Rich People Problems by Kevin KwanMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
In general I found the second and third books kind of tedious and repetitive after the first one–just piling on more and more rich people and absurd ways to spend money.
What I did think was interesting was–I think Piketty says something about how Austen and Balzac mention specific sums of money, and clearly delineate their characters’ financial situations, in a way that literature never does today. That’s something I appreciate when reading older books: you can often get a sense of the economy, and how that works, and everyone’s roles in it, and a bunch of stuff that contemporary fiction seems more divorced from. So yeah, I do like something about how these books engage with material reality.
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