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# Rules of Civility: A Novel

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Amore Amor!
  

*by D***C on Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2024*

I have now read A Gentlemen in Moscow, The Lincoln Highway, and Rules of Civility. All are great reading experiences. Towles is quickly becoming my favorite modern author. His prose and wit and atmosphere deserve the best marks. I particularly like his use of dialog and how natural and fun he crafts it. All three books are set in totally different times and places and focus totally different kinds of people and societal structures. Yet each is incredible in its unique way. Rules of Civility brought the post-depression atmosphere, excitement and excesses of NYC to life through vivid characters and New York hot (and some not so hot) spots. .  There seemed to be a lot of holes in the plot that never got filled in, but I still found the book a fascinating read. A Gentlemen in Moscow, however, is still the gold standard for a Towles novel!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Loved the first half, but starts to fall apart midway through
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2012*

I really enjoyed reading this book. No I don't think Amor Towles is the next F. Scott, but I really enjoyed the language and metaphors that some people are blasting in the reviews. Unfortunately, the pacing fell off somewhere around the middle of the book and it just wandered around for a while and then decided to stop. The very ending made sense, but Tinker's desires and goals could have been woven better into the rest of the novel so that the ending would seem to the reader the only way it could or should have ended. Instead it just sort of quietly stopped after meandering around for a while.I felt the introduction of Tinker's brother and the role that character played was completely extraneous, and should have been edited out or fixed to be more effective. The author seemed to try to use the brother to justify Tinker's choices and I didn't buy it.  I actually felt that way about a lot of the secondary characters. Their roles were elevated beyond their usefulness. A tighter focus on Tinker, Eve, Katie and Anne (oh, and what about Val? His cameos weren't even long enough to generate interest, and they should have been!) while getting rid of all the girlfriends and the Texan with the maitre d', and and and would have greatly improved this book. Some of the literary allusions fell flat, and the author didn't quite seem to be able to keep a little Mike Hammer or something from his voice, although it detracted only slightly.This review sounds uber-critical for someone who says she loved reading this book, but that is because I was really paying attention, which is the biggest complement I can pay to an author.Now for a few of the things I really liked: I loved the voice of the main character. Her imperfect self was imminently knowable and believable to me, although the intro and the ending had me kind of wondering if I still cared. I loved the description of the Russian club--this author really gets the truth of these Russians and described their emotional way of relating to things beautifully. I felt like I had been there. And my favorite part was the descriptive prose and imagery. On one of the first pages, this caught my eye:"In the 1950's, America had picked up the globe by the heels and shaken the change from its pockets. Europe had become a poor cousin--all crests and no table settings. And the indistinguishable countries of Africa, Asia, and South America had just begun skittering across our schoolroom walls like salamanders in the sun. True, the Communists were out there, somewhere, but with Joe McCarthy in the grave and no one on the Moon, for the time being the Russians just skulked across the pages of spy novels."What a beautifully succinct way to set the time and arrogantly optimistic American mindset for the book! So in spite of its shortcomings, this book is worth the time it takes to read it and I do recommend it although with the caveat that you will probably enjoy the first half and then cruise through the second without the full satisfaction that might have been...

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    I cannot get enough of Amor Towles
  

*by C***K on Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2024*

I fell in love with a Gentleman in Moscow, so I was tentative with this one, thinking it wouldn't live up to standards, but I was wrong. This was an excellent book as well. Towles' turn of phrase is to die for. Sometimes I reread his phrasing just to try and imagine how he came up with that combination of words to make such a beautiful point. He is amazing, and  I will be reading anything he writes.

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