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milnicky's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
4.0
br1106's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
2.0
msjenne's review against another edition
3.0
I read this once before when I was pretty young--we'd gone on vacation and I ran out of books so I just moved on to what my mom was reading. I remember thinking it was SCANDALOUS! but now it seems fairly tame.
If you like the show "American Pickers" you'll recognize the title character--he drives all over the country seeking out rare and interesting objects to buy and sell--everything from 19th century lightbulbs to religious icons to Rudolph Valentino's hubcaps.
But the main objects in the book are really the women, who are what you might call Magnificent Creatures--terrifying, inexplicable, pitiless, tragicomic, and not quite real. Jack isn't really up to dealing with them as people so he has an elaborate persona that he uses to simultaneously charm and deflect.
The book itself is also charming, and also tragicomic, and also not quite real.
If you like the show "American Pickers" you'll recognize the title character--he drives all over the country seeking out rare and interesting objects to buy and sell--everything from 19th century lightbulbs to religious icons to Rudolph Valentino's hubcaps.
But the main objects in the book are really the women, who are what you might call Magnificent Creatures--terrifying, inexplicable, pitiless, tragicomic, and not quite real. Jack isn't really up to dealing with them as people so he has an elaborate persona that he uses to simultaneously charm and deflect.
The book itself is also charming, and also tragicomic, and also not quite real.
jenne's review
3.0
I read this once before when I was pretty young--we'd gone on vacation and I ran out of books so I just moved on to what my mom was reading. I remember thinking it was SCANDALOUS! but now it seems fairly tame.
If you like the show "American Pickers" you'll recognize the title character--he drives all over the country seeking out rare and interesting objects to buy and sell--everything from 19th century lightbulbs to religious icons to Rudolph Valentino's hubcaps.
But the main objects in the book are really the women, who are what you might call Magnificent Creatures--terrifying, inexplicable, pitiless, tragicomic, and not quite real. Jack isn't really up to dealing with them as people so he has an elaborate persona that he uses to simultaneously charm and deflect.
The book itself is also charming, and also tragicomic, and also not quite real.
If you like the show "American Pickers" you'll recognize the title character--he drives all over the country seeking out rare and interesting objects to buy and sell--everything from 19th century lightbulbs to religious icons to Rudolph Valentino's hubcaps.
But the main objects in the book are really the women, who are what you might call Magnificent Creatures--terrifying, inexplicable, pitiless, tragicomic, and not quite real. Jack isn't really up to dealing with them as people so he has an elaborate persona that he uses to simultaneously charm and deflect.
The book itself is also charming, and also tragicomic, and also not quite real.
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