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One for the Money (Stephanie Plum #1)
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Honesty time.
I'm among the 1%.
Whoa, folks. Not this 1% (although how awesome would that be? Owning attack hounds. Rocking a monocle. Wearing titanium shoes. Using fancy words like 'indubitably' and 'mustachioed'. I'd be the best billionaire evah.)
I'm talking about the other 1%. You know, the people who read One for the Money and didn't like it. People such as:
The Church Lady
Grumpy Old Man
These guys
...Me...
(I guess this means I'm officially old and boring or whatever.)
But yeah, I totally do not like this book unlike 99% of the GoodReads population. As far as I'm concerned One for the Money is a dated, exceptionally lame version of The Jersey Shore in which everyone is sporting spandex, big hair, and sexist attitudes.
So basically it's almost exactly the same as every episode of The Jersey Shore. Except with more guns.
Not these guns...
Now that's more like it.
Exactly like the Jersey Shore with lots of real guns. And a really dumb grown woman who cannot be bothered to learn how to shoot a gun even though she's carrying one with her at all times.
Why, you ask?
Because she's being stalked by a rapist. A really violent, super-dangerous raping-rapist who totally wants to rape her. A lot.
But that's not all, folks. There is also a really mysterious mystery. (A rape-y mystery.)
This really attractive MENSA candidate wrapped in spandex who can't shoot a gun to save her life is named Stephanie Plum. Stephanie is trying to solve a mystery so she can help clear the name and reputation ofthe guy who sexually assaulted her when they were children the smoosh-worthy skeevy man-whore love interest. All so she can haul him into jail for jumping bail and collect the $20,000 bounty on his head, or whatever.
In the meantime sexual tension is building between the two. They're tripping over all the innuendo. It's sexy and mysterious. And full of (dumb-)damsel-in-distress like situations.
How could I not love this book, you ask? I just don't. Although, I think I just proved I'm old and boring. If you're not old or boring, and you really love the Jersey Shore, One for the Money might just be the book for you.
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Penny's review
bookshelves: blatently-obvious, blerg, check-your-brain-at-the-door, chick-lit, disappointing, fluff, grrrl-power, meh, mystery, reviewed-books
Apr 06, 2010
bookshelves: blatently-obvious, blerg, check-your-brain-at-the-door, chick-lit, disappointing, fluff, grrrl-power, meh, mystery, reviewed-books
Honesty time.
I'm among the 1%.
Whoa, folks. Not this 1% (although how awesome would that be? Owning attack hounds. Rocking a monocle. Wearing titanium shoes. Using fancy words like 'indubitably' and 'mustachioed'. I'd be the best billionaire evah.)
I'm talking about the other 1%. You know, the people who read One for the Money and didn't like it. People such as:
The Church Lady
Grumpy Old Man
These guys
...Me...
(I guess this means I'm officially old and boring or whatever.)
But yeah, I totally do not like this book unlike 99% of the GoodReads population. As far as I'm concerned One for the Money is a dated, exceptionally lame version of The Jersey Shore in which everyone is sporting spandex, big hair, and sexist attitudes.
So basically it's almost exactly the same as every episode of The Jersey Shore. Except with more guns.
Not these guns...
Now that's more like it.
Exactly like the Jersey Shore with lots of real guns. And a really dumb grown woman who cannot be bothered to learn how to shoot a gun even though she's carrying one with her at all times.
Why, you ask?
Because she's being stalked by a rapist. A really violent, super-dangerous raping-rapist who totally wants to rape her. A lot.
But that's not all, folks. There is also a really mysterious mystery. (A rape-y mystery.)
This really attractive MENSA candidate wrapped in spandex who can't shoot a gun to save her life is named Stephanie Plum. Stephanie is trying to solve a mystery so she can help clear the name and reputation of
In the meantime sexual tension is building between the two. They're tripping over all the innuendo. It's sexy and mysterious. And full of (dumb-)damsel-in-distress like situations.
How could I not love this book, you ask? I just don't. Although, I think I just proved I'm old and boring. If you're not old or boring, and you really love the Jersey Shore, One for the Money might just be the book for you.
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Reading Progress
April 6, 2010
– Shelved
January 10, 2012
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Started Reading
January 10, 2012
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55.0%
"Um, yeah... I know this book was originally published in 1994 but it's making me cringe at every turn. It is offensive in it's attitude about sexual crimes. I guess that's how the 90s were...? And thanks to our society's obsession with The Jersey Shore I can't help but picture the cast of TJS as the various characters. In my mind Stephanie plum looks like a Sammi/J WOW hybrid with a Snooki brain."
January 10, 2012
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56.0%
"Am I wrong in wishing Stephanie will accidentally shoot herself? She's just so dumb and helpless and I keep thinking she going to start using the word 'smush'"
Finished Reading
January 23, 2012
– Shelved as:
blatently-obvious
January 23, 2012
– Shelved as:
blerg
January 23, 2012
– Shelved as:
check-your-brain-at-the-door
January 23, 2012
– Shelved as:
chick-lit
January 23, 2012
– Shelved as:
disappointing
January 23, 2012
– Shelved as:
fluff
January 23, 2012
– Shelved as:
grrrl-power
January 23, 2012
– Shelved as:
meh
January 23, 2012
– Shelved as:
mystery
January 23, 2012
– Shelved as:
reviewed-books
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Jan 23, 2012 12:47PM
My grandma liked this series, so I read the first few when I stayed there. I can totally get your criticism, and for that matter I'm pretty sure I didn't like it so much as have a lack of other reading material!
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Omg this review was hilarious. Before you mentioned rape I was totally on board. Jersey Shore with guns? That sounds amazing.
Is Jersey Shore with guns the poor man's Sopranos? That's what I want to know lol. Well at least we know the answer to the age old question we all ask ourselves: "Can rapists even fall in love?", yes, yes they can!
Now I really wish there would be a season of Jersey Shore where Pauly D and Vinny were dressed in pin-stripe suits and fedoras wandering around with tommy guns fighting other mobsters...yes..
And now I'm forcibly reminded of that StarTrek episode. Now that would be an interesting crossover.
I think 'check-your-brain-at-the-door' basically sums it up for me. The appeal of this was that I didn't have to think about anything at all. And I read it before I really reviewed anything on GR so my tastes were questionable--mostly recommendations from...my mom or random people at bookstores:-/ Oh well. I'm sure you'll be first in line to see Katherine Heigl in the movie.
lol, it seems dated 'cause it was first published in the early 90's. And if anything, Jersey Shore is a lame rip off of this book ( considering jersey shore was made a decade after this)Yes, you do seem old
