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Has anyone read "I am Charlotte Simmons"?
It's the new-ish novel by Tom Wolfe. I'm about 3/4 through it and it's riveting. As full of hyperbole as any Wolfe book is, but damn good.
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The guy definitely gets into his characters' souls. "A Man in Full" was terrific. I'll get around to Charlotte when it's been out in paperback for a while. I'm way behind in my reading. Working on "A Confederacy of Dunces" now, then I have the most recent Stephenson trilogy....
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I need to read A Man in Full. I went to the same undergrad as Mr Wolfe, so this book about modern undergraduate life is especially ingriguing.
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I saw the 3-hr in-depth interview with Wolfe on CSPAN a few months back, and it was terrific. When I get time, I'm going to read some of his books. Which would be the best to start with?
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I read A Man in Full and enjoyed it. A Confederacy of Dunces is a great book, have read it 3 times I think. I should re-read it now because of what happened to New Orleans. I'm not really interested in I am Charlotte Simmons, too many others to catch up on first.
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The only Tom Wolfe novel I ever read was "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid test"....at least I think I read it...seems like I was living it at the time...oh wait...maybe I was...
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I've read Charlotte Simmons. He goes a little too far with some of his characters - I don't know any popular seniors in college who would date a "nobody" freshman for months just to have sex with them. I think JoJo was exaggerated a little too much also. However, it was an interesting book, and I believe a lot of the situations accurately reflect modern college life.
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