The Fundamentals of Play

The Great Gatsby meets Bright Lights, Big City. Entertaining, but with annoying sentences along the lines of "He gave me a glance that told me he understood why I had done what I did last July and, what's more, he approved of it." Authors love glances like that, but they never seem to occur in my li......more

I can't decide either to hate or love this book. Just putting it back on shelf.......more

The author of this book obviously loved The Great Gatsby a lot more than I did. Much of this book seems to be an homage to the earlier classic. The tone, the narration by a young man who is somewhat an insider and somewhat an outsider to the charmed circle he writes about, etc... The basic setup here......more

Great Gatsby for Turn of Millennium? Perhaps. But you might say it was Twilight meets House of Mirth, as well. It was all about that spooky dream of adolescence and especially, nostalgic adolescence, mixed with the tragedy of pointless wealth. There was really something unreal about a lot of it. I li......more

This is one of those books that I just wanted to be done reading! I kept hoping something would happen to hook me in, but it never did. I didn't really like any of the characters. They were not at all sympathetic and their way of speaking and relating to each other did not seem realistic. Why would......more