The Right Address: A Novel Kindle Edition

Trying too hard, likes its protagonist; elitist Upper East Side snark for explicitly that crowd; only missing the phrase "flyover states"; these are all criticisms I could make of this novel, and true though they may be, I genuinely enjoyed it.Think Coen Brothers meets The Princess Diaries. A brash, driven flight attendant snatches a coffin profiteer, and their earnest, honest love brings Melanie back to Arthur's Manhattan home. She wants so desperately to break into the upper crust's closed social circle. The first two-thirds read like a parody of high-society, with charity balls and orphan-disease benefits galore, including even a sultry affair gone wrong, but in its third act, the façade of the bourgeois is sundered violently and characters with their heads in lofty clouds are smashed rudely into the ground. Throughout, the clear-cut "good guys" are earnest and sympathetic, and their honesty is refreshing.I recommend it.

This novel was very uneven. Sometimes I wanted to give it two stars, occasionally four. It was a pleasant read, with a couple of interesting twists, and some good humor. On the other hand, the characters had no depth, some of the humor was bad, and the author missed a couple of chances for a more interesting plot. Also, it contained my pet peeve: overdone imagery, such as "tickled the ivories". (This means play the piano.) Another pleasant but superficial novel about rich and idle ladies in New York.

The writing might be choppy and the transitions uneven, but this still remains a great takedown of Dominick Dunne type socialites updated to the early 2000s. The party details are spot on and it doesn't read too much like a decorator's catalogue.

This is exactly what it's supposed to be: a superficial, trashy sob-story of poor little rich people and their problems. If you're reading this for any kind of depth, get out of the pool. I have reread this book so many times, but only because it makes me grateful not to have so many petty and silly issues. If you go into reading this with the sense that this is just a silly book about silly people with too much money, you will enjoy the read.

I love this book and could not put it down! It made realize how vicious people can be with their choice of words! I will try to be a nicer person!

I knew feminism was "over." I just didn't realize woman-hating was back in fashion until I read this book. Ladies, acording to "The Right Address," here's how you can solve all your problems: get pregnant or adopt a baby. That's right. All you have to do is find yourself saddled with a little person in diapers, and suddenly (1) your husband will love you like never before, (2) you'll find inner peace and serenity, (3) you'll have self-esteem and perspective, and (4) a purpose in life. That's right: maternity will complete you and fill all your holes, and your husband's too. Didn't this kind of hogwash go out with disco? I'm not knocking parenthood. I just have never seen such a shallow, simplistic, insulting, dumb representation of parenthood as the key to all locks. But then, really, the book shouldn't be viewed as an insultingly trite depiction of parenthood, alone: it trots out every cliche about class, race, and money. None of its characters has anything resembling depth. None is portrayed with compassion. The book isn't even funny, or clever. You're better off with "Bergdorf Blondes," which depicts the same shallow world with wit and humor and doesn't insult your intelligence by pretending to offer a pious panacea to all life's woes in the shape of a newborn.

No one ever will mistake THE RIGHT ADDRESS for literature but, having said this, the novel's shallow theme does not mean that it fails to be an engaging read.THE RIGHT ADDRESS will most interest those with a fascination about New York City and with high society--specifically, with what passed for high society in New York City during the 1980's.In THE RIGHT ADDRESS, co-authors Karasyov and Kargman haven't missed a trick. They chronicle the comings and goings of the haute monde, offering a virtual laundry list of their collective pretensions and affectations, where to eat, what to wear, and the proper events at which to be seen. It's all here, though libel laws have required the authors to offer thinly disguised versions of some characters which are based on notorious real-life people. As far as this latter group, Karasyov and Kargman really have their number!The two authors don't seem to have forgotten a single rumor or scurrilous report from that era; in fairness, in terms of this kind of popular fiction, these tawdry recollections do not make for bad reading.In the end, the authors go for a morality tale.All in all, THE RIGHT ADDRESS is an easy read and an intriguing one.

