Title: High Hopes Dashed
Product review: After the success of Bonfire, I had hoped that this book would be wonderful, even one of the great ones of our time. Not so. Instead of a recovery from his well-publicized psychological problems, for Wolfe this book seems more like therapy. He covers over 700 pages with cardboard characters, soap opera dialogue, B-movie action scenes, and formula-driven story lines, but only occasionally succeeds in compelling my attention. Perhaps the main problem is that among all the egos and libidos there is not one character who is complex or sympathetic. Required reading for cocktail parties, but otherwise a waste of time.
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