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Summary: One of the best novels that has come out this decade
Review: Charlie Croker could be a thousand different people that are in the public eye in any city. As with the majority of the characters in the novel, it does not take much to identify with them, and their issues. The novel was funny, satirical, and very outstanding. I would highly recommend it. Beleive the hype. A
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Summary: Mostly good, but bad ending does leave bad feeling
Review: He does a good job building characters, and there are some really good passages. Way too long. In too many chapters, he would act like too much of a tour guide. The end is downright horrible. If you haven't Wolfe at all yet, go read The Right Stuff, which is a truly great book.
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Summary: A National Book Review Winner....It Ain't!
Review: I can't really frame how disappointed I was in this book. I guess all the hype led me to believe it was Wolfe's best yet. Not so. I finished the book, 742 pages of it, but must admit I (as well as several of my avid reader friends) skipped about 100 pages or so. Wolfe talks about the "superfluous" woman. Here we have a severe case of the superfluous. Admittedly, he does a fabulous job of characterization. Charlie, Conrad, Billy Bass, Fareek Fanon, Sarena, are all vividly presented. They are quite a cast of characters. But, the story begins to fall apart when "Connie" meets Charlie. Down the old toilet. Down the tubes. Kerplunk. Does Wolfe skewer Atlanta? No. All he's done is taken away the pretense and the rose colored glasses. One of the things he does tackle is race relations. And,he is very blunt about the way blacks supposedly perceive whites and vice-a-versa. This book is worth a read but don't rsuh to buy it in hardback. Borrow it or wait for the paperback.
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Summary: Very enjoyable book whose ending seemed rushed.
Review: From the very first page of the novel, Tom Wolfe had me wanting to know more about each of his characters. I couldn't wait to rejoin the characters once he left them to pursue another subplot. I wondered how in the world Wolfe would bring together all these diverse inhabitants of his novel. However, I didn't need to worry because Wolfe obviously had a master plan in mind before he ever began this novel! As long as the novel was, I felt the ending seemed a bit rushed and was somewhat unsatisfying for me, especially with Charlie Crocker. Even though I enjoyed how he intertwined the lives of Conrad and Charlie through The Stoics at the end, I did not feel that Charlie's future as an evangelist was the choice that the character I had followed for 700 pages would have made. I enjoy Tom Wolfe's style with his meticulous attention to details. He allowed me to enter the worlds of Georgia politics, prisons, and the upper crust of society, and yet I did not have to suffer the consequences of his characters. Tom Wolfe is certainly "an author in full" with his latest novel. Carolyn Godbey Prospect, Ky.
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Summary: Fun to read - until the very end, which was a disappointment
Review: Great fun (!) for the first 95% of the book, then, IMO, a HUGE letdown at the end, which I found to be very disappointing, and which felt very 'rushed' (by the author). Everything that was so carefully setup, leading me to expect a real slam-bang of an ending, was just completely wasted, IMO, in just a few pages, by what I felt were complete out-of-character actions on several of the story threads. I cannot remember when I was more disappointed in the 'delta' between a novel's promise, as it unfolded, and it's final delivery. In order to salvage it, I guess I'll just have to rewrite the ending, in my own head - much like I had to do with the recent movie, "What Dreams May Come", which suffered from a similar condition of big setup, small final delivery. It's a shame, as, "A Man In Full" could have been 'great', but in the end was only 'good'.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: Blows everyone else out of the water. A triumph and tour de force; well deserves its #1 spot at Amazon and on other best seller lists. Buy it! Read it! You will love it!
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Summary: Don't miss this one
Review: Quite a good book. It may lack some of the wit of "Bonfire," but it is every bit as funny. This time Wolfe is a modern Dickens, filling his canvas with memorable characters and scenes. The ending fails to convince, but the journey getting there is fully rewarding. In my view this is the book of the year.
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Summary: Save your time and money
Review: A man in full ... of himself. Wolfe has a way with descriptions but that, in and of itself, does not make a 742 page book. Stop after about the first 600 pages and you'll feel better - the ending is too asinine to in any way be related to reality. I'm angry about the time wasted in finishing it.
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Summary: A great satirical read.
Review: My only cavil with this satirical superbook is that it ended too abruptly. It is non stop reading pleasure. I want to know what life now brings to Charlie Croker, Conrad, Serena, Roger Too White, Ray Peepgas, et al. Please Tom, write a sequel. A note to John Updike: Rabbit was great, but so is this!!!
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Summary: dead-on characterization but a fumbled plot line
Review: We get to know and love all the characters, from brash Charlie to his trophy wife Siren(a), but where the book disappoints is in the ending. Of all the plotting possibilities the author had available to him--after all, he can make these characters do and say anything he wants--it seems that he suffered from terminus fatigue, that he had to bail out of where he had written himself into, and as a result the ending is unbelievable and disappointing--frankly, it's hard for us to imagine that our hero would act this way. Maybe the author spotted this too, and that's the reason for the Greek mumbo-jumbo at the end. Overall, delightful book but I'd recommend stopping about 100 pages from the end.
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