Title: What happened to Wolfe's comic talent?
Product review: Not by far as funny as 'Bonfire of the Vanities'. It is a reasonably entertaining story though, that you keep reading to find out what will happen, but not because of the writing itself. The book is also worth reading because of its illustrations of interesting things like the goings on in investment banking and how a bank attempts to retrieve a large loan from a company. And the life of a business tycoon, and prison life, and the world of illegal aliens. These illustrations would all be based on journalistic research and not on the imagination of the writer. What is rather fanciful is the enthousiasm of the young labourer for the writings of the Stoics, and the business tycoon transforming his life because of his teaching from it. But what I missed above all was the comedy that you expect having read his previous novel.
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