SWAGBELLY: A novel for Today's Gentleman...

So you might be asking why a girl like me read this book, if it said its a novel for today's gentleman. First i got intrigue with the cover art... mmm a smooth yellow banana print on a black book. I got it from the shelf and read the back cover. Interesting, a book about a life of a pornographer, publisher of an adult magazine titled Swagbelly.i searched for the book in ebay and got it for p180 over p620 price in the bookstore. Fair deal. Love ebay.

I bought the book thinking i might read some erotic scenes, love play and such. But as i flip the pages its more than a porno book. As mentioned, story is about a multi-millionaire guy named elliot who is a jew and is a pornographer publishing Swagbelly (originally a pirate word, meaning Fat with plunder). Story starts in his two-bedroom apartment, a year after his divorce and moving out from a million dollar town house thats now with his wife. Wife is living rich with a $10million divorce settlement and $15million plus child support for their 13 yr old son. I find the wife an ungrateful bitch to think she was just a secretary when she met elliot... and i find elliot and idiot for marrying a person who just sued him for sexual harassment. The story takes us deeper how millionaire socialites spend there money, how they can easily buy themselves through each situation, how people attach themselves like leches to them hoping they can get a little bit of the money. A man thinking that women tend to flock to them because of their good looks. A man maturing realizing that the women flock to him because of his networth not with his looks. A man realizing with over $100 million he feels lonely lost and disturbed for loosing his wife to her mountain climbing instructor which he paid for. His son hating him and converting to a different religion. Moral of the story is simple, "Money can't buy everything."

Near the end of the book, Elliot's current girlfriend/fling or whatever since he fucks and dates almost all the models posing in his magazine, breaks the news that she might be pregnant. Ofcors Elltiot acted like any man asking questions if its his or could be somebody else considering her work, she denys it and says his the only one. He sends her to his private doctor for a "so called accidental abortion" but couldn't help get guilty by it so he stormed into the clinic to stop it. In the end his son wasn't really converted into a christian since he made a scene and woke up in a hospital with tubes attached to himself, his wife saying he needs a bypass.

A wonderful nice story full of life lessons. But really I would still wish i have his fortune, I mean it has been proven if your successfully rich in life you family/love life really sucks. And if you are having a nice family/love life you are just either a middle class in sociaty or poor.