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Shoutout to Ransom Riggs for having a b-plot about human trafficking and prostitution that’s somehow kid-appropriate.

I always found the movie to be a bit cringe-y in execution, but overall surprisingly good. (i.e. I want to dislike it but I don’t.) However, I’m not liking the comic so far. The coloration is atrociously washed-out, and so far it feels too much like a 1984 ripoff than its own thing.

Tom Wolfe apparently really hates poets, particularly British poets.

Wow, I’m 4 years late but I’m finally reading this!!

This book is becoming substantially less racist. Or rather, the characters are remaining just as racist, but I'm starting to believe that the author himself, at least, is decidedly NOT racist, by 1980s standards anyway. He seems to have a fundamental awareness of the racial tensions between NYC aristocrats and Harlem/the Bronx, and he's writing it in a way that feels #woke enough for its time. I'm enjoying it better.

Did you ever wish that The Great Gatsby took place 60 years later, but had even more adultery, racism, and misogyny? Well then The Bonfire of the Vanities is the book for you!

I was expecting at least SOME racism and misogyny, but like... YIKES. Maybe 2019 will go down as the year I read all the terrible books I've been meaning to get out of the way.