What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Pros
Sherman mccoy is a rich wasp with the perfect wife, the perfect apartment and the perfect mistress. He and his mistress are involved in a hit and run accident in the bronx that leaves a black youth in a coma. Wolfe is someone who's deep.
Cons
This is pre-guiliani new york city, so crime rates are still quite high. If my review seems needlessly and gratuitously * it is because the book is so. No redeemable characters, and indulgent descriptions of how rich people of nyc act. Ending is ridic... Read More
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Quality
A fun story with the proper twist at the end
All characters from all walks of life are parodied and rightly so with the one exception of the brilliant judge myron kovitsky ... Read More
Competitiveness
This story certainly gave me a news perspective on the world
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Forces beyond his control led by a black activist minister a jewish da running for reelection a muckraking tabloid journalist and a dogged irish detective track sherman down
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He is wealthy and views himself as a “master of the universe
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Unfortunately i’m not really sure what i got out of this book
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
At one point somebody says that you can take a friendly dog and treat it with cruelty for a year and it will turn vicious
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Ok that’s true i’m sure but it’s not really a good enough reason to drag you through hundreds of pages of sherman’s misfortune
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This is not a book about redemption or growth
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If i was only rating it on its message i’d have to be a lot tougher
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Not for everyone ponderous thick wordy often tedious but what a read
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