What a disappointment. The TV series bears almost no resemblance to the book. A few character names are the same and the "Carrie" and "Mr. Big" characters are drawn roughly the same as the TV characters. All I can say is that the TV scriptwriters did an outstanding job at developing the series' well-rounded characters from this mess of a "book." There is virtually no plot or character development. The book is a collection of seemingly unconnected short essays in interview format. Bushnell owes a debt of gratitude to the screenplay writer who was genius enough to take her twisted mess of words and turn them into the scintillating story that we know from the series.

I read this and was laughing so hard. We have all been there!

I knew before I started reading Candice Bushnell's Sex and the City it was not the HBO series, so that wasn't a surprise. What was a surprise is that this so-called "author" is about as literary as a discarded apple core. There's nothing smart nor funny in this book. Bushnell's writing is flat, lifeless, and dull. This book does nothing but cast a spotlight on the empty, materialistic, shallow, insecure lives of New York's wealthy and "beautiful people." She never casts an opinion about these pathetic souls, so you're constantly asking the question, why should I care about any of these characters. Not one character has a redeeming quality, and poor Carrie is portrayed as a self-involved, border-line alcoholic--no wonder no one wants her. Not one character in Sex and the City is interesting, witty, or even identifiable with anyone who doesn't share the same shallow emptiness. The only thing the book imparts is a grateful feeling that you are not one of these pathetic losers. I'm grateful that Darren Star and Michael Patrick King were able to transform this piece of garbage into a witty, vibrant, sexy television series that will be remembered far longer than this wretched piece of effluvium.

That's it... it's ok but not what I was expecting

If you want to know the truth about it, I'm hoping to get laid tonight," says Candace Bushnell.Candace has become a bona fide New York celebrity.Candace Bushnell helped invent the world she describes in her new novel.Those who follow Bushnell's column will be familiar with much of the material here indeed, a fair portion of the chapters have run in the observer in the last six months.It becomes a kind of serial novel that works as both a comedy of manners and a class study of the current age of non-innocence.In her search for love amidst an endless stream of lunches and cocktail parties, Bushnell paints a bleak but funny portrait of her sisters in heels as they get everything they want except for a husband and children.The book's message is painfully clear.