I am big fan of the HBO series Sex and the City. I waited years to read this book. I could have waited a few more! None of the characters in the TV series are hardly in the book, and if they are they are either 100% different from what is portrayed in the series or are vaguely mentioned. The book is a series of short stories/essays about single women and men in NYC looking for love in all the wrong places. I could not relate one bit. The men are basically losers and the women are portrayed as desperate to find mates, but since the men are losers, well.... you get the point. If you find yourself wanting to buy this book, watch the series instead. At least those characters are more "human" and real than the winers in this book. What a waste of time and effort.