The seven most disastrous parties in fiction

Jeff Somers is the author of the Avery Cates series, The Ustari Cycle, Lifers, and Chum (among many other books) and numerous short stories.

At the B&N Reads blog he tagged seven parties in books among the worst ever thrown, including:Every Single Party in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Not only are the expensive and decadent soirées thrown by Gatsby (in an attempt at attractive