dead white guys

[calimac]

I don't have anything to say about Philip Roth. I read one of his novels once, and decided that life was too short to spend any more of it reading people who wrote like that. So I'm in no position to make any further criticisms.

Tom Wolfe, on the other hand, I've read three of his novels. The first one I liked despite it being over the top. The second was further over the top, and the third was too far over the top. So I stopped.

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[andrewducker]

I rather enjoyed The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

And I would give The Right Stuff a go.

[calimac]

I was just referring to the novels, but yes, I've read The Right Stuff.

And From Bauhaus to Our House is a basic textbook in what I call the Hidden City theory of art: although I didn't read it until after I'd developed the theory, Wolfe's mind and mine were working on identical lines, he on architecture and I on music.