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Book talk : Books that everyone loves and you hate		501	bookladykm, August 8
25 Books in 2009 : gregtmills' Great Big List of 25 Books for 2009		97	gregtmills, August 7
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Mistress of the Art of Death ~ Early Summer 2009 Reading Group : Question #6 June 22 - July 7: Chapters 13 - 16, Epilogue, Author's Note		9	billiejean, July 18
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50 Book Challenge : Greg attempts to read. 2009 edition.		51	gregtmills, June 16
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Someone explain it to me... : Bonfire of the Vanities: Tom Wolfe		28	kambrogi, June 2008
1001 Books to read before you die : The 1001 "I've Read That" chain game		300	BKieras, June 2008
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... Boys, and Betrayal, Forever, Fireworks, Rays, Romance, and Rivalry, Sand, Surf, and Secrets, June Dreams, and Bonfire by Katherine Applegate Edison's Eve by Gaby Wood Holly's Inbox by Holly Denham 13 Clues for Miss Marple by Agatha Christie Total Chaos by Jean-Cl ...

Just finished The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. Excellent book. It is very well written and keeps the reader engaged. Have not decided what to read next, but I am going to the library later this morning. So many books, so little time.

... the best, and then it begins to bog down. After a time, I felt like I was reading the same thing over and over. Started Bonfire of the Vanities last night. Very good. Found it hard to put down. I don't like all of the swear words, however.

... other selections such as The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, or Ulysses by James Joyce.

... Claudius and Claudius the God Friday Night Lights Sometimes a Great Notion The Executioner's Song Germinal The Bonfire of the Vanities

Picked up, for about 16 bucks The English Patient Black Hawk Down Invitation to a Beheading The Human Factor The Bonfire of the Vanities Amazon giftcard went to Gilead The Guns of August The Broom of the System This whole "reduce the amount of books I own that I ...

Just finished The Bonfire of the Vanities. I really enjoyed it. Not sure what I'll pick up next. Probably some of the non-fiction that I've been neglecting.

#41--vice versa for me. Loved A Room with a View, but didn't connect with A Passage to India. I started The Bonfire of the Vanities. Only read the prologue and 1st chapter, but I can tell I'll like this one.

53. A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks. This is being talked up as the new Bonfire of the Vanities or The Way We Live Now, which it isn't, but it was still an interesting read. It's about the lives of various Londoners during a week in December 2007, so it's very topical, especially as ...

... Austen Temtation by Douglas Kennedy The English patient by Michael Ondaatje Gunsmith 264 by J. R. Roberts The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe Meet the Thradons! by J. D. Austin All are given by my friends. These are not my type but are my friends' gifts so I'll ...

... The 80's were my favorite time for Elmore Leonard, almost everything he wrote during those years rocked. I loved Bonfire of the Vanities but it's been a long time. Maybe it hasn't held up but it seems all great books are timeless. I also had mixed feelings about Netherland. Don't ...

I finished Bonfire of the Vanities and am now on to Saturday which I am enjoying so far.

61. Bonfire of the Vanities Keeping the perspective that my age was signle digits during the "Greed is Good" 1980s, I liked this book, but it wasn't a favorite. The story is amusing, and the satire is thick (and deep and wide). The characters (or should I say caricatures) embody ...

... 150 years, but will it be around for another 150? Perhaps not. What we think is a classic today or the voice of that time Bonfire of the Vanities may just be a literary flash in the pan with no endurance or long term impact. Did Homer think that thousands of years later we would still be ...

... the evergreen tropes of storytelling. Dangerous Liaisons, Tristram Shandy, The Aspern Papers, An American Tragedy, Bonfire of the Vanities, need I go on?

... Is anybody with me on the dislike for Irving? Most of my friends enjoy his work. >> 28. Bridget770: I think that Bonfire of the Vanities is a love-it-or-hate-it kind of work. I was definitely on the love side, and I ripped through pretty much everything else Wolfe wrote. It's in its ...

#28 Bridget, I think Bonfire of the Vanities is one of those books that just hasn't held up; it was such a funny satire when it came out, at least for those of us who lived in New York and knew what Wolfe was satirizing. And Philippe Petit really did walk between the twin towers.

I'm still fighting my way through Bonfire of the Vanities, and so far, I'm not enjoying it. Fortunately, I'm about halfway through Let the Great World Spin which is an incredible book. The characters are linked together somehow by a man who is tightrope-walking between the World Trade Center ...

