Good in Bed

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Paula Cale

Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins

Publisher's summary

Cannie Shapiro never wanted to be famous. The smart, sharp, plus-sized pop culture reporter was perfectly content writing about other people's lives on the pages of the Philadelphia Examiner. But the day she opens up a national women's magazine to find out that her ex-boyfriend has been chronicling their ex-sex life is the day her life changes forever.

Loving a larger woman is an act of courage in our world, Bruce has written. And Cannie - who never knew that Bruce saw her as a larger woman or thought that loving her was act of courage - is plunged into misery, and into the most amazing year of her life.

Radiant with wit, bursting with surprises, and written with bite and bittersweet humor, Jennifer Weiner reaches beyond Cannie's story and into the heart of every woman. Gut-level real and laugh-out-loud funny, Good in Bed celebrates the courage of the human spirit and features an unbelievably funny cast of supporting characters, the strangest dog you'll ever encounter, and a heroine you'll never forget.

©2001 Jennifer Weiner, All Rights Reserved (P)2001 Simon & Schuster Inc., AUDIOWORKS Is an Imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Very good

I really enjoyed this audiobook.

Need a laugh?

Wicked LOL funny. Enough said.

Never judge a book by its cover

If you are looking for a provocative romp where the heroine jumps from bed to bed, try another book. This is a romance, not erotica -- cute at the beginning, sad in the middle and they all live happily ever after. It is a light, quick read, like cotton candy, another tale of a 20-something finding out that life has nothing to do with what we see in TV sitcoms or glamour magazines. It's a 21st century Harlequin romance -- and we all need a little Harlequin every now and then.

2 thumbs up

This book was hysterical!!

fun read

holds interest well enough

Disappointing

This book was not what I was expecting. I was often disappointed by the turns the character and this book took. I wish I had used my credit elsewhere.

Not what I expected

Sorry - didn't enjoy this.
What began as a comedy took a turn in the middle to a sad morbid and depressing storyline...with an even more weird ending. It has it's moments, but they're few. This book had the potential to go in a lovely direction but the author went off on tangents that were very bothersome.

Its just okay...

Its kind of funny in some spots. Pretty predictable mostly. And I'm still trying to figure out what the publisher meant in the synopsis by "the strangest dog you'll ever encounter..." because there was nothing remotely remarkable about her dog let alone earning the title of "strangest." Mostly though, my biggest gripe about this book is after a while I just got sick and tired of this woman's complaining. I just have very very little tolerance or sympathy for a person who feels the need to lay blame on someone else for all their problems, can only see the negative, and never shows an ounce of gratitude for all the loving people offering support - especially when she's such a miserable person and dosn't deserve it! Oh, except until the very end when she suddenly has some epiphany and becomes an entirely different person in the blink of an eye. Yeah right.

Don't Waste a Credit!

What disappointed you about Good in Bed?

They story was very depressing.

Has Good in Bed turned you off from other books in this genre?

No

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

I was very disappointed.

Any additional comments?

For the first time ever, I was completely mislead by the reviews of this book. It seemed that most people liked this book. I found it very depressing and would not recommend it to anyone! The narration, however, was very good!