Ages ago, Lauren told me that if I was going to read one of the Gossip Girl books, I should do so on an empty stomach. She was so right. The Clique isn't one of that series, but it's in the same genre: Early Bret Easton Ellis for the 13/14-year-old set.
It just made me crabby. Every single character in it was either stupid, shallow, a moral weakling, spoiled rotten, a bitch or some combination of the five. UGH.
At the same time, I can totally see how reading the series could become compulsive.
It reminded me of the movie Mean Girls, except the author tried to make the girls seem sort of sympathetic. I'm sorry, but it's hard to feel any sort of warmth towards someone that dumps a bowl of gazpacho over an innocent person's head. Ugh. Now I feel all crabby again. Yuck. Yuck yuck yuck.
But didn't I also tell you that I loooooved Mean Girls? Because I did. It's perfect. Heathers for a new generation, without all the killing and stuff.
Posted by: lauren | 21 December 2005 at 12:23 PM
Oh, I thought Mean Girls was great. The title characters were rotten through and through -- they didn't try and make 'em sympathetic at all. LiLo came around and stopped being mean because she realized that she was turning into them, not because she started feeling bad for them.
And of course, I loved the bus scene.
Posted by: leila | 21 December 2005 at 12:37 PM
Me, I love the Gossip Girl books. Yes, you need to read them when you're in the mood for trashy, but for me they're not about topic do much as format. They're told by an omniscient narrator who'll occasionally insert an editoral, direct-to-readers comment or two, and the action alternates between traditional novel form and said narrator's blog entries (and, like the pictures and words in a picturebook, both parts are essential to telling the story). It's, to my knowledge, the first YA series to incorporate blogs as a writing form (jumping off from epistle-style "a tale in letters" stuff like Regarding the Fountain by Kate and Sarah Klise), but the postmodern and topological issues tend to take a back seat to the "how can these characters be so shallow?" stuff.
Posted by: Jill | 21 December 2005 at 11:30 PM
oops - that should be "..so much as format". it's getting late around here...
Posted by: Jill | 21 December 2005 at 11:32 PM
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE CLIQUE SERIES. the girls are very mean and dumb, but something about it just makes me want to keep on reading. lisi harrison is officially my favorite author.
Posted by: rivet soro | 10 April 2006 at 11:28 PM
Oh. my gosh I loves these books!! If anyone has read The gossip girl series, Summer boys,Next summer, South beach, French kiss, The au pairs, Skinny dipping, Sunkissed..you will love these books!! I have all 5 books..I cant wait to see what happens in the 6th "Dial L for Loser" and the 7th "Its not easy being mean"!!
Posted by: gloria | 10 June 2006 at 03:11 PM
HI!
Posted by: Bob | 18 June 2006 at 01:06 PM
Hi Bob
Posted by: EDDY | 20 June 2006 at 09:39 PM
OMG! i love the clique series. They are my all time favorite books now. I have all five of them now and is waiting for Dial L for Loser, and It's not easy being Mean. Theres just something about these books that make them so great. It makes you wanna keep reading them. It has what happens in everyday life. People these days can actually relate to what happens in these books. Because in every school theres always a bunch of cliques. But theres always one that dominates over the other ones. Lisi Harrison is now my favorite author.
Posted by: Taylor | 19 July 2006 at 02:13 PM
tell me which characters are which on the covers of the novels! PLEASe!
Posted by: kayla | 21 July 2006 at 10:48 PM
i love the clique series it waz sooooooooo awsome i hope that theres another book comin out!!!!
