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Sugar Smack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 07:25 PM Original message |
Has anyone here read Tom Wolfe's book "I Am Charlotte Simmons"? |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 07:52 PM Response to Original message |
1. I liked it. I'm not one for book reviews. But I was with that girl her whole |
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Sugar Smack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 08:02 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. OMG, applegrove- |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 08:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. I read it less than a year ago and I cannot remember the characters or the details. |
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Sugar Smack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 08:26 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. I suppose it depends on how much the book absorbs you. |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-25-07 05:07 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. I liked A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. And Mordecai Richler. Ever Read Solomon Gursky Was Here? |
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Withywindle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 08:13 PM Response to Original message |
4. I should read this! |
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Sugar Smack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 08:24 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Withywindle, you would really love this, I think. |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 08:25 PM Response to Original message |
6. Sounds like something F. Scott Fitzgerald would write |
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Sugar Smack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 08:35 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite books. |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-25-07 09:40 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Wolfe is a reactionary conservative... |
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Sugar Smack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-25-07 08:24 PM Response to Reply #11 |
20. Sure, he's most comfortable when he's over-the-top. |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-25-07 10:15 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. No, he is a right wing elitist ass who likes to rail against intellectuals... |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-25-07 02:52 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. I think a George Orwell clone is more valuble than a F. Scott Fitzgerald clone |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-26-07 04:04 PM Response to Reply #8 |
24. "The Pimp Roll". "The Chow". |
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DeepBlueC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 09:39 PM Response to Original message |
9. So fine in so many telling details... |
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Sugar Smack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-25-07 08:14 PM Response to Reply #9 |
19. That's what surprised me. |
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DeepBlueC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-26-07 03:22 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. I read that he did actual research |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 09:56 PM Response to Original message |
10. Sounds like Wolfe may have finally learned how to create rounded characters |
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alphafemale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-25-07 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
14. I have an autographed copy of that. |
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Sugar Smack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-25-07 08:08 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Aw geeze, read it wouldya? |
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Iris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-25-07 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
15. I was just trying to remember the name of this book! |
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Sugar Smack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-25-07 07:46 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. OMG! This book has pages I want to go back to |
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Iris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-25-07 07:53 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. I'm sold. |
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WildEyedLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-25-07 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
22. I read the two excerpts published in Rolling Stone |
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