Comments on: Tom Wolfe still had three weaknesses as a novelist https://www.isegoria.net/2018/05/tom-wolfe-still-had-three-weaknesses-as-a-novelist/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:29:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Sam J. https://www.isegoria.net/2018/05/tom-wolfe-still-had-three-weaknesses-as-a-novelist/comment-page-1/#comment-2631596 Sam J. Sat, 19 May 2018 09:59:11 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=43509#comment-2631596 I’ve read all of his books and really like him but he does have some unevenness in them. I’m actually cringing as I write this because he’s so good it seems shameful to complain at all.

“…hepped up with Zap! Pow!…”

Good description.

]]> By: Faze https://www.isegoria.net/2018/05/tom-wolfe-still-had-three-weaknesses-as-a-novelist/comment-page-1/#comment-2631486 Faze Thu, 17 May 2018 23:50:18 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=43509#comment-2631486 Steve is absolutely right about the ending to the otherwise magnificent “A Man in Full”. The rest of the book goes where no novelist or journalist had gone before (or since), but the ending — where the protagonist becomes a kind of evangelist for Epictitus and stoic philosophy — was not true to life, or the character, who, in a more plausible ending, would have become a straightforward scoundrel “Christian” evangelist to save his hide.

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