Title: A slow start, but then hold on for a wild ride!
Product review: I usually have a hard time with books in which there are lots of "main" characters, but Tom Wolfe has a way of fleshing each of the people out to the point where I can visualize them, down to facial expressions.For anyone who has aspired to ride some scheme to financial riches, you're going to see a bit of yourself in this book, and maybe wince once or twice. I did, anyway. Likewise, the power brokers and poverty peddlers will find themselves skewered as well.All in all, an incredibly satisfying story. I put down the book comfortable that the cosmic scales of justice had balanced themselves nicely.The last 200 pages or so (of the hardcover) simply cannot be put down. I rarely find myself so completely hooked in a story, as I was when I found the wild arrangement of sub-plots finally tying into a perfect weave. Mr. Wolfe deserves congrats for this one.
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