Bonfire of the Vanities - my review

[Matt2010]

Amazing, but this novel was written more than twenty years ago. It remains Tom Wolfe's best to this day. There was also a movie with a miscast Tom Hanks; it tried to follow the book as much as it could. Unfortunately, certain Hollywood conventions had to be followed, and the honest effort the creators of the movie made did not result in anything meaningful. The movie got very bad reviews, some of them very unfair.

The book shines! It is a detailed description of several intertwining lives - no, destinies - occurring in New York City. The plight is pretty tight and twisted, and fast-paced. Each chapter - indeed each character - would scandalize the unprepared.

Great stuff.

[AdamWest]

Definitely will check it out thanks

[best4buys]

The Bonfire of the Vanities is a great book about a prominent Wall Street financier who has the misfortune of becoming a political football after he is involved in a hit and run accident on a black youth in the Bronx. Wolfe once again captures all of his characters perfectly.

The novel is also a piercing commentary on race relations, class relations, and human relations. Tom Wolfe provides compelling and fun observations about the full-throttle 80s NY lifestye. I LOVED this book and could not put it down. Any student of life's lessons or business non-fiction will love this book too.