Talk:The Bonfire of the Vanities
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[edit] Not just Wall Street
Removed the part abaout 'vanitites of Wall Street' and replaced it with New York. McCoy the Wall Street-er is surely the protagonist but the novel touched upon multiple personalities within the greater New York area and gives equal coverage to all. I do not think it is appropriate to label this as just a Wall-Street story.
[edit] Disambiguation
As I have just mentionned at Talk:Bonfire of the Vanities, the current distinction between these two articles (the "The") seems a bit random and arbitrary. Perhaps a better kind of disambiguation is needed. - IMSoP 11:25, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Accuracy
The plot description on this page is wholly incorrect. Fallow does not provide the tape to McCoy, and his opinion of McCoy doesn't change significantly throughout the book. It's so inaccurate that I don't even know how to repair it without deleting the entire thing -- and I really don't have the time to write a replacement. 18.214.1.86 18:50, 19 November 2005 (UTC) MR
Its easy, I'll just delete the offending sentence. MasonicLamb 23:38, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Kramer?
How is it possible to have an article about this book and not mention one of the lead characters, assistant DA Larry Kramer, once? He was at least as important to the plot as Fallow was.
[edit] Spoilers...
You guys need to rethink the placement of spoiler tags in this article. The entire article is a spoiler? You hit a spoiler warning even before the Introduction! --Gwern (contribs) 23:22, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Addition to Trivia Section
How about adding some information on The New York City Light...? It seems to me to be a fictional newspaper as i cant find a record of it anywhere...
[edit] Lead characters
I don't think you can say there were four principle characters (McCoy, Bacon, Kramer and Fallow). Others (Weiss, Killian, Kovitsky, Ruskin etc) were just as important in different times. If we had to say there was a lead character, it was McCoy only. Kransky 12:03, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
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