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http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...Some crappy books are forgettable. A Man in Full still haunts me like a chain-jangling ghost of crappiness. The plot is hamfisted, the "twists" are ludicrous (for a book with the pretensions of this one), and what is supposed to be a look-behind-the-curtain of Atlanta winds up instead being at times an infomercial on Stoicism, a horse-humping voyeur's dream, and a look at the intricacies of west coast meat packing. A part that really bugs me is that there is a line in which one of the characters groans over a particular great sexual encounter in which the lady in question did "that thing with the cup!" The same line is also in the Bonfire of the Vanities (which I read directly preceding this). What thing with the cup? Whatever it is, I'm pretty sure it's not that pleasant. And to have male characters gasping about it's majesty in two books back to back means that either 1) Tom is giving a sly wink to his fans with a nonsense line in which case, no thanks, Tom, that's a wink of recognition I don't need or 2) Tom is so dottering and so freakishly in to that "thing with the cup" that he forgot he put it in Bonfire but was like, "You know what would really round out this female character's sexiness? A reference to 'that thing with the cup' that I love so much and I ask all the girls I party with for." Revolting
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