Horrible, self indulgent drivel.
345192
Complete waste of time, don't bother.  No point, no story, no meat on the bone.  Would bff ave gotten an f as a seventh grade essay.
2602231
I tried to get through this while on vacation. I love mindless books on the beach...but this was dreadful and completely self-indulgent, much like Aviva. I don't really care about her wardrobe or name dropping. I can read a gossip site for that (and much better written too). It's sad when one can learn a lesson from Daily Mail writers. I can't believe this was published. It's an embarrassingly bad read, so I didn't make it out of the first couple of chapters.
4215918
self indulgent, lacks real substance & regurgitative.
Did not hold up to all the accolades of other reviewers.
Do not recommend
582295
This was awful. Way too long. Completely unlikeable characters except for the main character's best friend (who we see 3 times tops) and weirdly enough Elizabeth's mother, of all people (but she was!). At one point Mr Darcy (who is a complete snobbish classist PRICK in this and unattractive to boot) says he can't marry the main character because "she's not a maiden". Then five minutes later he decides to marry her after all and her lack of virginity is never brought up again. The plot doesn't make sense (and there are about a million different plots, all of them nonsensical), the characters and the way they behave doesn't make sense, the acting is AWFUL, the writing for the most part makes me cringe. The main character would have been locked into an asylum in less than a week with the way she acts in this. I *love* fanfiction,and I love fandom, so I don't understand why only the most s***ty fanfiction (and this is definitely self-insert Mary Sue stuff) is the stuff that gets attention from Hollywood or whatever England's equivalent would be. And I *wanted* to like this, is the thing, which is why I must adamantly give it only one star. Truly terrible.
771350
As other reviewers said, this is a horribly whiny, self indulgent book. I mostly hate it because Julie and Julia totally engrossed me, I was utterly charmed by that first book. Doesn't she make this huge deal that she had been with Eric forever in that book and she wants a baaabyyy? I think that the fame went right to her head. I find chapter 8 especially distasteful, and I am not a prude by any stretch of the imagination. She never explain's the where and why of several things, making this a one dimensional story.
4320043
I cannot comprehend what what the author as trying to do here. The first and second books are  basically about two different couples. Only by some sick twisted game of the author, they are just horrible versions of themselves that have torn apart their own story. I felt sick to my stomach reading what vile things Rylie did to in this book. I couldn't find anything to like about Rylie in this book. He is a selfish ass who is manipulative and a waste of a good character.

Spoilers...

Im not sure whats worse the way he never waivers on his 100% Love while being selfish and even turning to violence towards Dina, or taking off and leaving  to screw his way around the country (while of course Dina has remained almost a saint). Oh and my personally favorite, sleeping with the ex who bullied his love for years as well as tried to trap him into marriage.
3351312
Reading the "Fame Game" was akin to watching a car accident. It's so bad you want to look away, yet you can't. I kept thinking that the plot, the characterizations, and the writing could not get any worse, yet it seemed that with every turn of the page, this train wreck of a "novel" got worse. It is rubbish from start to finish.

The author obviously craves the fame he purports to write about. Suffice it to say he will never attain it for his writing. I also noted with interest that he fancies himself as an actor and movie director. It is sad how self-delusional some people can be. This wanna-be author/actor/director would be better advised to get a job waiting tables.

I read the glowing reviews of this book, and wonder if perhaps I read a different novel. More likely, this poor excuse for an author wrote the reviews himself. Save yourself the money, and a few hours of your life, and give "The Fame Game" a pass. A very wide pass!
4314254
I don't usually write reviews, especially of books, but this book is so awful I had to warn others!  The first two chapters are fairly promising, and the next few are passable, but from about the one-third point this book spirals into unreadability.  It should be titled "The Solitude of The Severely Emotionally Constipated."  The male character has some legitimate reason to be the way he is, but only to a much lesser degree and for a much reduced time period.  The depth and duration of his psychosis is laughable.  Get some therapy and get over yourself! The female character has absolutely NO LEGITIMATE REASON to be such a basket case, and yet we're supposed to feel her overwhelming pain and sorrow.  Her primary problem seems to be that she's a dips##t, in love with another dips##t.  They literally don't know how to engage in human conversation.  It's like they were raised by wolves....narcissistic, entitled wolves.  If you make it to the end of this book -- which I did only because I couldn't believe that neither of these emotionally constipated freaks was going to reach ANY kind of epiphany/closure/transformation -- you will want to beat them both to death. Don't waste your time, your money, or your precious brain cells.
1740515
I paid full price for this book believing the hype Attached to the author.  "Magnificent" hardly.  I love character driven fiction and this author can certainly write- but he has a sick and immoral view of everyday people that we spend the majority of our life with- our co-workers. Clearly he has an ax to pick with every poor character he creates.  each vignette was more sorrowful and disturbing than the next. Twisted and not in a good way.  This author seems to have a personality disorder in his writing style. I hated this book and am disgusted I read it through to the end to see if he someone could redeem himself. Not!!
4329511
Feel good about yourself and save a tree cuz this is total garbage. What a waste of time and money. It took me nowhere, no insight, no nothing, not even interesting stories, just a plain old bad taste in my mouth. The way I read it I have to think that this "writer" just needed to capitalize in on her personal indescretion in order to justify her indescretion to herself. I've got to tell you I've ordered alot from Amazon and never felt compelled to write a review before as these things are always in the eyes of the beholder but I feel so totally burned by the hype of this waste of space. There's so much better out there.
849531
This author is raving mad.  The book is literally his fantasy that he creates and tries to push onto others.  I thought for sure it would be more objective, but nope, only when it fits his agenda. I will never read another thing by this pitiful author
2981282
You are a paranoid, closet (or blatant) racist that is constantly searching for a justification of your own delusional thoughts and opinions. For example, if you truly believe the President is not actually a citizen of the United States, then this compilation of mindless drivel is for you.

