Hooking Up Paperback – 7 Jun. 2012

Prescient. What a bright author... some bits feel 'dated'... it waas written a while back and it relates to an industry which changes at rocket ship pace.

Not his best

The book started well & has some interesting insights into US culture, but the later chapters are meaningless to the majority of the world's population who have not lived in the USA for the past umpteen years.

As a great admirer of much of Tom wolfe's work (especially the two huge novels) I was expecting quite a lot from this collection. Unfortunately it is a very mixed and uneven read. Starting with an excellent piece on the developers of much of the high tech revolution and also containing a reasonable "novella"On the other hand we do have a lengthy reaction to the critcism of a Man in Full by other heavyweight novelists, which whilst valid points were made, sounded like a lenghty and petulant rant and was frankly very broingOther pieces touch on philosiphy, science and jounalism. Interesting to some maybe, but not always that gripping to me, although his fine sense of humour does shine through.