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kleinbl00  ·  2143 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tom Wolfe death: Influential US author of 'The Bonfire of the Vanities' dies at 87

It may have embodied a few zip codes. Most of us had no experience whatsoever with loaning private jets to opera singers or taking out million dollar loans so our wives could get our condos in Architectural Digest.

If you're an angelino, Less Than Zero is closer to your experience. If you're from neither city, the books that defined the 80s were written by Tom Clancy or Danielle Steele or Stephen King, not Tom Wolfe or Brett Ellis.