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The Washingtonienne
The blog that scandalized Washington, D.C., is now a sharp, steamy, utterly unrepentant novel set against the backdrop of the nations' capital…
"Just between us girls, Washington is an easy place to get laid. It's a simple matter of economics: supply and demand. Washington lacks those industries that attract the Beautiful People, such as entertainment and fashion. Instead it has the government, also know as 'Hollywood for the Ugly.' Without the model-actress population to compete with, my stock shot up when I moved to DC."
When Jacqueline Turner's fiancée gives her two days to move out of his apartment, she has no choice but to leave New York City and crash with her best friend in Washington, DC. (She can't be expected to keep herself in cute clothes while paying New York City rent, after all.) She needs a new, exciting life—not to mention real employment. Where better to get a fresh start than the nation's capital?
Alas, DC turns out to be a lot more buttoned-up and toned down than she'd hoped. It's a town where a girl has to make her own excitement—and Jacqueline Turner is just the woman for the job.
From the married presidential appointee who gives her cash after each tryst, to the lascivious Georgetown lawyer who parades her around like something out of Pretty Woman, Jackie's roster of paramours grows so complicated her friends ask her to start a blog so they can keep up. But in a small town like Washington, the line between private and public blurs very easily. Just as one of her beaux takes a lead in the race for her heart, Jackie realizes this blog idea may be more than she bargained for…
Deliciously gossipy and impossible to put down, The Washingtonienne is every bit as outrageously scandalous as the real-life exploits that inspired it.
In May, 2004, 26-year-old Jessica Cutler was thrust into the public eye when the on-line diary she kept for her friends exploded into Washington's scandale du jour. Immediately fired from her job as mail girl in the office of Senator Mike DeWine (for "unacceptable use of Senate computers"), Jessica remains unemployed in Washington, D.C.
304 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
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January 7, 2020
Smut A Thon: Out of Your Comfort Zone
2.5 Stars
I didn't know which prompt this book would fit....until I got to the chapter in which a character recounts a story of being asked to put M&M's in butthole during sex....
It was at this point that I knew that this book was just a little bit out of my comfort zone.
The Washingtonienne is not a good book but I never thought it would be. I mean it has tits on the cover. One should not expect high literature from a book with tits on the cover.
I enjoyed this book for what it was. Dumb and trashy fun. The writing was awful and all the characters were terrible but I had fun so who cares. I came so close to giving this book 3 stars but it was just too long. 291 pages is about 60-70 pages too long.
I don't recommend this book unless you like to occasionally read a trashy and badly written book. I know I do!
2.5 Stars
I didn't know which prompt this book would fit....until I got to the chapter in which a character recounts a story of being asked to put M&M's in butthole during sex....
It was at this point that I knew that this book was just a little bit out of my comfort zone.
The Washingtonienne is not a good book but I never thought it would be. I mean it has tits on the cover. One should not expect high literature from a book with tits on the cover.
I enjoyed this book for what it was. Dumb and trashy fun. The writing was awful and all the characters were terrible but I had fun so who cares. I came so close to giving this book 3 stars but it was just too long. 291 pages is about 60-70 pages too long.
I don't recommend this book unless you like to occasionally read a trashy and badly written book. I know I do!
December 20, 2008
Ha! I love that it says "My review / What I learned from this book".
I, unlike many reviewers here, liked this book. It was a quick read, I picked it up after dinner and finished it before going to bed. For all the people that 'hated this smut' why'd you pick up the book? Did you think you were getting a conservative political account of what living in DC is like? The authors boobs are on the cover! And she was involved in a sex scandal! If you aren't interested in that 'garbage' maybe you should have picked up the John Adams biography.
I liked this book. It reminded me of some of my friends who live in New York and DC and I thought it was pretty funny. Yes, gross and disturbing at times (I certainly can't relate to the M&Ms account) but funny, and even more so since it is based on her blog/life (or the short amount of time she spent in DC).
