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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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Summary: Excellent Mirror of Our Society
Review: I really liked this book a lot. Wolfe is very smart, and what makes him unique is his ability to write characters that reveal the egos and characters of real people, people alive now, 1998. He lays bare our social politics, especially around the race issues between black and white. I read through some of the reviews in here, and came to the conclusion that these reviews tell you more about the person writing them than they do about Wolfe's book. So I guess I will just say that I loved this book, and if you are concerned about race relations and social problems you will find it amusing and thought provoking.
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Summary: Good entertaining Social satire
Review: I normally don't finish books over 500 pages but I did polish this one off. It was entertaining but the characters seemed somewhat one-dimensional and the plot too similar to "Bonfire" with the characters southernized.
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Summary: Excellent, solid portrayal of late twentieth-century America
Review: Tom Wolfe has written an excellent book about greed, corruption, the country's racial climate, and how people often don't say and do what they really mean. The ending is a bit of a disappointment, but it's a great story from start to finish. Normally I put books down for a few days and start again, but this one I read from start to finish. It was a great diversion from the Congressional coup action!
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