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Bursting with originality and controversy, author Naleighna Kai has created a provocative, and at times heartwarming tale about an age-old problem that will strike a chord with all women.
Every Woman Needs a Wife is the hilarious, but thought-provoking story of a wife who does the "unthinkable." Strolling in on Vernon and his mistress one night, Brandi Spencer insists that the new woman in his life come home and earn her keep the honest way -- on her feet helping the wife clean the house, keep the children and pay the bills, instead of laying on her back servicing the husband.
Tanya Kaufman has had one shock too many -- one minute she's a fiancée, the next she finds out she's been the mistress all along. When Tanya shows up during the surprise anniversary party to take Brandi up on her offer, the women seize the opportunity to teach Vernon that infidelity will no longer come at the expense of the women's time, money, and happiness. Vernon fights back by launching a high-profile court battle that doesn't have a thing to do with splitting the money, keeping the house, or visitation rights.
Had any married couple ever fought for custody of...the mistress?
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The Best Revenge!.......2007-09-07
Have you ever had the feeling that the person you loved was cheating on you? Brandi Spencer started to become suspicious of her husband Vernon of thirteen years. Well her suspicions became fact when she decided to follow him one day. She tracked him all the way to his mistress' house Tanya Kaufman. Tanya had no idea that she was a mistress, but thought that she was Vernon's fiancé! Little did Tanya know, her little happy world was about to come crashing down with the knock on the door. When Brandi confronts Tanya and Vernon, her actions surprises her as well. Since Vernon is taking care of Tanya with the money they've worked so hard for, why shouldn't she reap some of the benefits. Things get ugly when Brandi wants full custody of the girls...and the mistress!
Every Woman Needs a Wife is a book I would suggest every woman should read. It'll make you laugh, and there are some parts of the book that gets on the serious side, but all in all it was an excellent book. If you have a vivid imagination, this is the book for you. We all know someone in the same situation as Brandi, Tanya or Vernon. The book keeps your attention from beginning to end, and will have you saying to yourself "Oh no he didn't!!" Every Woman Needs a Wife is a must read!
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I Love IT!!!!.......2007-08-31
I took a chance and purchased this book after the synopsis intrigued me...Good Move! This book is great! Very real, and it keeps your attention every step of the way. This book is a true page turner and will definitely open your eyes to new horizons. I totally suggest you get this book and experience for yourself. Men & Women should read this novel!
good but slow .......2007-06-27
this book took me sometime to read to actually get in to it but it was a good overall and it had some meaniing to it. when i seen the cover i was kinda scared to read it cuz i thought it was about to females getting it on so i had to read the review over and over again so i could understand the book bu ti liked it happy reading
Oh well!.......2007-06-27
This book was very slow and took me a while to get into.I wouldnt buy it so your best bet would be to pick it up from the library!
Naleighna Kai speaks to reviewers and browsers.......2007-04-03
Greetings all. Thanks so much for taking the time to review this book, one that was written purely as a What if? What if I caught my husband cheating? While unrealistic to some, THIS is exactly what I would do: invite the mistress home to earn her keep on her feet helping me instead laying on her back helping him. Married men seem to have wives all pegged: "The worst she can do is leave me." No, with the writing of this novel, it shows the worst that can happen is that both women team up and the wife can force a judge to make the husband pay for the wife AND the mistress. Now how's that for an original twist? In one of the recent reviews, it was encouraged that you read She Touched My Soul. One of the reasons I'm even posting is because the book, as it stands right now, is not available under any umbrella but used--since it was one of my first writings years ago. Originally self-published, it will eventually be re-released under a major publishing house. But between that time you'll have an opportunity to enjoy Every Woman Needs a Wife, then the next one out the gate: Open Door Marriage and Was it Good For You Too? Now, while I would love to give my own book five stars, I can honestly say that it is a four. My five stars are reserved for my idols: Octavia Butler, L. A. Banks, Mary B. Morrison. At least I'm honest about it, eh? Best to all and happy reading!
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Literature and film buffs will be delighted by this collection of pulp novels, most of which were made into important films. James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice is a literary masterpiece with its spare prose invoking a savage, sexy, desperate world. It inspired no less than three great movies: Luchino Visconti's classic Ossessione, in 1942; the 1946 remake, starring John Garfield and Lana Turner and directed by the extraordinary Tay Garnett; and Bob Rafelson's underrated 1981 version with Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange. When you read the magnificent source for these movies, you'll be astonished at how three different incarnations could all, in their own ways, be faithful to the novel.
Cornell Woolrich's I Married a Dead Man also became three movies: No Man of Her Own, with Barbara Stanwyk; the French I Married a Shadow; and the American comedy, Mrs. Winterborne, which starred Shirley MacLaine and Ricki Lake. Edward Anderson's vivid Thieves Like Us was transformed into They Live by Night, Nicholas Ray's first important movie and one of the seminal noir films of the 1940s. It was brilliantly remade in 1974 by the great revisionist director Robert Altman. Kenneth Fearing's The Big Clock was transformed into a marvelous film starring Charles Laughton; 40 years later, the same source, retitled No Way Out, brought Kevin Costner to stardom. William Lindsay Gresham's Nightmare Alley was the source for Tyrone Power's best movie; Horace McCoy's experimental They Shoot Horses, Don't They? became one of the seminal films of the 1960s.
These dark, evocative novels, when taken together, are a fascinating study of how words can inspire a magnificent variety of cinematic images and styles.