I don't know why Bonfire of the Vanities made the list either. I certainly didn't hate it (as many do), but I thought it was very average. Last night I decided to reread Mrs Dalloway, since I'll be in London in a few days. I can now walk around the streets and quote lines from the novel (I'm ...

I've started Bonfire of the Vanities, and I must say that unless there is a major change in writing style in the middle of the book, I am surprised it made this list.

... at a used book store: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote Jazz by Toni Morrison A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

... only book I've ever thrown away (well, left it in an airplane seat pocket, because I couldn't stand hanging onto it). Bonfire of the Vanities was wretched, with plenty of unlikeable characters. I liked Tom Wolfe's nonfiction, and wish he'd give up on fiction. I also can't read Joyce ...

The Devil's Candy Intermittently interesting behind the scenes look at the production of the film version of The Bonfire of the Vanities.

The Devil's Candy Intermittently interesting behind the scenes look at the production of the film version of The Bonfire of the Vanities.

The Devil's Candy Intermittently interesting behind the scenes look at the production of the film version of The Bonfire of the Vanities.

I just finished Bonfire of the Vanities and have just started The Associate. Gotta love Grisham!

I just finished Bonfire of the Vanities. That makes #9.

Bonfire of the vanities #42.

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe The Passion of Artemesia by Susan Vreeland The Angry Hills by Leon Uris The Agony and the Ecstacy by Irving Stone The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck

... a projects kid, sweet but headed down a bad path. It's the same kind of multiple p-o-v story of an incident in Manhattan as Bonfire of the Vanities, but not nearly as much fun. It's bleaker and I didn't have the same strong reactions to the characters. I don't think you were supposed to care ...

Reading The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales.

I just finished The Shack and am have just started Bonfire of the Vanities. It should be a great weekend!

... saga consists of 2,000 plus pages (and I am currently reading the first trilogy (~900 pages)). #6 Maybe I started on The Bonfire of Vanities some years ago and could't like it (remembering .... hmmm..). Well, thanks for your warnings, I will not waste my time reading it, I've got too much ...

... Charles Dickens (I'll list them later) Lord of the Rings Gone with the Wind The Man without Qualities Ulysses The Bonfire of the Vanities

... ld 16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (One I've read and listened to) 17. How Proust Can Change Your Life 18. The Bonfire of the Vanities 19. Infinite Jest 20. The Unbearable Lightness of Being 21. Beloved 22. The Handmaid's Tale 23. Freakonomics 24. Eats, Shoots ...

Bought The Bonfire of Vanities because I vaguely remember the title and think 700 pages for $3 is a pretty good deal. :)

... The Color Purple, 2008 77. Shame, 2004 78. The Handmaid's Tale, 2007 79. Love in the Time of Cholera, 2003 80. Bonfire of the Vanities, 1990s

... by carl Sagan, 1987 254. The Cider House Rules by John Irving, 2000 255. Beloved by Toni Morrison, 1990 256. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, 1990 257. *The Child in Time by Ian McEwan, 1989 258. The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy, 1990 259. Libra by Don Deli ...

... The Wailing Wind by Tony Hillerman The Hunting Wind by Steve Hamilton The Fires of Spring by James Michner The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

The Book of Lights by Chaim Potok Key of Light by Nora Roberts Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe Candle in the Window by Christina Dodd All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot

Sherman McCoy, from Bonfire of the Vanities Tied with Rodney Dangerfield from The Ginger Man

... Preston 30. Willow- by Wayland Drew 31. The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story- by Stephen R. Donaldson 32. The Bonfire of the Vanities- Tom Wolfe 33. Collected Short Stories- by Aldous Huxley 34. Die Trying- by Lee Child 35. To Reign in Hell- by Steven Brus ...

... Liaisons, East of Eden, The Remains of the Day, To Kill a Mockingbird Terrible adaptations: Ask the Dust, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Fountainhead

... Way The Afternoon of a Writer The Black Dahlia The Passion The Pigeon The Child in Time Cigarettes The Bonfire of the Vanities The New York Trilogy World’s End Enigma of Arrival The Taebek Mountains Beloved Anagrams Matigari Marya Watchmen T ...

... the Earth - about 500 pages too long Stones From the River - it made my skin crawl. I have no idea why, just did. Bonfire of the Vanities - loathsome book Wicked - I liked the first two parts, and then it just fell apart. All of Hemingway, except for A Farewell to Arms The ...

