The Chrysanthemum Palace

by Bruce Wagner

ONE LINE SUMMARY: Bertie, the middle-aged son of a famous Gene Roddenberry-ish creator/producer, navigates Hollywood with two other friends.

Although this book got great reviews and has one of the best endings, construction-wise, I’ve read in a long time, I didn’t really enjoy it. I like Hollywood gossip, and I liked how the author name-dropped famous people in the industry, but I didn’t like any of the characters or had anything in common with any of them.

Although it wasn’t bad, the book wasn’t great, either, and I plowed doggedly through it until I finished it. If I hadn’t started tracking the books I read, I probably would have just stopped halfway through and returned it to the library.

Posted by: ssjane | February 26, 2005 | 11:10 pm
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