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Splendid Read.......2007-06-04
This collection of novels from the 30s and 40s was terrific fun and an outstanding introduction to the genre. You can debate whether they're all noir (at least what I expected noir to be); but nonetheless they each convey a distinct impression and view of the time. Without getting into lengthy reviews, I enjoyed Woolrich's "I Married a Dead Man" the most--from his eloquent style to the actual story-line. You know you're reading a master story-teller. Second was Gresham's "Nightmare Alley;" although sometimes I thought he could have expanded on some aspects of the story and shortened other passages (i.e., a little bit of editing would help). But each novel was distinct and enjoyable. Highly recommended.
Crime Novels -- 30s/40s.......2006-11-07
Ha! Just skimmed some other reviews and I wanna add my two cents. Yes, this volume is definitely something. Some impressions follow.
The Postman Always Rings Twice: Indeed, Cain knew how to make the reader keep turning pages. Short, sweet, and fascinating. After I discovered the significance of the title (which is a bit of a "trick"), I liked the whole effort all the more.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?: A bit monotonous to read; a bit dark. That was the point. All told, a fascinating novel. Among all literature named in the world, *this* is one of few titles inspired by God: so memorable and unique, so perfect. It turns out to impart chilling meaning, as well, on several levels.
Thieves Like Us: My least favorite. This was a subjective reaction, however. I wanted the story to take turns it didn't take. Moreover, Anderson as an author took note of things I found not-so-interesting; apparently, the book's status to this day speaks otherwise on behalf of many other readers, however.
The Big Clock: Short, sweet and sterile. Almost machine-like in its plotting and execution -- if so written intentionally, a fascinating stylistic choice given its title -- but, notably, full of interesting and colorful characterizations. Possibly my favorite.
Nightmare Alley: Relentlessly grim and ugly. I'm not so sure there is a single character to root for in this story. That was probably very much intended. Fascinating but, again, very grim. Literary nihilists of today would do well to take a lesson from Gresham's characterization, plot and style.
I Married A Dead Man: Although the novels were presented chronologically, this was a nice way to end the volume. A very simple, linear, domestic story, without hard-boiled criminality or complication, which unfolds with some plot which stretches credibility, but lies ultimately within the realm of the possible. Notable among noir novels for Woolrich's ability to evoke two unexpected emotions at the end: a sense of deep and abiding love between two of the main characters -- before the real and final ending -- and a sense of genuine sadness.
Worth owning. Might take the reader a while to get through. This is, in effect, six books in one, running to nearly a thousand pages. But it was definitely fun; and as another reviewer implied, it's surprising how little has changed.
Thank God for the 1930's and 1940's/ .......2006-07-11
First of all, the Library Of America collection provides the reader with some of the most beautiful hardcover editions available today. That said, the selections chosesn for this edition are all first class; for someone just getting into hard-boiled fiction, this is the ideal place to start. If you're like me and have been reading this genre for many years, this is a perfect volume to add to one's collection.
The Dark Underbelly of the American Dream.......2005-09-29
Noir emerged in the early 20th-Century from Pulp paperbacks published for mass consumption. Highlighting in gritty and sensationalistic detail the sordid undercurrents of Western society, Noir became an artistic force that became the medium for the representation of the down and out segment of the populace. Whether set in the impersonal grime of urban reality or at the deceptive simplicity of rural picturesqueness, Noir in Film and Literature revealed the odyssey and travails of lost souls whose misguided characters bore too much of the weight of their selves and their pasts to break from the shackles of their present.
"Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930's and 40's" is the American equivalent in prose of the influential and enduring genre. The grim and unforgiving tales of the dejected cast of mid 20th-Century American life are openly depicted ("The Postman Always Rings Twice"; "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"; "Thieves Like Us"; "Nightmare Alley"); vicissitudes of fate ("The Big Clock"; "I Married a Dead Man"). Whether set in scenic California, the vast and open Midwest, or a high-rise office in Manhattan, these novels uniformly render a panorama of blighted dreams, twisted turns of fate, and the sad recurrence of misfortune in desperate individuals doomed to tragedy.
None too substantial in content but highly readable, this edition is the first of a handsome 2-Volume anthology on American Noir fiction published by the venerable Library of America. Edited by Robert Polito (Poet, writer, anthologist on Noir Lit. and author of a biography on Jim Thompson), these stories enduring relevance are seen in various forms of contemporary society: from the writings of James Ellroy, Brett Easton Ellis, Lawrence Block, and Robert Bloch; in films like "Scarface", "Pulp Fiction", "Fight Club"; and in everyday life.
A Real Discovery: 4 or 5 of these make amazing reading.......2005-01-23
This is an impressive collection of early and now scarce Noir novels. "The Big Clock" and "Nightmare Alley" are particularly hard to find outside of this volume.
Cain's "The Postman Always Rings Twice" was probably the first crime novel I ever really got into, and it's a stunning departure from Agatha Christie-style mysteries. So much happens in this short book (as turns of plot, but also development of character) that it compares favorably to the first half Camus' "The Stranger." The drifter plumbs the depths of his desperation in a brutal attachment to another man's wife: it's not greed or lust that drives him, but a base need for someone to whom he can anchor himself. A raw and amazing experience, unmatched by anything else of Cain's.
McCoy's "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" is impressively vivid. I had no idea these dance-hall marathons took place before reading this story. This circus of exploitation of young and apparently desperate people certainly makes for excellent Noir. One of these benefits of reading these novels is the unearthing of buried episodes in America's past.
"Thieves Like Us" has been reviewed here as the weaker end of the collection, and I have to agree. It's still a very capable story of outlaws; and the stoicism of the young people caught up in the criminal's lives is admirably depicted here. I recommend reading Andersen's novel before the others (it's still definitive Noir), so one can more easily avoid expectations built up by the Cain and McCoy.
"The Big Clock" is interesting in the depiction of power relationships between employer and employee, and the shifting first-person style of telling the story works here. I never heard of Fearing before reading this novel, but he evidently had a deep understanding of the motivations of very different kinds of people. This novel has the most suspense of the collection, and is a great and sophisticated read.
