Faking It, a novel by Jennifer Crusie

She has a history of forgery she's trying to forget. He has a knack for scamming he's trying to resist. But one fateful night, their good intentions go bad, And what they get up to is downright immoral, illegal, and irresistible.

All the characters are pretending. Pretends to be someone else, pretends to be not him/herself. All of them has their own intentions in pretending. Cheating, telling lies or not telling the truth are their works. It’s boring reading this though it started a little bit interesting from the middle of the book. Honestly, I don’t like this book. For reasons above and for this reason: too many exposed vulgar sex scenes (not too significant for the story).

Many artists are told. Monet, van Gogh, Corot. Also old songs like “Come and Get Me” by Jackie DeShannon, “You’re no Good” by Linda Ronstadt, and “I’m the Only One” by Melissa Etherigde as the background of the story. The funny things are those songs is played when exact situations like the songs happened. Few characters played old movie quotes and use film characters as nickname (tends to mock each others, though) like “Dial M for Murder.” And I don’t know these old things at all (I hate this).

The Goodnights divided men into two categories: donut and muffin. Donut isn’t good if you eat it tomorrow since it will be hard to eat and the icing will melt. This means donut typed is one-night-stand guy. You might guess what muffin means.

From this book, I know arts can be misused in order to get more many. Fake paintings, imitation paintings (I think they have the same meaning, but it’s not!). Not only fleamarket sellers, but curators and collectors as well.

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