Is A Sex And The City Prequel Too Much Of A Good Thing?
Posted by: Leigh Raines
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11:30AM, Thursday September 18th 2008
Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell is penning two teen novels about Carrie Bradshaw’s adolescence. As a “Sex and the City” fanatic and Carrie-phile, I’m know I’m excited. I’m a 22-year-old who watched SATC as a teen, and I can tell you adults really underestimate the sexual knowledge of teenagers. But is this prequel idea too much of a good thing? Some think the movie went too far already. Has Carrie jumped the shark? Bushnell’s backtracking to the girls’ adolescent years could lead to SATC overload. For now, I’m torn, but either way I’m willing to bet I’ll be looking for the The Carrie Diaries in 2010, when I’ll be a 25-year-old reading a book about teens.
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Annika Harris
wrote on September 18 2008 @ 11:53 am: [report]
On the one hand I’m excited, but on the other, I don’t think Carrie will be as interesting because she didn’t live in NYC until she was an adult. I would like to know what experiences Carrie had that made her into the Carrie we love.
Amelia
wrote on September 18 2008 @ 12:06 pm: [report]
50% of what I love to read is crappy teen fiction, so this kind of rocks my world.
lilo
wrote on September 18 2008 @ 12:09 pm: [report]
I like the idea, as long as it’s not all about just Carrie, who is kind of uninteresting on her own. I’m psyched to see some younger looking versions of the girls.
Annika, where did Carrie grow up? Are you sure it wasn’t NY? Samantha could have even been the “good girl” at her high school….
lilo
wrote on September 18 2008 @ 12:10 pm: [report]
Wait a minute, I just remembered: Wasn’t this called “Square Pegs”?
Annika Harris
wrote on September 18 2008 @ 12:32 pm: [report]
@lilo I’m not sure where she grew up, but i remember her talking about when she moved to New York. I was thinking the same thing about “Square Pegs,” but I hope Carrie wasn’t that clueless about fashion. I like to think that Vogue was always her bible.
Catherine
wrote on September 18 2008 @ 12:35 pm: [report]
I keep thinking she grew up in Ohio, but that’s where SJP was raised. It’s hard for me to separate the two.
par3
wrote on September 20 2008 @ 03:35 am: [report]
i guess it would be easier to relate to her in this kind of story line for all of us as far as adolescence and ‘firsts’ go. but this kind of empathy might make me squirm.