You can read part of her blog here: The Lost Washingtonienne Blog If you find it intriguing/funny, you'll like the book. If it's appalling/disgusting and you don't believe people like this exist 1. you should get out more and 2. you probably shouldn't read this book.
I, unlike many reviewers here, liked this book. It was a quick read, I picked it up after dinner and finished it before going to bed. For all the people that 'hated this smut' why'd you pick up the book? Did you think you were getting a conservative political account of what living in DC is like? The authors boobs are on the cover! And she was involved in a sex scandal! If you aren't interested in that 'garbage' maybe you should have picked up the John Adams biography.
I liked this book. It reminded me of some of my friends who live in New York and DC and I thought it was pretty funny. Yes, gross and disturbing at times (I certainly can't relate to the M&Ms account) but funny, and even more so since it is based on her blog/life (or the short amount of time she spent in DC).
You can read part of her blog here: The Lost Washingtonienne Blog If you find it intriguing/funny, you'll like the book. If it's appalling/disgusting and you don't believe people like this exist 1. you should get out more and 2. you probably shouldn't read this book.
August 31, 2012
Disturbing, off-putting, gross... a few words I can think of to describe this book and its main character, Jackie. If I didn't have to read it as part of my job, I would have quit about 2 chapters in. Jackie essentially trades sex for money and has no respect for herself, her friends or her many lovers. She has no morals and is only sorry for her despicable behavior when she gets caught. If Jackie had even one redeeming quality, she might make a good anti-hero, but the problem with this book is that she simply doesn't. The only good thing about the book might be that it gives us normal, self-respecting women a peek into the sick mind of a true slut.
October 6, 2010
I'd forgotten I still owned--and had read--this awful trash until I started clearing out our enormous bookshelves yesterday as we arrange our move. I never bought nor sought out this book, I'm glad to say. It was sent along by a book-industry friend as a lark (we'd all been "anti-Sex in the City girls" for years together 'in the city', where, as obviously also in DC, girls like Jessica Cutler abound and probably have for ages). I remember a cold chilly morning in winter, curling up by the fire with a warm cup of tea, expecting not Great Literature or Fine Art or even interesting bits of Wisdom--but at least, a bit of fun.
You'll find none of that here, though. Most likely, you'll find nothing. Ostensibly, this is a novel--a light-hearted 'romp' about a young 21st Century girl in DC who works for a well-known, well-connected senator and starts a blog about her experiences, political insights almost not included. Mostly, her 'experiences' amount to sexual 'adventures' with predictably sleazy, ambitiously ruthless DC guys who verge on caricature and--predictably, alas--her blog ends up someplace which earns her notoriety and, unsurprisingly, a call from agents and then publishers so that ultimately she ends up writing this novel...
Sounds circular? Sounds familiar? Well, that's because it is. How depressing that after an entire century of struggle and oppression, rebellion and precarious advancement, this is what a young woman learns of the world today: demean yourself, play the game, lose your morals--if you ever had any to start with (which brings to mind: what the h-- are the parents of these girls thinking of?)--and then pretty soon you might strike lucky and get some sort of deal. In that context, there's not much difference between these awful tomes--which will disappear into a recycling void as the years pass--and possibly even worse 'reality' TV shows like, say, 'The Real Desperate Housewives of [fill in the blanks]'.
Jessica Cutler must have really thick skin, to stand this sort of exposure. But that's pretty much all she has. Her writing is poor, her ideas uninspiring, her grammatical and structural knowledge virtually zero and, worse, the 'self' that is revealed via a book such as this is unappealing and untrustworthy. Ultimately, though, what I always find interesting when a person (usually, unfortunately, a young woman) demeans themselves to this point simply for exposure is the question of: where do they go from here? When they grow older, say, do they ever look back with regret? If they do ever fall in love--and I've my doubt a person like this is capable of love--what does their loved one think?
