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    Friend or Frenemy?: A Guide to the Friends You Need and the Ones You Don't
    Friend or Frenemy?: A Guide to the Friends You Need and the Ones You Don't
    Friend or Frenemy?: A Guide to the Friends You Need and the Ones You Don't
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    Friend or Frenemy?: A Guide to the Friends You Need and the Ones You Don't

    By Andrea Lavinthal and Jessica Rozler

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    How do you finally break free from a fair-weather bud who flees the scene as soon as a new guy comes around? How do you know which friends make it into your framily? With tips for making and breaking, maintaining and sustaining your friendships, plus stories from real women, Friend or Frenemy? explores how great friends get us through hard times and dishes out advice about dumping the users, losers, and abusers. In this era of instant communication, relationships are not necessarily easier. Friend or Frenemy? also looks at how texting, MySpacing, and other modes of instant communication are oh-so-convenient but sometimes make it harder to make meaningful connections.

    With tons of wit and loads of charm, Lavinthal and Rozler are sure to get you thinking about friendship as if for the first time—reminding us why our BFFs are often the most important people in our lives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 6, 2009
    ISBN9780061982927
    Friend or Frenemy?: A Guide to the Friends You Need and the Ones You Don't
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    Andrea Lavinthal

    Andrea Lavinthal is a beauty editor. Jessica Rozler works in book publishing. They are the co-authors of Friend or Frenemy? and The Hookup Handbook. Both live in New York City.

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    • 3/5
      Remember those friends who used to show up mainly as links in your affiliate Blogger or Blogspot list, posting long-winded and/or witty comments every time you hit "Save and Publish" on a particularly assonance AND adjective filled but tangled-up, dangling participle challenged post about your drive to Walmart rivaling a close second or third to TMZ and Go Fug Yourself posts about Britney Spears and Amy Winehouse..? You know, the friends who kept posting Youtube links of snippets of South Park episodes in the main body of a fourteenth daily post with such headers as: "Why me?" or "This is How I Feel Right Now". Well, like Smashmouth says (and keeping true to the form of these writers so you get the point and I don't look even less like a bad SNL parody), it probably isn't wise writing about people who know how to hit "Share" on every big social media site...and are not afraid...and actually quite proud to...but THESE "Friend or Frenemy" authors just might be a lot like those friends. I just want to say the premise of this book is great. The content is actually quite good too. But sometimes it panders a bit too much to the masses. Hate to use words like "methinks"; however, methinks an editor knows these writers, saw the book was written by these writers and smiled to self, said aloud: "Wow.... They always get it right online/in the magazines/whatever their normal venue is.... No editing required." Coz at last count, there were eighty-six common grammatical issues, including "you" for "your", and I know "coz" is not a word, sentences should not have ten commas, and most of my reviews are error-filled as well.The book is more entertaining than helpful, and ought to be have been used to launch lots of fashion and bumper-sticker/greeting card/viral Youtube videos/magazine articles and quizzes if it has not already been used as such. Man, will my face be red if I Google the book and discover CafePress is saturated with references to this book.I'd happily read an updated 2012 or 2013 version complete with Facebook and Yahoo! Answers mishaps, as well as references to shows such as New Girl (for the digs) and Big Bang Theory (coz it's funny and let's face it: they like the phrase "let's face it" AND quipping about current shows about friends, and what show is more current than Big Bang Theory AND also about friends?)
    • 4/5
      If you're a female, 20+ years old, and have friends (and pseudo-friends, as I like to call them)... you need to read this book. You'll laugh, you'll smile, you'll wince at the truth of it all... and then you'll find yourself thinking about the friendships you have and where they fit into your life. Maybe you'll realize there are some people you're just better off not acquainting yourself with anymore - maybe you'll realize there are some people you should really get to know better, and how come it took you so long?That said, the book was written in a humorous, approachable style, making it an excellent gift for someone you're trying to give the hint to. Friend hint or frenemy hint? Take your pick. :)

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