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Talking to Addison

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

After reading and enjoying Amanda's Wedding, I wasn't sure how Talking to Addison would measure up. I was hoping for a fun, light novel, which I did get, but then there was a bonus -- Talking to Addison was HYSTERICAL!

This book probably has the most real comedy in it that I've ever read. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard in my life. The timing was perfect! The characters were so fantastic and goofy. I loved every second of this book. I hope there is more to come from Jenny Colgan.

Talking to Addison begins with Holly Livingstone living in the land of nightmares. Her roommates are crazy clean freaks, and Holly just can't take it anymore! So she begs her best friend, Josh, to let her move in with him and his roommates. This is where the story really begins. Living in the flat are Kate, a neurotic career-woman, and the ever elusive Addison, who holes up in his cavern of a room instant messaging his agoraphobic girlfriend 3000 miles away. Holly is determined to make him hers, which leads to some very funny scenarios.

I recommend this one very highly. I rarely give chick-lit 5 stars because for the most part they are good, but not earth-shattering. Well, I couldn't help myself on this one! Talking to Addison is super-funny and I think well deserving of the highest praise.

Having read Amanda's Wedding, I became a big fan of Jenny Colgan. She has the humor, irony and quirky approach that has become the trademark style of great contemporary British authors. However, I was slightly disappointed with Talking to Addison, her sophomore effort. It lacks the humor and original comic timing of Amanda's Wedding.

Holly, an out of work florist, is stuck sharing a flat with some rather eccentric people. Josh, the boy-next-door who wants everyone to get along; Kate, the neurotic and self-absorbed career woman; and Addison, the gorgeous geek whose life revolves around the Internet. Addison becomes Holly's object of desire, and she does whatever is in her power to get his attention away from his computer and online girlfriend and unto her. There are some amusing moments in this novel -- there are some twists at the end as well.

Even though it is not as original and witty as her first novel, Talking to Addison is still worth reading, if only for Colgan's ironic humor.

Much, much naughtier than my usual read, still TALKING TO ADDISON was a sublimely droll peek into the life of Holly Livingstone and Friends. The dialogue is quick paced, very British, sarcastic, witty and utterly coarse, lewd, vulgar and bawdy. An eccentric and highly amusing bit of farce that kept me laughing throughout. The reader will meet some bizarrely enchanting characters as well as learn when a kiss is NOT just a kiss. Some screamingly hysterical scenes of "a model of a Modern Major General" together "with many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse."

If you are missing a sense of humor or easily offended or snared in a quagmire of conformity, I would recommend giving this one a pass. Otherwise, click on "Add to Shopping Cart" and get ready to laugh.

Jenny Colgan writes funny,funny stories. Let's get this straight - these aren't complex stories of love and redemption, with 550 pages of twists and turns. These are basically short, funny morality plays. I like how she tackles "nerdom" (or, anorak-dom, if you use the Brit term)and dares to make not one, but two, of the "romantic leads" out-and-out geeks (OK, good looking ones, and in the case of one of them, he can dance and kiss great, too.) I love her self-depracating humor and the fact that there's just not a lot of jet-setting going on here. The supporting cast of characters are brilliant - I can just see this as a movie. (And I know that's not exactly high praise for some authors, but I think it's appropriate here.) I read the UK version, I hope they haven't made it too American for the US market. I recommend this and Amanda's Wedding.

I love British authors - and I thought I'd give this a whirl. I was not disappointed, although at times I was scared! This story has some darkness about it that I am not used to reading in brit chick books!! Nevertheless, it was hilarious and I was laughing out loud - and as I've said before, I LOVE when books make me do this!! If you like brit chick lit, you will like this book, but I would say it is not your "typical" story, but a good venture out for you into other areas of brit chick adventures!!

I stumbled on this book during a trip to the UK last year. I've since loaned it to all my friends, and they have all given it rave reviews. I loaned it to literary friends, technogeek friends, and the reviews from them have all been great.

The narrative has a wonderful cadence to it, with laugh out loud moments. It's sit-com style humor is reminiscent of Bridget Jones, but without the more irritating neurosis of Bridget.

Talking to Addison comes to its wonderful Jenny-Colgan style crescendo in a hospital, with a heavy-metal band, a wannabe Tory (translation Republican) politician and a roomful of coma patients.

The characters are fun and accessible and people that I wish I knew. All in all, a very fun read.<P...

I read, and loved, Amanada's Wedding. It was funny, fast-paced, and had characters you could identify with and a villian you loved to hate. So when I saw Talking to Addison, I was very excited to read it. I do have to admit that there were funny parts to this book, and I actually kind of liked the ending (despite the fact that a lot of the events leading to it were highly unrealistic). But, it was actually painful to get through the entire middle portion of the story! I was very disappointed in this book. Unless you are a HUGE Jenny Colgan fan, I wouldn't bother with this one.

"Talking to Addison" begins as a very quirky, funny, British read, with its protagonist, Holly Livingstone, spewing one liners about and insults to her insane flatmates, coworkers, and the world in general. The author does well in establishing the novel's place and in creating Holly's voice and, to a certain extent, her friends. However, the characters and the subject are all things we've seen and read before, in more successful ways. Holly and her cohorts remain two-dimensional, underemployed, disillusioned twentysomethings. As for the plot, it carries along nicely until the final third where it completely goes off into a far-fetched farce. While the last act holds a few smiles, all I could do was wonder where Addison's mother was in all of this mess, as she completely disappears at the most crucial time. The novel becomes unbelievable and loses any of its earlier charm.

"Talking to Addison" was a really good read, and a fun one. The book is set in England and has a lot of British bite to it, which I always enjoy!

This is the story of a girl who is unlucky in her choice of roommates, often unlucky at work, and also unlucky in love, and the story of how it all gets turned around.

The story is full of laughs, full of "D'oh!"s, and at times poignant and serious. I enjoyed the book very, very much and highly recommend it.

Much, much naughtier than my usual read, still TALKING TO ADDISON was a sublimely droll peek into the life of Holly Livingstone and Friends. The dialogue is quick paced, very British, sarcastic, witty and utterly coarse, lewd, vulgar and bawdy. An eccentric and highly amusing bit of farce that kept me laughing throughout. The reader will meet some bizarrely enchanting characters as well as learn when a kiss is NOT just a kiss. Some screamingly hysterical scenes of "a model of a Modern Major General" together "with many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse."

If you are missing a sense of humor or easily offended or snared in a quagmire of conformity, I would recommend giving this one a pass. Otherwise, click on "Add to Shopping Cart" and get ready to laugh.