Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans: Amazon.de: Jane Green: Englische Bücher

Taschenbuch: 384 Seiten
Verlag: Broadway (5. Juni 2001)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0767905180
ISBN-13: 978-0767905183
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 13,1 x 2,5 x 20,2 cm

Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.9 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (58 Kundenrezensionen)

Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 475.086 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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Over the past few years, novels about single women in their twenties and thirties looking for love and success have become steadily more plentiful. Green's entry into the field is one of the best to come along. Jemima Jones is 100 pounds overweight and feels that her size is holding her back. Her boss at the Kilburn Herald doesn't promote her, and the handsome deputy news editor, Ben Williams, whom she adores, thinks of her only as a friend. So Jemima turns to the Internet, where she meets Brad, a hunk who runs a gym in Los Angeles--if she can believe what he says. But when she sees Ben with another woman, Jemima decides she's had enough. She joins a gym, starts dieting, and soon she's losing weight rapidly, until she weighs only 121 pounds. She's now a stunning beauty, but she's still insecure about herself. However, with the encouragement of her friend Geraldine, she goes to L.A. to meet Brad. He turns out to be everything he promised, at least on the surface, but is he the man of Jemima's dreams? The book has an almost fairy-tale quality as Jemima discovers that while being thin helps, it doesn't automatically guarantee that one will find true love. Charming, witty, good-hearted fun. Kristine Huntley -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .

From Kirkus Reviews

An overweight woman turns from ugly duckling to swan in British novelist Green’s American debut: a tale that offers plenty of engaging plot twists but not much substance.Jemima spends many secret hours pouring over fashion magazines, whose cheeky, “how to improve your [fill in the blank]” tone the novel echoes. It’s a depressing activity, since Jemima—a good hundred pounds over the limit for contemporary beauty—looks nothing like the supermodels who cavort through those glossy pages. Her job writing the household hints column for a London newspaper bums her out too, as does the fact that gorgeous Ben, the man of her dreams, adores her as a friend but nothing more. When Jemima gets on the Internet for the first time, she realizes that in cyberspace a little extra fat doesn't matter if it isn't mentioned. So she begins an online flirtation with Brad from L.A., who sends a picture and turns out to be a real hunk. Thanks to a computer-enhanced photo of herself (thinner all over), Brad wants Jemima to fly to California for a rendezvous. So she loses weight, dyes her hair blond, and dons the wardrobe of a sophisticated ‘somebody.’ Now known as J.J., Jemima gets to California and is so shocked that a man like Brad would be interested in her that she wills herself to fall in love. But something is wrong: sweet Ben never leaves her mind. Sure, Brad is good-looking, but what else? Has Jemima met Mr. Perfect? Or should she hold out for Ben—that is, if she ever sees him again? (Readers should not spend a lot of time worrying about this last question.)Slightly unpredictable story development saves this from exactly duplicating the vast mound of similar feel-good modern fairy tales for women, but it lives in the same neighborhood. -- Copyright © 2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .

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Awful. 18. September 2000

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If you want to read a hilarious book about an English woman looking for love, read either of the Bridget Jones books. If you want to read a realistic and moving story of a fat girl who turns her life around, read "She's Come Undone." If you want to read a novel that's not funny; that's not clever or well-written; that has undeveloped, shallow characters (including the title character); that uses unnecessary and annoying shifts in point of view; and that is, overall, a complete waste of time, read this. With those expectations, you won't be disappointed.

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Jemima J by whitestonebooks.com 8. Juni 2000

Von "barbara@whitestone.com"

Occaisonally you find a book that strikes a personal cord; A book where you can completely identify with the main character. Random House sent over an advanced reading copy of Jemima J by Jane Green--an author I had never heard of before last week. The novel is based in a suburb of London and the main character, Jemima, who is a hundred pounds overweight, is a columnist with a small, local paper. The story revolves around a co-worker, Ben, who is doing his time at the local paper before he moves on to bigger and better things. The book addresses self esteem issues, internet dating and the treatment of large people in our society. Jemima J also discusses when weight loss is taken to extremes and becomes an obsession. Jemima takes us on a whirlwind trip to California with her internet romance gym owner, Brad, for whom she loses all the weight. Inside, she is still fat and questions her new dalliance--with good reason! The book has some great twists and I inhaled it in two days. All 416 pages. This is one of those books that you look up at the clock and it's three in the morning and you wish you didn't have to get up in a few hours to go to work so you could finish it!

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Great book - one problem 5. Juli 2000

Von spellingwitch

This was a really fun, compulsively readable book that I could not put down. As I read I kept thinking, "oh my God, this could be me" - right down to the internet relationship. What other reviewers have written is true, this is a great book, except for one thing - the message is a little skewed in that only when Jemima becomes thin do things start to go right for her, and does she get the attention of Ben, the man she's always loved. This book just reinforces bad body image for women, in that you must wait until you are thin to be happy (and nearly starve yourself doing it if necessary). This is the kind of media message we should be trying to eradicate and overcome, not reinforce.