Never Enough

Rating:
Summary: Good......where's Part 2?
Review: After reading the other reviews I was left thinking that the other readers, knowing full well that Harold Robbins was deceased, purchased the book and attempted to compare it to others actually written by him.....That's not fair. I thought the book was good, and so did a lot of my friends at work. Maybe it's because we work in the Financial Industry. At any rate I loved the book and am waiting for the sequel. Now fire up tht PC and get to writing!!!

Rating:
Summary: Where's the ending?
Review: As I was dwindling down to the last few pages, I wondered how
the author would wrap up this story. When I finished the book,
I checked to see if some pages were torn out at the end. How
could any author end a novel in this manner is beyond me.
Does anyone know if a sequel was published?

Rating:
Summary: Enough Is Too Much
Review: Harold Robbins was a master storyteller. He conquered the reading public with The Carpetbaggers and for many years spun yarn after yarn of intrigue and sex and manipulation and
sex and so on. Toward his latter years, the quality of the story line declined somewhat, but the books were still good. That is not the case in this posthumous effort by Robbins' editors and estate. This novel may be based on Robbins' ideas, but he did not leave enough information for whoever wrote this novel to do the idea justice. The substitute writer does an excellent job of copying Robbins' style, but the story line is very weak.
The essential components are there. David Shea is a high school football hero and a football scholarship is the only way he can go to college. When he and some friends beat a bully to death, one of his friends takes the rap so David's scholarship will not be endangered. An injury ends his football career, but he finds his niche as a stockbroker. He uses people-strangers, friends, it doesn't matter. In short, he has the all the characteristics of a Robbins "hero". But just as the story builds up to a critical point-the third wife who is his moral and intellectual equal has just left him and has vowed revenge-the book ends. Apparently Robbins did not leave behind a conclusion and the estate, editors, and ghost writer couldn't, or didn't bother to, think of one. Up to the lack of an ending (or last quarter or so of the story), the ghost writer does reproduce Robbins' prose very well.

Rating:
Summary: I am waiting for the sequel to conclude this story!
Review: I kept reading this book, thinking that there was going to be some point to it, but most of the characters and the story was left hanging. I was very dissapointed. I kept thinking I must have missed a page and lost the character there. Unless there is a sequil to this book, I wouldn't waiste my time reading it.

Rating:
Summary: Trash
Review: I read quite a bit, and really like books about Wall Street and the insiders game there. I can't remember ever starting a novel and just not being able to finish it. This book is boring. The characters are flat, and the sexual; references are just not exiciting. The plot: completely predictable. I've never written a review here but I felt compelled to save a few people some money. To borrow from an old Monty Python joke:

This is not a novel for reading ... this is a novel for lying down and avoiding.

Rating:
Summary: I am waiting for the sequel to conclude this story!
Review: The book, I think was a great read, however, it was heavily flawed. The first obvious flaw was that the summary that appeared on the back cover was not a reflection of the story. The piercing and rings were grossly exaggerated and a little too much to handle at times. The main character, David Shea was allowed to be able to get his way with cheating and scheming at all times and that begins to be unrealistic.

I was not a fan of the main character Dave Shea but I really fell in love with the Cole Jennings character. He was the good guy in this story. I enjoyed reading about the maturity of his family. I completely disagree with the editorial reviewer that wrote: "Lines like Jenna was probably the only girl in the dorm wearing rings in her nipples, and the least sexually experienced on her dorm floor should have (most) readers dropping the book in disgust ..."

Lines like that kept me reading the book! For once a Robbins novel portrays a beautiful woman, (in this case a child really) who knows she is beautiful and does not allow herself to be sexually exploited. I would love to see a sequel to this book that continues the story of Jenna's rise to fame and power and/or a legalistic show down between Giuliani and the fictional character Cole Jennings over the fate of Dave Shea. So Mr. ghost writer get going ... I can't wait for this sequel!

Rating:
Summary: No Substance
Review: The ghostwriter is wise in avoiding identification. I bought this book on impulse at an airport bookstore, thinking it would provide me entertainment on a long flight. It is quite possibly the worst book that I've ever read. The storyline is predictable, the editing is horrible, the characters are unbelievable, and much of the story is left unresolved. The description on the back of the book does not even acccurately describe the premise! I cannot believe that I wasted my money and my time on this book. Ghostwriter, please stop writing as the late Harold Robbins - identify yourself so that we can avoid unwittingly purchasing one of your books. Readers, beware of this book. Do not pay money for it, don't check it out of the library, don't borrow it from your friends. I put mine into the recycle bin, hoping that it will at least have a decent future in another form.