Tracy Quan

Advantages: Easy read
Disadvantages: Ending

...I recently read this book and i can say that i enjoyed the story, but i must admit not as much as i thought i would. The book is set out in a diary fashion similar to bridget jones dairy but however some of the entries are far too long. The whole book hosts many different ideas about call girls. However during this book i feel that Tracy quan seemed to be lacking in telling the story directly and went off on a few tangents and i felt like she was just filling the pages to make the book bigger. The main character is very well defined and reading about all the sticky situations she gets in with her boyfriend is quite amusing. There are meant to be three main characters but halfway through the book there has been a sudden jump in the amount of charaters and as a result there are too many lifes to try and follow , and as a result i got... Read review

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Advantages: Managed to buy it cheap at Tescos
Disadvantages: Not even worth the £2.90 I paid for it.

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Advantages: The looks on people's faces on the Tube when they saw what I was reading
Disadvantages: Most of it, but especially the ending

...Having recently read both Belle De Jour's "Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl" and David Henry Sterry's "Chicken", it seemed that Tracy Quan's "Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl" was the next natural step. Especially having seen it advertised all over the London Underground. I was hoping it would prove to be yet another look into the world of prostitution from the point of view of the prostitute and would have the same effect of making it seem like they are simply normal people with a slightly abnormal job. That said, knowing that the book had a predominantly pink cover with a drawing of a woman in her panties prominent on it did make me wonder what kinds of looks I'd get from the other passengers on the Tube. Even more so having got some sideways glances when I was reading nothing more risqué than "Bridget Jones's Diary". Nancy... Read review

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