Because for all the defenses made on behalf of this kind of trash--usually by other trash-producers, so go figure--and the trite and untrue assertion that, for example, one could compare this kind of novel to Erica Jong's 'Fear of Flying', it is quite obvious that none of that is true. Jong didn't set out to do anything in order to get known or published. She was living her life, as women of her generation and background did, and her desire was to produce real, true literature, mostly poetry, which she also did. 'Fear of Flying' is not about her sexual escapades. It actually, in a way, has more in common with, surprisingly, Elizabeth Gilbert's 'Eat, Pray, Love' (as much as that book annoyed me). It is a novel of self-discovery, wherein a young woman pushes herself beyond set boundaries in order to conquer her metaphorical fear of 'flying' which is actually fear of herself, and the sexual adventures--which pale in comparison to anything current--are vehicles towards that, not a means to an end.
In novels/memoirs such as Cutler's, on the other hand, sex is stripped of all meaning and feminism has lost: young women are back where they started, trading sex for favors, using sex for advancement, interchanging sex for intimacy and truth, and abandoning the protection of their own souls.
You'll find none of that here, though. Most likely, you'll find nothing. Ostensibly, this is a novel--a light-hearted 'romp' about a young 21st Century girl in DC who works for a well-known, well-connected senator and starts a blog about her experiences, political insights almost not included. Mostly, her 'experiences' amount to sexual 'adventures' with predictably sleazy, ambitiously ruthless DC guys who verge on caricature and--predictably, alas--her blog ends up someplace which earns her notoriety and, unsurprisingly, a call from agents and then publishers so that ultimately she ends up writing this novel...
Sounds circular? Sounds familiar? Well, that's because it is. How depressing that after an entire century of struggle and oppression, rebellion and precarious advancement, this is what a young woman learns of the world today: demean yourself, play the game, lose your morals--if you ever had any to start with (which brings to mind: what the h-- are the parents of these girls thinking of?)--and then pretty soon you might strike lucky and get some sort of deal. In that context, there's not much difference between these awful tomes--which will disappear into a recycling void as the years pass--and possibly even worse 'reality' TV shows like, say, 'The Real Desperate Housewives of [fill in the blanks]'.
Jessica Cutler must have really thick skin, to stand this sort of exposure. But that's pretty much all she has. Her writing is poor, her ideas uninspiring, her grammatical and structural knowledge virtually zero and, worse, the 'self' that is revealed via a book such as this is unappealing and untrustworthy. Ultimately, though, what I always find interesting when a person (usually, unfortunately, a young woman) demeans themselves to this point simply for exposure is the question of: where do they go from here? When they grow older, say, do they ever look back with regret? If they do ever fall in love--and I've my doubt a person like this is capable of love--what does their loved one think?
Because for all the defenses made on behalf of this kind of trash--usually by other trash-producers, so go figure--and the trite and untrue assertion that, for example, one could compare this kind of novel to Erica Jong's 'Fear of Flying', it is quite obvious that none of that is true. Jong didn't set out to do anything in order to get known or published. She was living her life, as women of her generation and background did, and her desire was to produce real, true literature, mostly poetry, which she also did. 'Fear of Flying' is not about her sexual escapades. It actually, in a way, has more in common with, surprisingly, Elizabeth Gilbert's 'Eat, Pray, Love' (as much as that book annoyed me). It is a novel of self-discovery, wherein a young woman pushes herself beyond set boundaries in order to conquer her metaphorical fear of 'flying' which is actually fear of herself, and the sexual adventures--which pale in comparison to anything current--are vehicles towards that, not a means to an end.
In novels/memoirs such as Cutler's, on the other hand, sex is stripped of all meaning and feminism has lost: young women are back where they started, trading sex for favors, using sex for advancement, interchanging sex for intimacy and truth, and abandoning the protection of their own souls.
