R.I.P. Tom Wolfe

[Drago]

Ace journo and insightful author. Will be sadly missed by me.

 

[Drago]

I was privileged enough to have Wolfe write about my attempt to break the sound barrier on a Raleigh Chopper, which was reworked as the X1 Chuck Yeager scene in The Right Stuff.

 

[Salty seadog]

[QUOTE 5244937, member: 259"]It's pretty grim, but it was a 5p charridy shop buy, so I'm determined to get my value for money![/QUOTE]


The "How tight are you?" thread is thattaway....>>>>>>>>

 

[Adam4868]

R.I.P liked his books in my younger days,read his stuff whilst travelling.Wolf,Hunter s Thompson,Tom Robbins,Kerouac.They did the rounds of the second hand book shops of south east asia.

 

[nickyboy]

A Man In Full is one of my favourite books

 

[swee'pea99]

Live fast, die at 88 - I think he got his money's worth. And Bonfire of the Vanities has a fair claim to be the book of the '80s. I even liked The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test...or at least I think I did. It was all a bit hazy in those days...

RIP

 

[Tin Pot]

Seemed to be quite famous, people referring to him a lot in The Arts but I’ve never known anything about him or his works, really.

 

[Grant Fondo]

I was privileged enough to have Wolfe write about my attempt to break the sound barrier on a Raleigh Chopper, which was reworked as the X1 Chuck Yeager scene in The Right Stuff.

Thats an odd coincidence, when he wrote From 'Bauhaus to Our House' he had recently finished some plastering work on My House. Great bloke but too intellectual for my liking.

 

[Inertia]

Seemed to be quite famous, people referring to him a lot in The Arts but I’ve never known anything about him or his works, really.

Me either, though the right stuff may be of interest to me.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Me either, though the right stuff may be of interest to me.

I can't believe you haven't heard of him? Although his step sister Virginia was more famous for '1984' and 'Animal Farm' under the Orwell pseudonym.

 

[Tin Pot]

I can't believe you haven't heard of him? Although his step sister Virginia was more famous for '1984' and 'Animal Farm' under the Orwell pseudonym.

Heard of, yes. And heard of Bonfire of the Vanities. Know anything about either? No. And didn’t recognise his picture.

So apart from that book, is there anything else I might be interested in?

 

[Grant Fondo]

Heard of, yes. And heard of Bonfire of the Vanities. Know anything about either? No. And didn’t recognise his picture.

So apart from that book, is there anything else I might be interested in?

er, music or cooking?

 

[Tin Pot]

er, music or cooking?

Played the saxomophone did he?

 

[slowmotion]

Heard of, yes. And heard of Bonfire of the Vanities. Know anything about either? No. And didn’t recognise his picture.

So apart from that book, is there anything else I might be interested in?

His tailor?

 

[Tin Pot]

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His tailor?

Is that Montgomery Burns?