S. I. (RedHeadDread) reviewed on 9/24/2008 + 43 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

I really wanted to love this book, but it was the little things that killed it for me. I was annoyed by all the (mostly faux) name-dropping, but was stopped in my tracks by an error within the first 3 pages, where a perfume is described as costing "two thousand G's."

A G is a thousand. The authors (all three of them, and their editor) may have meant "two G's" or "two hundred G's," but two thousand thousands is two million, which is an unlikely price for a perfume no matter how upscale, besides which, no one would ever say that. I kept reading a little while longer, but couldn't make myself pick it up again afterwards

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