Oh, and I'll add Bonfire of the Vanities. Loved Wolfe's "new journalism" stuff, but this book left me cold.

I am reading The Bonfire of the Vanities which is starting to be enjoyable. An easy read. #81 - I agree with you re: Wide Sargasso Sea; I read it recently and was disappointed.

I think that you have to look at Bonfire of the Vanities as being sort of a period piece, rather than being dated. It is so very 80s and it illustrates a certain sector of society very well. I always thought Bruce Willis would have been better as the main character rather than the reporter. L ...

#148, CatieN, I was about to post the same thing about Bonfire of the Vanities, with the exception that I never went to see the movie because it was so miscast. But I think it might not hold up, because it was so much of its time.

#141 - I loved Bonfire of the Vanities when I read it way back when, when it was first published. I remember I couldn't put it down. I will have to re-read it and see if I am still as impressed with it now. (Hated the movie, by the way.)

finished Tess of the D'Urbervilles which I loved. Now just starting Bonfire of the Vanities which I've never read before. I loved I am Charlotte Simmons so much decided I should try out Wolfe's most famous -- OK so far, but I think its just going to feel dated for obvious reasons.

... Chris Ware (2000) 55. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls (2006) 56. The Night Manager, John le Carré (1993) 57. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe (1987) 58. Drop City, TC Boyle (2003) 59. Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat (1995) 60. Nickel & Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (2001) ...

... more chances and she's run out of them. Dan Brown - need I elaborate? Tom Wolfe (sorry wrong touchstone) - Bonfire of the Vanities was okay, but A Man in Full was simply horrible. Ayn Rand - I tried about five times over ten years to read The Fountainhead. Couldn't ...

... poster with the lukewarm feelings about Bonfire, and who didn't understand the strong feelings either way. Before reading Bonfire of the Vanities I had read more than my fair share of books by the likes of Harold Robbins, Judith Kranz, Dominick Dunne, maybe even some Jackie Collin ...

I couldn't get through Bonfire of the Vanities. I recognized it as satire, but every single character was so completely loathesome I just couldn't go on. I stay bummed out enough, I need to read things that are a bit more uplifting.

One of my favorite books, although the Master of Universe initially led me to Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. Four words, eight syllables. From page 54, top of the page: When I was a kid she used to teach me the ABCs and then she bought me English books.

I read Bonfire of the Vanities the year before last, so wasn't really reacting to the hype, and I don't know much about Tom Wolfe either, so my reaction was pretty much to the book itself. I loved the book. I loved how everyone was so self-obsessed, and how they didn't care about the truth, ...

Jfetting . . . I'm intrigued by why you hated Bonfire of the Vanities. In fact, I started a thread about it over at the Someone Explain It To Me group. Would you be so kind as to drop in and leave a comment at: http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=33762 And, no, sorry, ...

I've read Bonfire of the Vanities and absolutely hated it. Unlike, say The Golden Bowl by Henry James which I loved. Anyone else?

... Cannery Row, an All-Time Favorite, and thought I missed my chance... but I have also read Less Than Zero, so I offer up Bonfire of the Vanities...

Coming up soon (already checked out from the library) are Bonfire of the Vanities, Middlesex, Don Quixote, and Portnoy's Complaint. Already read this month are Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (really enjoyed it...very quick read) and Slow Man (conflicted about it).

... Deck" list, but the next up will probably either be Anil's Ghost, Time Traveler's Wife, or Bonfire of the Vanities (keep putting this one off because of the length).

... Lives by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Space by James A. Michener The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe Forgetfulness by Ward Just Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley Until ...

... and it was a best seller. Yet people seem to not only hate it, they vehemently hate it. So if you LOVE or HATE Bonfire of the Vanities, why?

Wild Animus The Corrections The Bonfire of the Vanities

Some of the books listed as being bad are among my favourites: Pride & Prejudice, Bonfire of the Vanities. However some books I really didn't like are: The Rainbow D.H. Lawrence - occassionally it was interesting, but more often than not it was boring & tedious. The characters were ...

Here's another horrible casting move: Tom Hanks and Melanie Griffith in Bonfire of the Vanities. Tom Hanks is too likable, too middle class, too everyman for the role, and Melanie Griffith just came off wrong. Old movie, I know. Probably everyone has (rightly) forgotten about it.