I literally feel bad for anyone who believes any of this insanity, just as I did when most of the conspiracy theories were laid upon Bush during his administration. It only represents a massive sense of ignorance, incompetence and illogic among the indoctrinated minority who is uninformed of, or just ignorant to, reality, and consequently lack pragmatism and tolerance. It vividly displays an apathetic attitude to expanding the mind and challenging opinions (and facts). The automatic assumption is that the opinions/facts within the book are indeed factual, simply because you want to believe them or simply because the book says that you should. It's a manufactured interpretation of reality that unfortunately brainwashes the gullible into thinking this is somehow reliable journalism, and provides a medium to throw gas on an already out-of-control fire that should have never been started.

It is literally a waste of time, as most books of this topic usually are.
2683610
What a sad whimpering out of a once-solid writer.  This is the laziest and most self-indulgent writing I've seen in a while.  First of all, Eisler continually injects his personal politics into the story, taking bizarrely inappropriate and out-of-context cheap shots at the USA, Bush, the US military.  Second, instead of doing the work of a writer to use language to evoke a mood, Eisler takes the easy way out--dropping brand names.  Just what are the herd of iPhone references supposed to add to the story?  Nothing.  This is laziness bordering on product placement.  Third, the proofreading is an embarrassment.  I haven't seen this many misspellings and grammatical errors since I reviewed my 9-year-old nephew's schoolwork.  It looks like the whole team is 'phoning it in'.  I have been a loyal fan of this series, but I will NOT being buying another Eisler book.
1485933
Years ago, I made a promise to myself to always finish books I start, so I made my way through this one.  Having done so, I feel that my soul needs a thorough scrubbing.  Quite simply, this book was dreadful.  None of the characters (except for the male teacher) have any redeeming qualities.  They are all shallow, vain, materialistic, and selfish.  I can handle this genre if it's written as an allegory, or biting satire, or perhaps a stark reminder of how cruel humans can be to each other, but none of these appear to be the writer's intentions.
  Not only are the characters and the plot an incoherent mess, nothing makes any sense.  This book takes place in New York City and Pennsylvania, yet there don't seem to be inhabitants there of any ethnicity more exotic than Italian.  People of color are invisible in this world.  Brunettes, in fact, are invisible here.  Any time the author introduced a new female character I began counting the sentences until the character was revealed as blonde (either highlighted, frosted, or natural.)  And, believe me, they're ALL blonde.  And dieting.  And spending all of their money on status brands that they can parade in front of their frenemies to inspire envy.  Gorgeous wealthy husbands (old money only) are the ultimate status symbol; yet another lovely trinket to possess.  There is no subtlety here.  It isn't enough that the loose cannon teenager on a psychopathic rampage be a lonely misfit with poor social skills; he must be grotesquely overweight, suffering from severe acne, gay, fatherless, and a "charity" student.
  The fact that the lead character endured an unspeakable tragedy seems to be a sideline here.  Her horrific past doesn't make her any more likable.  She doesn't seem to learn from her mistakes.  Even in the end, she simply trades one cushy useless lifestyle for another.
  I realize that this book was probably written for a generation younger than my own, but I know many millennials and even the worst of them don't approach the human ugliness on display in this book.  Now I'm off to find a good palate cleanser for my spirit.
4132239
It's a load of self-serving tripe.  Don't waste your time.
4357242
this show was nothing more than self-indulgent crapola.
deserved to be cancelled, unlike a much better show such as 'carnivale.'
now if they'd only cancel the equally terrible 'entourage.'PLEASE!
723281
This collection of words on paper is absolute garbage - A book about monogamy written by a man-baby who does not understand love. The word is literally used twice in the first 135 pages (I counted.) This fool wrote a book about love and doesnt even understand the concept. Sex, lust, self-affirmation, trust, companionship all these tangential issues get tossed about and explored, though the authors vocabulary is incomplete and inexperienced. Would one trust a blind-mans opinion of a painting? Same idea here from this egotistic philanderer.

Readers should understand the backdrop of this work: The book is written by a millionaire rock-n-roll Malibu journalist who is having intimacy issues with his Mexican supermodel girlfriend who is decades younger than him. Hmmm The only person wondering why any of this is an issue is the moron himself, who then proceeds to drag the reader through hundreds of pages of inane self-help and sex fantasies in his purported quest for the truth. This dork is so full of himself that he binds the book in white leather as a faux Bible.

The work is not interesting, provocative, intelligent or humorous. Its definitely long, boring, unfocused and redundant. And given its misplaced knowledge-base, it arguably makes the more susceptible and ignorant readers all the dumber from its vapid revelations.

The book is not an objective overview and analysis of an intriguing subject, but is more akin to a memoir penned by a self-absorbed imbecile filming a vlog on their selfie-stick. Ive ready many bad books in my time, but few are as infuriatingly stupid and anger-inducing as this one.