November 26, 2008
I just finished reading Washingtonienne, a fictionalized account of Jessica’s experiences working in Senator Mike DeWine’s (R-OH) office. I was just at CGS when this story broke in the DC, then national, press. It chronicles the life of a young woman who blogs about her sexcapades while working on the Hill. I picked up the book since I’m a political junkie; however, I was left wanting, just as a high wears off and you’re looking for your next fix. The book was enjoyable just for the “I’ve been there” moments, especially as she drinks caffeinated beverages at Murky Coffee off of 7th Street in SE. I’ve spent plenty of time and money in this exact coffee shop. But, the location dropping, like name dropping in many books, seems more an afterthought than an attempt to build atmosphere. The book is like a blog, but one that doesn’t have much content. I wouldn’t recommend buying this book, but I would say browse through it at the bookstore or library to take in the wonk-sites of DC.
May 24, 2010
I told myself in the beginning I would not beat up a book or an author, so I will have to keep this review short.
I am fine with an occasional sex scene or obscenity cast around - but this book was over the top and a little too much. Filled with sex, drugs and some work life, this book was not the "Washington Sex and the City" it was advertised to be.
I only finished because I could use it for two challenges and I am that girl who must give a book a fair shot. After 100 pages, I only had 150 some odd more to finish and couldn't walk away. Thankfully being stuck in a car helped finish it off. Unfortunately, living near DC, I was so excited to read this book and be able to know where the character was running around. I was let down.
I would not pass this book off to anyone.
I am fine with an occasional sex scene or obscenity cast around - but this book was over the top and a little too much. Filled with sex, drugs and some work life, this book was not the "Washington Sex and the City" it was advertised to be.
I only finished because I could use it for two challenges and I am that girl who must give a book a fair shot. After 100 pages, I only had 150 some odd more to finish and couldn't walk away. Thankfully being stuck in a car helped finish it off. Unfortunately, living near DC, I was so excited to read this book and be able to know where the character was running around. I was let down.
I would not pass this book off to anyone.
August 23, 2007
Pick up the book, read the first line, and you'll know whether you are going to love or hate every word. It's a quick and easy read, but beautiful and nasty at the same time, everyone's dirty little secret. Fantastic...
Lets face it girls, this is a much more accurate depiction of Washington than anyone would be willing to admit.
Lets face it girls, this is a much more accurate depiction of Washington than anyone would be willing to admit.
December 3, 2007
Somehow the standards for fiction and memoir are different. In a "real" story, I expect things to be a tad disjointed and unresolved in spots, and I will even tolerate a certain amount of poor writing. After all, the author is somewhat limited by the facts (unless he's James Frey). In a novel, however, none of that is acceptable. Don't try to sell me a half-assed book if you have the freedom to make up whatever the heck you want.
Although Cutler presents this book as a novel, it's well-known that she lived this life. And so I read this book more as a memoir than as a work of fiction. The good news is that Cutler benefitted from my lower standards -- which is good, because as a novel this book fails on basically every front. It's poorly written, the characters are superficial, and the plot is non-existent.
The bad news (for Cutler) is that I basically hate her and Jackie, her main character. They are disgusting, sleazy narcissists who see others as nothing more than a source of entertainment and a mark for their nastiness. Cutler makes Monica Lewinsky look like a prude. Her parents must be very proud.
Although Cutler presents this book as a novel, it's well-known that she lived this life. And so I read this book more as a memoir than as a work of fiction. The good news is that Cutler benefitted from my lower standards -- which is good, because as a novel this book fails on basically every front. It's poorly written, the characters are superficial, and the plot is non-existent.
The bad news (for Cutler) is that I basically hate her and Jackie, her main character. They are disgusting, sleazy narcissists who see others as nothing more than a source of entertainment and a mark for their nastiness. Cutler makes Monica Lewinsky look like a prude. Her parents must be very proud.
June 11, 2012
Jessica Cutler worked for Senator Mike DeWine (yes, from my state). During her time on The Hill, she spent a lot of time in clubs, taking drugs, having sex and barely eating. She kept track of all of it in a blog. She was fired for having the blog, basically.
It's hard to know how to feel about a book like this. Sometimes I felt:
*Intrigued, because this is a world I know very little about.
