Life happened because I turned the pages~~Alberto Manguel

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Wolfed down; threw up

The only good thing about having to read Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons (summary: ageing novelist with failing powers visits college campus, discovers he ain't in Kansas any more) is knowing that I'm not alone. The whole world feels my pain.
From The Guardian: "The Literary Review's annual Bad Sex Award can rarely have produced a clearer favourite."
From Michiko Kakutani's review in The New York Times: "Mr. Wolfe takes on the momentous subject of college life (college life? Yes, college life!), and in the course of a very long 676 pages serves up the revelation -- yikes! -- that students crave sex and beer, love to party, wear casual clothes and use four-letter words."
The last word belongs to Michael Dirda: "But the book remains a (slightly disguised) hellfire tirade, a vision of students who belong in the hands of an angry God. And that God is named Tom Wolfe."

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2 Comments:

A wonderfully titled blog post. Jolly stuff.

elck

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12/08/2004 05:26:00 AM  

I'm half way through, but forgive me, I love Charlotte. Way to go Tom, fun on campus, ha ha, some things never change, but a Puritanical rant, priceless. Shut up critics, you cheerless Post-Moderns, wretch!

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12/15/2004 01:30:00 AM  

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