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The Dirty Girls Social Club
The Dirty Girls Social Club
Author: Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
ISBN-13: 9780312313821
ISBN-10: 0312313829
Publication Date: 5/13/2004
Pages: 320
Rating:
  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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3.2 stars, based on 214 ratings
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Book Type: Paperback
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68 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

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Helpful Score: 2
Interesting look at a group of women who may all be Latinas but who couldn't be any more different in every way! I enjoyed it a lot.
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Helpful Score: 2
This book was hard to read since I don't speak any Spanish. The plot was good, but I think that a lot of subtleties were lost on me...
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Helpful Score: 1
A great read...couldn't put it down and you don't have to be Hispanic to enjoy it!
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Helpful Score: 1
More guilty pleasure reading! In a similar vein of "Sex and the City."
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Helpful Score: 1
The book started out very slow for me. Around the 2nd half of the novel, my interest picked up and I got to the point I couldn't put it down. Each chapter is written through a different character.
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Helpful Score: 1
Cute and light. A fun read.
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I tried, but just couldn't get into this book. :/
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I had a hard time putting this book down, although I also had some character confusion in the beginning. I adored the characters in this book, who are richly textured and interesting. The relationships between the women are equally endearing. Just an all-around great book.
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Don't remember much being "dirty" about it. Decent enough chick lit with a little ethnic mixed in
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2 stars - just okay.
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A book about six girls who meet in college and stay friends even many years later. They all have their hispanic heritage in common, even though they are different religions and different colors. This book explores their lives as they are today as well as stories from their pasts and how they have changed (or not) over the years since their college days.
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Great book- fun reading! Enjoyed these characters, and their stories. I don't speak Spanish, and only understand a bit, but I still loved it!
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WONDERFUL book about 6 friends from BU. Kind of like a Latina group of Ya-Yas
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A funny, witty book
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From my wife - it's a fun read for women who would like some insight into the latina culture.
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Fun, light reading.
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Great read!
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This was a good story of how women bond from colege to adult life.
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FUN! Not at all what I expected. I loved the changing point of view of all the different characters.
teknogurlie avatar reviewed The Dirty Girls Social Club on + 9 more book reviews
Hilarious! This is the first novel by this wonderful writter. It's full of love, scandal, emotion, definately the type of book to share between girlfriends. Learn what a "Sucia" is really all about....
bumbumgirl avatar reviewed The Dirty Girls Social Club on + 13 more book reviews
Great book! A very enjoyable read. Great for fans of Chick Lit!
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Six friends whose mutual support and admiration society sorts out and celebrates the complications and triumphs in each other's lives.
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Quick and easy to read novel. Great beach book! Funny and entertaining.
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Good book. Fast read.
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Meet the dirty girls--Lauren, Sara, Amber, Elizabeth, Rebecca, and Usnavys--six friends whose mutual support and (mostly)admiration society sorts out and celebrates the complications and triumphs in each other's lives. No matter what happens to each of them (and a lot does), the Girls dish, dine, and compare notes on the bumpy course of life and love. There's always a lot of catching up to do.
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When I first starting reading this, I didn't think I would like it, but it's one of my favorite chick Lit books....you fall in love with the characters!
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This is an entertaining and inspiring book about the lives of 6 friends. The author gives each character depth, and though they are completely different from each other, they maintain their friendship through all of life's ups and downs. Excellent debut novel!
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I had a hard time keeping myself interested for the first 100 pages. After that I was pretty well aquainted with the six charaters and had a entertaining time reading their story. It was truley a celebration of what a friendship should be, no matter how different ones lifestyle or personality. It was abmirable to see these girls with such different views stick together and pull eachother thought their hard patches of live. All in all a good read.
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I loved this book - I fell in love with all the characters. It was very engaging, and I cound't put this book down. I am looking forward to reading more books by this author.
trulyamme avatar reviewed The Dirty Girls Social Club on + 3 more book reviews
This book was kind of a disappointment. It was really slow and I never really got into it. The ending also left me a bit unsatisfied.
DameEdna avatar reviewed The Dirty Girls Social Club on + 149 more book reviews
I found this Latina Chick Lit very enjoyable. The reader does a good job with the different characters.
WildOrchid avatar reviewed The Dirty Girls Social Club on + 222 more book reviews
Abridged 5 hours
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It was interesting seeing how these woman go through their lives. It definitly a womans novel that anyone would like to read.
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Latina ChickLit. Six friends who come together for a monthly meeting to tell or keep secret what is happening to each of them.
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Fun light summer read.
flowerschristina avatar reviewed The Dirty Girls Social Club on + 9 more book reviews
relateable, fun and even a little gritty.
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This was a wonderful book. Valdes-Rodriguez writes of Latinas with wry humor. She mixes in enough Spanish to make it fun. This is a must read for anyone who loves chick lit.
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Word's can't even begin to describe how much I loved this book. It was great and I would highly reccomned it to any other Chick Lit fans or girls who have a tight group of friends that are always there to support each other trough thick and thin after all this is what this book is all about.
