Third helping of gossip
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Third book in the gossip girl series. Love it. Love Blair. Love Nate. Hate Serena. Blair and Serena are on vacation with Aaron and Blair's family. Really good fun read although not the best in the series. Buy the whole set these books are worth it.
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I can really relate to this book!
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This book was really good! I loved every moment of it. I normally dont read that much but I read the whole thing in one night. I thought it was really cool cause Jennifer in the book is like me. My name is Jeninfer, I'm short with brown curly hair, and a freshman liking a senior. I think any high school girl can relate to a lot in the book. The whole thing about seeing your ex boyfriend with another girl bothering you and stuff like that.
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Good, but not great.
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Okay, I'm only 3/4 through the 3rd installment of this witty series, but I'm beginning to get bored. The problem with series is that they just become embellishments of the intro novel. Gossip Girl #1 was AWESOME because all the characters were new and exciting. Now, I'm just plain tired of reading about Nate's constant state of 'baked-ness', Serena's 24/7 'hotness', Vanessa's rebelliousness, Dan's torturedness, Blair's whininess and Chuck's sliminess. Having an international rock star hot for 17 year old Serena is just plain unbelievable. Also, this series said that these kids are consumed with drugs, drinking, smoking, partying and sex. I've seen a LOT of the first four, but where's this 'sex' thats so touted? So far, no one's had sex, although its been 'alluded' to (Nate and Serena in the first novel and Blair and Nate TRYING to, but....thats it. Its made to seem like its a constant orgy, which its not. I will continue this novel and also read the last two, if only because I feel an attachment to these kids, but I hope their plots aren't contrived and predictable (I'm tired of shopping at Barneys, smoking pot in the park, etc.) I hope the last two installments are fresher than this one. Ho-Hum. The one thing that keeps me smiling is von Ziegesar's wit and humor, especially describing these kids' thoughts of the other kids (especially Blair's thoughts about Serena's eternal lovliness) and Cyrus and Blair's mother's PDA. Hilarious!
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This Book is on my top 3 fav. books!!!
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I loved this book! When i went to the book store and just bought it i didnt think it would be this great!! Most of the book was great but when it came to the end between jenny, nate, and blair it was sorta stupid, there should've been a waaayyy better ending. But other then the weird ending the book was totally great! I just love this book, it's addictive, its fun to read, especially how it describes how rich they all are!
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A vacation in St. Brats to remember
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Von Ziegesar's Gossip Girl gang returns and they are all ready to let loose and have some fun, especially since midterms have left them stressed and anxious. It's time to unravel a bit. Sex, drugs, and partying ensue. Of course. And of course, when you're a rich Manhattanite with a picture-perfect life the lowly gawkers aspire to live, things are always just perfect. Or not. Gossip Girl's third venture lands us on St. Barts Island (or Brats island? Whichever you prefer). The island is covered with spas and places to go that are the epitome of chic, great restaurants, hot boys, and topless tanners stretched across miles of golden sand. I think I prefer the GG installments that take place in good old NY. Nonetheless, scene location makes for an interesting plot. Serena begins an affair with music superstar Flow (unreal but who cares???!!). Blair has at last found a potential man to take her virginity and it ain't Nate - it's Aaron, her stepbrother's good friend Miles. Since their screwy world is a place of casual drinking, sex, drugs, and such behavior maybe deemed abnormal other places, Gossip Girl, number one gossip monger of all time, is still at work, documenting the lives of her peers on her website, gossipgirl.net. When Von Ziegesar takes the bubblegum novel back home to NY, it's at Serena Van der Woodsen's New Year's bash and everyone who is anyone will be there, of course. The party is the perfect setting for the whole Blair-Nate-Jenny triangle from the previous novel. This is why it really is imperative you read the books in order - certain events carry on from one book to the next. Anyway, sweet, innocent Jenny, before her heartbreaking New Year's, was soooooo totally in "love" with Nate. Purely by accident (or not) a tape of them fooling around in the snow makes its way across computer screens everywhere. Something to do wih Nate blowing a raspberry on her [back] cheek, uncovered by the La Perla thong he bought her for Christmas, which made Jenny, in return, unable to supress the urge to buy him $60 silk boxers. Their relationship clearly ceases to exist because both partners feel comfortable around each other. But when the tape, shot by Vanessa (who else?) makes waves, Jenny is anything but comfortable...being her father, Rudolph Humphrey, has seen his precious baby frolicking in the snow with a sexy boy. This book has just as much action and plot twists as the other frothy teen novels of the GG series. If you are a fan, you will not be disappointed. Books like these are truly the ones that separate GG from the copycats like THE INSIDERS and THE A-LIST, the books/series that never live up to the spunk, trash, and fun that is Gossip Girl.
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