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The Scoundrel

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The Scoundrel Nick Hornby PB list price $12.95 Stephen Jaramillo list price $12.00 Berkeley Publishing Group (May 1999) ISBN: 042516859X 256 pages average review: Reviews: This gets: a from eryka: The message I got from this book is that men suck and that I'd be much better off liking women. It did have its amusing moments, but the style totally overwhelmed the plot (in a really, really, bad way). Ugh. He's a really good chef, though. (Has a restaurant in Berkeley, CA.) From the back cover: Carl Carrasco has decided to devote his life to women. No strings attached. And, being an employed heterosexual man in the San Francisco Bay Area, he's hitting the dating scene with a vengeance. There's a hot-and-cold running Russian named Anastasia...a naughty night-shifter known as "Nurse!"...Jane, the blue-collar bisexual bartendress...and Maria Cordova, the cybersex-kitten who claims to be the hottest e-mail female on the Net. But Carl's year of living dangerously isn't all it's cracked up to be. Why? Because he's haunted by The Girl he loved. The Girl who hurt him. The Girl he can't forget...And She must be erased from his mind forever. With sex. (That's the plan, at least. ) eryka.com 1-5 scale: So good you just can't stand it. Almost that good. Sort of good. Generally a waste of time. Destined for the recycler. If you'd like to review this book, or another, click here Similar books by category: american fiction| sf bay area Go home | Go to reviews home © 2002 eryka.com. All rights reserved.