evidently a user named wasteduniverse is shadow-banned or something, I saw his question but it was marked dead and I couldn't reply. Looking at his comments pag

evidently a user named wasteduniverse is shadow-banned or something, I saw his question but it was marked dead and I couldn't reply. Looking at his comments page all his other comments were also grayed out and dead. I don't know what he did but since his question seems unproblematic enough I'll answer here - I didn't finish all the book, my Tom Wolfe phase was done, it seemed ok but not as cool as I thought Bonfire of the Vanities was, I remember some snide reviews of it at the time all about how Wolfe was still trying to be his idea of a great writer which was hopelessly out of date (opinion of reviewers). My understanding it the Netflix adaptation has gotten a lot of complaints.