Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
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Book Summary Author: Jerzy Kosinski Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 1999-09-20 ISBN: 0802136346 Number of pages: 160 Publisher: Grove Press |
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Book Reviews of the Being There
Customer Review: surprisingly dull
Summary: 2 Stars
This is another of those novels that is less good than the film that was made from it. After I saw the film, I read the book and it utterly lacked the wit and irony of the performance by Sellers in the film. The novel moves slowly, is not very funny, and the writing style utterly lacks flavor. In contrast, the film was the perfect parody of the beginning of the Reagan era, in which appearences and the assumptions of the observers mix in the most surprising ways. Oh well. It appears to me that Kosinsky did his thing and had nothing much to say after The Painted Bird.Not recommended.