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Loading... A Man in Fullby Tom Wolfe
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I guess we're all entitled to a clunker. But look on the good side, Mr. Wolfe, there's nowhere to go but up from here. (  )IronMike | Feb 24, 2009 |   A whopper of a book, but an incredible read. Corporate business world at its finest. (  )mamaVISION | Feb 16, 2009 | Holidays and a second reading of this book which I read when it first came out. I think Wolfe writes engagingly although at too great a length. I like the way he comfortably uses a wide vocabulary to hit the right note and at first I liked his characterisation although later I found his characters a bit one dimensional. I didn't find myself caring really about any of the outcomes and found it all a bit glib at the end. (  )evening | Oct 5, 2008 | Excellent read. Good book, very droll & entertaining. Deals with racial issues like Bonfire does, but it's not as dark. (  )jaygheiser | Jul 23, 2008 | hyperpat | Nov 30, 2007 | 0.049 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Audiobook Review (ISBN 0553381334, Paperback)Choosing David Ogden Stiers (M*A*S*H, The Accidental Tourist) to narrate this sprawling tale of contemporary American society was an act of inspired audio casting. The familiar, snobbish qualities of his warm yet condescending voice perfectly match author Tom Wolfe's own carefully sculpted persona of haughty disdain and color the recording with an interesting sense of authenticity. Without indulging in overwrought characterizations, Stiers manages to create enough distinction between players to keep this sweeping epic coherent. There are moments that find him overreaching, but when voicing a novel this broad, some notes are bound to ring false. Overall, Stiers's abridged reading is an intelligent, entertaining rendition of Wolfe's scrupulously detailed and bitingly funny portrait of America at the turn of the millennium. (Running time: 8.5 hours, 6 cassettes) --George Laney(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:03 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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