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[QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4995783, member: 833"]
I have been travelling so I have not seen the series, but I have read the book.  The book has a lot of the same problems that you laid out, and it sounds like they tried to correct some of the weirder plot lines in the book, but were unsuccessful.

Tom Wolfe was better a better non-fiction writer than he was a fiction writer.  His novel "The Bonfire of the Vanities" is legendary for some of its descriptions of the era (Wolfe coined "Masters of the Universe"), but the plot had issues that reviewers ignored because the writing was so good.  But when it came to making a movie out of it, the movie sucked despite a monster cast because plot matters so much on the big screen.   I was surprised Netflix, or anyone, was going to make a limited series out of "Man in Full" because it is basically the Bonfire of the Vanities, set in Atlanta.  The descriptions are interesting and Wolfe breathed a lot of life into the characters, but the plot had serious problems.
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