The most surprising and bizzare novel is "Nightmare Alley," a strange and memorable journey of an aspiring carnival charlatan. It defines Sleaze. The longest and most complex novel, it feels like a long-lost classic that's been hidden away because of its disturbing content. Some may think of it as too long, but the twisting journey through sweaty farming towns, railroad stations and addled big-city martiarchs required time to establish some crediblity: by the end, I was convinced that such a grotesque collection of stunts actually belonged in the story of this country. "Nightmare Alley" alone is worth the price of the book. Fans of Tarot might be a little offended, but this is especially recommended for understanding fans of Ray Bradbury.
Finally, "I Married a Dead Man" by Woolrich is a suspense novel set up by a tragic accident. The protagonist, literally and figuratively hungry, siezes the opportunity to substitute herself into a more fortunate woman's life. Excellently done, and more grounded in comparison to "Nightmare Alley."
Overall, there's no legitimately weak entry in this collection. The variety of content in these novels is enormous, and acquiring this book will allow the reader to experience the different flavors of American Noir. Most modern crime/suspense movies will seem ridiculous by comparison.
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Family Man: A Novel
Annabel Alderman
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Family Man - a novel wonderful storytelling.......2000-02-13
Annabel Alderman is a writer in the best tradition of southern storytelling. I can't wait to see more of her work in print. The lead character, Myra Boone, is a woman who'll bend just so far. And then look out!
Annabel - Give us another installment. This one ended too soon.
I loved it!.......1999-11-29
I could not put this book down. Myra is an unforgettable heroine, and I couldn't wait to see how she would deal with her cheating husband and his pregnant girlfriend. I laughed out loud . . . and cried, too. It's a real winner.
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So You Call Yourself a Man
Carl Weber
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The acclaimed national bestselling author of such smart, sexy novels as The Preacher's Son and Player Haters returns with a tale of three best friends who've grown from boys to men together. But now that they're each either married or about to be, they're coming up against some of the real tests of manhood… James Robinson and his wife, Cathy, have had their rough patches. But seven years into their marriage, things are better, and hotter, than ever—until the not-so-distant past catches up with James. During a particularly rocky period, James hooked up with a woman on his UPS route, and he wasn't just delivering packages. Now, three years later, the fling has come back to haunt him—with a baby in tow. James has to decide whether to tell his wife, or keep the affair a secret and give in to his ex-mistress's outrageous child support demands. The choice might not be so tough if he wasn't falling in love—with his newfound son.
Meanwhile, James's best friend, Brent Williams, has got his own romantic complications. He's a fine brother who's had women throwing themselves at him all his life, but it's taken Brent a while to find someone who wants him for the man he is on the inside. He thinks he's found her in his fiancée, Alison Jones. The plus-size beauty isn't his usual type, but more important to Brent, she's a born-again Christian, like him. They seem like a match made in heaven until a sexy third party threatens to come between them—someone Brent has been praying to resist.
Ever since he got married and moved to Seattle, Sonny Harrison has missed his friends in New York. But that's going to change now that James has pulled some strings and gotten him a job at UPS. There's just one problem—Sonny's wife. When Sonny tells her the good news, she promptly sends him packing. Sonny's heartbroken—until he reunites with his high school sweetheart, Tiffany. But his quick devotion soon turns suffocating—and scary. Tiffany wants out, but the harder she tries to end things, the harder Sonny hangs on. As his behavior becomes more and more obsessive, Brent and James may be the only ones who can intervene. But will helping Tiffany mean losing their friend forever?
Customer Reviews:
Nice Twists.......2007-10-10
This was my first encounter with a Carl Weber project and I really enjoyed it. I loved all of the twists involved. Just when I thought I had it all figured out, he pulls a whammy on me. I will definitely try another.
Okay.......2007-08-28
This book was just okay to me it had me pulled in real good for a while then some things started coming to light that did'nt particulary keep me engrossed in the story. But overall it was an okay read.
CRAZZYY.................2007-08-26
ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS THIS BOOK WAS THE BOMB A MUCH GET AS ALL OF HIS BOOKS BUT THIS ONE WAS SOMETHING ARE MAYBE BECAUSE THEY ALL WAS ....UP HE DIDIT AGAIN AGAIN SO NOW LET SEE WHAT HAPPEN NEXT AND 1ST LADY KEEP DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING MR.CARL WEBER....!I READ THIS BOOK AND A DAY AND A HALF FAST READ.
Great read.......2007-07-27
Carl Weber is a great writer, he's done it again!!!!!If you havent picked up any of his other books i highly suggest you do so
Good Job.......2007-07-24
I have read all of Carl Weber's books and I must say this is one of my favs. Keep up the good work.
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Difficulties With Girls: A Novel
Kingsley Amis
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Over 25 years ago, Kingsley Amis wrote TAKE A GIRL LIKE YOU, a comedy about a lusty young couple, Patrick and Jenny, each engaged with equal ardor in gaining an opposite goal -- he with getting her into bed, she with staying out of it. They both win.
In DIFFICULTIES WITH GIRLS, Jenny and Patrick are back with us. They're older, though not much wiser -- Jenny, devoted but aggrieved; Patrick, boozing and unfaithful. Each lives in a fantasyland projecting life through lenses not calibrated in this world.
