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Title: I'll Let You Go : A Novel by Bruce Wagner ISBN: 0-8129-6847-6 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Who's pretentious?
Comment: First, let me say that this book can be read for the story, for that story is just short of fanciful and truly beyond interesting. But slow down; take in the language, the crafted sentences, and the wonderful puns. Take this book lightheartedly, please. I think that is what we are meant to do--Wagner tells us of much death and misfortune but his comical tone suggests that this is not meant to be a book to cry over. So, don't be pretentious and write this novel off because you wanted it to be serious or because you don't understand the puns. This is simply a wonderful satire of all socio-economic levels.
Rating: 1
Summary: YAWN! Strickly amateur hour.
Comment: Mr. Wagner writes like the most clever boy in the Beverly Hills High School english class. He is obsessed with superficiality, has nothing to say, and is too pretentious to even be fun. Strictly "amateur hour."
Rating: 4
Summary: Captivating madness
Comment: For seven eighths of this book, I was astonished by Wagner's writing skill. His flawless evocation of the Dickensian novel is intercut with bits of modern dialogue that are shocking in their compellingly contemporary grounding. The characters are fully realized and sometimes alarmingly grotesque. Horrific things happen to the luckless, impoverished females in this book; descriptions of the horrors visited upon them are harrowing in their specifics. The author has great insight into the inner lives of children, both rich and poor; he knows of their secret dreams and fears and takes us with them on their journeys to freedom--both physical and psychological. His characters, particularly Topsy/Will'm and the baker Gilles, the grandfather Trotter, and the birth-defective, brilliant Edward and his impulsive sister Lucy, the orphaned and abused Amaryllis, are also Dickensian in their great passions and flaws. Sadly, about 75 pages from the end, the narrative wobbles badly when it moves into emails back and forth between the children, and letters between the adults. This contemporary segment, with little of the previous lavish language present, simply isn't as compelling as what came before. Fortunately, Wagner recovers to deliver an ending that is realistic in terms of the characters he's created. But those 50-60 pages near the end are overwrought and detract from an otherwise splendid accomplishment. That said, I recommend this book for its extraordinary vocabulary, its brand-name roster of designers and stars of every ilk, and for a gripping tale told in incredible style.
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Title: I'm Losing You by Bruce Wagner ISBN: 0452278686 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Still Holding : A Novel of Hollywood by Bruce Wagner ISBN: 0743243374 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Force Majeure by Bruce Wagner ISBN: 0394582616 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 06 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Down and Dirty Pictures : Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film by Peter Biskind ISBN: 068486259X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Studio by John Gregory Dunne ISBN: 0375700080 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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