Chloe does Yale is ex-Yale Daily News columnist Natalie Krinsky's first, and if popular reviews are any indication, presumably last novel.

The book opens with a scene from Yale's annual Valentine's Day party Exotic Erotic, where the motto is, "the less you wear, the lower the fare." We meet main character Chloe Carrington, a sex-starved Yale junior who writes the sex column, "Sex and the (Elm) City."

However, Krinsky's depiction of Exotic Erotic was not funny or erotic, but filled with cheesy jokes and clichés about Yale students.

Krinsky does prove herself as a talented writer in the humorous columns scattered throughout the book, and Carrington's sex columns are identical to Krinsky's real columns on the Yale Daily News Web site.

Each column featured in the book realistically captures the antics and daily routine of the college experience -- everything from hooking up with the opposite sex, drinking Natty Ice and dealing with overachieving friends.

The column topics were quite amusing and attempted to answer legit questions we all wonder about. For example, the three types of post-hookup phone calls: The obligatory phone call, the "I'm a little too happy to call" call that comes too early and the "maybe if I call right now you'll come over and get naked with me again" call.

I couldn't help but laugh at the column about what women really think when they back their thang up into "Bobby's bobby."

The story line was everything the columns were not -- boring, shallow and chaotic.

Krinsky kept introducing random characters as the book went on -- for example, Chloe's ex-boyfriend Josh and her annoying editor/admirer Melvin -- and none of the characters were sufficiently developed to even care about who they were. The part of the book that annoyed me the most was the way she depicted Yale students.

At the Exotic Erotic, she describes male students as "kids from privileged Greenwich shakin' what their mama gave them" and described the girls at the party as "Nietzche-reading girls who should have picked up some Nair before the party."

The way she described her fellow "Yalies" made it seem as if they're rude, bratty, brainy, and either sex-deprived or overly sexed. And there was no in between.

My advice is to rent some Sex and the City DVDs and visit the Yale Daily News Web site to read Krinsky's columns for a laugh or two.