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The Millionaires
The Millionaires
Author: Inman Majors
A brilliant novel of new money and old manners, crossing The Great Gatsby with the spirit of Tom Wolfe. — Meet the Cole brothers, charismatic country boys with more money than God -- half moonshine and half martini. Roland, the younger, is running for governor of Tennessee, while J.T. maneuvers to bring a full-fledged wo...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393337273
ISBN-10: 0393337278
Publication Date: 1/4/2010
Pages: 480
Rating:
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
Members Wishing: 0
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Helpful Score: 3
I had a difficult time reading this book. The theme of the book to me, took too long to develop. I am not a fan of characters conversations written as prose. Not too sure of the purpose of portions of the book written as a screen play.
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'The Millionaires' revolves around brothers JT and Roland Cole, both into riches with a I-can-do-whatever-I want attitude. J.T. is a banker with an attitude too big for Glenville, Tennessee, and Roland is running for a governor's seat despite the odds.

I have to be honest here, I just could not force myself to get through this book. I made it through about 60 pages and was just too tired to continue. I don't always agree with Publishers Weekly, but in this case I feel their review was right on the dot - I was too tired too care about the story. Majors has an odd writing style and I wasn't sure whether he was trying to write a novel or a screenplay. He went back and forth between the two, the writing was consistently erratic and all over the place, and the VERY long sentences just drove me crazy. His sentence structure was often so distracting that I could not even see the story behind it.

So I don't know - maybe this book is an acquired taste, and maybe I'll pick it up later, but I just thought it was too frustrating of a read to be enjoyable.


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