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...protagonist, Steven Hudson, is a powerful N.Y. investment banker. Like Perkins, Steven receives a letter asking him to be the star in a reality television show called “Trophy Bride” where young, female 20-somethings compete to marry a “zillionaire.” After repeated assertions about the absurdity of the offer, Steven ends up agreeing to do the show—partially because he is lonely after his wife’s passing and partially because he falls in love with the producer of the show, Jessie Jones...
After 280 pages of trials and tribulations—including Steven being conned by a girl pretending to be on the U.S. Olympic ski team, being pursued by a nymphomaniac, and pacifying his extremely conservative colleagues who were outraged by his “sex frolic”—the obligatory happy ending is duly set down...
...does not read romance novels expecting great literature, and fittingly, most of the characters in this book are simplistic and one-dimensional. Steven Hudson is rich, handsome, cultured, nice, and boring. Jessie Jones is beautiful, well-dressed, successful, and confident. They are the obvious “good guys...
...Steven frequently thinks about “knowing,” a quaint euphemism for sex that is funny but not very sexy. On the other hand, when he has sex with Eve, one of the contestants with apparently boundless energy, the description gets progressively crazier...
Sean Darling-Hammond ’06 volunteered to read the sex scene aloud for the entertainment of everyone on the ski trip. He did so with great dramatic flare, though he was frequently interrupted by laughter. Everyone lost it when Eve offered Steven some Vitamin V, after a few rounds of rather short-lived lovemaking—the poor guy is in his late sixties after...