Posted by: | 26 July 2006 at 12:59 AM
I am like totaly ob-ssesed with these books. I know that Dylan is WAY to obssesed with her weight and Alicia is to obssesed with her boobs being too big and stuff, but it is like, exact junior high drama. I really love Massie and how she is so in control of everything. In a way I can't help but wish I am like her but also think that she is a total bitch which is not good! But I mean who really cares what other people think right? I mean sure I would way rather have people love me to death than not like me at all and think im a bitch, but what really matters is what I want to be and what I think o myself! so what does it matter if I'm a bitch? It's way better than not liking who I am at all. But I did think that what Alicia did to Claire, no one would actualy have the guts to do, not even for massie! I mean Puh-lease! I totaly want to have friends exactly like that, that I can talk to about ANYTHING at all, and have a sleeppover with everyfriday night, of course unless something came up in which case would always have to do with all four of them. But I would way rather have that life then just a normal life. But I could not beleive that they all wear like, Jimmy Choo and Marc Jacob and stuff. I mean the farthest I have been is like, Deisel and DKNY but nothing more expensive than that. And I could also not beleive how completely obssesed Dylan was with her weight. I mean, I think that is actually unhealthy! Puh-lease! But I do ah-dore claire for standing up to massie and calling her a bitch! Although I would never had the guts, I wish that were me. I havn't said anything about Kristen though. She is kind of anoying, constantly complaining about her parents and how uptight they are. I mean get a grip! I do like her though. She, other than Claire, is the most normal in the book. She is also really funny about how she is ob-ssesed with cross-words and how everything "is a cross-word puzzle" in the words of Massie Block. My favorite Character is by far Massie. She seems to have everything figured out in this book. She knows what she wants and then goes out and gets it. There are no no's in her world. But then of course Claire objects alot to the stuff she has to say. But Massie doesn't care about Claire so she doesn't really count.
So in conclusion I would say I know just about all there is know about Massie Block, Alicia Rivera, Dylan Marvil, Kristen Gregory, Claire Lyons and just alot about Layne Abeley. Not everything about Layne (Claire's first friend at OCD, not including the Nurse) but alot.
This is definatly my favorite book ever! I hope you liked as much as i did too!
Posted by: Taylor | 12 August 2006 at 01:59 AM
"Its not easy being mean" is not yet released but the back of the book that ive been reading is the same as the back of the first book. Is this a mistake of the websites or of lisi Harrison.
Clique book <3 lover<3
Posted by: Silvia | 16 August 2006 at 10:18 PM
"Its not easy being mean" is not yet released but the back of the book that ive been reading is the same as the back of the first book. Is this a mistake of the websites or of lisi Harrison.
Clique book <3 lover<3
Posted by: Silvia | 16 August 2006 at 10:18 PM
"Its not easy being mean" is not yet released but the back of the book that ive been reading is the same as the back of the first book. Is this a mistake of the websites or of lisi Harrison.
Clique book <3 lover<3
Posted by: Silvia | 16 August 2006 at 10:18 PM
I loooove myself! i'm so hot! is it possible to be in love withyourself cuz i think i am.
Posted by: POL | 18 August 2006 at 04:48 PM
Omg i'm in love with myself too!
Posted by: lola | 18 August 2006 at 04:56 PM
the clique books are amazing! they're super cute! all my friends and i are addicted <3
Posted by: xox-sweetiee_chickka-xox | 23 September 2006 at 07:13 PM
who ever dosnet love the clique novles dont know ut there missing i love them so much they are just like real life when i was in 7th grade (last year) i stared reading the books when i got in to them it was so amazing how everythign i read almost the same exitced thing happened to me it was so amazing i coulnt beliv ethat my life an avergae life was like a mean gursl life and i diddnt know how popular i was this year is the smae to but i need to kept up on the books im so far behind cus of skool i hate it i wish i had more time but i love it cus i can relate to i so much and it makes me know that im not the only one that there lifes arent perfect either
Posted by: Kelia | 03 October 2006 at 07:01 PM
omg ican toatally relate 2 massie i rule the social sene @and the Silva person whatever u must be blonde!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Iam stylish hot and got the manof everyones dreams
Claire is lke whatever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but massie and i r just alike i can tresh someone wit comebaks quickly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and all the people love me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: starbucksfreak | 07 October 2006 at 07:50 PM
yea i have been looking for a summary of the book as well, but all i get is the summary that is on the back of the first novel in the series.
Posted by: | 08 October 2006 at 02:28 AM
i thought the clique series was stupid. they are good until you become old enough to realize that the clique is totally fake and there are real books out there that have plot lines of the same genre, but aren't about catty seventh graders, which i believe is a little immature.
Posted by: cassie | 13 October 2006 at 09:11 PM
Hey i totally luv the books and i cant wait till #7 is out & That's all lol
Pce out
Posted by: Sunshine | 17 October 2006 at 07:09 PM
OMG I love the clique series! Lisi Harrison is a genious! I want book # 7. She ended the last book very abrubtly and I need more!
Posted by: cliqueluver3 | 21 October 2006 at 04:40 PM
u guys r sooo weird. y r u complimenting urself? all i can say is obsession!! none of you are classy, u r just a bunch of losers. "oMG im soo hott". get over urselves, ur not that cool.
Posted by: BLondd | 27 October 2006 at 07:20 PM