It's How You Play the Game

by Jimmy Gleacher

Plunging into the delightful world of dating after he breaks up with the perfect girl due to his inability to commit, Jack begins seeing Hope, who is gorgeous, thrilling, brilliant, and a little crazy, and as he enters her world of beautiful, vapid people who have a bizarre conception of love, he learns to define love and relationships in his own way. A first novel. Reprint.

256 pages, Paperback

First published February 25, 2002

Reviews

[Jolien van Helvoort · Rating 4 out of 5]

Een relatie vanuit een mannenperspectief? Intrigerend! Jammer genoeg is dit verhaal wel erg cynisch (of realistisch - hangt er vanaf wie je het vraagt). Verder erg goed geschreven. Ik zou het bijna durven bestempelen als een literaire chicklit (neen dat genre bestaat niet en ja wellicht druis ik hier in tegen heel wat onuitgesproken regels). De laatste halve ster werd verdiend door de subtiele humor.

[Mikey Holtz · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the first books about love written from a male perspective that I have read, and it has left me with an irresistible urge for more. Gleacher manages to pull you in from the start with the unprompted switches from past, present, and future, offering enough answers to sate you, but more questions to keep you going. It's been a long time since I've thought about a book while at work or on a drive waiting to get back to read it, but this managed to elicit the feeling once again. I recommend this book to anyone looking for a change of pace in modern romance, or if you just want a glimpse of another perspective. One of my favorites.

[Nancy Patterson · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book really brought out the cynical side of relationships and the nasty insincere side of wealthy people. Portraying the wealthy as manipulative conniving individuals who do nothing but use others for their own benefit... Well written but hopefully no one I know are really like this! I felt compassion for the narrator at the end, once you learn what the female characters have really been up to through the book.

[Barbara · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is a book that has remained unread on my shelves for years. I picked it when cleaning out my bookshelves and decided to give it a try. I only made it a third of the way through with no desire to finish. It probably would have appealed at a different stage of my life but not now.

[msjoonee · Rating 2 out of 5]

Gwyneth Paltrow found this book "hilarious and insightful" and publishers weekly called this guy "a comic writer to watch". I call it "one i am done with and have forgotten about."