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Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Looking for Mr Goodbar
Author: Judith Rossner
ISBN: 37095
Pages: 249
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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reviewed Looking for Mr. Goodbar on + 242 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
This was a much talked about book during the 1970's. It's a cautionary tale of promiscuity, mainly involving strangers, especially those met in bars. The books still holds its storytelling powers even today. Shocking ending. A must read!
Paul-RLT avatar reviewed Looking for Mr. Goodbar on + 176 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
The story of a single female living in the city, who teaches children by day and cruises the bars at night. She meets a "good guy" eventually, but can't seem to leave her old life behind. Ultimately, she pays the price.
The cast of characters is small but well developed, and each is very believable. The story is straight-forward and well written.
toni avatar reviewed Looking for Mr. Goodbar on + 351 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
The 1976 edition. - A fantastic book! Nothing like the movie!

From the Publisher
Theresa was a quietly satisfied young teacher by day. But when the sun went down, her life was an endless, faceless whirl of bars and beds and men she'd never seen before and wouldn't see again. If she couldn't find love, she took chances on men who were better than no men at all. And learned, with each new night and each new nightmare, that finding her man was only the beginning.
reviewed Looking for Mr. Goodbar on + 5 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Found this book on my bookshelf, I think it was my mother-in-law's from the 70s.

I enjoyed the book, but was a little disturbed by reading the ending at the beginning. I guess it works for some, but when I got to the end I was disappointed because I had already known how it would end. I understood when I got to the end why the author did this, I just didn't like it...a personal preference I guess. While I don't want to admit I couldn't "put the book down" I did read about 90% in one sitting.

The characters were well developed, especially Theresa. I felt myself identifying with each of the characters in the book in some way.

There were some parts of the book where I felt she just went into too much detail about things irrelevant to the development of the main character. If it's just a 'guy she slept with at the bar' are we really supposed to care much about his life or interests? Maybe the author was trying to illustrate that Theresa wasn't as bad as we initially assumed?

If you don't like books with sex or sexual references in them, this is probably not the book for you. If you don't mind it, if it is relevant to the story then it won't bother you at all. This isn't a harleuquin romance but some parts of the book may make you a bit tingly!

Overall, it was an enjoyable read. Not a classic I MUST keep on my personal bookshelf, but one that provided a moment of entertainment.
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maura853 avatar reviewed Looking for Mr. Goodbar on + 542 more book reviews
Deeply disturbing, incredibly sad. A novel that resonates in the #MeToo era -- because it was always happening, and it's taken until now to confront it.

I first read it over 40 years ago, when it first came out, and there were elements of it that, I realized, I had never forgotten, especially the final excruciating few pages. A perfect example of how knowing what's going to happen actually ratchets up the tension, and makes it even more painful -- hammering home the knowledge that, however hard you wish for it, you can't change the outcome.
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A decade-definer of a book. This book explores female sexuality, and what happens when a woman pushes the limits.
Dixie avatar reviewed Looking for Mr. Goodbar on + 179 more book reviews
Based on the murder of a New York City teacher, this is the story of a devoted elementary schoolteacher, Theresa Dunn, who cruises singles bars looking for men--and perhaps also seeking her own destruction. She finally finds it when she picks up and brings home a brutal stranger.
fastfingers avatar reviewed Looking for Mr. Goodbar on + 73 more book reviews
Loved the book. One of the first books that I saw passed from teen to teen during my high school years. Great read again for the second time.
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Horrific! Good read, but it could give you nightmares!
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A good read! It had me really longing for her to change her life for the better.
Farmerswife avatar reviewed Looking for Mr. Goodbar on + 52 more book reviews
This book was an easy read. The main character was interesting and likable. A good "summer day at the beach" read.
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Mid-seventies best-seller traces a young woman's troubled sexual career. She's neurotic, she's liberated, she has a bunch of unmotivated sex, she's dead.


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