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kinda_like_shaft 's review for:
New York: The Novel
by Edward Rutherfurd
This book was, well, there. It was like a Forest Gump for rich white people in NYC, who either showed up at or had a hand in every stereotypical NYC experience and people. The beginning was promising but it bogged down during the extensive part about the Civil War. Non-white people barely existed, except in references in how proud the white people were to know them, or have their kids be friends with them, or to feel minor remorse when they were killed, or to express fear when encountering them as drug dealers in the park. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the building of the Empire State Building, the raising of the dome of the Crysler Building, the Cross Bronx Expressway, the Verrazano, the stock market crash, the depression (which was glossed over in terms of how the rich characters did okay), WTC attacks, cliches about if you can make it there, the Big Apple, all the greatest hits. The one character of substance is reduced to a remembrance at the end. The true NY for those who don't want to know the true NY.