Bright Young Things

Rating:
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 :)

Rating:
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 :)

Rating:
Summary: A must.
Review: The sexiest book about society I've ever read. The true story. [Slim Aarons]

Rating:
Summary: Vanity Press Personified
Review: This book attests to what paying a publicist can do for book sales. I bought the book because I had heard about it, and was sorely disappointed when I opened the cover. Voila! A bunch of nobodys who've done nothing in their wealthy lives to merit being in a book. Either they were friendly with the author or merely flattered when asked to be photographed for the book. The photographs are fine, in and of themselves, but the subjects leave something to be desired. The text is as light weight as souffle... the book would lose nothing without it. Indeed, this is the priciest non-book I've ever seen. Don't be fooled by the hype. Trust me, the only "Bright" thing about this book is the title which Ms. De Ocampo unfortunately lifted from another author's prior book. Shame on Assouline for publishing such tripe. They should have stopped publishing books after their exquisite David Seidner's Portraits. Now that was book-worthy. And Laurence's Private Dreams of Public People.

Rating:
Summary: Great book
Review: This is a great photographic book about style and beautiful houses and people. Brooke de Ocampo didn't pretend any more.I think most of the reviewers below based their reviews on envy.I'm sure that most of them are dying to belong to the " Bright Young " circle. Why did they buy the book ? They didn't know that it was a book about the kind of people they hate and envy ? This book is the XXI century version of " Vogue's Book of Houses, Gardens and People " written by Valentine Lawford, with a forewood by Diane Vreeland an photos by Horst, published in 1968. If you are the kind of people that enjoy beauty and good photography, buy BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS.

Rating:
Summary: A guilty pleasure
Review: This is an extremely entertaining book on a number of levels. Readers of W and Architectural Digest will enjoy this book, but those who are easily jarred by poor copy editing may find this trying at times. Blatant errors appeared throughout the text and could have been remedied by either a good spell-check program or a careful editor. Too bad, but it is a fun weekend read.

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Summary: Please don't further fuel these people's narcissism
Review: You know, my grandmother always taught me that wealth and success were blessings to be appreciated and contemplated in private, and to be grateful for because they are distributed unequally and can disappear at any time. I have to wonder what these people's families taught them, besides the lie that money makes you important and you have this wealth because you are somehow just better than other people. The vulgarity and transparent social ambition of the participants in this book just make the whole exercise in narcissism that much more lame. The bad design, bad attitudes, bad values, and ignorance on display here show a real waste of the doubtless costly education lavished on these children of vanity and greed. They would be pitiable if they weren't so arrogant.

And their apartments are mostly just really ugly.

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