
I Am Charlotte Simmons
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Dylan Baker
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Tom Wolfe
As Charlotte encounters Dupont's privileged elite, her roommate, Beverly, a fleshy, Groton-educated Brahmin in lusty pursuit of lacrosse players; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont's god-like basketball team, whose position is threatened by a hotshot black freshman from the projects; the Young Turn of Saint Ray fraternity, Hoyt Thorpe, whose heady sense of entitlement and social domination is clinched by his accidental brawl with a bodyguard for the governor of California; and Adam Geller, one of the Millennial Mutants who run the university's "independent" newspaper and who consider themselves the last bastion of intellectual endeavor on the sex-crazed, jock-obsessed campus, she gains a new, revelatory sense of her own power, that of her difference and of her very innocence, but little does she realize that she will act as a catalyst in all of their lives.
With his signature eye for detail, Tom Wolfe draws on extensive observation of campuses across the country to immortalize college life in the '00s. I Am Charlotte Simmons is the much-anticipated triumph of America's master chronicler.
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- Audie Award Finalist, Fiction (unabridged), 2005
"Like everything Wolfe writes, I Am Charlotte Simmons grabs your interest at the outset and saps the desire to do anything else until you finish." (The New York Times Book Review)
"The book is brilliant, wicked, true, and, like everything Wolfe writes, thematically coherent, cunningly well plotted, and delightfully told." (Atlantic Monthly)
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No literary value
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What would have made I Am Charlotte Simmons better?
I might not have hated this pointless and trite book and considered it amusing fluff if it weren't for the reader. Acknowledging that he is gifted in differentiating multiple characters with different voices, he just didn't have a clue what voice to give these characters to make them genuine. It didn't feel like the characters came alive, it felt like my grandmother was reading them, which made the dialogue of college students sound completely inauthentic. He reads the adults very well, but of the dozen young adult characters in the book, the central focus of the book, he didn't hit a single one of them. It was annoyingly distracting.What was most disappointing about Tom Wolfe’s story?
If this is supposed to be some social commentary on the youth of today, it fails miserably by making every character a caricature, but an idealized caricature. Everyone is physically perfect, everyone is self-obsessed. That superficiality works in Bonfire of the Vanities. Not here. In "revealing" his characters' deepest fears, Wolfe just makes it glaringly obvious that he doesn't know his subject matter at all.What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
I didn't want to give up on the book, you know, because it's Wolfe, and I assumed he would somehow save it if I gave it enough time. But now I'm just peeved that I'll never get the hours of my life back that I wasted listening to this.Totally inauthentic
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That said, I bought it because it was a long book, which I needed in order to kill a long car trip, and it did that, at least.
Still, I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone I actually liked, and it's not one I'll listen to more than once.
Geesh. Really?
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At least Pamela is a character of her time a woman who fights against pretentious male virility of her time while Charlotte is a woman of no time; she never existed and never could exist. The males she fights against are pretentious in their grossness as President Trump. But we do live in a time of phony conservatism and Charlotte is the saint of that fraudulent apolitical movement.
Dull Book
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Not his best . . .
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Unnecessary vulgarity
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Besides he graduated in 1951 from college why does he think he can capture today's youth? I think it's an old man's opinion of what the kids may be like today.
So if you liked Gomer Pyle USMC television show from the 60's you'll like Charlotte.
Gomer Pyle Goes to College
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Wolfe's scoop isn't a scoop at all
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Not his best work
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Am I the only one?
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