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To: LindyBill who wrote (87313)11/19/2004 8:13:48 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (3) of 793719
 
I love Tom Wolfe. But. Last night at Border's I read the first and last chapter of Charlotte Simmons, and I don't think I'll buy it.

I would not have read the last chapter except that the first chapter left me feeling "eh." And I would have stopped after a page or two if I felt like it was going to be worth waiting for.

Hard decision, because I have pretty much everything else he ever wrote, including the serialized version of Bonfire of the Vanities (serialized in Rolling Stone, and not exactly the same as the book version.) Not to mention pretty much every magazine article he's written, in the original.

But, although I may collect Tom Wolfe, I am not a "collector," per se. First editions leave me cold. Collecting variorum editions seems ludicrous to me. And I just don't have any interest in reading the whole book.

Sometimes good writers sort of peter out. Thomas Pyncheon was that way, among others.
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