Tom Wolfe gone. For years I thought Bonfire of the Vanities to be an unsurpassable

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

tour de force and despaired of ever reading anything as brilliant again. Then Jorge introduced me to Donna Tartt and The Goldfinch - or was it Bernie?

[Burney]

tour de force and despaired of ever reading anything as brilliant again. Then Jorge introduced me to Donna Tartt and The Goldfinch - or was it Bernie?

Not me. Never got on with Tartt.

His journalism was good - The Right Stuff and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Don't think he was much of a novelist, though, if I'm honest.

[World's End Stella]

tour de force and despaired of ever reading anything as brilliant again. Then Jorge introduced me to Donna Tartt and The Goldfinch - or was it Bernie?

A Man in Full - also brilliant. I found Electric Kool Aid Acid test to be a bit dull mind. Possibly because it was more fact than fiction and I'm not convinced Wolfe was as good at that.

Still, very sad he's gone.

[Burney]

A Man in Full - also brilliant. I found Electric Kool Aid Acid test to be a bit dull mind. Possibly because it was more fact than fiction and I'm not convinced Wolfe was as good at that.

Still, very sad he's gone.

You don't think the foremost champion of The New Journalism was very good at non-fiction?

Righto.

Stick to engineering.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

You didn't think Bonfire was a masterpiece? Stick to hammering your bellend in that allotment shed.

[Burney]

You didn't think Bonfire was a masterpiece? Stick to hammering your bellend in that allotment shed.

No. I thought it was yet another self-conscious attempt at 'THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL' and - like most such attempts - overblown, grandiose and with a positively chasmic discrepancy between reach and grasp.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

No. I thought it was yet another self-conscious attempt at 'THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL' and - like most such attempts - overblown, grandiose and with a positively chasmic discrepancy between reach and grasp.

'fess up - you didn't even read the ****ing thing.

[Peter]

No. I thought it was yet another self-conscious attempt at 'THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL' and - like most such attempts - overblown, grandiose and with a positively chasmic discrepancy between reach and grasp.

Agreed. I didnt think much of it.

[Luis Anaconda]

You don't think the foremost champion of The New Journalism was very good at non-fiction?

Righto.

Stick to engineering.

Probably used long words, b

[World's End Stella]

You don't think the foremost champion of The New Journalism was very good at non-fiction?

Righto.

Stick to engineering.

I did say 'possibly'.

I can judge him only on Electric Kool Aid which I found to be hard work but ultimately satisfying.

Bonfire and A Man in Full I could barely put down I enjoyed them so much.