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    Hooking Up
    Hooking Up
    Hooking Up
    Audiobook6 hours

    Hooking Up

    Written by Tom Wolfe

    Narrated by Tom Wolfe and Ron Rifkin

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    Nine unabridged essays from Hooking Up with five read by Tom Wolfe!

    Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and that. Third base was oral sex. Home plate was going all the way. That was yesterday. Here in the year 2000 we can forget about necking. Today's girls and boys have never heard of anything that dainty. Today's first base is deep kissing, now known as tonsil hockey, plus groping and fondling this and that. Second base is oral sex. Third base is going all the way. Home plate is learning each other's names. And how rarely our hooked-up boys and girls learn each other's names!
    Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, chronicling everything from the sexual manners and mores of teenagers...to fundamental changes in the way human beings now regard themselves, thanks to the hot new fields of genetics and neuroscience...to the reasons why, at the dawn of a new millennium, no one is celebrating the second American Century.
    Hooking Up is a chronicle of the here and now.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateOct 1, 2000
    ISBN9780743519199
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    Tom Wolfe

    Tom Wolfe, nacido en Richmond (Virginia) en 1931 se reveló en los años 60 como genial reportero y agudísimo cronista. Fue el impulsor y teórico del llamado «nuevo periodismo», al que definió como el género literario más vivo de la época. La casi totalidad de su obra ha sido publicada por Anagrama: "La Izquierda Exquisita", "La banda de la casa de la bomba y otras crónicas de la era pop", "Los años del desmadre", "El nuevo periodismo", "Lo que hay que tener", "La palabra pintada", "¿Quién teme al Bauhaus feroz?", "Las Décadas Púrpura", "En nuestro tiempo", "La hoguera de las vanidades" y "Ponche de ácido lisérgico".

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    • 3/5
      Fun though not my favorite Wolfe. A bit of a mix of some of his good and his just okay essays. Still worth a read if you're a fan [as I am].
    • 4/5
      A great takedown of his latter-day critics Mailer, Updike and John Irving in one essay, and a fantastic takedown of Marxism in another.
    • 4/5
      Tom Wolfe may dress up like Mark Twain, but Tom Wolfe’s a sheep in Twain’s clothing.

      That said, Tom Wolfe — in Hooking Up — gives a riotous performance. From Silicon Valley to the halls of the hallowed “New Yorker” Magazine, Wolfe sheds light: much-needed and much-appreciated light. There are gems in this book, but you’ve got to know how to spot them.

      Wolfe’s prose is edgy, amusing, straightforward — and a joy to read. He just ain’t Twain, Huck. (But then, nobody is except Samuel Clemens himself.)

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    • 5/5
      Impossible for me to review Tom Wolfe because he is my gold standard. A little book packed full of pertinent golden nuggets. Timeless and yet amazing that it was published in 2000. Love him!
    • 4/5
      A good friend has been trying to get me to read something by Tom Wolfe for a while, and I finally tried this book, a series of short articles about dating, etc. I was 'hooked'.I did try to read "The Bonfire of the Vanities" afterwards, but I just couldn't get into it...there were too many people in the story that I came to loathe.But "Hooking Up" is a good read, and I recommend it.
    • 3/5
      Good for those Tom Wolfe fans, and those that are distant from the youth in the country.
    • 2/5
      The chapter about Noyce and his Grinnell origins was interesting. The rest of it, not so much.
    • 2/5
      Scraps thrown together is one term that comes to mind. Wolfe titled the book after being surprised by the sexual habits of today's youth but the book does little to address this. It does however print many old stories Wolfe has had lying around for quite some time. The one highlight is the short story, "Ambush at Fort Bragg" which was cut from "A Man in Full". This short story shows Wolfe at his storytelling best and alone is worth the cost of the book.
    • 4/5
      Full of vintage Wolfe, although a big chunk of the book is taken up by the novella 'Ambush at Fort Bragg', an interesting piece that doesn't go much of anywhere. This volume also includes a full recounting of Wolfe's battles with the New Yorker, which are wonderfully funny.