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The Guy Not Taken

Stories

By Jennifer Weiner

(14)

| Hardcover | 9781416535201

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Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, and often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime. From a teenager coming to terms with her father's disappearance to a widow accepting two young women intContinue

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Bookreporter.com - THE GUY NOT TAKEN by Jennifer Weiner

• Read an Excerpt • Author Talk -- September 2006 • Reading Group Guide Jennifer Weiner, bestselling author of GOOD IN BED and IN HER SHOES, handpicks some of her short stories --- some old, some new --- in this collection of short fiction. Usual the ... (read full critics)

bookreporter published on Sun, 29 Aug 2010

2 Reviews

comparing to the script and film adopted from Jennifer Weiner, some of the short stories are rather plain to me. But I do love the expression, the guy not taken, which reminds me of Robert Frost's "the road not taken." That's also the impulsive purchasing motif.

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單眼皮 said on Feb 23, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

I listened to this and think I missed parts??? It jumped so far ahead that it seemed to skip stuff. This could be a defective thing?
It started w/high school dad left etc and the next thing I knew she was in college on her way to florida w/her sister to visit grandma then all of a sudden she ... (continue)

I listened to this and think I missed parts??? It jumped so far ahead that it seemed to skip stuff. This could be a defective thing?
It started w/high school dad left etc and the next thing I knew she was in college on her way to florida w/her sister to visit grandma then all of a sudden she was getting married (which didn't work out but not sure what happened??) I think the eAudiobook was corrupt ot something?
I want to see what others who read this have to say about it.

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Angie said on Jul 21, 2007 | Add your feedback