*Disgusted, because of the complete lack of depth and soul sometimes shown
*Sad, because someone only acts this way if there are other issues in the background
*Amused, because some of her conclusions were so apt
Any book that can give you all of those emotions, where you don't know whether to hug and help this poor girl or thank God you were never this lost or both, is a well-written and engaging tale.
Does she hate herself? I don't know. I think she was sometimes proud of the things she was doing, thinking that this was the best way to live life.
I've read that she has a daughter now. I wonder what she would think of her own daughter doing such things. Hard to say.
It's definitely entertaining.
It's hard to know how to feel about a book like this. Sometimes I felt:
*Intrigued, because this is a world I know very little about.
*Disgusted, because of the complete lack of depth and soul sometimes shown
*Sad, because someone only acts this way if there are other issues in the background
*Amused, because some of her conclusions were so apt
Any book that can give you all of those emotions, where you don't know whether to hug and help this poor girl or thank God you were never this lost or both, is a well-written and engaging tale.
Does she hate herself? I don't know. I think she was sometimes proud of the things she was doing, thinking that this was the best way to live life.
I've read that she has a daughter now. I wonder what she would think of her own daughter doing such things. Hard to say.
It's definitely entertaining.
August 1, 2007
This is a juicy read, kind of trashy, but I love it. It's a story based loosely on a true story. The main character is an intern on the Hill for a senator, sleeps her way through DC, blogs about it "privately" to her friends, then gets discovered. I think I read this book in a day. My ex also read it and tore right through the book.
June 30, 2017
god i really wish i could give this book zero stars. i picked it up at a book sale because i wanted to pad out the grocery bag i had and i honestly want a time machine so i can go back in time and leave it in the fucking bin. every character is so damn unlikable and the main one is absolute trash. don't get me wrong, it's not the "having sex for money/gifts" thing that bothered me, but she's so damn toxic and ugly on the inside and every character is also ugly on the inside that i actually said "if this book doesn't end with everyone dying at the end, im gonna be pissed."
THEN I FOUND OUT IT WAS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE AND EVENTS (yeah i didn't read the book jacket, just a couple of sentences on the back and decided to pick it up bc i love stories about escorts/sugar babies lol) and it just made things about a thousand times worse anyway don't read this trash ass book
THEN I FOUND OUT IT WAS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE AND EVENTS (yeah i didn't read the book jacket, just a couple of sentences on the back and decided to pick it up bc i love stories about escorts/sugar babies lol) and it just made things about a thousand times worse anyway don't read this trash ass book
March 28, 2019
If you're curious about how 'easy' girls were (are) in DC, this will give you a good idea. Not a pretty picture of upcoming generations.
August 14, 2020
1.5 stars. I have no clue where this book came from, it was just sitting on my shelf with no cover. If it had a cover I probably wouldn't of read it. This book was awful and it is even sadder to have found out that parts of it are true.
October 26, 2023
Terrible! Telling everyone I know to read it. The most embarrassing thing I have read publicly on the Metro. Deeply unsurprising that the author worked in a Republican office. Was the M&M’s detail really necessary?
March 11, 2014
The night Jacqueline "Jackie" Turner makes a bad decision and cheats on her fiancé, he turns around the next day and slaps her with enough evidence and backup to prove her infidelity - thus, giving her precisely two days to get the hell out of his apartment. Without an argument or a place to go, she decides to simply leave New York City altogether and temporarily crash with her best friend in Washington, DC.
Following her move, it doesn't take Jackie long to make her mark as the smutty, scandalous, drug obsessed party girl she was back home in New York. She promptly positions herself in a job as an intern while staking out a way to get a "real", well-paying job working for some government official. Soon, she discovers that making more money simply rests in sleeping with married or involved politicians who think nothing of footing out exorbitant amounts of cash in exchange for a little company and some sexual favors.
Before long, she's involved in so many different affairs, that her friends ask her to set up a blog that will help to keep them up to date with all of Jackie's flavors of the month, and entertain the public with amusing stories of her sexual lifestyle. Things get quite sticky for her as she soon comes to realize that her sloppy actions and blatant disregard for reputations may be landing her into some pretty hot water.
