Good Faith

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Summary: good faith - not enough to go on
Review: What a disappointment! Smiley's newest work is not only mundane and uninteresting, her usual wonderful writing is absent so there is nothing in this book to get hooked on. The novel follows the prosaic life of a prosaic man, with little insight or tension to keep the reader interested in what might happen. It seemed as if Smiley herself was not very interested in her protagonist's life, leaving little to recommend in this book. Try her earlier books which have some life and spark, and brilliant writing.

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Summary: You can't make Realtors exciting
Review: Wow, a story about Realtors, developers, and Accountants and it is dull. Who would have guessed! Even the sex is dull! The book makes the S & L crisis dull. This a a turgid book with uninteresting characters plodding through. When you reach the end it is "so what." Plot summary: Boy meets Con man developer, boy gets greedy, boy gets burned, things go back to normal when boy realized greed isn't good. There were interesting pieces of characters. The most interesting one seems to be Joe's former girlfriend Sally. The fact that the most interesting character is dead at the beginning of the book should tell you how interesting the book is.