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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: Started strong but went downhill fast. As a Tom Wolfe fan I expected more. Was almost Bonfire of the South. Characters are one dimensional and the ending is so stupid as to be insulting.
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Summary: This is what happens when you rush to meet a deadline
Review: The reviewers who nominated this novel for the National Book Award must not have read the last 100 pages. This book (at least the end) reads more like Carl Hiassen than "Bonfire."
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Summary: An amateurish, downright boring, agonizing book.
Review: A Man in Full is agonizing because you want so desperately to like it. Maybe only because you loved Bonfire so much. Maybe because of all the hype. Or maybe because it seems like it'll be a good story from the jacket. But read 100 pages - ugggh.A Man in Full wants to be so much, and tries so hard, but what you get is a bowl full of slop - like when you mixed up your chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ice cream as a kid to make a syrupy soup. It's also very glib, which makes any book difficult to enjoy when the writing's not there to support it. And knowing, at page 100, that you have another 700 to endure - well, it's tortuous. Repetition - a device used so masterfully in DeLillo's Underworld - is so oversimplified and haphazard it seems psychotic. Not psychotic as in deep and meaningful and bolstering of story and character. But an awfully unbearable psychotic. Wholly unenjoyable. Don't give in to the hype. Re-read Bonfire instead.
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Summary: A map of how to live life.
Review: Tom Wolfe's amazing writing and characterization moved me. His brilliance will inspire you. Buy this book! Read this book! Tom Wolfe provides a map for how to live the way you are supposed to live. He gives you the teacher, Epictetus. Read him! This is the book for our time.
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Summary: more of the same biting but sometimes superfluous soc. comm.
Review: Except for the hilariously awful attempts at rap and ghetto slang, Wolfe's A Man In Full is a complete circuit trip around the landscape of our fair land. I enjoyed reading it, but to be honest, I was also glad to finish it. This book is BIG in more ways than one at 741 pages and an infinite number of plot lines. A great read, but with not as many laugh out loud lines as Bonfire Of The Vanities.
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Summary: a slice of life, and no PC
Review: I am so tired of putting down magazines, shutting books and changing TV channels when I realize they are Politically Correct. I don't want to be preached at by the other side, I want to be enlightened and entertained. Glory be, this book was NOT PC! It didn't bow to all the Liberal idols. You can read this if you are a regular American. I bet the college professors really hate this one. If I had a pen-pal in some foreign country I would want to send him a copy of this book so he could understand this wild and wonderful country. I withold the final star because I just finished Anna Karenina. By comparison Man in Full is not five stars. The ending is unsatisfying. The satirical tone just doesn't allow an uplifting, positive conclusion.
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Summary: Piercing situational awareness of U.S. in the late 90s.
Review: Here's a segment of the U.S. in the late 90s: Arrogant real estate developers, arrogant ebonic speaking athletes, conspicuous consumption down in 'Lanta, Georgia, and more, if you don't get enough just through your daily living. An easy 700+ page read; it keeps interest and moves fast. Sadly, though, the ending is a disappointment and too much Dixie talkin' so that you have to read some sentences more than once (for us non-southerners). Still, Updike's and Mailer's unfavorable comments were unnecessary. Good book, bad ending.
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Summary: Bonfire was much better
Review: It was a fun enough read but dissapointing after all of the hype. Bonfire was much better - this one felt like an overated sequel. However, I'm sure I'll read his next novel when he writes it 15 years from now
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Summary: the ending is good
Review: While I was reading this book, and loving it, I read many reviews here that said the ending was bad. This scared me, and made me hesitant to finish it. But I got past page 500 and then page 600 and then page 700 and then got to the end, and I can honestly say the book was great from beginning to end. Although the ending might have been a bit predictable, and maybe not totally realistic, this is a work of fiction and i read it as such. This book does not disappoint.
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Summary: A Man In Full by TOM WOLFE really reaked.
Review: It was the worst book that I have ever read in my life. I can't beleive how dumb the plot is. I think that this book is an insult to all authors all over the world. It has such poor useage of verbs and is accually, in my point of veiw, very unsophisticated.
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