May 09, 2001 10:36 AM
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When I was thirteen I read Sidney’s “Tell me your dreams” and I was stunned by his way of writing and became a big fan of Sidney until he wrote “The Best Laid Plans”. As his main character in his books is usually a woman, Leslie Stewart, in her late twenties had an exotic look; gray, sloe eyes, honey colored hair and a provocative figure. Leslie worked in an advertising agency in Kentucky where she meets Oliver Russell, a local attorney and a candidate for Governor, strikingly handsome with dark eyes and a warm smile who hires her for handling his campaign and slowly fall in love with each other who also decide to get married, but he is so ambitious and marries a girl in Paris, Jan, who is the lovely daughter of Senator Davis who promises Oliver to make him the president of U.S.A. After being ditched, Leslie wants to take revenge from him and in a few years she owns three newspapers to ruin his life and his reputation which seems so unrealistic like a Hindi movie. Suddenly, a reporter comes in story, Dana Evans which was supposed to be a side one but has an equal status in the book so it is difficult to say that which was the main character. Some instances like Oliver going to a meeting at eleven in the night and his stupid wife takes it for real and Oliver giving the drug “Ecstasy” to every girl he sleeps with is absolutely disgusting. The end is a setback for Leslie and she realizes her mistake and in the climax, there is no Leslie but Dana which a side character.
An utter waste of time! I still think Sidney is a good writer but this was not good.
