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Summary: Another telling blow to the soft liberal belly.
Review: Tom Wolfe shows his punches still have mighty effect as he exposes liberal pseudojournalism in this (for Wolfe) new non-book form of communication. Reader Edward Norton brilliantly performs Wolfe's intentions in the dialogue and speech patterns, validating the art form: we would not gain nearly as much from this story had Wolfe merely published it as a novella. Like many good things, this one comes in a small package: just two audio cassettes. It would make an interesting video as well.
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Summary: Cardboard plot and characters
Review: Tom Wolfe's reputation is undisputed and his works rate highly. However, this was a complete bore. The characters are so one-dimensional. How many times have we seen the obnoxious TV news personality before? Stock southerners with hick attitudes. Despite a novella format it dragged on too long.
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Summary: Not worth the paper it is written on.
Review: With all the books I have ever read this one comes to mind as the only one that has ever turned my stomach. I am sure there are many other ways of treating a subject like homophobia without going this route. I gave it one star because there was no option lower.
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Summary: Not worth the paper it is written on.
Review: With all the books I have ever read this one comes to mind as the only one that has ever turned my stomach. I am sure there are many other ways of treating a subject like homophobia without going this route. I gave it one star because there was no option lower.
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Summary: Art imitates life
Review: Wolfe's satiric edge, reporter's eye for detail, and understanding of our media institutions are as sharp as ever. I'm amazed by the number of otherwise literate-sounding reviewers who say that the audionovel seems "incomplete," or just plain don't grasp the ending. As for those who believe the scenario is far-fetched, well, just read a little about the purported "hate crime" down at Fort Jackson, current news as I write...
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Summary: What exactly is it that gay men do?
Review: Wolfe's the leading chronicler of the last 40 years of the 20th Century. If you've read Wolfe's every published word, like I have, you'll find fascinating this fragment that is all that has survived from an early, New York-based draft of A Man in Full. It's interesting to speculate on whether any major magazine would have published this ferocious satire on how the media pushes male homosexuality without ever having the guts to describe exactly what is it that gay men do. Obviously, the gay lobby is extremely strong today, and one of their chief goals is to minimize frank public discussion of what gays actually do. For example, all the enormous amount of verbiage spewed over the murder of poor Matthew Shepard avoided the obvious question of why did he agree to go off with those two thugs?
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Summary: You Have Got To Kidding
Review: You guys have got to be kidding! Tom Wolfe is a genius, but this tape (CD) is the worst sort of trash imaginable. I have no idea what Mr. Wolfe had in mind when he produced this seedy little tidbit, but he must be as astounded as I to read comparisons to Dickens.
Did anyone besides me actually listen to this junk?
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