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I heard that this book sucked the super suck. The only thing I want to do with Wolfe is roll him around in a locked porto-potty. I tire of his white-suit schtick. I TIRE OF IT MR. WOLFE! WEAR A GODDAMED TSHIRT FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE!

Ok, I made it all the way through this book even though it inspired (and still inspires) absolute homicidal rage in me. It's nothing but an old man decrying college students by painting them as either sluts with no self esteem using sex as a substitute or helpless men forced to view women as meat because those damn girls just will stop throwing themselves at the poor men. Because of the low self esteem, you know.

Honest to god, it was fucking terrible. Every word of it. Have I seen girls that I suspect are promiscuous in some attempt to reassure themselves of their desirability? Yes. Are all girls who maybe like the occasional no-strings romp like that? No. And if men lose respect for all women based on how some of them act when intoxicated, then all men must be horny, self absorbed, handsy, insulting, uneducated bastards, because some guys I met at parties came off that way.

Lady Whiskers, here's an update on the "Song of Ice and Fire" series from the Man himself (aka The Slowest Writer In America Today):

HBO has just exercised its option, and purchased the television rights to A GAME OF THRONES.

For those of you who don't know Hollywood, an option gives a production company the right to buy a property (a book, a screenplay, whatever) at a certain agreed-upon price for a certain period of time (a year, six months, whatever). When that time runs out, they can let the option lapse, renew the option, or exercise the option and buy the property. The last is what HBO has just done.

What they have NOT done is greenlight the project. A GAME OF THRONES remains in development. They're still budgeting, still looking at locations (Spain and the Czech Republic at present, I hear). No decision has been reached, so any celebration would be premature. In Hollywood it is always best not to assume something is going to happen until it actually happens.

Even so... this is a very encouraging sign, and one that suggests a continued high level of enthusiasm and commitment for A GAME OF THRONES at HBO.

So keep your fingers crossed.

COCKSUKERS!

I generally really enjoy Wolfe but I just hated Charlotte Simmons. I think mostly because I read it my freshmen year of college and still couldn't identify with it at all.
And the fact that it was all over "MTVU".
And it sucked.

And sidenote, whenever I think about Carnivale I always think of this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9LczRYEGQQ) at about 1:35.

So award-winning* novel I Am Charlotte Simmons is getting adapted into a mini-series, huh? Well, the damn book was long enough. I almost picked it up a few months back when I saw it remaindered at Barnes & Noble.

*Bad Sex in Fiction Award

Brother Justin commands HBO to bring back Carnivale.

Posted by: JH at September 29, 2008 3:55 PM

Okay, you know when I think about this...I just...flames. Flames! On the side of my face.

I'm still bitter that HBO would cancel this show and now they want to give us crap by some hack writer.

I guess I'm the only loser out there who liked the book! Me and the dudes at HBO. Yes, it was predictable and the naive girl sticking to her values ends up winning in the end has been done. I just thought it was interesting. I definitely found myself saying "the f word" more frequently while reading.

Greer, you're so funny!

Felicity.

I wonder if given the complete screw-up that was the Bonfire of the Vanities film and the current financial crisis maybe they should have re-made that on HBO. Except this time not totally miscast every role.

replace Tom Hanks (as Sherman McCoy) with Robert Downey, Jr.

replace Bruce Willis (as Peter Fallow) with Jude Law

replace Melanie Griffith (as Maria, Sherman's bit on the side) with Angelia Jolie

replace Kim Cattrall (as Mrs. McCoy) with Gwynneth Paltrow

This book was sooooo bad. My brother and i read it at the same time, and called each other every day for a week to complain about how bad it was. Tom Wolfe is completely disconnected from his subject, and his main character is not believable in the slightest. I hate Tom Wolfe because of this book. I hope he never ever ever ever writes again. Ever.