I finished this book recently and was sort of disappointed. I’m very glad the show was so much more engaging and entertaining. I liked the little snippet stories, but I felt like they sometimes didn’t run together very well. Characters seemed very drab and one-dimensional. I didn’t like how the book seemed to focus on Carrie and Mr. Big, but had all these other seemingly pointless stories happening as well… Not my favorite book. ( )

So I had this book on my shelf for quite a while and I figured it was time to read it. I had bought it because I was a fan of the tv show and wondered what the book would be like. Boy, was I disappointed. Disappointed but not entirely surprised. I had read "Four Blondes" by Candace Bushnell and found it vapid and obnoxious so why should SATC be any different?

I thought Bushnell treated her characters as paper dolls, dressing them up, moving them around but that was all they would ever be. I also saw none of the city I love inside those pages. I saw a bunch of rich, self-absorbed assholes in a cold, alcohol-numbed environment. That is not how I think of NYC, ever. It might be part of city life but not the whole of it, and to then condescend to people who might not want that life, which is how Ms. Bushnell treated several characters in the book, completely turned me off.

I think I will stick with Darren Star's slick, colorful city instead ( )

Okay, so I didn't actually finish it, but it's non-fiction, and I rarely read non-fiction cover to cover. It was vaguely reminiscent of the television show, but a lot more random and strange. The style was kind of detached, so I was less invested in the people, and more invested in the events, sort of like a car crash. Fascinating though if you aren't expecting it to be like the TV show. ( )

If you are a fan of the show, you will be disappointed by the book. Just rent the series. ( )

Read about 2/3 of the book and got tired of it. ( )