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Lauren conrad book la candy
Lauren conrad book la candy







No wonder the literacy of this country is crumbling around us - Conrad’s cute-guys-buying-cute-girls-drinks theme goes further toward the decimation of literature than any zealous book burning ever did.Review 1: I remember when The Hills series finale aired on TV, there was quite a number of angry viewers as the final scene showed that the ending was scripted. Candy is an insult to the few people still read books for the sake of reading books. If she’s smart, she’ll phone a friend (not one of her “Hills” friends, mind you - someone with a brain) and outsource the remaining creative work in her book deal.Īnd should Hollywood decide it needs more of its MTV darling spiking through the airwaves, the public should pray that Conrad was merely the inspiration and not the content director or creative producer. However, seeing as she lives in a town filled to the brim with struggling, overly qualified writers, Conrad might have considered doing herself a favor and hiring one of them to ghostwrite this novel. In that respect, she was the most qualified person to write L.A. How many times have students heard a professor say, “Write what you know.” This star-studded, shopaholic, sunny life is all Conrad knows. Though blatantly lacking in originality, the concept behind the novel is perfectly suitable. Her loose blond curls cascaded softly over her shoulders as she pretended not to be interested in the guy in her bed.”Īnd that was just the novel’s first paragraph. “Jane Roberts leaned against her dresser, studying the way her white silk nightie looked against her sun-kissed skin. The characters describe themselves as an objective third-party observer might: Text messages and phone calls make up a majority of interpersonal communication, because face-to-face conversations are so passé. The dialogue is peppered with “likes” and “ums” and an abundance of ellipses, mimicking Conrad’s, like, daily vocabulary precisely. “Jane walked,” began one chapter “Scarlett looked,” stated another. From chapter to chapter, Conrad switches between the third-person narrations of Jane and Scarlett. Guess whose publicist made that decision.Ĭonrad’s sins as an author are many, but most notable is her inability to define her characters’ internal voices. After all, her name is four times as large as the title on the cover. Sales figures won’t be determined by literary content, as far as L.A. Of course, there are troubles along the way - unpredictable boy behavior, difficult employers, and (as always) the overwhelming struggle to stay true to oneself.









Lauren conrad book la candy