A bit overdone and just plain trashy, THE WASHINGTONIENNE reads like a badly produced reality TV show. If you're in the mood for a scandalous over the top gossipy book, then this one's for you. Otherwise, skip it. It's simply just brain rot.
Following her move, it doesn't take Jackie long to make her mark as the smutty, scandalous, drug obsessed party girl she was back home in New York. She promptly positions herself in a job as an intern while staking out a way to get a "real", well-paying job working for some government official. Soon, she discovers that making more money simply rests in sleeping with married or involved politicians who think nothing of footing out exorbitant amounts of cash in exchange for a little company and some sexual favors.
Before long, she's involved in so many different affairs, that her friends ask her to set up a blog that will help to keep them up to date with all of Jackie's flavors of the month, and entertain the public with amusing stories of her sexual lifestyle. Things get quite sticky for her as she soon comes to realize that her sloppy actions and blatant disregard for reputations may be landing her into some pretty hot water.
A bit overdone and just plain trashy, THE WASHINGTONIENNE reads like a badly produced reality TV show. If you're in the mood for a scandalous over the top gossipy book, then this one's for you. Otherwise, skip it. It's simply just brain rot.
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July 29, 2011What a sad little whore. Whats even sadder is that this is based on a true story and this crap got published. What has become of literature? I only read this because Sarah Jessica Park is turing this into a tv show for HBO and I was hoping for a smarter, Washington version of Sex and the City. I just hope its far better then this book. None of the characters were likeable, they were all pretentious, souless, sad little whores. The plot just crumpled by the second chapter and became boring. No one learned anything from their experiances, there was nothing interesting or revolutionary about the characters, it wasn't even funny. The best thing about this book is how easy and quick it is to read, which is something I was dying to finish so I could get back to books actually worth my time and effort. This book is a major waste of time, ink and I think some of my brain cells actually died.
April 23, 2008
I almost found this entertaining...but knowing that the exploits of the main character are simply thinly-veiled fictionalized accounts of the author's own experiences, I found the story a bit sad and a bit...disappointing. I mean, seriously?? I don't quite understand how any woman could receive money, jobs, drugs, gifts, etc. in exchange for (often extramarital) sex and not acknowledge that she just might be a prostitute - a well-compensated, high-living one, granted, but a prostitute nonetheless. By all means, if that's the lifestyle someone wants, fine...but call it what it is. In our modern society, don't try to convince the readers that it tooks months and months of living like that before the revelation of, "could I be a prostitute?" occurred.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 22, 2012
I suppose if I was going to muster up something positive to say about this novel it would be that it was short, and easy to read. That is where my positive feedback ends. The main character in this story is incredibly shallow and the reader spends the whole book following one bad decision after another. Her focus is always on how to something for nothing. Well, not "nothing" she will have sex with anyone who will throw her a bone. As one chapter ended and the next one began, I kept wishing that she would find her own self worth, but she never does. Then she is surprised when once again her world falls apart because she can't keep her legs closed.
Overall, it was shallow, meaningless, and I think it is quite possible that this book killed brain cells.
Overall, it was shallow, meaningless, and I think it is quite possible that this book killed brain cells.
December 21, 2008
What a trashy novel! I was not surprised, having followed Jessica Cutler's "career" in DC. While supposedly a work of fiction, this book was a thinly veiled account of her experiences in the nation's capital. It chronicled a lot of mindless, self-destructive behavior. The main character was very hard for me to like or understand. Over and over again, she tried to explain her irresponsible behavior by saying she was just one of many young women in DC acting this way. I have news for her. I was a young woman in DC and I never acted like her. I know the author has made a name for herself in New York since her experiences in DC. I wonder if she thinks it was all worth it.
August 30, 2016
When I read the back I thought, "Ooooh, steamy!" Then I started to read it and as time went on, I thought, "Is this what goes on in the mind of a narcissist?" I kept looking at the back cover to see her photo and couldn't believe what this woman was capable of doing. While fucking awesome for her, I just felt disgusted by everyone involved.
