Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout. He sprinkles in terms like "phat" and "shorty" and "rad" and "rutting" throughout his tale. It is one of those books where once you've start reading it, everything else in your life takes a back seat and you can't do anything else but read the book until you're done. Charlotte was my favorite Wolfe novel, but they are all on the same par. After a few months, it's clear that she has lost her identity entirely. Especially enjoy the abundant use of the phrase "mons pubis." He hears the cacophony of our modern lives.” ―Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times“[A] hilarious, exclamation-point filled novel.” ―John Freeman, Time Out New York“Brilliant . So, I got “I Am Charlotte Simmons” from the library, expecting Parnassian enlightenment about the four years ahead. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Please try your request again later. Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2020. Nope. Please try again. The literary institution paints a vivid tableau of wildly diverse Miami characters in his latest opus, Back to Blood, about a police officer thrust... Tom Wolfe, the master social novelist of our time, the spot-on chronicler of all things contemporary and cultural, presents a sensational new novel about life, love, and learning--or the lack of it--amid today's American colleges. Charlotte, the brain trust of her small town, enters the world of the privledged "it's mine because I'm entitled to it" college student. Charlotte's free ride is due to her exceptional mental capacity, the guidance of a spinster high school teacher, Miss Prentiss (who recognizes her innate talent) and a near-perfect ACT/SAT score. Certainly not one of Wolfe's best. Fuck me. I Am Charlotte Simmons is also Tom Wolfe's 1984, the story of how a man -- or woman -- may come to acquiesce in spiritual suicide. Please try again. So imagine your grandpa takes you out to the Dog 'n Suds for a root beer float. (Prices may vary for AK and HI.). This was a great read. Wow. . Criticism usually regards the authors comprehension and use of language and expressions as well as descriptions of people out of his circles, but being a non-native English speaker I have come to the conclusion that I'm too far removed from these circles or unable to pick up nuances to the extent that it really does not matter at all to me - either that or the critique is just plain wrong. Something went wrong. Well, yes. . The best that could be said about any is that they were, at times, pathetic. These items are shipped from and sold by different sellers. The first quarter of the book is hilarious: the scene where the hillbilly parents meet those of their daughter's room-mate, who have arrived on a private jet, is an absolute classic. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 5, 2020. As with all of Wolfe's novels they are extremely well written which, for me, is the only reason I gave it a 3***. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. 676 pp. Professors like to complain that they get a year older every fall, while students always remain the same. It was tactile. It was merely that she had no friends. Hoyt fights off the bodyguard, causing him serious injury and brags to … We follow her from that world into the world of an elite university where wealth and privilege are the norm. Sold by KJsKool and ships from Amazon Fulfillment. Overall, I thought the book worked as social satire much better than the overrated "Bonfire of the Vanities". Rated R for language and sexuality. She didn't even have a sanctuary in which she could simply be alone.”. Maybe I am too familiar with colleges and all that goes on there, but the book just did not move me and we always just sitting there and I had a hard time returning again and again to the. . I have unfair expectations for Tom Wolfe; I assumed that as with all of his other books "Charlotte" would suck me inside the author's head the moment I started reading. . So imagine your grandpa takes you out to the Dog 'n Suds for a root beer float. He even, once or twice, manages to grasp the mental gymnastics young women are forced to perform when trying to figure out what men want from them, and how they're going to escape unscathed if it t, Tom Wolfe undoubtedly did some research and got some things right. I am reading the reviews and realizing that most are complaining about the length of the book at 700+ pages. In each case the last chapter is a cop-out and tidies up posse ends that would be better left loose and hanging. And if you read it as the desperate attempt of an aging writer to remain relevant, it might just make you sad (unless you are already enraged/insulted in which case feelings of hatred may render you unable to feel pity). Exaggerated of course, and skewered with rapier wit as only Wolfe. . We will not see his like again . Nope, but I can't deny that Wolfe's nasty, satirical pageturner about millennial college life in the US is great fun. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. It caught my eye and I remember being interested in it after reading a review of it when it came out. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Refresh and try again. One of my favorite books ever. ', Yawn or cringe? Sit back and enjoy the ride.” ―Tom Walker, The Denver Post“Tom Wolfe is America's greatest living novelist.” ―Joseph Bottum, The Weekly Standard“Rollicking . It's a pretty thick book, over 750 pages, and I didn't plan on reading it for a while. Maybe I am too familiar with colleges and all that goes on there, but the book just did not move me and we always just sitting there and I had a hard time returning again and again to the book. This really IS an old fella's attempt to explain you. I have a 1st Edition hardback and it is only 676 pages. His humorously pedantic grammar lesson in adolescent "fuck patois" is impossible not to laugh at, his descriptions of fraternity parties are disgustingly accurate, his portrayal of the athletic monomania of D1 schools utterly on point. It is one of those books where once you've start reading it, everything else in your life takes a back seat and you can't do anything else but read the book until you're don, I picked this up at the big garage sale that my work puts on. This book is not as good as his previous work but if you like Tom Wolfe (and I do) you will still enjoy this. Roamin in gloamin with my lassie by my side, When the sun etc.) As with all thematic novels, the characters are bent to fit the target, though the main characters - Nestor Camacho and Charlotte Simmons are well drawn and provide the reader with a personal focus. Apparently all of Tom Wolfe's books are like that, though I've only read this one. These two novels are definitely that the Woof canon, and none the worse for that. Bought this for $1 at a book sale last week. I Am Charlotte Simmons is the much-anticipated triumph of America's master chronicler. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Free returns are available for the shipping address you chose. . TW. I wouldn't even deign to call these characters stereotypes because I think that would be giving them more credit than they rightly deserve. . We meet the geeks, the jocks, the leftists, the frat-boys...they are all here in a totally believable, well-researched portrayal. Grandpa has been dipping into the Dictionary of American Youth Slang written by the Youth Minister at his church, who has covered the volume in a plain black cover lest it fall into the hands of the few blessed innoc. With now go back and read my first and most enjoyable Tom Woolf novel, Bonfire of the Vanities. I believe you can write about being young no matter how old you are. . . Nestled high in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Lost Province is a quiet, unassuming place where aspirations do not include attending an ivy league university, so when Charlotte receives a … Read, Halfway through Tom Wolfe's enormous new novel about contemporary college life, I finally devised a question to keep my interest piqued: "Is it humanly possible," I wondered, "to write another 100 pages - another 200 pages, another 300 pages - without describing a single surprising event? Dupont is a fictional representation of an Ivy League university, ripe with tradition, pomp, and ego. Wolfe has the right stuff, for sure. . It was a sixth sense, not in some fanciful play of words, but physically. . Seriously. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. I Am Charlotte Simmons - 1st Edition/1st Printing by Wolfe, Tom Seller Books Tell You Why, Inc. I read it during the last semester of my 6-year-long midlife return to college, and felt it was right on the money in its depiction of certain segments of college life. Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina. Tom Wolfe can make words dance and sing and perform circus tricks, he can make the reader sigh with pleasure.” ―Michael Dirda, The Washington Post“A lot of fun . Turned out, this is as engrossing a read as Wolfe's other books after the. I couldn't stop reading it. So: sermon, melodrama, dystopian vision -- I Am Charlotte Simmons partakes of … We work hard to protect your security and privacy. It put right back in college. I Am Charlotte Simmons is the much-anticipated triumph of America's master chronicler. Eye roll? Beautiful, eloquent language. Just read 2 of Woolfie's books back-to-back, or should that be front-to-back-to-back. "No longer. Her uncooth parents embarass her, and so she pushes them away. $28.95. Certainly not one of Wolfe's best. Every time the men's room door opened, the amped-up onslaught of Swarm, the band banging out the concert in the theater overhead, came crashing in, ricocheting off all the mirrors and ceramic surfaces until it seemed twice as