Funny, entertaining, human and quietly profound. More than just a sequel to Sideways. In the first novel Miles begins to awaken to the possibilities of life at middle-age. In Vertical there are profound revelations about how the past shapes an identity that the the fickelness of Fortune cannot...
Let's get this out of the way up front: the movie was much better than the book. Objectively, Sideways deserves only two stars, and that's really pushing it. I mean, this is a book that contains this sentence: "Maudlin classic rock for the 70's saccharined [sic] the emptiness with its plangent st...