[Do not dub me shapka broham]

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.

[Clemenza]

Bonfire of the Vanities is my favorite book of all time. It is to the 1980s what Gatsby was to the 1920s. The movie should be burned, however.

I agree with the Brits on this one. The only person worse at describing sex is William F. Buckley.

[ProudVet77]

The book is much better than the movie. The part they made into a movie was at most 1/4 of the book. And even of that they did a bad job.