"To have said so much about the human condition with such wit and humor is an extraordinary achievement ...even for Kingsley Amis." (The Sunday Telegraph, London)
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Edmund White majored in sexual explicitness with his boldly autobiographical trilogy--A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony. Now, explicitly as ever, he trains his unflinching eye on a new subject: a young man's death from AIDS. Austin is a fiftysomething American expat in Paris; Julien is a young married man he meets at the gym. Much to Austin's surprise, Julien calls him and soon they are sharing a bed and a life. The Married Man is White's Henry James novel: the first couple hundred pages show us a satirical portrait of young Julien as a stuffy Frenchman and a more elliptical portrait of Austin's apprehension of French culture through his lover. With Julien, "Austin was always learning things, not necessarily reasoned or researched information but rather all those thousands and thousands of brand names, turns of phrase, aversions and anecdotes that make up a culture as surely as do the moves in a child's game of hopscotch."
But White wants to take us all the way to the end of this relationship. Austin is HIV positive, and it soon becomes clear that Julien has AIDS. As Julien's health unravels, the two travel to Providence, to Key West, to Venice, to Rome, and ultimately to Morocco. The author coins a darkly appropriate phrase for this urge to move: he calls it "AIDS-restlessness." White, in fact, unveils a whole gallery of startling images as Julien nears death. Julien is "the bowler hat descending into the live volcano." Thin and brown and bearded, he looks "like the Ottoman Empire in a turn-of-the-century political cartoon." Though he can't read it, Julien acquires a copy of the Koran. "It was the perfect book for a weary, dying man--pious, incomprehensible pages to strum, an ink cloud of unknowing." White has found a language both magical and clinical to describe a horrible death. --Claire Dederer
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In Edmund White's most moving novel yet, an American living in Paris finds his life transformed by an unexpected love affair.
Austin Smith is pushing fifty, loveless and drifting, until one day he meets Julien, a much younger, married Frenchman. In the beginning, the lovers' only impediments are the comic clashes of culture, age, and temperament. Before long, however, the past begins to catch up with them. In a desperate quest to save health and happiness, they move from Venice to Key West, from Montreal in the snow to Providence in the rain. But it is amid the bleak, baking sands of the Sahara that their love is pushed to its ultimate crisis.
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Beautiful & moving story but lacked depth.......2004-11-29
Edmund White has written a very beautiful book on a very dark subject. I agree with most of the 5 star reviews that praised this book and the 2 star reviews that were disappointed with parts of this book. Yes, I am very conflicted about this book. I felt very cheated with the way this book ended. I actually kept looking over the blank pages at the end of the book to make sure an extra chapter or an epilogue wasn't accidently left out. I felt like I didn't get an ending at all. I know, I know, life isn't like that. It goes on and on no matter what tragedies happen in your life. And people do things with no explanations but I wanted an explanation, dang it! But maybe that's me. I read fiction because I want everything nice and neat. A reason for every action. I also wanted a happy ending as impossible as it might be in real life under these settings. I wanted that silver lining. That, I did not get. But I am not at all sorry that I read this book. Far from it, I recommend it. Just know that the ending is very unexpected. I expected it way before or else a reason for going on to that point.
Mr White is a very detailed story-teller full of rich descriptions and a very clear easy-to-picture images. But I never felt like I knew who the main character Austin was. I know what foods he served when he entertained but not how he felt about always being on the giving end. Austin's lover Julian I knew even less. How did Austin really feel about Julian? What did Julian really think about Austin? Sure, I knew all about the motions they went thru but the dialogue between them was lacking at best.
Both Austin and Julian seemed almost shallow only because I knew what clothes they wore more than what they really felt. This book read more like a non-fiction (detailed descriptions)than a fiction (detailed emotions and feelings). Heck, I knew more about how Austin felt about a past lover of his than how he really felt about his current lover who he was with all throughout this book.
When I finished reading the Married Man, I knew I enjoyed reading the book but I didn't have that satisfied full feeling. I felt cheated somehow. I wanted more revealing emotions. I want to write Mr White and ask him a million questions about Julian's motivation for his deception or his lack of explanations. Again, I know things in real life are not spelled out just as it was in this book and we should draw the obvious conclusions based on the few details and hints that were revealed to us. Julian would probably call me a spoiled lazy helpless American who has to be spoon-fed everything.
For those of you who would rather draw your own conclusions, connect your own dots and would consider it an insult to have to be spoon-fed the obvious will really devour The Married Man and the realistic story-telling of this exotic book.
On a pet-peeve side note: I really liked the hardback cover of the man and his dog.(It also relates to, and fits the overall mood of the story) I wish the cover art had not been changed on the paperback edition.
Henry James with a homosexual twist.......2004-10-23
Austin Smith has picked the wrong century to be a furniture scholar and intellectual. He's pushing fifty, lacking direction, and his biggest claim to fame is hosting parties for the Parisian youth in his apartment on the Île St. Louis, or irritating PC maniac students of American universities. His largest commitment in life is to his former lover Peter, dying of AIDS. Until he meets younger married architect Julien, whose lack of known-last-name typifies his character. He is an enigma for much of the book, steadfast only in his devotion to his secrets and to Austin, to whom he says during an intimate pillow-talk session, "I chose you, Petit, and after that there were no other choices to make." The master of artifice who dislikes American big-toothed girls, Julien shows depth by telling Austin, when he discovers Austin's HIV status, "I'm going to stay with you. I'll take care of you...You're the way a man your age should look. I don't want a starved little queen." However, in an elaborate twist of irony, Julien develops AIDS and needs Austin's constant devotion.
Acclaimed award-winning writer Edmund White pens a deeply moving love story of two individuals with illusions about their own lives that create a real, solid and enduring love.
a most beautiful book.......2004-09-26
I loved this book. I loved the writing, and read it very slowly to savor the language. How could it be that a story so ulitmately tragic, could be so rich and full of life? It dazzled me.
Not What I Expected.......2004-07-11
I guess I looked for White to provide thought provoking insight into the older/younger gay relationship. I found the book dull and lacking any real direction. The characters were uninteresting and one demensional. The plot dragged on and on and never really went anywhere. I actually found myself skipping paragraphs trying to get to the point of the story. I apologize to anyone who might find this review offensive, but I didn't enjoy this book at all.
