I've been meaning to read this book since...since it came out, I think, and I finally got around to it this week. This is also the only Tom Wolfe I've ever read. It has a really terrific sense of place (New York) and time (1980s), and the characters are very well drawn. I hate to be one of those people who criticizes a book because none of the characters are nice, but oooof, really, there's not a single likable character in the entire thing. On the other hand it is to Wolfe's credit as a writer that even if all the characters are unpleasant I still ended up empathizing with the lead by the end.