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Run Catch Kiss: A Gratifying Novel

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I read great reviews and read this book in a couple of days, but was somewhat disappointed, expecting something more...the premise was promising, but I couldn't work up much feeling for the character. Talk about self-absorbed, imagining the whole city was aghast over her column? I think not! Unerotic pointless sex scenes, over and over...let me tell you, if you want to read a good book about a single Jewish gal yearning for love and marriage, go to the library and get out "Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York City". A wonderful funny touching novel about a young woman in a New York that is no more, but much better written (not to be confused with a horrible movie by the same name). "Run Catch Kiss" confirms two things, a) that men can put their you know whats in anything and its no more than a sneeze, and b) I am so very glad I'm not a young woman living in New York.

This was boring, remarkably UNsexy and terribly written. It is below Jackie Collins in storytelling. The whole thing was so awful-I couldn't finish it. I was, however, compelled to write my first Amazon review!

Not to mention boring. Ariel comes across as obnoxious and self-absorbed, the writing is flat, and the subject matter is banal. Run, Drop, Spit on this clunker.

It's bad.

Is she trying to be Bridget Jones? Don't know. She should have tried to put together a decent story.

I got it as a gift, so I didn't lose any money. But, I'll never get my time back.

Vacuous, poorly written, and self-indulgent. Don't waste your time or money on this truly stupid book. I'm from New York and I disliked it so much, it's the first book I've ever thrown away.

There's nothing wrong with novels about twentysomething and thirtysomething dating mores -- in fact, there can be a lot right. Whether it's a boy's life -- see Nick Hornby's High Fidelity -- or a girlie scene -- Hunting and Fishing -- there is a wealth of potential material to be mined, whether for humor and insight.

Not here, however. And not in this book. It's not just that it's a shallow, boring book. It's a lazy book. Sohn probably received a huge advance for a novel, and she basically just sends in a hodge podge of her columns -- dumbing them down in the process. I would have rather she saved the effort and just released an anthology of her New York Press columns, which, though shallow, at least didn't aspire to any kind of deep insight. But in the current form, this novel is -- well, embarrassing. Women talking with pottymouth had its day of novelty five years ago -- when Sex and the City the column first hit, when Liz Phair received critic's plaudits for singing about "$%#^ and Run." Now, it feels forced -- aiming to shock -- aiming to titillate -- and succeeding in neither. Let Sohn wind up in her eventual inevitable destination -- a talking head on "relationships," perhaps post on a late night cable version of The View -- and let fiction remain in the hands of the pros.

Please, oh please, do not waste your time on this book, (I won't even call it a novel). I have read bad books, but this one...not a smile, not one laugh, not one tear, not ANYTHING!!! This book has no emotion at all...I fear she (author) was trying to be oh-so-urban-bitch-of-the-nineties!

I just finished this book and I must say IT IS NOT " The thinking person's Bridget Jones" - The Independent. Whoever wrote that review should be fired ~
This main character in this book (Ariel) has very very very very low self esteem and acts really cheap. I didn't think that she was an interesting character. I kept thinking that the book would get better but it didn't, it was also too long because the character doesn't change or grow. The sex scenes described in this book were a little gross. Overall I didn't like it and I cannot recommend it. The only good thing I can say about it is that it has fast-paced writing.

This has to be the worst thing I have ever read. The characters self esteme must be in the gutter because of all the guys she wants to hook up with, plus she masturbates while someone is talking to her.
Whoever lives a life like this in reality I don't envy them. I am not easily shocked, but some of the stuff coming from the pages of the book were just horrendous. I paid $1.99 at an A&P for this, it would have less painful just to throw it down the drain.

I'm afraid that in my opinion (only one person, admittedly) what works wonderfully in a magazine column makes poor book fodder. Though I wanted to look deeper, there was no surface to scratch....because underneath the brash, glitzy exterior of this novel is another surface: It is like a plastic onion in revealing lingerie. Those of you mining for nuggets of hard-won wisdom will probably go without. Some laughs, to be fair, several good ones.... but mostly sighs of boredom. Perhaps this is just the book the author had to get out the way before she could write something more worthy of her talents.