Not really worth reading.......2004-03-12
Austin Smith is a middle-aged American writer, living in Paris, looking for new love from men. He meets Julien, a young married man...
I enjoyed reading 'A Boy's Own Story', written by this writer, which I rated very highly, and therefore I thought I would read another book by Edmund White. However, 'The Married Man' was a disappointing read.
'The Married Man' lacks much in the way of plot. Instead, its content depends mainly on the main character leading a not spectacularly unusual life, but travelling from place to new place and to new venues far too often, extravagantly, rather than working, so the writer can then describe in detail yet another set of new scenes and events and characters and yet more huge expenditure in the new place/venue. That method of creating a book, and the absence of much interesting plot besides, made the book tiresome after a while. I felt I was being made to read material that had being written simply in order to pad the book out unnecessarily.
The content itself becomes quite depressing in the second half of the book.
The style of writing, often with very long turgid sentences and over-complicated similes, suggests the book has been too overwritten ('A Boy's Own Story', in contrast, had a much more interesting, direct, snappy style of writing to it).
Frankly, the main characters aren't likeable (apart from Ajax).
This book was slow going to read, and not a pleasurable experience: more a grim slow turning of the pages, just to finish the thing off.
The writer hasn't really attempted any form of climax to the book, or even a good ending, either. He just lets the book tail off into nothingness after 310 pages.
Overall, this didn't seem to me to be a book worth reading, and I was sorry to have spent time going through it.
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The Locusts Have No King
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NO ONE HAS SATIRIZED New York society quite like Dawn Powell, and in this classic novel she turns her sharp eye and stinging wit on the literary world, and "identifies every sort of publishing type with the patience of a pathologist removing organs for inspection." Frederick Olliver, an obscure historian and writer, is having an affair with the restively married, beautiful, and hugely successful playwright, Lyle Gaynor. Powell sets a see-saw in motion when Olliver is swept up by the tasteless publishing tycoon, Tyson Bricker, and his new book makes its way onto to the bestseller lists just as Lyle's Broadway career is coming apart.
"For decades Dawn Powell was always just on the verge of ceasing to be a cult and becoming a major religion." -- Gore Vidal
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A Novel of Fallen Ideals.......2002-11-23
The title of Dawn Powell's 1948 novel is derived from the Book of Proverbs: "The locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands." The title suggests a certain degree of smallness, conformity, and crowd (swarm) mentality -- a lack of vision and a falling off of what creative life could be. I thought invariably of Nathanael West's "Day of the Locust" set in Hollywood, besides New York City that other center of American dreams. West's novel is a novel of irony which depicts conformity, crassness, and lovelessness in a manner that does resemble Powell's novel. There are parallels in Powell's book with many other novels as well.
"The Locusts have no King" is set in New York City between the period of the end of WW II and the first test nuclear explosion on Bikini Atoll in 1947. The novel is a story of fallen ideals and of the difficult effort required to keep and recover at least some sense of one's ideals. The ideals in question are primarily those of true love and passion and also those of following and remaining faithful to one's dream -- in the case of this book, the dream of writing
The story is told in Powell's sharply ironical voice. Some readers find her voice cool, brittle and impresonal. But I got involved with the main characters and found it moving.
The central character of the book is Frederick, a serious writer and scholar (not attached to any university) who studies medieval history and writes books and articles which few people read. For many years, he has been carrying on an affair with a woman named Lyle, who writes plays together with her crippled husband. Frederick's head is termed by what we today would call a bimbo appropriately named Dodo. ("Pooh on you"!, she says, througout the book) At the same time, Frederick's financial fortune turns when his publisher prevails upon him to edit a periodical appropriately named "Haw" which becomes a commercial success.
The main plot of the story involves Frederick's attempt to understand and put his love life and his writing life back together.
Powell develops this basically serious story is an atmosphere of superficiality. The story moves forward in the bars and pubs of New York City and in party scenes among those on the make. Powell is a master at describing the bars and the streets of New York and in depicting party chatter. The book is full of tart, cutting one-liners and of aphorisms. The theme of fallen ideals in love and thinking is carried through in the settings of the story. Powell has a deeply ambivalent attitude, I think, towards these settings. She clearly knows them well.
This is not a book to be read for the author's skill in plotting. The book is cluttered with many characters and incidents. Powell is a wondeful prose stylist in this book as in her other novels that I have read. In this book I found places where the prose as well as the characters were cluttered and laid on too thick. The strength of the book lies in its description of New York and in Powell's description of how ideals and visions can come short. I found this poignantly displayed.
Powell's own description of "The Locusts have no King" offers valuable insight into what the book has to offer. She wrote:
"The theme ... deals with the disease of destruction sweeping though our times... each person out to destroy whatever valuable or beautiful thing life has... The moral is ... one must cling to whatever remnants of love, friendship, or hope above and beyond reason that one has, for the enemy is all around ready to snatch it."
This is an excellent novel by a deservedly rediscovered American writer.
When a "Real" New Yorker Is Just a Provincial.......2002-07-01
This is a fine, funny satire of New York literary life, and of the thousands of "real New Yorkers" who arrive from their small town or boring suburb and don't write that great novel, or make it big in the theatre, but live the literary lifestyle and are, in fact, "pretentiously bohemian, loudly literary" - in fact, not very likable. You've met people like this, and thanks to the talent of Dawn Powell you can laugh your head off about them.
Here's the guy who tells you "The reason I never went in for painting is I'd want to do it so much better than anyone else." Here's the woman whose "voice showed such cautiously refined diction as to hint at some fatal native coarseness." Here's the folks at a party "generously happy in the pleasure their company was surely giving." And here's the stranger who bends your ear with: "My great ambition has always prevented me from doing anything."
