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Title: Hooking Up by Tom Wolfe ISBN: 0312420234 Publisher: Picador Pub. Date: October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.16
Rating: 4
Summary: Sharp observer at work.
Comment: I have always admired Wolfe's ability to describe the social landscape in artful precision, and these essays (plus novella) are no exception. The parts I found most enjoyable were his takes on the evolutionary-biology-neurology rise, the bio of Silicon Valley's founder, and the fun he had with the New Yorker in his early days. One of the things that makes Wolfe great is his perpetual optimism and wonder about the new. I didn't care for the novella all that much (I'd already read it in Rolling Stone). It's a bit flat. Also the little essay about criticism and Updike, Mailer, and Irving was a bit disturbing. It seems to me that both camps are wrong: the modern novel should not be pigeon-holed; there are many different styles of writing a work of fiction and neither Wolfe or his critics have an appropriate stand to dictate otherwise.
Rating: 5
Summary: More of the right stuff
Comment: Tom Wolfe writes about people who have The Right Stuff and people who have The Wrong Stuff. He's wickedly funny and accurate about people who have The Wrong Stuff and respectful but very interesting and observant about people who have The Right Stuff. This bewilders readers who cannot tell the difference between The Right Stuff and The Wrong Stuff. And it deeply offends those who have The Wrong Stuff.
Hooking Up has these essays about people with The Wrong Stuff: Hooking Up; In the Land of the Rococo Marxist; The Great Relearning; Ambush at Fort Bragg; My Three Stooges; Foreword: Murderous Gutter Journalism; Tiny Mummies! The True Story of the Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of the Walking Dead; Lost in The Wichy Thickets: The New Yorker and Afterword: High in the Saddle.
And it has these essays about people who have The Right Stuff:Two Men Who Went West; Digibabble, Fairy Dust, and the Human Anthill; Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died and The Invisible Artist.
Buy this book. This is your chance for an evening of belly laughs if you know the difference between The Right Stuff and The Wrong Stuff.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good
Comment: I'd read a lot of these pieces in their original magazine form. Some of them have been updated, and I enjoyed reading the updates (the piece on Robert Noyce and Intel has been updated since its 1983 publication in "Esquire"). Some had been published before that I had NOT read. I'd been dying to read the piece on the "New Yorker" after reading ABOUT it. And I really loved it!! The "New Yorker" is so revered, it's delightful to see Wolfe give it some well-deserved and high-spirited criticism. And then some pieces are published here for the first time (I loved the "Rococo Marxism" piece.) "My Three Stooges" does smack a bit of "me thinketh thou doth protest too much", because Updike, Mailer and Irving had a point. (A MAN IN FULL was a flawed novel). But they are more deserving of Wolfe's criticsim than he is of theirs. I didn't need to read "Ambush at For Bragg" again, having read it in "Rolling Stone." But the "re-runs" were worth having, if it meant having the new and unread stuff. Wolfe is one of the greatest things we've got going in the writing world, and proof of that fact are in these pages.
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Title: In Our Time by Tom Wolfe ISBN: 0553380605 Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap) Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe ISBN: 0553380656 Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap) Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Man in Full: A Novel by Tom Wolfe ISBN: 0553580930 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $8.50 |
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Title: From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe ISBN: 055338063X Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap) Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe ISBN: 0553380621 Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap) Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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