Bright Young Things: New York

This is a great photographic book about style and beautiful houses and people. Brooke de Ocampo didn't pretend any more.I think most of the reviewers below based their reviews on envy.I'm sure that most of them are dying to belong to the " Bright Young " circle. Why did they buy the book ? They didn't know that it was a book about the kind of people they hate and envy ? This book is the XXI century version of " Vogue's Book of Houses, Gardens and People " written by Valentine Lawford, with a forewood by Diane Vreeland an photos by Horst, published in 1968. If you are the kind of people that enjoy beauty and good photography, buy BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS.

All of the disgusting things you may have heard about this book are true. But it's as irresistible as any guilty pleasure. Brooke puts the CAMP in O'Campo. If there indeed was an editor he/she must have only been looking at the pretty pictures and not the words. The tacky text with the repeated misspellings makes it all the richer. Get the 1st edition before they are corrected and own a collector's piece your friends will envy you for. Here's the clincher: This book is an absolute essential as a companion to "Flophouse: Life on the Bowery" as two artifacts that capture the contradictory essence of NYC 2000.

This is an extremely entertaining book on a number of levels. Readers of W and Architectural Digest will enjoy this book, but those who are easily jarred by poor copy editing may find this trying at times. Blatant errors appeared throughout the text and could have been remedied by either a good spell-check program or a careful editor. Too bad, but it is a fun weekend read.

Despite one reviewer's harsh criticism, I found this book rather fascinating. Rather than reading some boring diatribe about self-loathing yuppies, here are a bunch of (albeit extremely privileged) people who seem to have found their niche in life - and it makes for fascinating reading! Why else do magazines like People and InStyle sell millions of copies? Many of us are fascinated by these bright young things....bourgeois bohemians all (see David Brooks' book "Bobos in Paradise" for a more detailed critique of this new upper class in America). It's easy to sneer but I defy anyone not to find it fascinating. Better than Desmond Morris' Manwatching. Ab Fab darling!

The sexiest book about society I've ever read. The true story. [Slim Aarons]