loud. by Picador USA. To gather material for the book, Wolfe interviewed students from campuses including UNC-Chapel Hill, Penn U, Duke, and Stanford. A fish out of water type story, and once there this book bogged down for me. August 30th 2005 Try again. The governing theme of I am Charlotte Simmons is introduced by Wolfe in an entry from (the fictitious) Dictionary of Nobel Laureates, 3rd ed. ", Is this the most innovative, unpredictable novel ever written? I guess that makes Charlotte and I the same age (except that Charlotte is, obviously, a shadowy, fictional stereotype of someone my age and, thus, not real). It's about a girl who grew up fairly poor in a small town and she goes off to college. Charlotte Simmons is a sheltered, smart girl from a small town in the mountains of North Carolina, who ends up at a top university and is shocked by what she sees there. Want to listen? PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NOV 8, 2004. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. . I read the first few chapters when I got home and got very caught up in it. It's a pretty thick book, over 750 pages, and I didn't plan on reading it for a while. I would be happy to purchase again from this seller. It should be a coming of age tale, and it is but in the twisted way. Wolfe's portrayal of university life is fascinating and spot-on. Start by marking “I am Charlotte Simmons” as Want to Read: Error rating book. I Am Charlotte Simmons is the much-anticipated triumph of America's master chronicler. I have unfair expectations for Tom Wolfe; I assumed that as with all of his other books "Charlotte" would suck me inside the author's head the moment I started reading. It should be a coming of age tale, and it is but in the twisted way. What is at stake at universities is far more than than grades; it is a battle for hearts, minds, and souls, that can change individual lives permanently.Growing up is never easy, but Wolfe makes it clear that when buying an education, caveat emptor. Much on display in his new novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons, Wolfe’s kinetic way with language flies in the face of every bit of wisdom ever recorded in a … I Am Charlotte Simmons is a 2004 novel from Tom Wolfe depicting student life at a fictionalized American university. I was also a sheltered smart girl from a small town in the mountains (of Southern California. And if you read it as the desperate attempt of an aging writer to remain relevant, it might just make you sad (unless you are already enraged/insulted in which case f. I got so much enjoyment out of this book. Charlotte Simmons is a little mountain girl, a modern-day Walton, who has known in her life only hard study, dutiful but dirt poor parents, and the simple mountain ways of … Hear an icon's life story, timeless music, and message. It was amazing! Find all the books, read about the author, and more. It apparently won the 'Wost Sex Scene' award which lets face it is a rather stupid award so I don't blame him for not going to pick it up at the ceremony. The other gripe is usually that Wolfe have a slight tendency of literary elephantiasis. I guess that makes Charlotte and I the same age (except that Charlotte is, obviously, a shadowy, fictional stereotype of someone my age and, thus, not real). . Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Like I said, right on. This book tells the story of a sheltered, back-country girl as she adjusts to college life and confronts the world of wealth and entitlement in her prep-school bred fellow students, the frat scene, the jock scene, academic achievements and struggles, and pains of growing up. He has obviously spent much time researching the modern day US campus and he has a somewhat jaundiced view which may well contain much truth unfortunately. Charlotte Simmons is a curious creation, both excruciatingly naive and carelessly cynical. Valedectorian of her small rural high school, socially awkward Charlotte's only source of confidence is her intellectual prowess which sets her apart from her country brethren, and even her own family. 2004. He even, once or twice, manages to grasp the mental gymnastics young women are forced to perform when trying to figure out what men want from them, and how they're going to escape unscathed if it tuns out to be something they. Charlotte Simmons is a recent high-school graduate from Sparta, North Carolina. All his favourite targets are there - modern art ( Chagal and Malevich get a pasting - I have a Malevich poster on my wall from a London exhibition, political correctness, sexual mores (especially of the young), political posturing, nepotism and corruption, Puritan attitudes (which he seems to respect) and undercover racism. I wouldn't even deign to call these characters stereotypes because I think that would be giving them more credit than they rightly deserve. