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The Nanny Diaries: A Novel
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Customer Reviews
Rating:  - Great Book
I found this book to be funny.
It is a story about Nanny who meets Mrs. X and becomes the Nanny to Mrs. X's son Greer Addison whom Nanny soon calls Grover. Over the next couple of months Nanny must juggle the responsibilities of school, Greer, and her personal life leading to some funny moments in the book.
There is only one this that I did not like about the book-the names. It was weird that the main character went by a profession and that while the boy she babysat for had a first a middle name, his parents were Mr and Mrs. X. I don't feel that it would have taken away from the book to have the main character call herself something else or give the X's last names (and maybe say that the name is not their real last name)
Over all though this is a very good entertaining book with some really great characters.
Rating:  - A valuable story to tell
The story in this book has tremendous value in a world that has become obsessed with money, celebraties, the corporate ladder. It highlights (in a gentle, humorous manner - that helps to keep the reader interested) that money cannot buy happiness,love,personal fulfillment.It is an xcellent book for teenagers to read - one that can stimulate discussion about modern day value systems,family disintegration and the all-too-often-negative ripple effects of so called corporate "success". Well done to the two authors. An enjoyable and educational read.
Rating: - So good... at the end you really want to follow up on the characters
A great book. A page turner. When it ends, I would love to know what happen to the X's and Grayer.
Rating:  - Unclean! Unclean!
I purchased the Nanny Diaries because of such high recommendations from Amazon.com readers. The book is recommended (along with other representatives of the chick-lit genre) in books and blogs about writing for that market. Other novels recommended this highly both for entertainment and study have all met the standards I expected, with characters I readily embraced and a quick-moving and witty story line.
Where did The Nanny Diaries go wrong?
In my estimation, it was a veritable leper-colony of a book filled with characters so morally bankrupt and unfeeling that I had to force myself to finish it. They were not cold in the cardboard manner of a cartoonish and laughable character. They were real enough to be outrageously disgusting, and were made so by the presence of Grayer, a total innocent and pawn of these polymorphous perverse narcissists.
The book's "payoff" of a scene where Nanny delivers a rant into the nanny-cam in the family's empty apartment is funny and well-written. However, the entire time I was reading it -- and I went through it twice to give it an honest evaluation -- I could only think of that innocent boy screaming for his Nanny as she was driven away from the house by his indifferent father.
If you're looking for a novel that will leave you depressed for days afterward, The Nanny Diaries is for you. If you are looking for a novel to examine as a model of literary skill, look elsewhere. Just stay away!
Rating: - Touche'!
Unfortunately I saw the movie first, prior to reading this hilarious book. Too bad the movie doesn't do the book justice.
It was funny, contemporary, light, shedding outrageously hysterical insight into the world of the elite.
Fun, easy read. Slight tear-jerker ending...
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