Meet Tali, Schuyler, and Kim. Best friends since college, each twenty-something (okay, almost thirty) has seen her share of career foils and romantic foibles in the world's greatest city, New York. Having been friends for more than a decade, they know that they all need a change. On Valentine's Day, they are each alone for one reason or another. At dinner together, the trio makes a pact. Within one year, each woman will change the thing that most challenges her.

For Tali, good Tali, whose boyfriend of five years just left her for a personal trainer, it will be to find romance -- or a fling -- in every foreign country she visits (and given her job as a secret shopper for high-end resorts, she goes to a lot of foreign countries). For Schuyler, a book editor, her goal is to get on the other side of the typewriter and write her own book -- much to the dismay of her boyfriend, who is a Very Public Figure. And for commitment-phobic, Daddy's little rich-girl, Kim (she can't hold a job, or a boyfriend, unless he's married and therefore erratic and unattainable) , her goal is to have an engagement ring and a house in Scarsdale.

Each woman starts the first day of the year of reckoning with the best of intentions -- which is exactly why the pact goes immediately, and exceptionally, awry.

Filled with the delicious insider details (of a celebrity-level (or celebrity-wannabe) lifestyle), Chasing Harry Winston brings listeners once again into the heart of an elite world, where friendships will be tested to the point of breaking.

Let the games begin.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Reviews a bit harsh...
Comment: This book certainly wasn't literary excellence, however it was not as bad as some made it sound. I found the plots light and intriguing. The characters did annoy me at times, but all in all it was a fun, "in between something heavy" book. It is supposed to be light reading people, take it for what it is. I thought it was good chicklit.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: A fun book
Comment: I've never written a review for a book before but I felt compelled to after reading some of the very harsh reviews on this book. Granted it is not a life changing book but I think the title, cover, and storyline adequately give that away. This was a very easy and entertaining read. Even though I don't have the same lifestyle as the main characters, I was able to relate to many of the issues that each one was dealing with. The story about Otis was a great addition! All in all I really enjoyed the book and read it in two days. A perfect book to curl up by the fire with.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Lauren Weisberger needs to stop writing books...
Comment: Lauren Wiesberger, go away. Stop writing books. Please. CHASING HARRY WINSTON is hands down one of the worst books I have ever had the misfortune of reading. The first 50 pages are decent. (Not great, but decent. Mindless. But entertaining.) But then page 51 rolled around and then it was like L.W. just squatted over the paper and took a big #2, smeared it around for, like, 200 more pages, then published it. I'm not kidding you, folks, this book is bad. So bad. Basically because nothing happens! NOTHING! These three annoying girls (who aren't very likable to begin with) just run around literally doing nothing (making them even less likable then they were to begin with, which wasn't very likable) for 200-some pages before nothing happens again and the book FINALLY ends. I just don't understand why Lauren Weisberger felt the need to write all this down. Or why her publisher felt the need to mass produce it. Or why I bought it. IN HARDCOVER! Everything about this situation is wrong. I want my money back! But, more importantly, I want the hours I wasted reading this book back! BARF! This book is like BARF! I'm not kidding you DON'T BOTHER! NOT EVEN IN PAPERBACK! DON'T DO IT!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Fun book to read
Comment: A fun book to read, although you can't relate to every character in everyway, but there's something in each of them you find in yourself or maybe your current situation. But overall, an entertaining book to read on a Monday night after work, curled up in your favorite PJs.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Shallow women score
Comment: Good chick-lit. This is my second of hers, having read "everyone worth knowing." I guess that makes me a fan. Given the fall of the filthy rich recently, the timing of this book was a little squeamish for me. But, all three heroines were still likable: a Brazilian beauty socialite; a second-tier editor; and a restaurant manager-best of friends-who are all approaching the dreaded 4th decade of life with no "score" (a wealthy, handsome, prince charming.) I liked the metaphorical "cure" of a depressed parrot by the Brazilian socialite, and the stereotype of the male author, "... alternately confident to the point of arrogance or insecure to the point of debilitation." AND the author's acknowledgment that in the writing of the novel she was able to secure a marriage proposal from her real life boy friend, at age thirty no less.

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