Sex and the city

Sex And the City

  • Author : Bushnell, Candace
  • Warner Books Inc

  Equal parts soap opera, gossip page, sociological study, and dating manual, Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell’s regular New York Observer column, has attracted a cult following, propelling Bushnell to achieve her own star-status. This collection brings her pieces together for the first time, where they read as a twisted nineties society novel in serial format. A chronicle of the mating habits of our cultural elite, Sex and the City makes a stage of the various launch parties, openings, and celebrity affairs that keep New York’s high society amused. It has long since been proven that the later Candace stays out at night, the better the stories she comes home with. In addition to banging on kitchen doors for more champagne, her stunts include shedding her clothes to infiltrate a sex club, plying a roomful of men with rum and marijuana as a prelude to a discussion of menage a trois, and venturing to the most posh of all suburbs to interview married women about their sex lives (only to return to Manhattan and forget her sordid findings with the aid of several cocktails). Sex and the City is a modern-day comedy of errors, a fantastic and sometimes terrifying foray into the hearts and minds of city dwellers. Traveling in packs from parties to bars to clubs, Bushnell’s characters carry on the never-ending search for the perfect marriage partner, the most coveted piece of gossip, and, when the night is done, someone to go home with.


[ Reading Log ]

‧Every knows that men in New York make great friends and lousy husbands. In South America,where I come from, we have an expression : Better alone than badly accompanied.

‧It's actually better if there are more guys than girls when you go out, if there are more girls, they get competitive with each other. They get quiet. If a girl is seeing a guy and she lets the other girls know, it can be a mistake.She thinks the girls she's living with are her friends,but they're not. They're girls she just met who happen to be in the same situation. Girls try to steal guys all the time.

‧ Even if they're dumb, models are very manipulative. You can split them into three types. One: The new girls in town. They're usually really young--sixteen,seventeen.They go out a lot. They might not work that much, they want something to do, they need to meet people, like photographers. Two: The girls who work a lot.They're a little older,twenty-one and up, they've been in the business for five years.They never go out,they travel a lot,you almost never see them.And three: The supermodels. They're looking for a big-time guy who can do something for them.They're all obsessed with money,maybe because their careers are insurance.They won't even look at a guy who has less than twenty or thirty mill.Plus,they have the "big girl" complex: They won't hang out with any girl who's not a top model,and they ignore other models or bitch about them.

‧There's a thin line between attraction and repulsion. And usually the repulsion starts when they begin wanting you to treat them as people, instead of sex toys.

‧Women don't think riding a bike is sexy.They think it's infantile. But at some point, you decide that you can't go through life giving women a false impression of who you are.

‧when Carrie was lying in Mr.Big's bed, she tried to think about what she really wanted. Life felt like it had changed,but had it really? She thinks:I'm still not married. I still don't have kids. Will it ever happen?

‧It is time. Time to stop complaining about no good men. Time to stop calling your machine every half hour to see if a man has called.Time to stop identifying with Martha Stewart's lousy love life even if she is on the cover of People magazune.

‧The thing you have to realize is that,it terms of socialization for men, getting them ready for marriage, New York is a terrible place. Single men don't tend to hang around with couples.They're not used to that idea of coziness and family.So you have to get them there mentally.

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