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Title: How to Buy a Love of Reading

Author: Tanya Gibson

Narrator: Renée Raudman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-09

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

When Nagel reports to her parents that she has answered "What is your favorite book?" with "Never met one I liked," they decide to fix what he calls her "intellectual impoverishment." They will commission a book to be written just for her - one she'll have to love - that will impress her teacher and the whole town of Fox Glen with their family's devotion to the arts. They will be patrons - the Medicis of Long Island. They will buy their daughter The Love of Reading.

Impossible though it is for Carley to imagine loving books, she is in love with a young bibliophile who cares about them more than anything. Anything, that is, but a good bottle of scotch. Hunter Cay, Carley's best friend and Fox Glen's resident golden boy, is becoming a stranger to her lately as he drowns himself in F. Scott Fitzgerald, booze, and Vicodin. When the Wellses move struggling writer Bree McEnroy into their mansion to write Carley's book, Carley's sole interest in the project is to distract Hunter from drinking and give them something to share. But as Hunter's behavior becomes erratic and dangerous, she finds herself increasingly drawn into the fictional world Bree has created and begins to understand for the first time the power of stories---those we read, those we want to believe in, and most of all, those we tell ourselves about ourselves. Stories powerful enough to destroy a person. Or save her.

Critic Reviews:

"Brimming with literary allusions, commentary on the rich and famous, and the necessary ingredients for a successful novel, Gibson's ingenious debut succeeds on many levels." (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

Not Worth Your Time

A friend told me that this book somehow related to Fitzgerald's classic The Great Gatsby, which I love. I enjoy parallels to and adaptations of great literary works, so I purchased this right away. Unfortunately, I couldn't get through it. I read maybe twenty pages and put it on the bookshelf. The price was the only good thing about this purchase.

Ambitious & Memorable

They say novels are ambitious when they extend themselves a little too far. This one is probably guilty of delving too deep into to many characters, but it makes this an immersive experience of real-world teenage angst against a backdrop of literature and wealth that you won't forget.

Loved this book . . .

This is the best contemporary novel I read in 2012. The work is absurdly beautiful in its darkness, brilliantly memorable in its characterizations, cleverly meaningful in its structure, tomorrow-morning fresh in its essence, and agonizingly painful in its truth. I eagerly await the next Gibson novel.

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Something Different! Not your everday novel

Finally something different! What got my attention was the editorial review that proclaimed it "for those of us who like both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and F. Scott Fitzgerald" and another that read "Gibson lovingly skewers two self- obsessed classes: the upper crust and the literary" but I had no idea what I was really getting. This is not your everyday novel.

Reading this book is a bit like watching Being John Malkovich - it's complicated - and those who don't like most likely aren't getting the point.

Yes the first part of the book is terribly written and difficult to read - on purpose. It's part of the larger story...