I really wanted to like this book. I started out that way. The writing style was unique, the setting one I've always been interested in and I like New York City. But I didn't care one whit for any character in this book. By the time they get to the big dinner party halfway through, I detested the ...
When I first read this book I considered it brilliant. It was part of my Top 10 Personal Pantheon for a long time. It was so daring, so edgy. Like Wolfe's finest non-fiction, you felt that he was right there, reporting from the place where everything was happening.The next time I read this was te...
A terrific book! I remember reading a review where someone called him "a day-glo Dickens". I am not personally a big Dickens fan, but presumably the person who wrote this was, and I agree with his sentiment. Wolfe takes apart late 80's US society in the same way Dickens did with British society a hu...
The first time I read this I thought it was one of the best modern novels. It stayed on my top ten for quite a while. And then eventually, I realized that Wolfe traded on a smug and sneering attitude which allows him to look down on everyone as morally corrupt, that he was racist and classist and se...
Okay. This was flat-out amazing. The most energetic (and hilarious) writing I've seen in eons. Lots of good discussions with the husband over this one.
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