I just never connected with this book, although I wanted to. Emma got on my nerves severely. This may say more about me than it does about the book, though. ( )

I liked this very much. Not the story so much but the way it made me feel. Peale totally nails New York and all that can happen to you as you make your way through your thirties. How to commit, how to waste time, how to mature, how to grow up, and when are you too old to let yourself be treated like a piece of shit.

Great book. ( )

I just never connected with this book, although I wanted to. Emma got on my nerves severely. This may say more about me than it does about the book, though. ( )

I struggled off and on to finish this book, and thanks to a 6 hour flight delay - with 3 hours actually stuck in the plane on the tarmac - I had little choice but to plow through it.

By the time the book ended (while still on the plane), I was finally enjoying it and felt like the character (Emma Dial) was taking shape...and then it ended.

The first 200 pages or so rambled about art, the art market, art assistants, relationships, casual sex, jealousy, competition, New York living, you name it. And none of the topics reached a point. Once the waffling Emma finally makes some decisions, the book takes a new direction, Emma becomes interesting and I felt my investment in the book was going to pay off. and then, "The End".

It wasn't a bad book, and what was developed was written fairly well, I just couldn't read more than a chapter at a time because I didn't care enough about any of the shallow characters which had been drawn thus far to do more. ( )

Goodwill, 11/11/11, $2.00