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A Gentleman's Guide To Graceful Living (2008)

by Michael Dahlie(Favorite Author)

3.43 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0393066177 (ISBN13: 9780393066173)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

review 1: Arthur Camden's life is a disaster. He is both a shmiel and a schamozzel. (the shmiel is the waiter who spills the soup on the schamozzel) For 270 pages of the 281 page book, you read about all the disasters in his life: his divorce; his bankruptcy of the family business, his burning down of his beloved fly-fishing lodge, his run in with the French police, his bad dates, etc. Only in about ten of the last pages does he meet a woman who gives him hope and the book ends on a positive note. I don't enjoy reading about miserable people......
review 2: I'm really disappointed... I really thought this would be a book that I could somewhat relate to when I picked it off the shelves. Not only was it not anything I could relate to it was not anything I could enjoy. I st... moreruggled to the last page to find any character interesting or likable. For a book about struggle and self discovery I found it insurmountably hard to feel sorry for the main character or even empathy has he struggles with his life of living in 5th avenue apartments, charity, events, exclusive clubs, early retirement, sharing his multi-million dollar son passions, and jet setting to New England or the Caribbean. I found the character to want to be in the situation he was in. Don't waste your time folks, unless you're an upper east side blue blood... then you might find it interesting. less

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