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Title: Too Hip For Its Own Good
Review: This book thinks it's oh-so-clever, filled with so many "unique" references to Hollywood in- and outsiders and wannabes. In essence, not much happens in it. It's about a screenwriter trying to make it in Hollywood, yet every time something writing-related happens, the narrator tells us he's not going to dwell on that because it's boring. Instead, we must endure countless scenes of him doing what becomes his primary job: pimping for a successful studio executive by throwing his unsuspecting female friends at him. Nice guy, this screenwriter. Though he "redeems" himself in the end -- in a twist befitting a mystery novel, which this is not -- it's basically a "who cares" moment by then.
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