Title: Goes Nowhere Fast
Product review: Jane Smiley is an enormously talented writer. I loved "The Greenlanders" and "A Year At The Races", both books stayed with me long after I finished reading them. She can crank out very high quality work, but "Ten Day's in the Hills" is a loser. Yes, maybe it's experimental, but mainly it's just boring. All the characters sound the same, over privileged, affluent, droning on, far too much interior dialog and musing that goes nowhere. It seems more like a study of rarified academic types than Hollywood. Where's the fun, the desperation, the irony, the treachery? I can't imagine Hollywood is populated with people this dull. You will also be treated to Smiley's political views, early in the novel she pontificates about the Iraq war and the evils of Bush. I bailed on page 50.
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