| Everyone Worth Knowing | 
 enlarge | Author: Lauren Weisberger
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 4810
Media: Paperback
Edition: New title
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 0007182651
EAN: 9780007182657
ASIN: 0007182651
Publication Date: March 27, 2006
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Alice O'Keeffe
The working title of The Doorman Wears Dolce makes this instantly recognisable as the follow-up to surely the most fabulously titled debut of 2003 The Devil Wears Prada. For her second novel Lauren Weisberger sticks with what she knows; New York City, but this time it's the achingly cool world of Manhattan's party people rather than the fashion pack. At the beginning of the novel Bette (Bettina) Robinson, 27 year old daughter of vegan hippie parents is working eighty-hour weeks as a corporate drone in the offices of investment bank CWK Hoffman. The highlight of her social calendar is a dinner date with her uncle and his boyfriend every Thursday night. Handily, said uncle is also a famous, highly syndicated columnist who manages to secure Bette a shiny new job as a party planner at top PR agency. Cue our heroine's descent into Manhattan's social whirl as she struggles with the outrageous demands of celebrity clients plus unwelcome exposure in a regular gossip column. It's a perfect escapist read, and fans of The Devil Wears Prada will love it but if you're missing your SATC fix then I'd recommend Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin and Midnight in Manhattan by Francesca Delbanco as altogether more satisfying slices of the Big Apple.
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 Good read!! October 2, 2008
When I started reading this book, I wasn't sure I was going to like it.
It started out very similar to "The Devil Wears Prada".
After quiting her job, Bette is looking for something new (well, looking might be a bit of an overstatement here).
Her ucle gets het a job as a party planner, and just like in Weisberger's previous novel, the people she works with are shocked to find out that Bette's never heard of fashion names and asseccories like a Birkin Bag.
After reading that bit, I was afraid the entire book was going to be The Devil Wears Prada in a different, very fashionable, coat, but I was surprised to find out that asside from these similarities, there was more to it.
As Bette starts her new life as a party planner, she becomes involved in a strange relationship with nightlife adonis (a duke and "Gwyneth's (Paltrow we all assume) ex") Philip Weston.
She starts making appearances in the hottest Gossip column of the moment, and things go downhill from there, when the line between work and home starts to fade...
The idea of private and work mixing was also a big issue in The Devil Wears Prada, which is another similarity I worried about.
Also, I find it a little hard to connect to Bette's friends, a problem I also had with Weisberger's first novel.
A little more background story or a nice night out would make it easier to connect to the friends right from the beginning, instead of somewhere halfway through the book.
All in all I really enjoyed reading this book, enough to finish it in less than 2 days.
I was into it enough to sometimes want to hit Bette over the head for not saying something when everybody simply believed, and commented on, all the bad things written about her. Which is a good sign, I'm sure ;)
Lauren Weisberger's next book (Chasing Harry Winston) has already been taken of the shelf for reading, and I'll make sure to get any other book she'll be writing..
 Rubbish August 27, 2008
I rarely give up on a book, but 100 pages in I tossed Everyone Worth Knowing aside. It reminded me of a very bad novel I started writing when suffering from depression several years ago. In fact, any thoughts I may have entertained of finished that novel have been resolutely abandoned now that I've read this book and realised just how bad trite characters, overt product placement, coy 'I'd been stopped and asked if I was a model' exposition and othersuch nonsense comes across. If nothing else, this book has killed the 25 year old depressed writer in me!
I quite liked it August 21, 2008
Ok so it wasn't as good as the Devil wears Prada, but i still found it an enjoyable and entertaining read. Made me want to sit down and watch my SATC boxsets for some reason! Don't sit down expecting another Devil wears prada, if you want that then i suggest that you just read the devil wears prada again. Give it a chance and don't compare it too much, just enjoy it for what it is. Would have given it 3 and a half stars if that was an option.
 Amazing book June 29, 2008
I really loved this book - I read it straight from cover to cover because it was so enjoyable and an easy read.
A truely girlie read May 5, 2008
Interspersed with more in depth novels, this is good fun. Nothing to cause you great upset etc, just good fun about a twenty something girl living in the city. I loved this book. Much better than many chick lit books out there - there are many I've not managed to pass the first chapter. Take it for what it is, a good fun beach read.
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