Gossip Girl: Bk. 1 Paperback – 1 January 2008

This is an amazing book. A Page turner. Characters were vividly described.You can understand every character well.It's juicy, funny, bitchy :P and what else..full of fun!! :)

Love the gossip girl books

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I love the TV series and didn’t realise it was based on a book so I thought I’d see where it all started. Conclusion - I am surprised they managed to make a show that good from a book that really isn’t great...It’s clearly a teen book (and I am not a teen) but the writing is really cheesy and the “gossip girl” aspect was a bit disjointed. Maybe I would’ve felt differently if I had read the book before seeing the TV series but we’ll never know!

This poorly written book is not as good as the television series. Lonely Boy, Dan Humphrey, is poorly developed and states that he's never had a fight before. However, in the tv series we see him punch Chuck in the eye and threaten him with a second black eye. He is much stronger in the tv series, but in the book he is undeveloped.I understand the principle of opposites attract and that although Serena and Dan are outsiders in their own way, they don't inhabit the same world. Serena is an outsider because she has been kicked out of boarding school and rumours fly around speculating as to the various reasons why that is. However, in both the book and the tv series I don't believe in their relationship. He hasn't fought to win her in the same that his sister, Jenny, is fighting to be accepted into this middle class society. I would have liked to have seen more of Dan being excluded from high society in his school such as people ignoring his presence.Vanessa Adams needed more development as an aspiring filmmaker. I wanted to share her dream of making films, but what I got from her was jealousy over Dan falling in love with Serena.

If you enjoyed the Gossip Girl series, then you will be terribly disappointed with the books. The actual novels bear little resemblance to the series. In fact the screenplay writer/s are by far the more superior authors.

As a fan of the TV show I'm a little late coming to the novel world of gossip girl but I was in no way disappointed! The blending of the characters lives and connection is everything it needed to be. This was like a fantastic character study of my favourite on screen couples and characters. Can't wait to read the second book. Cohesive fluency and no fraying edges!

I am a huge fan of the Gossip Girl TV show, and usually books are far better than the movie/TV adaptations. That is not the case in this instance. I purchased book 1 and was really looking forward to it. However, I as really disappointed. The writing style was pretty poor and really immature - even for a YA novel. The gossip girl blasts were kind of lame. I think it would have been much better to present the book entirely in blog post format. However, this was not the main problem for me. I just feel like the characterization is terrible. I cannot connect with any of the characters. They are not likeable at all and they are sort of flat! The TV series presented the characters far better, especially the boys. I probably won't be checking out the rest of the series.