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 22, 2008. The book really began well for me and drew me into the Charlotte Simmons story of a young girl from the mountains of North Carolina going to this highly rated liberal arts university in Pennsylvania. If you attempt to read it as an actual piece of literature (or, God forbid, actually purchase it) you will be incredibly insulted and possibly enraged. Unable to add item to List. I finally decided it was time to donate the book or read the darn thing through, and so I soldiered on. My favorite part about this book is what makes it real - disturbing but true - she doesn't come back around. It really depends on which characters are your favorites. After that it gets slower and darker and all the how's-your-father does go on a bit; you could say that it verges on the pornographic except that the last porno novel to devote so much space to one sexual encounter was probably published in the 1880s. Grandpa has been dipping into the Dictionary of American Youth Slang written by the Youth Minister at his church, who has covered the volume in a plain black cover lest it fall into the hands of the few blessed innocents out there, people like Charlotte Simmons, who would only become distraught at how _dirty_ and crude people are. I hated this book SO much!! If you're a seller, Fulfillment by Amazon can help you grow your business. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Her dreams of Dupont as an intellectual playground is exposed to be a comically tragic misrepresentation. I Am Charlotte Simmons was published in 2004, which was the year in which I matriculated at my alma mater. This is the literary equivalent of Crossroads with Britney Spears. As a reporter, he wrote articles for The Washington Post, the New York Herald Tribune, Esquire, and New York magazine, and is credited with coining the term, “The Me Decade.”Among his many honors, Tom was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. . . She could feel it. Years of not fitting in with her peers leads Charlotte to make compromises and pursue a single-minded focus of achieving the esteem of her classmates. Wolfe tells the story of a bunch of college students at a prestigious University. He goes on to tell you about what life was like at college - not for him but for you. . Hilarious.” ―Francine Prose, Los Angeles Times Book Review“Tom Wolfe remains a peerless satirist. In writing this novel, I don't think Wolfe's prime objective is to present a documentary-style depiction of college life. Please try again. In reading "I Am Charlotte Simmons," I started out slowly, but quickly warmed up to the book, staying up until 4am to whiz through the final 100 pages or so. The book really began well for me and drew me into the Charlotte Simmons story of a young girl from the mountains of North Carolina going to this highly rated liberal arts university in Pennsylvania. Wolfe's rhapsodic prose style finds its perfect target in academia's beer-soaked bacchanals.” ―Henry Alford, Newsday“Wolfe is one of the greatest literary stylists and social observers of our much observed postmodern era. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Wolfe was educated at Washington and Lee Universities and also at Yale, where he received a PhD in American studies. In I am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe accurately portrays modern-day college life through his exploration of the complexities of sexual relationships, academics, and morality as they relate to social status. that he places at the front of the novel. Great book, great seller. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 27, 2014. has been added to your Cart. Add I Am Charlotte Simmons to that magic circle of campus phenomena unlikely to age.” ―Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer. Previous page of related Sponsored Products, Picador; Reprint edition (August 30, 2005). Book as described. Show Details. A multi-layered story, beginning with the indignities of dorm life and wanton behavior of newly freed young adults let loose with the judgement and experience commensurate with their young age is a chilling, sobering, and troubling portrait of the modern American campus. Tom Wolfe has done it again- this time skewering, examining, and exploring in a Dante's Inferno- like expose of the modern University system with the patois of today's America. Apropos of nothing except my Amazon name, the late Mr Wolfe should have known better than to refer to Kipling's "Processional". Instead, read it to revel in the hilariously awful (oh sorry, Mr. Wolfe, I meant "well-researched") writing. Charlotte's education may have been free but the cost will be high based on the book's end. And people will still buy my over-long, thinly-developed, poorly-constructed tirade against 'kids these days. Two novels are definitely that the Woof canon, and it is 676! 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