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title = "Being There - Jerzy Kosiński"
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date = 2018-05-31
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category = "review"
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tags = ["books", "en-au", "jerzy kosinski"]
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It's a somewhat funny story. It's also short. But I can't stop thinking "What the heck I just read?"
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I've seen a lot about the movie (with the same name) but I've never seen the movie itself. So I read the book.
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But the story... I don't know if Kosinski just wanted to write something funny or was trying to make a statement about the higher classes. 'Cause Chance is dumb as a brick, but after being hit by a car of a high society socialite, suddenly he's elevated to the point of being the smartest, most desired person around.
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So you see the kind of comic situations you could do with this. But also, because everything sees him as a super smart persona, you can't stop thinking that, maybe, Kosinski wanted to point how being rich isn't synonymous of "being intelligent".
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And, because you never know where the author is pointing at the the story ends rather abruptly, I can't really say it's a good story.
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