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A Man in Full

A Man in Full

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Indecision of the long-winded kind
Review: I loved it, hated it, loved it, hated it--pretty much in that order. Around page 500 or so it started to really get good and then as so many others have said, Wolfe couldn't decide how to end it so he just did! Terribly! Unbelievably! Disappointingly! His constant explanations of "street" language and translations into "southern" were annoying if not insulting to his readers. But he really had a good thing going for awhile. Too bad he couldn't decide. Maybe the movie will have better editors and tie up the loose ends. One can only hope.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: tom wolfe is full of himself
Review: This book is about 400 pages too long, and the ending is pathetic. Wolfe takes his time describing men's ties and shoes, and ladies' loins and breasts, but rushes through the ending. I did enjoy the prison scenes, although, the jive talk was pretty much annoying.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: NOTHING BUT A CROCK
Review: HOW MUCH MONEY? I'M SORRY, BUT I DON'T GET IT! TOM WOLFE SPENDS TEN YEARS WRITING THIS THING AND THIS IS WHAT HE COMES UP WITH, AN OVERLONG CONVOLUTED MISH-MOSH CONCERNING RACE, WEALTH, POWER AND THE STOICS? AND THEN, AFTER 700 PAGES HE RUNS OUT OF GAS AND LEAVES US WITH AN EPILOGUE TO SUM UP THE STORY. SORRY TOM, BUT SPEND LESS TIME DECRIBING WHAT THE CHARACTERS ARE WEARING AND HOW THEY ARE LIVING, AND MORE TIME ON CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. GIVE ME A REASON TO UNDERSTAND CHARLIE AND HIS RABBLE. GIVE ME MORE INDEPTH INSIGHT INTO CONRAD'S SPIRITIAL METAMORPOSIS AND LESS TIME SPOTLIGHTING HIS IMMENSE FOREARMS. ( I UNDERSTOOD IT THE FIRST TIME) IT SEEMS TO ME THAT OLD TOM TOOK THE MONEY AND RAN. WELL, KEEP ON RUNNING UNTIL YOU CAN COME UP WITH THE ENERGY TO WRITE AGAIN.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: An absorbing, entertaining, and humorous time killer.
Review: Let's make this short and sweet. A Man in Full was a great read up to a point. When it came time for Charlie Croker's big scene at the press conference, didn't it seem to be remarkably similar to the climactic press conference with John Galt in Ayn Rand's superior novel Atlas Shrugged? Just a coincidence?

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Much ado about nothing.
Review: Fortunately this book was a gift because I would have been very perturbed had I spent my own money for it. Character development is very good but you constantly are waiting for things to happen to the characters that will get a rise out of your emotions. I just found it to be a boring book with a nonsensical ending.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: lacks the spark of longevity
Review: wolfe has created a world which drifts in and out of my understanding. he trys to tackle the racial undercurrents in atlanta, but at the same time he pokes fun at the black experience, the stoic parody is amusing ,but i find it unsatisfying and brings the novel to an artifically abrupt ending. surprising after 700 odd pages ! i guess the editor was putting the pressure on ! how long will woolfe survive on the dinner circuit with this effort ? its no bonfire for sure.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: The book is tedious. Tedious. TEDIOUS!
Review: Wolfe has lost the comedic touch which fueled his early works. This is an overblown, overhyped, disappointment.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not in the same class as Bonfire ...
Review: I've laughed out loud when I read anything else by Tom Wolfe, so I looked forward to reading his latest with great anticipation. He still writes well and develops a wonderful story, but this one took a long time to develop, and simply wasn't as funny on the way there. And after 700 pages to bring the main characters together, you're expecting some wild ending, but it all just sort of stops - very anticlimatic and disapointing. C'mon Tom, I know you've got another Bonfire in you !

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: I'd prefer to give this book zero stars -- it's that bad.
Review: Talk about the emperor's new clothing! -- one of the most nihlistic books writen in the last fifty years, with absolutely nothing good to be said about anything. An absurd plot with comic book quality characters, each more of an insult to the reader's intelligence than the last. Boooooo!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Highly overrated
Review: Nobody would say nice things about this book if it wasn't written by Tom Wolfe. It would be considered mediocre at best, with a contrived plot, writing style dropped half way through as though a different writer finished it, a roll-your-eyes and groan ending, and little if any meaning. Overall, a waste of valuable reading time.


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