A great piece of description comes during Powell's depiction of a night school for recently-arrived "real" New Yorkers afraid of revealing their ignorance: "There were courses in Radio Appreciation," and such like, leaving the narrator "marvelling afresh that so many grown up, self-supporting people should be eagre to spend money studying not a subject itself but methods to conceal their ignorance of it."
The whole novel is a vast canvas of such scenes and throughout Powell is painting a absorbing picture of 1940's New York (and the New York of today!). One thing Powell is excellent at, in a way Eugene O'neill is, too, is in stripping away the pipe dreams that people veil their lives with, and showing the reader the real, stark truth. Her satire is worthy of Saul Bellow and Gore Vidal; indeed of Aristophanes and Petronius - the latter two writers she loved (she was friends with Vidal, too, in the New York of the 40's and 50's). If you like this one, try her Happy Island, and indeed, all her New York novels.
A challenging read.......2000-11-23
The novel explores a world the movies managed to miss -- the working bohemian class of the late 1940s. The narrator is extremely chatty, and there's a lot of telling instead of showing. But the effort is worth it. The two main characters -- an itinerant scholar and a playwright who props up her physically challenged husband -- are not too sympathetic, but at the end you're glad that they end up the way they do. Intertwined into the plot are some great observations on a world long plowed under by the Donald and the Rudy.
Turn of the Mid-Century.......1999-06-09
Like Kurt Anderson's recent novel, this gem satirizes the New York media scene, but it takes place during the post-WWII years. The author's story holds up and does not feel dated, and her characterizations are dead on (especially good for laughs is the aptly-named airhead Dodo).
The late Dawn Powell deserves the praise reaped with the rediscovery of her novels. I am already considering which one I will read next.
Don't listen to people from California.......1999-01-07
This book is a really fun look, a slice of life in NYC and its publishing world in post-war America. I can't think of anybody who wouldn't thoroughly enjoy not only this story, this satire, but the writing as a whole. This, among other Dawn Powell books, is what I recommend to people looking for something to read that won't bore them to tears!
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From one of the sharpest observers of the modern scene, comes this witty, intelligent, and irresistible novel in the tradition of Gosford Park and Snobs.
A man of wealth and privilege, Anthony Anscombe has everything he could ever want: an exquisite family estate, enviable social standing, and a desirable inheritance. But with all of his money and privilege, Anthony still has an aching desire for one thing: the perfect match. Running headlong into marriage is Anthony’s forte…and his greatest weakness.
As Anthony surveys Winchford Priory, his beautiful Elizabethan house in the English countryside, Anthony has the distinct feeling that he’s under siege. And he’s absolutely right. He may be surrounded by his sprawling estate, but lurking in the village are more than one or two reminders of his complicated past, including three ex-wives, a mistress, and a legion of children and stepchildren, all dependent on him and all determined to do whatever it takes to get what they want.
Meet the wives
Amanda: the ravishing first wife. Unpredictable and mesmerizing, she dared Anthony to fall in love with her, and he took her up on the challenge. Anthony was head over heels from the first night they danced on the rooftop of his family home. Of course, the free-spirited Amanda was never cut out for country life, but young love is blind.
Sandra: the steadfast second wife. Sturdy, dependable and domesticated, Sandra pulled Anthony back from the compelling chaos that surrounded his first wife. Sandra had plans to turn Anthony’s estate into a proper family home, until a stunning secret forced her to make a life-altering decision.
Dita: the snobbish third wife. A true force of nature, Dita was smart, tough, rapaciously social and high-maintenance. She enthusiastically stormed through Anthony's life, organizing and rearranging, and rubbing plenty of people the wrong way, particularly the previous Mrs. Anscombes and their children.
With the entire cast of his life roosting in the village, it's no wonder Anthony doesn't have a minute's peace! Adding to the crazy mix is the mistress, Nora, a new age hippy and acupuncturist, whom Anthony seduced with disastrous consequences.
A Much Married Man is a wickedly funny social satire with memorable characters that will stay with readers long after the final page. Like a modern day Edith Wharton or Anthony Trollope, Nicholas Coleridge delivers a sensational glimpse inside the salacious world of the upper classes.
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An Epic Masterpiece.......2007-08-21
I agree with that last reviewer in that this book is nearly devoid of humor. I did not laugh or even smile once. This book is a historical drama, set over a 40-year time period, detailing the many romantic woes and subsequent offspring of one man. It is an extremely engaging read despite its length and I highly recommend it to anyone looking to become engrossed in a good story. My attention was held right up until the very last page--I was not the least disappointed.
Bird's Eye View into British Aristocracy.......2007-07-30
In my opinion, you must trade credulity for an irrestible read. It is doubtful that even a quarter of the events in this book could have happened to one man - also doubtful that such a character would gladly surround himself with children - some not even related. The ending reminded me of "We'll rent a barn; we'll have a show!" the answer to all problems in old Judy Garland movies. Having said this, it's still true that if you love glimpses into the lifestyles of the rich and famous, you will find this book impossible to but down. One of the key words should be "feudal" - surely this describes Anthony lifestyle at Winchford. All those spare homes in which to deposit friends and illegimate offspring! How delicious! - and the bits with Dita as chatelaine of a grand English county home are fascinating.
Buy it and take it on vacation along with the latest "Hello!" - you won't be disappointed!
Perfect beach read.......2007-07-27
Who says the joys of frivolity aren't worth a quick read? Really enjoyed "A Much Married Man." I told a friend to buy this light and airy souffle of a book and he nearly did not, based on these reviews here on Amazon, which nearly all miss the mark. Let me set the record straight.
