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|title=Back to Blood
|author=Tom Wolfe
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=He may now be 81, but there are no signs that Tom Wolfe is mellowing. Is his latest ''Back to Blood'' another magnificent addition to the Wolfe hall or is he merely bringing up the bodies? Well for me, it's a little of both. The book's great strength and also its main weakness are in the similarities between this Miami-set story of racial and cultural tension and his New York-set classic [[The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe|The Bonfire of the Vanities]]. There are familiar themes: newspapers, racial tension, the super-rich behaving disgracefully and lost in their own ego-mania, and a lively writing style shot through with angry humour, all of which bring to mind ''The Bonfire of the Vanities''. As there, he takes several characters from different worlds whose lives intersect in unexpected ways. But while taking those ingredients might seem a very welcome thing, the end result suffers in comparison.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578530</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Unfaithfully Yours
|summary=In his early books, Danny Wallace was the new Tony Hawks, taking on silly challenges and recounting them in amusing ways. With ''Charlotte Street'', his first entirely fictional work, he seems to be moving into territory inhabited by [[:Category:Mike Gayle|Mike Gayle]], that of bloke-lit. It seems a decent fit, as his book ''Yes Man'' had elements of bloke-lit, despite being based on actual events. It may have suffered from a twee ending, but it offered enough to suggest that this is a field Danny Wallace could work well in.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009191907X</amazonuk>
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