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Title: No, He's Not
Review: Very disappointing writing from an author whose previous work I enjoyed and admired. My overall impression is that no one actually edited this book: most of the scenes and descriptions go on and on and on, sometimes repeating phrases verbatim ("traps, delts, pecs, lats..."); there are also several places where abrupt changes in subject in the same paragraph simply don't track. [Maybe Wolfe is of such a stature that he doesn't need an editor, the same way that the title of his book doesn't need to appear on the cover.] Wolfe also seems not to get quite right the mindsets and motivations of many of his characters, many of whom are 1-dimensional parodies of their prototypes, seeming, mostly, just overwraught. To me, this book feels as if it were an experiement in "can I write about people from social milleaus I don't know and situations I haven't personally experienced?" I'd say, not convincingly. The book feels long, long-winded, unconvincing, and only intermittently pleasurable.
