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Title: You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe ISBN: 0-06-093005-5 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (28 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Might as well be sleeping.......
Comment: This book rates umong the worst books I have ever read. Wolfe goes into unnecessary details about everyone mentioned in the book. As a reader, I do not like to waste my time reading the life history of a person who has no impact on the story. I found myself wanting to just skip over these parts instead of reading them. They seem to be completely irrelevant to the story. The book would be better if it followed the life of the main character instead of characters who mean nothing. Overall, there are about 100 pages of good reading, while the other 600+ are a waste of time.
Rating: 3
Summary: Off to a good start, but then takes a nose-dive...
Comment: This book starts off great. Characters are very interesting. Very descriptive. But then Wolfe gets too descriptive, to the point of boredom. I agree with those who said parts of the book could have been deleted. I actually did skim and skip through parts of the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ingenius, Incisive, Intuitive with Incredible Clarity
Comment: Thomas Wolfe's book "You Can't Go Home Again" is undeniably an immortal American classic. What is truly impressive and unique about Wolfe's writing is not only the intuitive incisiveness with which he articulates human thought and emotion; but just as astonishing, is his ability to articulate these things with utter and precise clarity.
There is not one sentence in his book that does not make total sense upon first reading. If it seems not to, it is only because the reader has skipped a line. With a vocabulary that is vast, but which he uses with unique precision, Wolfe tells the story of George Webber, a writer, who is in essence, Thomas Wolfe, the writer. Wolfe ultimately sees himself as an artist that is an observer of human thought and action. But in addition, one that has an obligation to do what one can, to stamp out ugliness, violence, injustice, inhumanity, and so many other wrongs that rear their heads in society from time to time.
Yet, even with this extraordinary brilliance, clarity, and understanding of the human condition, like all great writers and great artists, he leaves the reader with a question. If clearly, it is his understanding of his personal duty, his personal philosophy to work to do what one can do, to end injustice, then why, is he, personally, always running away? As the book is a picture of one always on the move, always observing people, always changing venue, but wisely with great proficiency and efficacy, storing these experiences away as he seeks his understanding of the human condition; he is constantly yet on the move. And so, how does one work to stamp out injustice, if one is always running from the place he is at, and believes "He can't go home again?" This then becomes the challenge to the reader as well. And thus, the questions of the "meaning of life" are never fully answered. How really could they be?
For those who wish to see an example of one man try to find those answers, with the clearest articulation I have ever seen in any book, one should read Wolfe's book as soon as possible. It reads moderately quickly, due to Wolfe's amazing clarity. And it does articulate many of the answers to many of the questions that all thinking people ask themselves as they go through life.
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Title: LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL by Thomas Wolfe ISBN: 0684804433 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Of Time and the River : A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth by Thomas Wolfe ISBN: 0684867850 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 08 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: The Web and the Rock (Voices of the South) by Thomas Wolfe ISBN: 0807123897 Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.02 |
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Title: The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe by Thomas Wolfe ISBN: 0020408919 Publisher: Unknown Pub. Date: 01 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Hills Beyond by Thomas Wolfe ISBN: 0807125679 Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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