• Sex and the City

  • 10th Anniversary Edition
  • By: Candace Bushnell
  • Narrated by: Cynthia Nixon
  • Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
  • 3.6 out of 5 stars (277 ratings)

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Sex and the City

By: Candace Bushnell
Narrated by: Cynthia Nixon
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Publisher's summary

Welcome to the age of un-innocence. Enter a world where the sometimes shocking and often hilarious mating habits of the privileged are exposed by a true insider. The collection that launched the series that became a phenomenon, now, 10 years later, comes back in an anniversary edition.

In essays drawn from her witty and sometimes brutally candid column in the New York Observer, Candace Bushnell introduces us to the young and beautiful who travel in packs from parties to bars to clubs.

Meet "Carrie", the quintessential young writer looking for love in all the wrong places; "Mr. Big", the business tycoon who drifts from one relationship to another; "Samantha Jones", the 40-ish, successful, "testosterone woman" who uses sex like a man; not to mention "Psycho Moms", "Bicycle Boys", "International Crazy Girls", and the rest of the New Yorkers who inspired one of the most watched TV series of our time. You've seen them on HBO, now listen to the book that started it all.

If you're a big fan of the TV series, you won't want to miss the Sex and the City Writers' Special from Un-Cabaret.
©1996 Candace Bushnell. All rights reserved (P)2006 Hachette Audio. All rights reserved.
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  • Categories: Romance

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"Fascinating...hilarious....Welcome to the cruel planet that is Manhattan." (Los Angeles Times)

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Loved the TV show, great narrator, unbearable book

I was a big fan of "Sex in the City" on HBO, Cynthia Nixon is a GREAT narrator and enticed me to listen to this awful book much longer than I would have for any other narrator, but this book was SO AWFUL I COULD NOT ENDURE IT....and I am a HUGE audiobook fan.....JUST AWFUL.

I can see the seeds of what became a great TV show (and I am not a big TV watcher) but I admire the writers and actors of the HBO production about a million times more now that I know what they had to work with originally.....

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BLECH!

This was so disappointing! I am a huge fan of the HBO show and of Cynthia Nixon's narration, but this book is nearly impossible to follow. There's no point to it at all. What a waste!

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Love her voice

love short stories, easy to catch up every time. and love her voice reading this book. overall, it's great. looking forward to another book read by her.

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Don't bother

I am that one female in the US that hasn't seen the TV show. The characters in the book are unlikeable - immature, making morals, selfish... I don't understand why anyone pursued this for TV.

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Hard to get through

Cynthia Nixon’s reading was the best part of this book. As a Sex and the City series fan I’m glad the characters (especially Carrie) evolved from the pathetic characters in the book. I appreciate the creators of the series even more now.

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Light "read"

This isn't the TV show, but it absolutely has the same ambience as the TV show. I enjoyed listening and look forward to the rest of Bushnells books!

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A chore...left a bad taste in my mouth

Without being brought to life by the amazing cast of performers in the HBO series, and the charming humor that made it a super hit, this story is nothing but a collection of vaguely amusing, gossipy snippets about despicably shallow individuals, who neither value themselves, or the state of privilege in which they exit. There is nothing heroic or even remotely admirable about this work. Loaded with cynicism, it reads like something scribbled on a public bathroom wall..a complete waste of time, I couldn't wait for it to end. Cynthia Nixon does a good job narrating.

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great read

i loved the story itself, but i’m not sure why the audiobook skips over 2 whole chapters in the actual book. loved the book and how they introduced the characters

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Dated

This book is rather dated. It was fun to hear how some of the original characters came to be but otherwise the show is far better. None of these characters are likable, it’s shallow and of another time.

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Confusing

Except for a few names it’s difficult to see how this inspired such a great show. Giving Ms. Bushnell credit seems very generous. Cynthia Nixon did a beautiful job of narrating the discombobulated stories and the only reason I finished it out.

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