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They say novels are ambitious when they extend themselves a little too far. This one is probably guilty of delving too deep into to many characters, but it makes this an immersive experience of real-world teenage angst against a backdrop of literature and wealth that you won't forget.


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How to Buy a Love of Reading Tanya Egan Gibson Books Reviews

Buying this book can buy the reader not just a love of this book, but a love of the author's writing style. I found myself savoring Tanya Egan Gibson's ability to slice through social mores, community ideals, and to sum up in a sentence or two, the hierarchy of the Long Island world of which she writes.

This is a smart read, sharply written. Gibson has teeth in her humor, while mixing compassion in with her wit. It's a meaty read, and a story that satisfies in each well-crafted sentence, and also in the unusual and page-turning plot (well-described by others.) Carly is a main character who broke my heart with her soft-steel self.
This will go down as one of my most memorable reads, and when I finished, I was still in that world - I missed the characters, and contemplated turns in plot for weeks.

It is well-written, clever, the descriptions are rich and textured - so much so that initially, it pays to read at a slow pace and savour them. When you do so, Egan Gibson brings you into this world, of the amazingly rich, their children, and the things that matter to them - some of which don't matter to "the rest of us," leaving us with the rest - the real stuff - which is what great novels are made of.

The voice pokes fun at the fake things, the things on the surface, which means you are immersed in them initially, all told with a knowing wink, but enjoy them, as even better stuff follows.

The author has done meticulous research on many fronts - I particularly found it amusing regarding metafiction, which I have had limited exposure to - and also elucidates the author's main criticism of it, that it ceases to emotionally move us, precisely the opposite of this book.

In the aftermath of finishing it, I found myself poring over different parts of it, re-reading it to notice all those little details which I had missed the first time around, things which may have seemed unimportant at first glance but which took on such power and magnitude later on in the story.

This is one of those books you read and remember for a long, long time.
I should disclose right off the bat that I know (and am hugely fond of)Tanya Egan Gibson. That said, even if I'd never laid eyes on her, or thought she was a giant dunderhead, I'd still have to say this about this book I really, really could not put it down. The use of language, the pace, the way the characters, onionlike, keep revealing more and more -- all make for a highly compelling read.

The funny parts are hilarious, the sad parts are gut-wrenching, and the satire spot on. The scene where Gretchen rants at the party planner for not giving a horse an enema...or at least starving it...so that it would not have paused under the floral arch to poop as Carley rides in to make her appearance at her Sweet Sixteen party struck me as both riotously funny and completely tragic. Written with intelligence and wit, this one goes on my "read, re-read, and re-re-read" list.
This is the best contemporary novel I read in 2012. The work is absurdly beautiful in its darkness, brilliantly memorable in its characterizations, cleverly meaningful in its structure, tomorrow-morning fresh in its essence, and agonizingly painful in its truth. I eagerly await the next Gibson novel.
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Finally something different! What got my attention was the editorial review that proclaimed it "for those of us who like both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and F. Scott Fitzgerald" and another that read "Gibson lovingly skewers two self- obsessed classes the upper crust and the literary" but I had no idea what I was really getting. This is not your everyday novel.

Reading this book is a bit like watching Being John Malkovich - it's complicated - and those who don't like most likely aren't getting the point.

Yes the first part of the book is terribly written and difficult to read - on purpose. It's part of the larger story... As Carly begins to appreciated fiction and Bree begins rethink her penchant for overly indulgent complicated writing the book begins to correct itself layer by layer. The first part sucks for all the same reason Carly hates books and Bree is a crappy writer.

By the second half of the book the two begin to learn from each other and the accompanying internal discussion about literature shifts from "device" to "story" the book becomes more readable, the story becomes interesting, and the characters gain enough personality for us to care about them.

I'm amused that other reviewers seem to be hung up on the fact that the characters are rich. To me it seems unimportant other than the fact that the money element provides setting for the story to even happen as who else other than the obnoxiously rich could "buy" an author to write a book that they child will like and therefore create a love of reading.

If you have trouble with the beginning, suffer through it. What you're looking for will appear in spades at the end. It's all there but the characters are on a journey and they have to get there themselves before they can take you there.
A friend told me that this book somehow related to Fitzgerald's classic The Great Gatsby, which I love. I enjoy parallels to and adaptations of great literary works, so I purchased this right away. Unfortunately, I couldn't get through it. I read maybe twenty pages and put it on the bookshelf. The price was the only good thing about this purchase.
They say novels are ambitious when they extend themselves a little too far. This one is probably guilty of delving too deep into to many characters, but it makes this an immersive experience of real-world teenage angst against a backdrop of literature and wealth that you won't forget.