I haven't felt good about the books I've been reading lately, but I gotta skim through the books I've collected through the years to figure out what will make it on my shelves. This book definitely did not make the cut.
I haven't felt good about the books I've been reading lately, but I gotta skim through the books I've collected through the years to figure out what will make it on my shelves. This book definitely did not make the cut.
May 30, 2007
This trashy quick read held my attention from front to back. I think every female intern living in my UCDC dorm read this book --and laughed. A must read for interns working on the Hill!
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July 29, 2012I made it to page 127. Just awful, but judging by the cover what should I have expected? Bad dialogue, naive women, pathetic men.
August 27, 2012
Awful. The main character lacks even a single redeeming quality.
August 21, 2013
This book is a waste of paper.
August 6, 2021
If you somehow expect this to be great quality writing with the cleavage on the cover, you're a wonder. This is irreverent, explicit, and consumed with sex, power, designer clothing, and alcohol. A paraphrase: DC is for the uncool nerds, because if we were actually cool, we would live in NYC. It's full of such deadpan pronouncements. It is actually very funny unless you can't get past the crassness (which I absolutely can). If I had to read this kind of thing all of the time, I would be woefully miserable and intellectually *unfulfilled*. Every once in a blue moon, it's a delicious indulgence.
June 23, 2024
This book was the reading equivalent of eating an entire tub of cookie dough while binge watching Desperate Housewives. Was it bad for me and did I lose braincells in the process? Yes. But, was it also wildly fun and immediately captured my interest and held it from start to finish? Also yes. The duality of being a good bad book in this case is astonishing and should be studying in a lab. I loathed the protagonist so much that she ended up endearing. Check your feminism and smug sense of superiority at the door for 33 chapters and you too can enjoy this messed up book. Just make sure you actually pick those items back up on your way out.
August 7, 2024
I read this book years ago when I was 18. My husband and I lived in the DMV area and he heard about the book on a morning radio show. He picked up a copy and we read it together. I remember it being a good read. It was scandalous and so different from the life we were living as newlyweds so we fully enjoyed the book. I sometimes wonder if I should read it now that I’m 37, which I’m sure is what led me to think about this book to begin with. 😂 I’m sure I’d interpret it differently now than I did then.
July 16, 2025
Saindo um pouco da minha área de conforto, comecei essa leitura na curiosidade de saber os podres dos engravatados de Washington e terminei meio/muito decepcionada. Pareceu uma espécie de Sex in the City meio fraco e forçado.
Tudo correu rápido demais e eu senti falta dos posts que ela fazia na web, foi história demais e eu fiquei meio perdida no que havia sido postado e o que ela apenas viveu. É fraquinho, mas ainda funciona como gênero "fofoca" que eu chamo. À quem tiver curiosidade, vale ler, mas não vá com muita sede ao copo.
Tudo correu rápido demais e eu senti falta dos posts que ela fazia na web, foi história demais e eu fiquei meio perdida no que havia sido postado e o que ela apenas viveu. É fraquinho, mas ainda funciona como gênero "fofoca" que eu chamo. À quem tiver curiosidade, vale ler, mas não vá com muita sede ao copo.
January 11, 2021
Picked up a mass market of this in the airport on the way to London in 2006. Can’t remember a thing about it other than a slightly date rapey/overly aggressive sexual encounter I believe the main character has with a colleague at one point. I know I finished it and didn’t hate it. But I was also 17 at the time of reading. Couldn’t tell you anything else about it, just remember it being dating and sexual odyssey of a young girl in the stuffy political environment of D.C.
March 20, 2024
This book was not as bad as some of these reviews make it out to be. The description on the back pretty much sums it up. And if you don’t think this happens in every major city especially our capital then you should visit more big cities. Only reason it did not get more stars is because I have read some amazing books recently that are not easy to compare so I cannot give this one a 4-5 star. Good kind of funny book though. Quick easy read so it won’t take up much of your day. Just read it.
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