|
Loading... Girls in Trucksby Katie Crouch
LibraryThing recommendationsMember recommendationsLoading...
won't like
will probably not like
will probably like
will like
will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Loved it. Kept me reading every minute. (  ) itsJUSTme | Oct 25, 2009 |  Partially poignant and partially pathetic. I couldn't resist the cover, the title, and the premise and I was sure I had made a great choice when the first few chapters enveloped me like a moist Southern night out on the front porch. The story of the bond between these Carolina girls raised to be debutantes was well done, but the main character's long list of failures with men got a bit tedious by the end of the book. Too nice, too mean, too married, too crazy, unfaithful, uninteresting...got it. "Girls in Trucks" is kind of like its main character: Pretty and popular with a lot of unrealized potential. Bottom Line: I thought it was a good piece of Southern chick lit, but not a great one. (  )1  dele2451 | Oct 24, 2009 | Don't let the cover on this one suck you in. I admit, I did pick this up mostly because I liked the picture on the cover (in addition to the fact that I got it for $1, on audio, at a warehouse sale). This is the author's debut novel, and honestly, I wasn't all that impressed. First and foremost, let me state again that I read the audio version, and this is one of those instances where the author should NOT have read her own work. Her voice was just annoying and too much of a monotone. That was probably the biggest thing that turned me off. Secondly, the format of the story was too disjointed for me. Not only was the story itself disjointed, but portions are in the first person, and portions are in the third person. And it just didn't flow or transition well. Lastly, I finished up the novel and then wondered what the purpose of the whole story was. It just didn't seem to go anywhere. It's basically about a southern girl who just can't figure her life out & keeps searching. But not much had changed by the end and I felt like I wasted my time with this one. I won't say I hated this novel, because I didn't -- it had some redeeming qualities -- but it just fell really flat for me. (  ) indygo88 | Sep 23, 2009 | This was an entertaining, fairly quick read. The narration style tends to jump around a bit going from first to third person. The characters were interesting although I personally found Eloise, Sarah's older sister, to be more intriguing than some of the others. I found Sarah to be somewhat unlikable, and frusterating due to her constant bad decisions. Still an overall solid read. ( ) yankeesfan1 | Aug 11, 2009 | Cute book....also funny...loved the Camellias and the Cotillion Training School. The book cover pulls you in...it is great. It did get "old" at times hearing about all the escapades of the girls, but all in all not a bad book. I liked the ending....I always did feel sorry for Sarah throughout the book. Read it if you like to laugh and read about how Southern women are "supposed" to act. :) ( ) meadowmist | Aug 2, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0316002119, Hardcover)Katie Crouch's debut novel, Girls in Trucks, is the hilarious, heartbreaking tale of Sarah Walters, a Southern debutante whose endless quest for love and fulfillment takes her around the world and back again. Orbiting Sarah is a cast of characters whose misadventures keep the story moving, even as readers grow frustrated with our heroine's inability to rise above her self-destructive tendencies and see the proverbial light.We first meet Sarah and her friends Charlotte, Bitsy and Annie at the Charleston Cotillion Training School, where you're not allowed to dance with your cousin under any circumstances, and students are strictly forbidden from dancing the Shag. Sarah, who lives in the shadow of her brilliant, beautiful sister Eloise, is a reluctant debutante at best, and unsurprisingly heads East for college. She eventually lands in New York City, where she slaves away as an editorial assistant and ruins an impressive number of relationships with nice, and not so nice guys. Woven into Sarah's tales of romantic woe are Bitsy, Charlotte and Annie's struggles with infidelity, addiction and low self esteem, respectively. What saves this novel from becoming a cliched tale of failed romance and Southern excess is Crouch's amazing wit, which magically appears every time her characters' self-loathing threatens the affection we inevitably develop for each woman:
I loved the neighborhood: tiny streets peppered by angry painters with peacock-colored fingertips and sturdy women from Sicily clutching armfuls of warm bread. It took us a while to shed our Southern ways, but after a few months we figured out that one's natural height should not be enhanced by one's bangs. Crouch's sharp wit and keen insight into the dynamics between mothers and daughters, sisters, friends and lovers make her an exciting newcomer to the Southern fiction genre. --Gisele Toueg (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:54 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
Abebooks |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
