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Summary: True (but mostly unlikable) New York characters
Review: Arthur Vandameer is a liberal hypocrite, preaching his causes on television while living an elitist life at home. His teenaged daughter, Allison, comes up with a strategy to overcome his plans to send her to Harvard--she'll pretend to elope with Goonie--one of the many annoyances she cultivates simply to frustrate her father. Her plan goes wrong when Goonie misses his appointment, Allison takes up with a con-man wanna be, and right-wing reporter Charlie Moon comes to interview Arthur only to find Arthur's life unravelling. MOON OVER MANHATTAN is a sort of paean to New York's eccentricity. All of the characters are over the top as they pursue selfish and frequently self-destructive goals. When the entire cast of the novel ends up on the set of Arthur's television show, the scene is set for an explosion of epic proportions--which does happen although in a way that might surprise. Authors Larry King and Thomas H. Cook keep the novel moving forward with smooth writing and cruel humor. The ordinary people are portrayed as idiots (as in the con-man's wife disguises herself as a gigantic peanut to track her husband), liberal Arthur as a paranoid hypocrite, and right-wing Charlie as a paranoid who can't get it up. In its even-handed insults, MOON OVER MANHATTAN reflects at least some of the realities of New York. In the Foreword, Larry King writes that he was inspired by the events of 9/11. I think MOON misses the mark a bit if it's intended to portray characters as likable.
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Summary: WHAT A WILDLY FUN BOOK!
Review: I HAD SO MUCH FUN DEVOURING LARRY KING'S MOON OVER MANHATTAN. I LOVED ALL THE FUN CHARACTERS, BUT ESPECIALLY ENJOYED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ALISON VANDAMEER, HER FATHER AND BOY TOY GOONIE. IT WAS VERY ENJOYABLE, AND I REALLY LIKED THE DRAWINGS AND INTERACTIVENESS ABOUT THE INSIDE. IT WAS WILD!!! I GIVE THIS BOOK FIVE FAIRY THUMBS UP AND TOTALLY RECCOMEND IT TO ALL IN NEED OF A GOOD READ!!!!!!!
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Summary: Love NYC...dislike the book.
Review: In short."I couldn't put it down...". This book I could put down, but I finished it . As quickly as possible!
A big disappointment.
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Summary: A Loving and Touching Tribute to the Big Apple
Review: Larry King? The talk show guy? Wrote a mystery? Oh yeah --- and it reads like he had a ball doing it. The main guy is hip liberal talk show host Arthur Vandermeer, who resembles Mr. King in many respects. But if the famed TV host of Larry King Live is half the hypochondriac his creation is, he'd barely be able to get out of bed in the morning. Larry Moon, a right-wing tabloid newspaper columnist, is pulled in as a last minute replacement to interview his nemesis, Vandermeer, for a fluff piece on spectacular views of the Manhattan skyline. Moon, whose career is nosediving, was angling for a front-page byline with a big star, but this doesn't sound like what he had in mind. Then he falls into an exclusive when Vandermeer's daughter, Allison, who knows how to push her father's buttons, announces while Moon is at the house that she's going to elope with Goonie, a kid from the projects. But she ends up missing, and Vandermeer, fearing a kidnapping, is distraught. Some other New York types enter the story in a mirthful mix-up --- a monosyllabic private eye who hates the Disneyfication of Times Square; a hotel doorman from Queens with grandiose plans to strike it rich; throw in a madam, a pint-sized madman brawler and a befuddled, idea-a-minute media magnate and you have a Manhattan cocktail of mayhem. In a Runyonesque tribute to the spirit of the characters who inhabit the Big Apple, King states in a forward that he hopes the love, admiration and affection he and his co-writer Tom Cook have for New York and its people shine through. It most certainly does! --- Reviewed by Roz Shea
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Summary: Mayhem without mystery
Review: This book was a complete let down. I'm still questioning if the mystery part of the story was the climax. Where was it?
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