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| | 1. |  | Electric Kool - Aid Acid Test
from Trans-World
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Tom Wolfe takes us through part of the acid-movement of the 60's with Ken Kesey (author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") and company as they embark on their journey across America to popularize acid. Wolfe writes in a way that sort of makes you feel that you are on acid too. His writing style... more info
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| | 2. |  | The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel
from Picador
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Tom Wolfe captures the essence of big-city racial and class conflict, plus greed, ambition, and self-serving hypocrites. His story concerns high-living banker Sherman McCoy, whose accidental exit from the New York freeway into the crime-plagued South Bronx leads to his mistress running over a young... more info
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| | 3. |  | The Right Stuff
from Bantam
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The Right Stuff is essential reading for any student of post-war western popular history whether or not you are interested in aviation and the space-race. Even if you dont hold with the concept of 'top three' books and the like, once you have read this, it will always come to mind when you are put... more info
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| | 4. |  | I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Price: $14.46
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I thought this book quite accurately, granted it used extremes, depicted the continual decline of American culture. Of course, one must believe American culture is declining to appreciate the books non-judgmental view of it. The book shows college life the way it is on most campuses, it leaves the... more info
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| | 5. |  | A Man in Full
from Dial Press Trade Paperback
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It took Tom Wolfe more than decade to finally publish his second novel. Using the same journalistic skills which made him famous, A MAN IN FULL sees Wolfe turning his keen eye and withering criticism south, to Atlanta, where we first meet Charlie Croker. One time college football star, now a middle... more info
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| | 6. |  | The Painted Word
from Bantam
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This is an unpersuasive essay about the failure of modern art and about how we are all caught up in the falsity and ugliness of modern art. In my opinion, I think Wolfe is writing without much knowledge of modern art. He sounds like an uneducated critic in this book.
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| | 9. |  | Hooking Up
from Picador
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The title implies that this is a book centered on the standard practice for college-age coupling these days--hooking up--and the first essay does focus on this bizarre state of affairs. From there, however, Wolfe expands his survey to an all-encompassing assessment of life at the dawn of the 21st... more info
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| | 10. | [no image] | New Journalism
from Harpercollins College Div
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This is a wide slice of the mid-century New Journalism epoch. It features charged work from every major player (including Terry Southern and others curiously ignored in Weingarten's overview). The predictions in Wolfe's manifesto haven't panned out as pervasively as he expected - if anything,... more info
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