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Bride Stripped Bare - Anon. (1 Viewer)
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bubz :D
the last laugh
haha strangely enough, i loved this book. wouldn't have known about it if someone hadn't presented about it in our creative writing tute.
poor cole. but at least she gets good sex in the end
poor cole. but at least she gets good sex in the end
Soma
Toney Starks Fanboy
Enjoyable but trashy.
Funny that the author got exposed as well.
The taxi driver gang bang scene was a little depraved.
Funny that the author got exposed as well.
The taxi driver gang bang scene was a little depraved.
Pierotte
Member
I just finished it, 2 mins ago actually.
There was a bag of books outside a room at parent teacher night and i grabbed this one and one called lip service cuz they were on the top.... I think this bag may be rejects from the library that they decided just weren’t suitable... anyway...
Hmm... what to make of this book.
Well its the only one ive ever read in 2nd person, so that was different. The "lessons" were an interesting writing technique as well. Um,,, blah enough of the technicalities… erm… um…
Hmmm ... Yeah ive decided i really quite enjoyed it. It was really personal and its just interesting to get a look (i don’t believe a completely factual look), but an interesting look into someone’s life and feelings and thoughts and shit.
Oh im probably sounding clichéd, but when i don’t really know what to make of something i slip into speaking in cliché’s, its easier to deal with that way.
I wanted her to end up with Gabriel , Cole seemed so... boring!!! It made me feel all empty when she chose him.
I don’t understand the whole letter thing... like why would Theo send her a vibrator and say all that romantic crap??? It doesn’t add up. I feel that was a crappy twist.
In the end i don’t have any real sympathy for the protagonist... Why couldn’t she just be more decisive and self assured from the beginning?? If you're going to marry someone as if u wouldn’t enjoy them on a sexual level.
And she seemed in a way so arrogant with the whole "oh i always looked to respectable for that" "I always looked young, 26 when i was 36" and all that crap. If she was so sure of her self in that respect as if she wouldn’t have been more sexually adventurous and bold... as if u would encounter such a sudden change in your life after meeting one person... doesn’t the change have to predominately come from within? Wouldn’t u be shy? Unsure? Don’t you have to make up the decision to change before hand? She shits me... i don’t get her at all.
Hmmm there are many things in this book i don't understand come to think of it.
Maybe I missed the point? Maybe I’m way off base?
Well in the end it was a fictional novel, a story, made to entertain, it’s not real, and there are faults. I have to accept that.
There was a bag of books outside a room at parent teacher night and i grabbed this one and one called lip service cuz they were on the top.... I think this bag may be rejects from the library that they decided just weren’t suitable... anyway...
Hmm... what to make of this book.
Well its the only one ive ever read in 2nd person, so that was different. The "lessons" were an interesting writing technique as well. Um,,, blah enough of the technicalities… erm… um…
Hmmm ... Yeah ive decided i really quite enjoyed it. It was really personal and its just interesting to get a look (i don’t believe a completely factual look), but an interesting look into someone’s life and feelings and thoughts and shit.
Oh im probably sounding clichéd, but when i don’t really know what to make of something i slip into speaking in cliché’s, its easier to deal with that way.
I wanted her to end up with Gabriel
, Cole seemed so... boring!!! It made me feel all empty when she chose him.I don’t understand the whole letter thing... like why would Theo send her a vibrator and say all that romantic crap??? It doesn’t add up. I feel that was a crappy twist.
In the end i don’t have any real sympathy for the protagonist... Why couldn’t she just be more decisive and self assured from the beginning?? If you're going to marry someone as if u wouldn’t enjoy them on a sexual level.
And she seemed in a way so arrogant with the whole "oh i always looked to respectable for that" "I always looked young, 26 when i was 36" and all that crap. If she was so sure of her self in that respect as if she wouldn’t have been more sexually adventurous and bold... as if u would encounter such a sudden change in your life after meeting one person... doesn’t the change have to predominately come from within? Wouldn’t u be shy? Unsure? Don’t you have to make up the decision to change before hand? She shits me... i don’t get her at all.
Hmmm there are many things in this book i don't understand come to think of it.
Maybe I missed the point? Maybe I’m way off base?
Well in the end it was a fictional novel, a story, made to entertain, it’s not real, and there are faults. I have to accept that.
Miss Wendy
New Member
I really liked it. May have been a little heavy on the sex, but hey, it worked.
And as a piece of trivia, did you know the author went to Mount Keira High? Can't remember her name, but she did a talk at the Wollongong Library last year.
And as a piece of trivia, did you know the author went to Mount Keira High? Can't remember her name, but she did a talk at the Wollongong Library last year.
Skittled
What did the crab do?
My girl and I read it to each other when we went to Melbourne last winter. Both agreed it was an awesome book (though, maybe both of us being caught up in the heady novelty of young love, and the similarity to the book's topic made it just that subjectively bit better! ). Many little ironic lines that we found amusing, and many of the "lessons" that hit home for various reaons for both of us.
Interestingly, Shiver, another of her books (which I got for free when I bought Lolita under some government free-book scheme or something), seemed nowhere near as candid or well-written and captivating as the Bride Stripped Bare... seems the veil of (temporary) anonymity might have made it that little bit more personal & engaging for her... (Admittely I haven't read any of her other books beside Bride Stripped Bare and half of Shiver, though)
). Many little ironic lines that we found amusing, and many of the "lessons" that hit home for various reaons for both of us.Interestingly, Shiver, another of her books (which I got for free when I bought Lolita under some government free-book scheme or something), seemed nowhere near as candid or well-written and captivating as the Bride Stripped Bare... seems the veil of (temporary) anonymity might have made it that little bit more personal & engaging for her... (Admittely I haven't read any of her other books beside Bride Stripped Bare and half of Shiver, though)
sped_kid01
FindWhatIsYet2BeFound
i liked it...it wasnt my fav. book...but yeah!