Good in Bed

Abridged
Author: Jennifer Weiner
Narrator: Paula Cale
Genres: Fiction
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date: May 2001
Length: 5 hours
Ratings:
  • Book Rating: 4/5
Formats:
  • CD

Overview

At first my eyes wouldn't make sense of the letters. Finally, they unscrambled. Loving a Larger Woman, said the headline, by Bruce Guberman. Bruce Guberman had been my boyfriend for just over three years, until we'd decided to take a break three months ago. And the larger woman, I could only assume, was me.

Cannie Shapiro never wanted to be famous. The smart, sharp, plus-sized pop culture reporter was perfectly content writitng about other people's lives on the pages of the Philadlphia Examiner. But the day she opened up a national women's magazine to find out that her ex-boyfriend has been chronicling the ex-sex life is the day her life changes forever.

Loving a larger woman is and act of courage in our world, Bruce has written. And Cannie -- who never knew that Bruce saw her as a larger woman, or thought that loving her was an act of courage -- is plunged into misery, and into the most amazing year of her life.

Radiant with wit, bursting with surprises, and written with bite and bittersweet humor, Jennifer Weiner reaches beyond Cannie's story and into the heart of every woman. Gut-level real and laugh-out-loud funny, Good in Bed celebrates the courage of the human spirit and features an unbelievably funny cast of supporting characters, the strangest dog you'll ever encounter, and a heroine you'll never forget.

Reviews (17)

Real personality

Written by Christine from Lloydminster, AB on June 30th, 2008

  • Book Rating: 4/5

This was a pretty good book (except for the one comment about "crazy right-to-lifers"). I enjoyed the fact that the character was not perfect - she was a real person. I was laughing out loud at her wit but I also felt her pain.

blech

Written by Allison Scobie-Lloyd on May 13th, 2008

  • Book Rating: 1/5

The character is a whiny, homophobic 20-something whose problems are ultimately solved by losing weight, having a fairy god-mother and finding a nice dull doctor husband. a predictable heterocentric, misogynistic, fatalist tale with a wholly unlikable "heroine".

What Bed?

Written by Dunn Girl on December 15th, 2006

  • Book Rating: 2/5

I thought this book was extremely depressing! Poor girl had one hugely miserable experience after another with sprinkles of hope mixed in.

Good

Written by Missy on August 18th, 2006

  • Book Rating: 4/5

I thought this was a very cute book. The abridged version is nicely done.........could not really tell what was left out. Felt complete. Normally I dislake abgridged versions.

Good in Bed

Written by Barbara Howell on August 11th, 2006

  • Book Rating: 4/5

Nice story about having loved and needing a break only to find out you don't know what you've lost til it's not there. Started out a tad slow but got into the main character wanting to know how she sorted things out. Surprising ending.

Fun Summer Reading

Written by Anonymous on August 1st, 2006

  • Book Rating: 4/5

This was alot of fun to read. Being plus size myself I could identify....we may have more cushion but we love just the same. Great reading for any woman...

Good in bed

Written by Anonymous on May 3rd, 2006

  • Book Rating: 3/5

I enjoyed the book it had fun drama and a happy ending. I could see this happening in real life. I also liked the way they showed the most important thing was her what she was inside. I liked the book.

Mediocre in bed

Written by Lynne on April 29th, 2006

  • Book Rating: 2/5

I almost stopped listening to this book within the first few minutes because of the narrator's (Paula Kael) whiny nasal voice but I decided to press on. My patience was not rewarded as this cliche ridden tale wound to its predictable "happy" ending--overweight heroine overcomes her bad body image to find true love despite an unplanned pregnancy. The author's attempts to introduce real emotions and motivations to her heroine, Cannie, were thoroughly sabotaged by the unbelievable plot twists such as a Cinderella friendship with a famous movie star and romance with her diet doctor. Since this was the abridged edition, one can only hope that there is a fully realized character buried somewhere in the original novel, since I am clearly in the minority among reviewers of this story.

Loved it!

Written by Anonymous on March 31st, 2006

  • Book Rating: 5/5

I absolutely loved this book! It is great and so entertaining. Highly recommended and so funny! Highs and lows, so you are shocked at what happens next. A must read. I love this author.

Great story.

Written by Anonymous on January 5th, 2006

  • Book Rating: 5/5

This was an entertaining story, and was presented with a great reader. Enjoyed listening.

Author Details

Author Details

Weiner, Jennifer

ennifer Weiner was born in 1970 on an army base in Louisiana. She grew up in Connecticut and graduated from Princeton University. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Central Pennsylvania, Lexington, Kentucky, and Philadelphia, before the publication of her first novel, GOOD IN BED, in 2001. She is the author of the novels IN HER SHOES (2002), which was turned into a major motion picture; LITTLE EARTHQUAKES, (2004), GOODNIGHT NOBODY (2005), the short story collection THE GUY NOT TAKEN (2006) and CERTAIN GIRLS (2008), the sequel to GOOD IN BED. There are more than 9 million copies of her books in print in 36 countries.

Jen has appeared on The Today Show, The CBS Early Show, The Martha Stewart Show and a number of defunct national talk shows that she suspects she killed just by showing up. Her work has appeared in Seventeen, Salon, Redbook, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, and Elle. She likes sunsets, sushi, and long walks on the beach, and wants the world to know that her last name is not pronounced exactly the way it’s spelled.