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 Post subject: Tom Wolfe
PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2018 10:14 am 
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Dude wrote some books. I read "A Man in Full." Good book. Loved the Charlie Croker character.

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 Post subject: Re: Tom Wolfe
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The Bonfore of the Vanities was really good. Too bad the movie sucked eggs.


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 Post subject: Re: Tom Wolfe
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Hated hated hated the names of the characters in that book. Raymond Peepgass? Get the fuck outta here.

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 Post subject: Re: Tom Wolfe
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Keyser Soze wrote:
The Bonfire of the Vanities was really good. Too bad the movie sucked eggs.


Agreed.

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 Post subject: Re: Tom Wolfe
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Great Stuff

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 Post subject: Re: Tom Wolfe
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Keyser Soze wrote:
The Bonfore of the Vanities was really good. Too bad the movie sucked eggs.



It's worth it just for Melanie Griffith saying, "Oh Sherman, I'm a sucker for a soft dick."

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 Post subject: Re: Tom Wolfe
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Hell of an author. R.I.P.


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 Post subject: Re: Tom Wolfe
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I read "A Man in Full."

You would.

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 Post subject: Re: Tom Wolfe
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The boy who died? Wolfe.

Though he was 88, so more of a man, really.

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 Post subject: Re: Tom Wolfe
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He was so satirical most did not understand some of his work. :)


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