- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Warner Books (May 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0446672521
- ISBN-13: 978-0446672528
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 12.2 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,490,423 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This collection of stories tells of misunderstandings, awakening desire, and thwarted loves. A couple share past sexual secrets with disastrous consequences, a man loses a girl he sees regularly to his friend, and an office worker fails to read the signals sent out by an attractive receptionist.
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PAUL STOOD in front of the bathroom mirror and catalogued the catastrophes in his life. Read the first page
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book when it was first released in the UK and since then have read it six or seven times. The short stories feel so real and the writing is so clean, simple and economical it's a joy to read. Each time I read this I enjoy it more than the last time and whenever I finish the final story I'm always compelled to turn back to the beginning and start again. A wonderful book, and one I'd hate to be parted with.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
I love this book & am amazed by the backlash
18 April 2000
Format:Paperback
I've had this book now since it was released in the UK several years ago and I have to say that I love it. Thomas Beller was a name I'd never heard of so I bought it on a whim and ended up so glad that I did. I've read it now six or seven times and each time I enjoy it as much as the last, maybe even more. Simple but beautiful writing, "real" stories of "real" lives, humorous in the right places and to see so many people criticizing the book because of Beller's appearance or how he was at school etc. amazes me. Who cares what an author looks like or who he or she is? If a book is good, it's good - period, and I for one wouldn't part with my copy. I give this one an unreserved 5 stars, and I look forward to reading more of his work.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
addicted
4 Jun 1999
Format:Paperback
i loved this book. i read it in one night. i loved the stories about peoples lives, the way they interact with each other. i found this book simple and poignant. READ HERE: if you did not like this book, why attack the author? it is fine to just say you didn't like it!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
provides a clearer understanding of the publishing business
1 Jun 1999
Format:Paperback
I picked up "Seduction Theory" down at the Blue Pear book store on Attalee Street. The summary compared the author to Salinger and promissed the reader an interesting view of New York through the eyes of a struggling college graduate.
Right away, this raised two red flags for me. Whenever a new author is compared to a previous one, the connection is almost always languid or non-existant. But more importantly, who wants to see anything through the eyes of a college graduate?
But I read on hoping to be pleasantly suprised. The book was not good and it was not bad. The prose was vapid to be certain, but was still a few levels above excerable. Poe once remarked that the only successful criminals are the gifted or the insane. I'm afraid the same is true of artists, and particularly so of authors. Unfortunately, the content and Style of Herr Beller's work is meaningless.
When Pushkin first published Eugene Onegin, his readers complained that it was bland and pointless. But soon even the most severe critics admitted that they saw a little bit of Onegin in everyone. Eugene Onegin was supposed to be dull. He represented a personality that was typical of late Imperial Russian society. But Pushkin was a genious and Beller is Beller.
I think his book was published because it attempts to stamp New York on every page. Beller gave his purile prose a geographic identity and his publisher thought it might go somewhere. Ah well...
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