| Sex and the Single Zillionaire: A Novel |  | Author: Tom Perkins
Publisher: William Morrow
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 1511808
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
ASIN: B000VYODHG
Publication Date: February 1, 2006
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Product Description
A fun, sexy, chick lit novel written by a man? Women everywhere will want to meet Tom Perkins. This book has received National radio reviews, reviews in women's magazines e.g., "Cosmo", "Easy Living" and "Gratzia", as well as reviews in celebrity magazines e.g., "Heat" and "Now". When Steven Hudson, a wealthy widower in his late sixties, agrees to appear on a reality TV show with a group of beautiful twenty something gold diggers, romance breaks out where he least expects it. As the head of a somewhat stodgy old-money Wall Street firm, Steven's partners are against his decision to appear on the show, but his children, especially his ne'er-do-well son, Henry, support him. While Henry is smart, he's invented many clever applications for computers, he's lazy, and has never had to work a day in his life. But, if Henry can help out his father with the TV show, and end up with some of the girls who are eliminated from the show each week, how can that hurt? When Steven least expects it, love jumps up and smacks him between the eyes. Jessica James, the TV show's producer, is about thirty-nine, and a single mother with a teenage son. But, unlike the siliconed and perfectly toned babes vying for Steven's love, and wallet, she is a real woman who has lived life and knows what she wants. To her great surprise, Jessie discovers she wants Steven too, despite the thirty years separating them. But not before Steven is run through the mill of hot young things who are exhaustingly energetic between the sheets. Even Henry is in for an awakening when he discovers that there is more to life than rich food, expensive drink, fine clothes, fast cars, and gorgeous women. Everyone is fair game for Cupid's arrows. Funny, sexy, and at times deeply moving, this debut novel is sure to get the lion's share of attention when the author goes on tour. Ladies watch out!
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 Likeable escapism. February 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's funny that I pick this book up the same time that a new reality-drama type show premiers on Bravo. Kinda spooky even. Anyways...
All in all, this book was a fun read. It most likely appealed to me because I have a friend who is very much like the main character in this book. It was fun for me to imaging my friend experiencing everything that happens in this book.
Probably the best thing with this fun read would be the characterization. Solid (for the main ones anyways), believable, and likeable. Even for their faults.
The extravagance would easily translate to the big screen (as the small screen already has a tv show loosely based on this book). I guess the only peeve I had was the last few chapters. Everything just seemed to work out. Kind of like an episode of Star Trek where the right people fall in love after almost destroying the ship and killing the crewman in red on the away mission.
Read this book as if watching a reality show about zillionaires. Or while waiting for someone anywhere in New York....
 Revisits Old Stereotypes January 18, 2008
I'm always delighted to find a book that includes a character with autism. If that character has any special talent or ability, then more often than not that character is written as a cookie-cutter formulaic savant. To make matters worse, sooner or later others in the story compare the character to R*** M**, the title role Dustin Hoffman played in a 1988 movie. Most people with autism with or without savant abilities are NOTHING like that cliche character and R** M*** is a highly offensive slur in the autism world. I am sick and tired of savant stereotypes, especially since savantism affects less than 10% of the autistic population!
Sexy, funny, light, fast, romantic, won't disappoint by the pool December 4, 2007
Girls..... pack this book to take along on your next vacation. A little fantasy and romance, plus a few chuckles are guaranteed. The story is a funny twist on romance from a mature man's point of view. The best is the author's sense of humor which really comes through in the book.
A romance with passion missing November 21, 2007
I picked up this book with great interest, mainly because of the author himself. I wanted to find out more about Tom Perkins, a super successful entrepreneur and investor, to see how his mind operates on the personal side. The book satisfied my curiosity but deeply disappointed me on its primary mission -- a romance novel.
As I finished the book, something seemed oddly missing. Yes, there are stories, characters, plot twists and so on. But I don't feel close to any person in the book. They were written in such a detached way that you feel like they are behind a glass window, so remote and not real.
The book is written in such a rational and dissecting way that it truly matches a businessman's mindset. But that's not beneficial to a novel. A novel has to be personal, up close and irrational. It's the raw emotion that really evokes our strong feeling. A novel is written for the heart, not for the mind.
There are too many characters in this book that it feels too spread out and none is deeply developed. The heroin Jessie is a very weak character. We know so little about her personal feeling and how her love for our hero develops. The occasional praises like "handsome", "tasteful" seems well suited for attraction to a man, but far from falling in love. There is this obvious distance between Jessie and our hero. There is no feelabe bond between them. The thing that is supposed to bond them together -- Jessie's son Mark, is so cliche and feels fake. Why do we have to resort to a son as glue? Can't real emotion develop between two adult people?
Being a businessman is being the opposite of romance: you are calculating and judging all the time. This is the basic tone throughout this book. Romance makes you believe and relax, a pure world where love flourshes without caring for consequences. While I commend Tom Perkins' effort of trying fiction writing, I cannot help feel lamenting at the failure of this book as a romance novel.
trash August 5, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
trash book all the way.
the author should PAY ME for spending time to read it.
i wonder how much money he paid the publisher to publish this trash.
this book is not even funny.
what a waste of my time.
p.s. amazon should hv a ZERO star box.
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