This book is a minor classic on par with Trollope. It's not literary by any stretch, but it is way better written than the average eurotrash summer novel. Coleridge's comedy of manners never misses a beat in its satire of late 20th century English and Mediterranean upper-class life. The dialog is perfect, the settings and the characters are authentic and the plots ring true to life. Parts of the book are laugh-out-loud funny. And as for the benefits of having a major lifestyle magazine editor for an author, there are no off-details, even down to the cars, the luxury shopping lists, the cooking, the landscaping and the decorating. If you can differentiate between a "Tatler" and a "Taki," if you can place Annabel's and distinguish between Mustique and Mauritious, if you know the basics of the Barings bank scandal and if you've ever read dailies from three different European countries at once, you will smile and you will laugh at least twice a chapter. Addressing the "moral" concerns of one of these reviewers, I would point out that Coleridge is fair-minded enough to find as many faults as virtues in all his characters, the best of which (the mysterious muse, Amanda Gibbons) will stay with you long after you turn the final page. A great beach read for gossip-loving fiction readers.
tedious and boring.......2007-07-07
I agree with a previous review, that it starts out promisingly enough. But soon, it becomes increasingly boring, with a long list of characters, none of whom I cared about. There is endless detail about the dullest aspects of their lives for a 40 year timespan. In the end I was just so fed up with the main character for being spineless and weak. For example, his business is ruined by an ungrateful stepson,a first wife leaves him with a newborn baby, another stepson commits date rape and he doesn't even raise his voice. I was looking for a light summer read, but just found this to be a waste of my time. Just finished " Water for Elephants" which I highly recommend for a very enjoyable summer read.
Promising beginning, disappointing end.......2007-07-06
Starts out very promising and entertaining with Amanda the wild bride who runs away, then Sandra, the nanny turned bride, then Nula, the new age nut case who he doesn't marry, but just becomes irritating when he married the social climber Dita, especially with her rapist son Morad. The "hero", Anthony Ascombe, is a good but weak man who puts up with way too much from his weird women, but this finally becomees too much with Dita and Morad, although they are both very good character studies, one of the nasty side of adolescent lust in a spoiled rich kid, and the other in the spoiled but very polished social climbing wife Dita. W
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hen one of his step sons ruins his bank with out of control spending, and Morad gets acquited for rape, and Anthoney loses his bank and then immediately rebounds to host the music fair on the property, it shows that this author has no concept of crime and punishment, morality, etc. I did not even finish the very end, I was so disgusted. First 3 quarters, or a 7.5, last quarter is 2.5
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Mystery aficionado Ellery Queen said of Cornell Woolrich that he can "distill more terror, more excitement, more downright nail-biting suspense out of even the most commonplace happenings than nearly all his competitors." Woolrich's work continues to fascinate readers all around the world, and this trilogy should become a staple in all noir collections. It contains two full length novels (I Married a Dead Man and Waltz into Darkness) and five short stories, including "Rear Window"-works in which one of the genre's consumate "poets of terror" explores all the classic noir themes of loneliness, despair, futility, and occasionally redemption.
* Film adaptations of Woolrich works include the Hitchcock classic Rear Window.
* Christopher Reeve will star in an upcoming television remake of Rear Window.
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Let me introduce you to my new favorite author.......2002-03-16
I just finished reading "Waltz into Darkness" about five minutes ago. I had to log on to write a review right away because it was so wonderful. Cornell Woolrich is the master of suspense.. it is impossible to put this book down. I tried to go away from the reading to savor the moment, but alas, I was drawn automatically back into reading. I had to know what would happen next!
"Waltz into Darkness" was the reason for my purchase of the book. I had seen the movie "Original Sin" and was rather taken with the plot, if not the movie itself. I discovered the "Cornell Woolrich Omnibus" and thought, well, why not?
Let me just say that I am so glad that I bought this book. I am an avid fan of James Ellroy, but other than that noir fiction was not known to me. Cornell Woolrich's writing was consistently well written, amazingly well-timed, and delivered in a manner that can only be compared with the likes of F.Scott Fitzgerald. (By the way, it has been said that Woolrich considered Fitzgerald an idol.)
Let's start at the beginning. The five short stories are so diverse. Everyone knows "Rear Window" because of it's Hitchcock fame. Very good, but let's not shun the others just because they are not well known. The best would HAVE to be "Three O'Clock." It has the heart racing and pulse quicking before one can get into the first few pages. The other stories are good.. I was also impressed with "Post-Mortem" and "Change of Murder." "Momentum" was the only one where I was put off by the ending.
The first novel was "I Married a Dead Man." Wow.. fabulous. It leaves you wondering what exactly happened, which normally bothers me beyond belief. However, this was done so well.. and IT COULD HAVE ACTUALLY HAPPENED AT THE TIME... which makes it all the more intriguing. In the middle of reading the novel I decided to research Woolrich, as a man. I was that taken with the book.
"Waltz into Darkness" was the longest section of the book. It isn't the same kind of novel- I would still classify it as noir, but it is a time piece that has alot more descriptive elements. I finished the book and all I could think was "THE TRAUMA OF IT ALL!!!" I wanted to go into the story and make things right for the main character (Durand.) It was a highly enjoyable experience, tragic though it may have been.
I would recommend this book to anyone with a brain who enjoys fiction that will keep you jumping. I am disappointed to know that I have nothing else to read that can possibly be as good now that I have finished the "Omnibus." If possible, I would rate this even higher than the five allotted stars.
NOT for lonely, rainy nights alone!.......2000-12-30
I discovered Cornell Woolrich twenty years ago, his dark, macarbre thrillers leaving me a terrified teen! With this in mind, the novels and short stories collected in the omnibus were 're-reads' for me, yet they still left me in a state of spellbound suspense. However, if you're looking for an 'Agatha Christie' type whodunnit where, by the final page, the killer is safely locked up and everyone has tea...Forget it. Woolrich's work is dark and truly haunting, leaving a thrillingly eerie aftertaste. I recommend this omnibus edition to fans of Film Noir and/or people who like to scare themselves silly!
