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The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
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BUDDY READS: ARCHIVED > The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith → Start Date: December 7, 2012

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message 1: by Trisha, lives on coffee (last edited Nov 25, 2012 07:12PM) (new) - rated it 3 stars

Trisha | 30284 comments Ally and I will be buddy reading The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith !

Join in if you can!

:)


Diana | 609 comments I'm in!


message 3: by Trisha, lives on coffee (new) - rated it 3 stars

Trisha | 30284 comments Diana wrote: "I'm in!"

Yay!!! :)


Ally (arhart) Woohoo!


message 5: by Mauve7 (new)

Mauve7 | 3 comments Okay. I'm in.


message 6: by Trisha, lives on coffee (new) - rated it 3 stars

Trisha | 30284 comments Mauve7 wrote: "Okay. I'm in."

Yay! Glad you could join us Mauve7!! :)


Ally (arhart) Yay more people!! Thanks for joining us Diana and Mauve7!


Gisbelle | 25787 comments I read it earlier this year. Loved! I'll drop by and talk with you ladies.


Kelli Brown | 7 comments I just picked this book up from the library. I would love to join in!


Gisbelle | 25787 comments Yay!!!


Diana | 609 comments Yay! Anyway how many chapters are we going to read in one day?


message 12: by Trisha, lives on coffee (new) - rated it 3 stars

Trisha | 30284 comments so let's see, there are.... 18 chapters, 236 pages...

Um, how many do you guys want to tackle a day? I'm open!


message 13: by Ally (new) - rated it 4 stars

Ally (arhart) I'd love to knock this one out quickly and do 9/day


message 14: by Trisha, lives on coffee (new) - rated it 3 stars

Trisha | 30284 comments Ally wrote: "I'd love to knock this one out quickly and do 9/day"

Perfect! I would love to too! Is that a plan?


Diana | 609 comments OK I'll try my best! It's pretty short so I think I'll be all to do it!


message 16: by Trisha, lives on coffee (new) - rated it 3 stars

Trisha | 30284 comments ooooh swoon! I just completed chapter 9. It's a cute story so far! How is everyone else doing??


message 17: by Ally (new) - rated it 4 stars

Ally (arhart) My obsession towards The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer, #1) by Michelle Hodkin distracted me from starting this! I'll be able to finish it today though and let you know my thoughts in a few hours :)


Diana | 609 comments I'm still on the fourth chapter but I'm going to try and finish this until tomorrow. Haven't read a lot so I don't have any comments... yet


message 19: by Trisha, lives on coffee (new) - rated it 3 stars

Trisha | 30284 comments Okay, I'm just getting ready to start chapter 10.

Yeah, I don't have a lot on this one either. It's cute so far...


message 20: by Trisha, lives on coffee (new) - rated it 3 stars

Trisha | 30284 comments :) all done.

let me know when you guys are too! :D


Gisbelle | 25787 comments OMG Trisha! Again? lol But 3 stars? I read it a long time ago, so I am not sure now the exact detail of the book hehe...

I loved the airport scene :)


message 22: by Ally (new) - rated it 4 stars

Ally (arhart) I'm done as well! I don't know, it was really cute but I'm stuck between 3/4 stars. I'll give it a 3.5 in my mind and up it to a 4 on GR.

My largest annoyance with the book (non-plot-related) was that I thought it should have been written in first person and not third. Am I just being weird or did any of you notice that? I thought the third person limited style got kind of awkward at times, and I was literally converting it to first person in my mind LOL


message 23: by Trisha, lives on coffee (last edited Dec 08, 2012 04:17PM) (new) - rated it 3 stars

Trisha | 30284 comments Gisbelle wrote: "OMG Trisha! Again? lol But 3 stars? I read it a long time ago, so I am not sure now the exact detail of the book hehe...

I loved the airport scene :)"


I loved the airport scene too!!

But (view spoiler)


message 24: by Ally (new) - rated it 4 stars

Ally (arhart) Trisha wrote: "Gisbelle wrote: "OMG Trisha! Again? lol But 3 stars? I read it a long time ago, so I am not sure now the exact detail of the book hehe...

I loved the airport scene :)"

I loved the airport scene t..."


Yeah I didn't get that, either. (view spoiler)


message 25: by Trisha, lives on coffee (new) - rated it 3 stars

Trisha | 30284 comments Ally wrote: "I'm done as well! I don't know, it was really cute but I'm stuck between 3/4 stars. I'll give it a 3.5 in my mind and up it to a 4 on GR.

My largest annoyance with the book (non-plot-related) was..."


yes, I never feel that connected with a MC when they are in third person.... I am totally with you on that! LOL! I totally converted it too!!

Ugh, I wish Goodreads had 1/2 stars! There are so many books that would change my rating ;)


Gisbelle | 25787 comments People have been requesting the half star for months, probably years. But GR said it would mess up the whole system or sth. We'll see.


Diana | 609 comments Whoa you guys are fast... I'm still on chapter 12. I like it but there are parts where it's a bit boring


message 28: by Ally (new) - rated it 4 stars

Ally (arhart) I wonder why it would mess everything up. After all, it's all computer statistics that handle the program's analytics, and I'm sure they can handle decimals in their computing.

Who knows.

That would be SO useful though.


message 29: by Jacquelyn, thebrunettebooknerd (new) - rated it 3 stars

Jacquelyn (jacquelynreads) | 18790 comments Sorry to jump in on you guys here but I have always wished that they would have half star ratings as well! It would change my ratings a lot of well!


Diana | 609 comments Yeah I was wondering whether to give this 3.5 or 4 stars as well. But I rounded up and gave it 4. It was cute at the end.


message 31: by Trisha, lives on coffee (new) - rated it 3 stars

Trisha | 30284 comments I thought it was cute too, but it didn't "wow" me, if you know what I mean... It did get a little boring in the middle when they were both off doing things... I don't know. it was cute...but I think that's about the most I can give it.


Diana | 609 comments Yeah, me too. I liked it but I didn't love it. I wish there were more of Oliver in the book. There wasn't a lot of him as I wished.


message 33: by Trisha, lives on coffee (new) - rated it 3 stars

Trisha | 30284 comments Diana wrote: "Yeah, me too. I liked it but I didn't love it. I wish there were more of Oliver in the book. There wasn't a lot of him as I wished."

yes, LOL! I would have loved A LOT more of him in the book :)


Diana | 609 comments I think it was because it was in Hadley's POV. I think it would have been better if it were in Oliver's POV


message 35: by Ally (new) - rated it 4 stars

Ally (arhart) YES. I agree 100%. There should have been dual narration. (With each one being in first person, thank you :p)

I get that this is just another YA contemporary adventure novel, but I could never (on my first day in my first foreign country) navigate to an entire different section of London and back on 10 pounds and no sense of direction during the time I was supposed to be taking photos for my father's wedding. Especially because I just had a "revelation" that he was at a funeral.

It was all too improbable (pun intended) for me to believe.

This is pretty much why I also didn't like the parts when they were apart. It made this too nonsensical.


Diana | 609 comments Yeah totally. It was kind of unrealistic. I mean London is huge, how could she possibly have found Oliver just because she had a revelation?


Gisbelle | 25787 comments Diana wrote: "Yeah totally. It was kind of unrealistic. I mean London is huge, how could she possibly have found Oliver just because she had a revelation?"

Yeah... that was a bit ridiculous :D


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