Title: What a total disapointment !
Product review: Having been a fan of Tom Wolfe's earlier books, with the exception of Bonfire of the Vanities, I was hopeful that his next book would be better than Bonfire. Well, I was totally wrong. This book suffers from the same problems that Bonfire did, totally unconvincing characters. Wolfe takes an inordinate amount of time painstakingly developing his characters, then gives them nowhere to go and very little to do. In a 700 plus page book he uses 650 page to develop various storylines and then, seemingly realizing he had gotten nowhere with this story, he tacks on the most contrived, absurd and insulting ending I've encountered. I literally burst into laughter, the ending was so bad. If this was the last book availible on the planet I wouldn't reccomend it to my worst enemy. I could not be more disapointed.
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