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Thieves Of Manhattan (2011)

by Adam Langer(Favorite Author)

3.56 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1449840310 (ISBN13: 9781449840310)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Recorded Books, LLC

review 1: Playful and fun - pokes fun at the book world, authors, editors, publishers, etc. But you needn't understand that world to be amused by the humor in this book. Besides, it's a twisty mystery with some action and a love story or two. What's not to like? Oh, one tip, read the glossary at the end before you read the novel. Don't let this tip scare you off, it's a glossary of slang not a glossary of cumbersome, foreign, previously unknown or archaic words.
review 2: A funny, clever skewering of the publishing world. I liked the caper-meets-satire form and the ridiculous personalities (e.g., the Vanilla Ice/James Frey memoirist who gets dubiously launched into fame). I liked the depictions of agents and publishers and editors in Manhattan because they were a... morell pitch perfect. Also appreciated the (fearless) decision to invent literary-inspired words and casually toss them into the book (like "franzens" for trendy glasses or "vonneguts" for cigarettes), complete with glossary at the end. The most clever part of this book to me was its self-reflexivity--the book that gets described is the book that you're reading. But this is done with a light hand, so it never becomes annoying. Am now curious to read more by him. less

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