Well, at least something is in print.......2000-01-16
For those of you who have never met him, let me introduce you to Cornell Woolrich, the greatest suspense writer of all time. He's cruel, he'll wring you dry, he'll pummell you physically and emotionally until you just about break down. And you'll never be able to get enough.
Now let me introduce you to the ONLY thing that is in print from this remarkable man, who wrote over twenty novels and a few hundred short stories... The Omnibus, which contains I MARRIED A DEAD MAN and WALTZ INTO DARKNESS, two of the last novels of his "main" period and both written under the psuedonym William Irish, and five short stories collected under the Title "Rear Window". I MARRIED A DEAD MAN is one of Woolrich's best: existentially terrifying, incredibly depressing, and wholly dependant on bizarre coincindences that you must just accept as being part of his cruel and mocking universe. WALTZ is a strange choice to include, since it uncharacteriscally takes place in a period setting (1880s Louisiana) and depends less on crime and suspense than his other works, but it is nonetheless captivating -- his dark view of life and love still sits at the helm, but this novel isn't representative of his work the way you would expect for inclusion in an "Omnibus".
As for the shorts, they are uniformally a strong group. "Change of Muder" and "Post-Mortem" are solid if not incredible, but they do show you what some of his typical magazine work was like. "Rear Window" (which was first published as "It Had To Be Murder") is still a great story, even if you've seen the movie a few hundred times. Woolrich keeps the action tense and clautrophobic they way no one else can. "Momentum" (first published as "Murder Always Gathers Momemtum") is a delirious action nightmare that outdoes Camus on the existential level (Woolrich is far far ahead of any French writer for existential despair -- and yet he's the one out of print, go figure!). It resembles another excellent story, "Dusk to Dawn" that Woolrich wrote a few years before.
And then there's "Three O'Clock". Oh God. God, what can I say about this story? Woolrich's biographer called it his greatest a work, and to read it is "to die a little." Be warned, this is a wrecking piece of prose, so tense and so frightening that you will never forget it, although you may try....
This collection is worth the price just for this short story alone.
excellent introduction to a neglected master.......1998-11-01
Despite the fact that it doesn't blindside the reader the way that, say, The Bride Wore Black or The Black Angel blindside the reader, I Married A Dead Man is my favorite of Woolrich's novels. It has a doom in store for the central character that is more haunting and more ambiguous than the doom that awaits any of Woolrich's other protagaonists and it followed me around for days afterwards after I read it. Waltz in to Darkness isn't in the same league, but it is very good on it's own terms. Woolrich was trying to write a "mainstream" novel here, but his worldview seeps into every page. The stories in Rear Window and other stories are all first rate. "Three O'Clock" is a corker and "Post Mortem" has a premise you have to read to believe. The rest of Woolrich's output is stupidly out of print right now. I've been collecting it used, but some of the obscure stuff (Children of the Ritz, Strangler's Serenade, Death is My Dancing Partner) is either too expensive or just plain unavailable. I would love to see some enterprising publisher do "the complete Cornell Woolrich."
A nice introduction to Woolrich, but nothing new here.......1998-07-09
If you haven't come across Cornell Woolrich before (or William Irish or George Hopley), you are in for a treat.
Oddly enough, for a "Woolrich Omnibus", two novels that were originally published as by William Irish have been selected, and, even then, two of his lesser novels under that pseudonym. Don't get me wrong - the two novels are good, but they are not among his best. The 5 short stories in the "Rear Window" section are all top-notch, however.
The most unfortunate thing about this collection is that all three sections, "I Married a Dead Man", "Waltz Into Darkness", and "Rear Window and other stories", were all available separately until recently, while other, more deserving novels and short story collections have been out-of-print for many years, and hundreds of Woolrich's short stories lie uncollected in old pulp magazines. Why not revive some of these rather than trying to sell the most recently available stories in a different format?
"I Married A Dead Man" is a story of a young, pregnant, penniless woman who is thrown out on the street by her child's father. When she is involved in a train accident that kills a rich young man and his pregnant wife, she is mistaken for the man's wife by his family and taken in by them. Her past, however, threatens to destroy both her new-found happiness and the people that she has come to care for.
"Waltz Into Darkness" is the story of a lonely man who tries to find companionship by proposing marriage to a pen-pal. When she arrives, however, she is beautiful and does not at all resemble her picture. In spite of questions about her and hints of dark doings, his love for her and his fear of being alone lead him to marry her, and set them both up for noir tragedy.
"Rear Window" is a collection of the 5 short stories by Woolrich that were filmed by Alfred Hitchcock, either for the movies or for television. Writing short stories is where Woolrich made his name, and t! his collection shows why. Four of the stories are very good, but one is among the best, if not The Best, of his over 200 stories: "Three O'Clock". This is a classic noir story that puts the reader into the skin of a man who decides, for no good reason, to kill his wife by setting a time bomb to blow her up. We follow him through his preparations, and are trapped with him when an unexpected occurence traps him with the bomb inaccessible, but only scant feet away from him. As the clock ticks closer to 3:00, the time the bomb is set for, we feel his desperation as he tries to somehow stop the destruction that he has set in motion.
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An old-fashioned man of character, Conrad Taylor is executive vice-president of a eastern university who, after leading a satisfying and well-ordered life, finds himself suddenly on shaky ground, struggling to do the right thing in the face of crisis, confrontation, and opportunity. A Man in Charge is an intricate novel about the uncertainties of personal power and the discovery of its limits.
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