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Summary: NYC man
Review: The very dapper Coerte V. W. Felske lives in New York City. He is the author of three novels: The Shallow Man, Word, and now, Millennium Girl. There has been no shortage of controversy surrounding the publication of his work, since Felske writes about subjects that are upsetting or morally objectionable. His first amusing novel, The Shallow Man, was about a man, Nick Laws, who was obsessed with models, and gave us the term "Modelizer." Right away, Felske's work seems destined to be filmed like authors like Nick Hornby and Chuck Palaniuk, who I think he somewhat resembles if any. His novels were a pleasant shock to me when I read them years ago. Felske was also good at coining terms and creating comic situations. He took his sharp observational skills and turned the focus on Hollywood and its hangers on, in his second novel, Word. Heyward Hoon is an unsuccessful screenwriter who gets hired by a producer to procure some women. Again, this wild and humorous look at what it takes to make it in movies is given the Felske touch. Both novels are now being made into films. His new novel, Millennium Girl, is mostly about gold diggers, and women who travel around the world in search of wealthy businessmen. Bodicea is a girl from a small town who is just about at the end of her window of opportunity, her twenties, and is desperate to marry a "walletman" before she turns thirty. Poignantly, Felske shows us a glimpse of this jetset world where people like to mix love and money. I talked to Coerte Felske recently in a cafe in Soho, where we talked about the entire buzz around his work. AL: There is a certain sensationalism about your work. Are you ever worried that there isn't enough literary content? CF: I think my books are, for the modern age, as literary as it gets. You can talk about the masters of old: I would guarantee that Doestoevsky or Fitzgerald, or anyone like that, wouldn't be writing like they did back then right now. It's much more of "sound bite-y" world. I don't think that I'm trying to adapt a style for that world, but I'm a product of it. There's so much more information being thrown at us. I wouldn't discount my books as being non-literary. If you look at today's writers, can you find someone who's delivering page for page the way I am? It's hard to find.
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Summary: Bo KNOWS fun!
Review: This book is truly amazing! I never thought I'd enjoy reading a book about "Diggers"--women who selectively seek out, manipulate, and survive via rich men (By the way, a "Gold Digger" is NOT the same as a prostitue. This is one of the first things main character, Bodicea Lashley, will tell you). If you like Jay McInerney's "Story of My Life" or the movie "Pretty Woman", then you'll surely enjoy this hilarious, boldly entertaining read! Anyone who didn't like it because of its "immorality" had no business picking it up in the first place. This book is for the open-minded and hip...conservatives need not BUY!
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Summary: Simply awesome
Review: This book was hilarious, it had an excellent balance of risque-ness (is that even a word), humour, and thoughtful insight on Bo's world. After reading this, I bought a copy for a friend and she liked it so much she was reading it during class. Then she got yelled at numerous times, but that's beside the point. The writing is intelligent and witty, you may think "Oh it's just a silly little book about 'diggers' and such" but really you have to be somewhat smart to understand this book (i.e. "Fellatio Alger", a play on Horatio Alger, the rags to riches man Bianchi taught us about). It's fast paced and just a ton of fun to read. BUY THIS BOOK! =)
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