Book 18: Primary Colors by Anonymous (Joe Klein)
Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics [Paperback]
Anonymous (Author), Joe Klein (Afterword)
My father had this book shelved next to Gone With the Wind, so I just picked it up on a whim.
I remember him buying it from the English language bookstore when we were living in Berlin and telling me that I was not allowed to read it when I asked. I was somewhere between 14 and 16.
This starts out being really gripping, and then by the end, when the Clinton stand-in just gets mired in all sorts of slime, gets a touch tedious. I had a good time trying to guess who was supposed to be who in the cast, and I also recalled something about someone on the Clinton staff or an old friend or something killing themselves. I liked that the narrator is someone like me - a smart, competent servant, who recognizes that he is a servant, a butler.
Very fun read, and oddly, it made me wish someone would write something like this about Obama. Heh.