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Summary: A fun read --
Review: I was dying to read this book after I saw several magazine articles on it. The book is a lot of fun--great photos, beautiful people, interesting homes. However, the narrative is somewhat amateurish. She wrote the book very quickly and you can tell. Also, I was expecting a little more insight, a little more comparison to other gilded eras. Then again, it was such a decadent delight, perhaps expecting insight is too much!
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Summary: Untalented Rich People
Review: I'm won't deny that everyone likes to glimpse into the lives of the priviledged few. But this book made me feel dirty. First of all, the introduction made me nauseous with grammatical errors and uninteresting banter. In addition, De Ocampo suggests that her subjects are Meritocrats when almost every one of them is the heir/heiress to a cosmetics, fashion or art-dealing tycoon. The very notion that these people are self-made, talented, or even stylish is a joke. Thanks for a laugh though. P.S. I also received the book as a gift.
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Summary: YUCH !
Review: Is this what it means to have friends in high places? In light of what has been happening with the Martha Stewart, Sam Waksal and Peter Bacanovic drama, this book is particularly au courant.Peter's interiors and editorial comments are as vapid, insipid and slippery as he has proven himself to be. The sheer fact that these types opened their homes to fellow shallow socialite Brooke De Ocampo's camera clearly shows us how little they all have to offer. Pity.
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Summary: Trite Young Things!
Review: It is one thing to write a book (if one can call a horrendously mispelled written work a "book") about society men and women, a topic we can all appreciate, even for the sake of curiosity. But it is quite another to write a book about your friends, state in the preface that they are all accomplished, call them "Bright Young Things" and then chronicle the frivolous goings-on of the rich and, only in SOME cases, beautiful. Next time ... just call it like it is: W magazine in book form and we will all love it for it's trivialities. But please don't pretend it is anything more than that. Better luck next time.
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Summary: ha! I know most of these people and...
Review: My husband and I know most of these people from college and the New York party circuit and let me tell you this book is a joke! If you think that these women really have "careers" or grace and style of their own then we have a bridge in this town which you might be interested in purchasing to go along with your copy of this book...Brooke is preying on their vanities and insecurities in order to boost her profile-although from the quality of her writing you can tell that she is not much more intelligent than the BYT's. Her subjects are fun people however to admire them would be not only inappropriate but foolish-let's just say I laughed so hard, this book should listed under "humour".
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Summary: reader
Review: Normally I enjoy this kind of thing, but this book is embarassing. Who sets the trends? Not these people. Cast a net over a random crowd in New York City and you would be hard pressed to come up with a more under-acheiving, untalented bunch. Stylish? Even the photographer seems hard pressed for material. Images and decors are surprisingly banal, substandard even for the magazines this big, expensive book resembles. The text can only have been generated by under-educated robots running PR programs. Don't they have spell check?
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Summary: It's a Guilty Pleasure
Review: Nothing more. The photos are pretty good, the people are somewhat interesting, the text is readable but mostly trite. The fact that this newish, hard-cover book is already 50% off says it all.
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Summary: Grammer
Review: One reviewer commented "the introduction made me nauseous with grammatical errors." She indeed is guilty of a grammatical error. She means to say "nauseated." To say it made her "nauseous" would make her like the subjects of this book -- things that make you nauseated.
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Summary: overrated narcissists
Review: The people featured within these wasted pages are overprivileged, self-absorbed trustafundians or super-climbers (like Ocampo herself) getting glory for doing nothing of any real value for society. Pity trees had to fall to provide paper on which to print this vapid nonsense!! Just glad I didn't buy it (was an ill-guided gift). The writing is inferior to that of a 5th grader in public school, no more!! One would think O'Campo could have hired a decent ghost writer to do it for her!
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Summary: Pretty lousy
Review: The price I paid for this book, and what little amount...of anything is a bummer. There is maybe one page per "bright young thing", maybe those things didn't want to share a lot but I thought that was the point of the book.
Unless you have money to burn, save it for something else :)
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