This book was fantastic. I have already ordered Jill Kargman's other book and cannot wait to read it. A great escape. These types of books are my guilty pleasure.

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I don't normally go for "chick lit" but this was amusing and moving.

Ex-Stewardess Melanie hat reich geheiratet und residiert seit Kurzem in einem Nobelgebäude direkt an der Park Avenue. Nun lebt sie Tür an Tür mit der High Society von New York, muss aber schnell feststellen, dass Geld und die richtige Adresse allein nicht ausreichen, um wirklich dazuzugehören. Doch so schnell gibt Melanie nicht auf. Mit Hilfe des (natürlich englischen) Butlers macht sie sich daran, ihre versnobte Nachbarschaft und einen Platz in der feinen Gesellschaft für sich zu erobern.Dieses Büchlein stand relativ lange ungelesen und unbeachtet in meinem Bücherregal. Ein Spontankauf, den ich mir im Nachhinein nicht mehr erklären konnte und auf den ich irgendwie überhaupt keine Lust hatte. Aber Bücher sind schließlich zum Lesen da, also habe ich etwas widerwillig auch diesem Werk eine Chance gegeben – und wurde belohnt! Oh, das Buch ist weder tiefgründig noch anspruchsvoll. Es ist auch alles andere als realistisch und lässt kaum ein Klischee aus... Trotzdem habe ich es (zu meiner eigenen Überraschung) in einem Rutsch gelesen, denn es ist flüssig geschrieben und einfach unterhaltsam. Ich habe mich wirklich köstlich über das Treiben in dem 'ehrenwerten Haus' amüsiert.Melanie mochte ich sehr gern. Sie ist fürchterlich naiv und nicht besonders clever, aber im Gegensatz zu ihren wirklich grässlichen Nachbarn ist sie herzensgut und einfach liebenswert. Die Figur hat mich ein bisschen an Celia aus "The Help" erinnert. Genau wie sie sehnt sich Melanie so sehr nach der Anerkennung von Leuten, für die sie eigentlich viel zu gut ist und die sie gar nicht verdienen.Eine überraschend lesens- und liebenswerte Unterhaltslektüre. Genau das Richtige für einen verregneten Nachmittag auf der Couch.

"The Right Address" is written in the style of „Bergdorf Blondes", but umpteenth times better and far more imaginative. It is a quick, witty and very enjoyable read:The right address is 741 Park Avenue and this book deals with the skeletons some of the denizens of that highly coveted building have in their closets. Usually I am not particularly fond of accumulations of clichés in books, but Karasyov and Kargman have carried the clichés to such extremes that it made "The right Address" a great, fun and sadly entertaining read. Sadly entertaining because I was happy to be an uninvolved bystander in that discriminating and prestigious world where shopping is an emotional band-aid and where hypocrisy and quick-witted venom rules."The Right Address" is not as shallow as "Bergdorf Blondes", because to me it was a lot more than an attempt at being funny and witty, had lots more charm and most of all oodles of sadly true insights (whereas "Bergdorf Blondes" to me really was just an *attempt*). I do believe that Karasyov and Kargman know what they were writing about! The editing could have been a lot better, however. There are lots of typos, which could have been avoided.Moreover this book is full of puns and although it does not really stand out from the plethora of chic-lit, I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Chic lit der anderen Art. Anfangs glaubt man, es handle sich hier um eines der üblichen Bücher, welches die feine New Yorker Gesellschaft karikiert, aber mit der Zeit wird das Ganze tiefgründiger. Es beschreibt die Rolle der Aussenseiterin Melanie, welche trotz der Millionen ihres Mannes einfach nicht in den Kreis der "Ladies who lunch" aufgenommen wird. Es folgt eine Zeit der Selbstfindung, welche das Buch sehr glaubwürdig macht und uns auch wieder einmal aufzeigt, dass nicht alles, was glänzt Gold ist. Sehr lesenswert.