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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Do not read Back to Blood. It starts out promising, but is just awful by the time you get 2/3 of the way though. Wolfe has lost it.
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To be fair, that has been the critique of each of Wolfe's novels, and is actually one that I tend to agree with to some extent. (Not the "book becomes just awful" part, but the "book starts off great and becomes less great about 50% through" part.) For example, trim the prison-inspired philosophical epiphanies from A Man in Full, for example, and you have a legitimately great book.
My issue is usually more about how unkind, even mean, Wolfe is to his characters. Which is an odd thing to worry about, what with his characters being fictional and all, but I am just weird.
Anyhoo, YMMV, toe-may-toe, etc.