Oh, this is a bad guess :-s, but The Bonfire of the Vanities. Edited for punctuation issues.

... mostly, I find the characters all in need of a good slapping. I can't relate to a single one. I felt the same way about Bonfire of the Vanities, which, I might add, was abysmal. But I know many people who like that one, too.

... similar to apreciate it -- I was a fish out of water when I started college. I just recently bought a used copy of The Bonfire of the Vanities, so I am going to give that a try.

jhowell, I'm surprised at Charlotte Simmons. I couldn't even finish it, even though I enjoyed Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man in Full very much. Maybe I'll give it another try, if you tell us why you liked it so much. :-)

... by Edith Wharton 90. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 91. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 92. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe 93. The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham 94. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham 95. We by Yevgeny Zamyati ...

When I read Bonfire of the Vanities I threw it down in disgust every fifty pages. There was not one character in the book that I would not have gladly seen executed as a waste of protoplasm. The rant about how the guy couldn't live on a million dollars a year had no redeeming qualities for me. ...

... finish reading. Self published, or not, there are a lot of books out there, and not all of them are gems. (Case in point The Bonfire of the Vanities. URGH. If it hadn't been a gift from my mother-in-law, it wouldn't still be on my shelves.) If I could afford to, I'd probably buy at least ...

... he sure can craft some wonderful sentences, and New York is very much like a main character in the book. Books like The Bonfire of the Vanities, Motherless Brooklyn and The Alienist all spring to mind, as well.

... with a portion of the movie Sin City I saw. Hannibal was a purely money making project with no redeeming social value. The Bonfire of the Vanities is a not too distant second. I like Tom Wolfe's writing generally. Reading Bonfire I wanted to throw it away every 75 pages or so but kept ...

... of Love by Oscar Hijuelos Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi Seize the Day by Saul Bellow and (get this...) Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, signed (for $1.40) I'm not sure the validity of the signature, but from the little reseach I've done, it is a pretty close match. I ...

... he'd be enthralled). Needless to say with our differing tastes, neither of us expanded our reading list. It is funny that Bonfire of the Vanities is mentioned. I just found a signed copy at a thrift store of all places and was relieved I found a signed Tom Wolfe book instead of another author ...

... to get distracted with recent releases. Of the ones mentioned so far, i've really enjoyed some of the lighter fare: The Bonfire of the Vanities To Kill a Mockingbird Tess of the d'Urbervilles The Prince and the Pauper One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and In Cold Blood are ...

... on the list that I have waiting to be read are as follows: 1. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres 2. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe 3. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee 4. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H G Wells 5. The Time Machine by H G W ...

... a postcard filled out for: Bonfire of the Vampires. Which sounded more interesting to me than the actual book wanted: Bonfire of the Vanities, of course. Not a mistake, but thinking about the postcard days, I remember how hard it was to get the staff to remember to check that patrons ...

I haven't read any of these either. Funny how some of the most popular books just don't age well. I did try Bonfire of the Vanities but got disgusted with all the loathsome characters and gave it up. I can still remember the scene with the judge spitting at the prisoners and the spittal ...

... by Stephen King has 1,758 owners and 16 reviews. (Fantasy) I should note that #12 this year is Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, which ranked #11 in 1988. It has 1,723 owners and 21 reviews. I am impressed that Stephen King appeared thrice in 1987, but I'm still not ...

... Dispatches from America's Class War by Joe Bageant -- who woulda thought class warfare could also be so funny? The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe -- well, Tom Wolfe for one Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris and Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs ...

... you will see the same books over and over again. Dozens of copies of The Bridges of Madison County, scores of copies of Bonfire of the Vanities. Doesn't it mean something that half the people who bought these have given them away? What edition of The Crucible did I read in high school? Doe ...

... for two): Flesh and Blood by Jonathan Kellerman Gone by Lisa Gardner The Human Stain by Philip Roth The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket The Queen's Man by Sharon Kay Penman Talkin ...

... Excellent stuff. And I'd go so far as to say that Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is a better work than Bonfire of the Vanities.

i agree with awalter about Wolfe being funny, especially The Bonfire of the Vanities which is hilarious and has a well-deserved spot on the 1001 Books list (along with Thackeray's original Vanity Fair). However, Wolfe's lost his edge more recently. Living in Atlanta gives me a ...

