The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards

Rating:
Summary: Stick To The Movie
Review: Without the music (which is described throughout), this book is rather lame. A novelization of the movie, written as though someone asked Jimmmy Steinway (the ad guy who kept trying to get his clients into "The Club") to write it years after he wrote the movie script. You're left wondering: did this really happen or not? Why did Stillman feel the need to write this book?

Although it does explain certain character's motivations, which weren't really clear in the movie, it kind of goes overboard with a little too much insight, even for a novel. In my opinion, it wasn't realistic, and the characters were even more superficial than the movie. In the movie, you know nobody acts that way in real life, but it's a movie! And since when is the IRS a client of an advertising agency? Why would the Charlotte and Alice both be only TWENTY years old in the September following their graduation from college? No mention of skipping grades, starting first grade at age four, or both of them going to college during the summer, in which case, they'd still both be twenty-one. This isn't the 1930's where kids start first grade at age five, there is no sophomore year in high school, so everyone graduated high school at age sixteen. Just a glaring inconsistency which bothered me.

The movie is much more entertaining.