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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

If you ask Scott Crossfield (one of the guys with the right stuff) Wolfe wasn't very good at writing about other subjects.


2 posted on 12/14/2004 6:29:00 PM PST by ProudVet77 (Beer - It's not just for breakfast anymore.)
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To: ProudVet77
Believe it or not, that's one Tom Wolfe book that I've never read, even though there's a copy lying on one of my bookshelves.

As far as broad cultural/economic/political trends, I don't think there's a better ethnographer than Wolfe.

"The Painted Word" and "From Bauhaus to our House" are probably the two best, most vividly written critiques of postmodern art/architecture out there.

One of my favorite Wolfe works is The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

5 posted on 12/14/2004 8:54:11 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham (Why did it take me so long to come up with a new tag-line, huh?! What's up with that?)
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