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Originally Posted by Pablo
I (partly) devoted my holidays to Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full, enjoyed it like The Bonfire of the Vanities. Now looking for the next Wolfe to read in the near future.
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Might I suggest
The Right Stuff?
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Originally Posted by ReadingManiac
I think the only thing I make allowances for these days is historical accuracy, like the language used about black people in Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. However appalling it is, slavery did happen and people did talk that way.
I don't remember encountering homosexuality in older books. Maybe it's just my book choices but it seems to be just ignored in old classics and such. Have I missed something? Maybe it's time I read some Oscar Wilde.
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If you go back but so far, we aren't there at all, unless we are summarily lumped into the pederast category. I struggle more with the post-modern era forward when at some points we are criminal, still categorized as child predators, novelty, our just plain to be hated.
I don't expect to see myself in places like Hawthorne, save for being burned at a stake - that is historical accuracy.