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Great book- fun writting
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Story told from the different perspectives of the main characters. Learned a lot about Latina culture! Fun read.
Snacker34 avatar reviewed The Dirty Girls Social Club on + 12 more book reviews
Nice summer read!
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good book
La-Estudiante avatar reviewed The Dirty Girls Social Club on + 7 more book reviews
This is one of those books that you hear about through word of mouth - from friends, sisters, amigas - and after you read it, you love it! Not only that, you start recommending it to your friends and sisters. Granted, you may have to be Latina to get this book, but I think if you are a woman with a close knit group of girlfriends, you can still identify with one of the six Sucias, which is the name the ladies refer themselves to. I have read this book at least three times.
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Much better than I thought it would be. I found this very entertaining.
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I really liked this book. I'ts about true frienship and the stuggles of being a woman.
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I had a little trouble getting into the book becuase each chapter is written from a different character's point of view. But by the middle the book had my attention. The book is about a group of girls that met in College and still meet once a month years later.
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Very light and easy read.
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I love this book and this author. It made me cry, laugh, and cry and laugh at the same time! I'm now a die hard fan of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez!
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My book club was to read this but this was the only one I couldn't finish. I just don't like this Chick Lit. stuff. However, it did get very good reviews and was only the New York Time Bestseller list.
ilovedale3 avatar reviewed The Dirty Girls Social Club on + 524 more book reviews
Cute chick-lit story. I didn't think it was as great as everyone else made it out to be, but it was a nice, easy read.
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I love this author! Her writing is injected with so many little smart bits, but is still such a good time to read. Clever, heartwarming, and full of personality.
buttaflies79 avatar reviewed The Dirty Girls Social Club on + 61 more book reviews
I couldn't get past the first 23 pages.
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Great beach read-the story of four women-the chapters alternate to tell the story of each one.
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From Publishers Weekly
Valdes-Rodriguez's debut novel delivers on the promise of its sexy title, offering six lively, irreverent characters: the sucias ("dirty girls" in Spanish), who have been friends since college and get together twice a year to catch up. The book opens at just such a meeting, six years after they've graduated from Boston University, and takes us through an eventful year in their late 20-something lives. This diverse group of women defies stereotypes. There's reserved, conservative Rebecca, founder and editor of a magazine for Latina women, whose marriage to a preppy, Marxist theory-spouting academic is on the rocks; Sara, a full-time mom in Brookline, from a rich Cuban-Jewish family and married to an abusive husband; Usnavys, ambitious and entertainingly materialistic, who's an executive with United Way; Amber, a struggling singer and guitarist; Elizabeth, host of a Boston morning TV show and a born-again Christian; and Lauren, a feisty, hard-drinking newspaper columnist, half Cuban and "half white trash." The book addresses serious questions-prejudice, the difficulty of winning respect from Latino men-but balances them with enough budding (and dying) romances and descriptions of clothing and decor to satisfy any chick lit fan. The lively, humorous writing is peppered with Spanglish and attitude (watching Usnavys approach their meeting place, Lauren says, "Look at her. She just slid up to the curb out front in her silver BMW sedan.... She's on her cell phone. Wait, take two: She's on her itsy-bitsy cell phone. It gets smaller every time I see her. Or maybe she gets bigger, I can't tell. Girl loves her food.") This is a fun, irresistible debut.
prosperedwoman avatar reviewed The Dirty Girls Social Club on + 92 more book reviews
Six Latina friends, late 20s, meet regularly to dish, dine, and compare notes on the bumpy course of life and love. Great book, easy read.
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If you have some extra time on your hands and feel like reaing a stereotypical girl gets craped on by guy but then find the right guy then this is a book I would suggest. But if you have better things to do, i.e. feed the cat, watch paint dry, contemplate the meaning of life, I wouldnt suggest it. Its slow going at times and the plot is extremely transparent.
hunterhd avatar reviewed The Dirty Girls Social Club on + 3 more book reviews
It's a cute story about a group of girl friends and their struggles through relationships, sexual preferences and love.
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Six women met at Boston University ten years ago and formed a mutual support and admiration society that meets regularly to dish, dine and compare notes on the bumpy course of life and love.
Coleopterra avatar reviewed The Dirty Girls Social Club on + 44 more book reviews
A very good read....captured my interest from the start.
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Great read...very enjoyable.
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Funny, good chick lit.
katgif avatar reviewed The Dirty Girls Social Club on + 28 more book reviews
I really liked this book.
tinkerkell avatar reviewed The Dirty Girls Social Club on + 16 more book reviews
I couldn't get past the first 23 pages.
SuzO avatar reviewed The Dirty Girls Social Club on + 65 more book reviews
A fun, predictable read.
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Good read! Like a chick flick :)
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Very enjoyable, bigger than life but still very real characters who grow and learn and support each other through some very big life hurdles.
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Wonderfully fun.
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The jacket to this book is missing, I took it off so to put it on a shelf, don't know where it has gone. My friend gave me this back awhile back. It liked it.