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Too Much Money (2009)

by Dominick Dunne(Favorite Author)

3.12 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0609603876 (ISBN13: 9780609603871)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Crown

review 1: This is Dominick Dunne's final book, published after he passed away. I thought it interesting that it says "This book is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of actual persons, living or dead is entirely coincidental". Of course, all you have to do is google his characters, and you can find the living counter parts that he based his characters. The journalist, Gus Bailey, is based on himself of course. And of course, his fictional magazine "Park Avenue, is really "Vanity Fair". I really enjoyed this story of the social scene of the rich and famous in New York City, and I really didn't want this book to end. It is very entertaining.
review 2: Well, I really thought I was reading a novel by a poet. The guy who said "No man is an island, entire of itself; every... more man is a piece of the continent." That is John Donne. Dominick Dunne kept a column in Vanity Fair chronicling things rich people did. By the time I realized this, I was on a train and 132 pages in. I guess I liked it because I finished it. Do you like tales of New York high society in the recent years but somehow no one texts? When people start gossiping about rich people you've never met, and are not in US Weekly, but are just like mean billionaires jockeying for position and don't mind murdering their husband for money--is that fun or do you want to frown in a corner and look at your hands and slowly draw circles on a piece of paper? The world he describes is like high school, where the spoils go to the richest. The trashy people are the only ones who seem to have soul and personality and interesting behavior, like emitting a fart everyone remembered for 8 years and crashing funerals to enhance their image. You will not feel as desperate and afraid as Candice Bushnell's Four Blondes, but after you read this, you might need to take a shower and look at a plant and touch a friendly animal. less

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