- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Hutchinson (8 July 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0091799643
- ISBN-13: 978-0091799649
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 688,560 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Like all would-be Hollywood screenwriters, David Armitage wants to be rich and famous. But for the past eleven years, he's tasted nothing but failure. Then, out of nowhere, big time luck comes his way when one of his scripts is bought for television - and before you can say 'overnight success', he's the new toast of Hollywood as the creator of a hit series. Suddenly, a 'player' in Tinsel Town, he finds himself reinventing himself at great speed - especially when it comes to walking out on his wife and daughter for a young producer who worships only at the alter of ambition. But David's upward mobility takes a decidedly strange turn when a billionaire film buff named Philip Fleck barges into his life, proposing a very curious collaboration. David takes the bait, and suddenly finds himself inadvertently entering into a Faustian Pact, and an express ride to the lower depths of the Hollywood jungle.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Page-turning tale of money and morals,
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Kennedy has dealt with the ephemeral nature of success before, notably in `The Big Picture' and `The Job'. `Temptation' is the tale of David Armitage, a struggling screenwriter who after years of getting nowhere suddenly hits the big time.
The story is like one of those yuppie nightmare movies popular in the Eighties and Nineties, where a wealthy, successful type gets involved in something they shouldn't, makes some poor decisions and sees their life unravel. It covers a well-worn theme - that money does not guarantee happiness. Kennedy's brand of moralising plays to the crowd, i.e. those of us without millions who may enjoy hearing that affluence does not make all your problems disappear, but it's well-written light entertainment and very readable. Four stars on this basis. A note to prospective male readers: after a string of bestsellers with female narrative voices, Kennedy's publishers seem to have decided to give all his books soppy covers irrespective of content. Don't be put off giving this one a try because of the Mills and Boon type artwork. Finally, anyone who enjoyed this tale of money and morals should try Stephen Vizinczey's classic `An Innocent Millionaire' for a more literary (though no less readable) take on similar themes and issues.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable but not his usual high standard,
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This review is from: Temptation (Hardcover)
I like Douglas Kennedy's novels for what they are - well written page turners. He has a certain style: a love betrayed, a flawed leading character, a build 'em up the watch 'em fall narrative. Nothing wrong with that.
And nothing wrong with this book either. I enjoyed it very much. It's just that it felt 'phoned in'. I'm sure Kennedy worked very hard on it, but I felt that it could have done with a tighter editing. Some of the parts of the books were over long and it was hard to understand why the main character would put up with some of the behaviour that he had to deal with. Great holiday read, but not much more.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not his best but give it a chance!,
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Douglas Kennedy's 7th novel seems to have received quite poor reviews.I read this in a few days, like all of Kennedy's novel's Temptation's a page turner . Kennedy returns to the male character in the first person, in this case David Armitage a struggling scriptwriter gets the breakthrough to the US West Coast big time, writing a succesful sitcom. In the cut throat world of vitrial media, and his encounter with bilionaire tycoon Philip Fleck. It's well plotted with elements of his earlier novels Big Picture and The Job ,yet it does lack somewhat the originality of other Kennedy masterpieces, by the time I read the last page I felt as if I'd been cheated out of a few chapters.Condemed as superficial and poor by other critics, I disagree. Iput this in the same category as his earlier works The Dead Heart,Big Picture and The Job and it's probably the weakest of that group, as Kennedy's other novels covered female characters. But give temptation a chance it's not that bad.
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