Can't believe I'm first posting this. Shows my age, I guess. A horribly influential and entertaining writer in my life. Electric Kool Aid Acid Test is a brilliant work. The Right Stuff? Cmon. Bad movie, though. Bonfire of the Vanities? The first great satire of the post Reagan financial culture. Another bad movie. Awful movie. But, made him rich, I'll bet.
I just watched a youtube of Buzz Aldrin punching a moon landing denier in the face. Must have made Tom smile.
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Thread: RIP Tom Wolfe
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05-15-2018, 04:21 PM #1
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RIP Tom Wolfe
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05-15-2018, 04:29 PM #2
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Alex, I'll take obscure dead authors for $600
Hello darkness my old friend
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05-15-2018, 04:30 PM #3
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Benny sighs.
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05-15-2018, 04:31 PM #4
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lol - not obscure to us oldsters
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05-15-2018, 04:42 PM #5
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Huh?
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Huh? Originally Posted by Benny Profane
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05-15-2018, 04:44 PM #6
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did you grow up under a rock? are you 18? Originally Posted by Dhelihiker
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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05-15-2018, 04:53 PM #7
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The movie sucked. Did help that they cast Sam Shepherd as Yaeger, but, awful adaptation of a great book. Originally Posted by PNWbrit
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05-15-2018, 04:56 PM #8
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Guy is already dressed for heaven. RIP.
The right stuff is considered a great movie.
Not obscure, Moran.
Sent from my SM-G955U using TGR Forums mobile app Originally Posted by Hohes
Originally Posted by skifishbum
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05-15-2018, 04:58 PM #9
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Funny thing is, though, I just went to wiki and thought that beyond the 3 books I could name easily, there would be others that I would identify when i saw them on the list. Nope. Those 3 books are pretty much what made him famous. 1968, 1979, 1987.
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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05-15-2018, 05:07 PM #10
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I thought this was the pretty much the consensus. Originally Posted by My Pet Powder Goat
I don't see how the casting of Sam Shepherd was any better than any of the other main characters. Many were considerably better, I think.
The Jeff Goldblum character aside. Originally Posted by Downbound Train
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05-15-2018, 05:10 PM #11
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Yeah. Goldblum. Why?
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05-15-2018, 05:15 PM #12
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The Pump House Gang had one of the earlier "pretty" published descriptions of bodywhomping.
I enjoyed reading and comparing some of Wolfe's descriptions to Thompson's descriptions of the same events.
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05-15-2018, 05:24 PM #13
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Have you seen the netflix documentary Mercury 13? Check it out. Originally Posted by Benny Profane
Originally Posted by Downbound Train
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05-15-2018, 05:24 PM #14
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If Stephanie Meyer or EL James ver die, that would be thread worthy
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05-15-2018, 05:33 PM #15
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Obscure.
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05-15-2018, 05:35 PM #16
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I came here to say this. EKAAT was so great to read after working through Kesey/Kerouac/Thompson/etc. It should be required reading for all wannabe Kandy Kids. Originally Posted by bodywhomper
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05-15-2018, 05:56 PM #17
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This was just covered on OANN.
I read
The right stuff.
But none of his other work. I was more into ClancyOwn your fail. ~Jer~
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05-15-2018, 05:57 PM #18
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The Painted Word is pretty awesome. Artists skewered.
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05-15-2018, 06:49 PM #19
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RIP Tom Wolfe
Bonfire was phenomenally great and totally captured the 80s tabloid and wall street bullshit. The movie version wasn't the worst thing ever, but it seemed like its sucked harder than it did because the book was so great and expectations were off the charts.
He always had a good story to tell on Carson.
Electric Kool aid is the defining book on that era as well.
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05-15-2018, 06:54 PM #20
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I remember I am Charlotte Simmons getting a lot of hype, but I don't think I ever read it. Originally Posted by Danno
Electric Kool Aid Acid Test remains a classic, though.
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05-15-2018, 07:24 PM #21
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I'm thinkin' he's more of a maroon. Originally Posted by My Pet Powder Goat
Also, Jeff Goldblum can do no wrong.
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05-15-2018, 08:07 PM #22
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For the fans of Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, check this movie out.
All about Sand and the east coast gang in Millbrook that Kesey was attracted to like flies to sugar.
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05-16-2018, 11:26 AM #23
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I was working for the real life subject of A Man in Full very shortly before it came out. thought it was facinating but wholly on insider knowledge. EKAAT was awesome, read it in college early 80s, and again about 6 months ago, though I stalled at about the beatles concert. Today"hippie" seemed a eufamism for sponging off Keasey. I did buy a DVD of the bus trip vidieo/movie and it was absolutely facinating. Like a real time window into the time and place.
Wait what were we talking about? oh yeah, RIP."Can't you see..."
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05-16-2018, 11:49 AM #24
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Whew, thanks for posting that. For a moment there I was afraid I was going to see you be right for an entire thread. Originally Posted by Benny Profane
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05-16-2018, 12:10 PM #25
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Thanks for posting Bunny. Obscure? Fuck no. IMO Wolfe is one of the heavyweight American prose writers of our times and a highly astute cultural observer. My bet is that his works will stand the test of time. It'd be fun to come back in 100 years and see how Wolfe endures the test of time vs. Updike, Mailer, Salinger, Faulkner and McCarthy. Norman Mailer's and John Irving's snipes at Wolfe were amusing, maybe invited, i.e., the intended product of Wolfe's deliberate provocation. RIP Tom Wolfe
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