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The First Wives Club |  | Author: Olivia Goldsmith
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Category: Book
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 2096080
Media: Paperback
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0099435136
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780099435136
ASIN: 0099435136
Publication Date: July 7, 2005
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Don't get mad. Get everything. When their best friend commits suicide over her divorce, Elise, Brenda and Annie decide enough is enough. Each was crucial to her husband's career. But now that the men are successful, they've traded in their wives for newer, blonder models. Over lunch one day they form the First Wives Club. But this is no support group. This is the SAS in Chanel, Painstakingly, inexorably, they plan the downfall of the men who've wrecked their lives - and know that revenge has never tasted sweeter...
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 The First Wives Club July 26, 2010
Cathy A. Johannisson (Weare, NH)
I thought it started out slow and took a while to really get into the book. However, I thought the closing of the book was great.
 Don't read it expecting the movie! June 20, 2007
Amanda Thompson (California)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is fabulous - one of my all time favorites. If you have only seen the movie, and like the movie, don't read the book. I hate the movie, because it is only very loosely based on the book (some of the characters have the same names and habits, and that's about it). The book is darker and dirtier than the movie. It features bad language, sex, drugs, and other such activities, so if you are easily offended, don't read the book. I've seen several bad reviews of this book that I think are unfair. If you don't like books that have cussing and sex in them, that's fine. But it doesn't mean the book is bad. Personally I think this book is one of the finest representatives of the "Chick Lit" genre. Olivia Goldsmith is one of my favorite authors, and her contributions to the written world will be missed.
 The movie is better. December 20, 2006
Lisa (WI)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I listened to the audio copy of this book and it is too raunchy for my taste. Christine Baranski, who reads the book makes most of the characters sound like stuck up snobs, unlike what Bette, Goldie or Diane do in the movie.
The movie, at least, gives the story humor and keeps the sex at a minimum.
Filthy novel, poorly written December 7, 2005
A. Reinke (Wisconsin)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
When I read this book several years ago, I had no idea what I was getting into. I had seen the movie, and although I didn't love it, the movie was ok, and a book is always supposed to be better than the movie. At first the book seemed merely very unlikely. Then as I continued reading I began to feel a little uncomfortable with certain characters. The one friend who was supposedly a compulsive eater sounded no different than me, and I am not even considered chubby. The one new girlfriend was disgusting, not only in what she did, but in how she lived her life. The only saving grace to the entire book was the general plot. Although very unbelievable, it was also very satisfying to see these men get what they deserved in life, but honestly the women did not deserve the satisfaction they experienced from the men's downfalls. Thank goodness I had just borrowed the book from the library and not bought it!
Great fun ! December 19, 2004
Jenny (Belgium)
It's a story about three women getting back at their husbands for dumping them for younger (and blonder) models. They were friends in college, but drifted apart and had a reunion on the funreal of the fourth friend, who comitted suïcide after her husband left her - for a younger, blonder model... The three women decide to get back at their husbands and Cynthia's too.
I read the book in one big haul, it's really good. OK, it's light reading, it's no Kundera or Marquez, but it's well written and it made me laugh out loud (so it's not recomended to read it on the train: you'll get funny looks). It's ten times better than the movie, which was nice, but they really changed the story, due to the limited time they have in a movie. The real story is far too complex to cram in a 100 minute movie.
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