... Night-time; disliked the story, but the reading was good. Ditto with Cannery Row. Tom Hanks did a good job reading The Bonfire of the Vanities; The Moonstone (read by various narrators) and The Woman in White were pretty good; Brideshead Revisited, read by David Case/Frederick Davi ...

... poker : rising through the wreckage on Wall Street (a book, incidentally, that covers a lot of the same territory as The Bonfire of the Vanities) and The Blind Side : Evolution of a Game. The former is a brilliant look at trading culture and a book that inspired more people to trade ...

It's interesting that you bring up Bonfire of the Vanities, Deniro. I used to be an equity options market maker on the P-coast. It was one of the least appealing aspects of the job for me, the rampant egos. And pretty much my first thought on entering the floor was that the trading floor was ...

... Julie Salamon was excellent ... might be especially interesting to folks here as it's specifically about making a book (Bonfire of the Vanities) into a movie.

... as you don't kidnap people The Collector, rape people you have enchanted The Monk (!), run people over with your car The Bonfire of the Vanities, shoot yourself if you get a bit depressed Sorrows of Young Werther, or kill your neighbours to get on in the world The Prince. If we ...

... has saved me from reading many of the truly awful titles listed here, including Da Vinci Code, Celestine Prophesy, Bonfire of the Vanities, etc. Unfortunately, a dear friend gave me a copy of Red Storm Rising, and then kept asking me what I thought of it. Not wanting to insult his ...

... Up, published in 2000. This is my first direct encounter with Wolfe, the writer who brought us The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test--and I’m just a little giddy with, finally, discovering the delights of his masterly synthesis of ...

Skip Bonfire of the Vanities if you're afraid of running out of time. I'm only 33, and I already think of the time I'll never get back reading that 'thing'.

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabakov Auto da Fe by Elias Canetti Eating Fire by Margaret Atwood The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe The Firework Maker's Daughter by Philip Pullman

1601: A Tudor Fireside Conversation by Mark Twain The Fire Engine That Disappeared by Per Wahloo The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault In the Field of Fire edited by Jeanne Van Buren Dann (touchstones not working) Edited now that ...

#6, 10, 14 I've said it before, but I read Bonfire of the Vanities when it first came out in paperback in the 80s, and I loved it -- maybe not great writing (I'm not a Tom Wolfe fan in general), but a wicked, satirical look at NYC in those days. Having not read it since, I do believe it ...

I'm with bookishbunny. Bonfire never should have been put out (pun intended!)

I HATED 'Bonfire of the Vanities'. Just despised it. Yeck. I know Tom Wolfe came out with another novel just recently. Double Yeck.

A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe William Kotzwinkle's The Fan Man takes place in a wonderfully imagined 1960's East Village

... And I think if you peel away all the foul language and sex -- he actually has some interesting ideas. I need to give Bonfire of the Vanities a try - because I really admired his writing. Anyway, staying with a collegiate setting I think I will begin Special Topics in Calamity Physics ...

I really enjoyed Bonfire of the Vanities as a portrait of NYC at a particular time, but not as a novel per se , if that makes any sense, but I've never been able to read anything else Tom Wolfe wrote.

Well, I don't live in New York, actually not even in the US, and I read The Bonfire of the Vanities about 6 years ago before ever having been to NY. I'm not sure I would still like it today though, but back then it fit my mood somehow. It is far from being among my favorite books and it's also ...

About Bonfire of the Vanities, I have always lived in NYC and read the book when it came out in paperback. It was a wonderful satire of NYC at that particular moment, but I wonder whether it would have the same impact on people not living in NYC and on anyone now that times have changed. As for ...

It's funny how radically different tastes are. Bonfire of the Vanities was one of the few books I absolutely hated. I still finished it, but only out of pure stubbornness and to be able to say I hated it through and through (it took me a year!). I know a lot of people like it, but it's one of ...

... 250 the first time and the second time I gave up even before that. I find it boring, uninteresting and longwinded, unlike The Bonfire of the Vanities which I liked. I don't think I'll try again. So yes, I give every book a second chance, but then I give up. There are quite a few books I haven' ...

... read the books that are considered important within a culture, even if they are not considered 'good' in retrospect (hated Bonfire of the Vanities but can see why it would be an icon). Also, my TBR list is so overwhelming that I find the lists useful in directing my focus.

... in the movie were fantastic, and it did a much better job of capturing the abject loneliness in space. The movies of Bonfire of the Vanities and World According to Garp, and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil were far inferior to the books- I felt like I was getting the cliff ...