maybe i will. I finished reading this and just thought, "hmm, well, thats that" and moved on. Nothing stellar here, sort of like reading a people magazine sort of novel, interesting and rather absorbing but all in all not earth shattering or anything either. Who knows. Anyone who wants a book they dont have to invest much energy into, and sort of give you a voyeuristic look at the magazine industry (fashion, money, etc) might enjoy this. I just cant say that when i read the last word i was sad it was over or wished there was a sequel... know what i mean?
—anna

This book is not the new Devil Wears Prada or the new anti-Devil wears Prada because it is not worthy of such titles. While entertaining in parts, most of Little Pink Slips feels tired. It has either been written before or the author seemed to tire of writing. There are gaps in plot and character development, sort of like a cut-to-black transition in a movie, except that a movie does a better job of explaining things. It really feels like the author wrote herself into a corner and chose to ignore the situation by pretending it didn't exist (ie: oops, person A fell in love with person B and now I want A to date C! let's have A and B suddenly break up a successful relationship without warning. oh, and B is left hanging now? let's invent someone new to appease the situation). Logical progression is missing, and many of the characters contradict themselves or are not sympathetic when they are intended to be so. Ironically, I would have enjoyed this book about an editor if it had better editing.
—Jen

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