Playland (1995)

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Intellectual, colorful, and loaded with detail. But in the end I am disappointed. There is a jerky, disjointed pace to the book. The ending just drifted into place. The 512 pages were about 200 too many. And as the storyline progressed, I had a vision of the movie Bugsy -- and I didn't like the comparison because I wanted so much more for this book. The story of Meta Dierdorf could have led to something dramatic and powerfully explosive, and even unifying to the plot line. Yet she ended up being a distraction and a nuisance. However, John Gregory Dunne is still on my 'to-read list,' for the simple reason he employs a rich vocabulary and delivers a product with a higher than average Lexile score.

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