
I Am Charlotte Simmons
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Narrated by:
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Dylan Baker
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By:
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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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Critic reviews
- 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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Frankly, I thought Charlotte was whiney; the part of the book involving the party where Charlotte gets drunk and then loses her virginity goes on for hours! Then she gets depressed; goes home, comes back-- the only movement in the story for about 5 hours is her going from the dorm to home to the library to Adam's room.
Adam, the nerdy boyfriend, is an idiot; the preppy frat boy is at least true to himself; JoJo, the basketball player on an athletic scholarship is perhaps the most interesting; he actually develops over the story, but not much.
The narration is good, but story could be abridged by half (15 hours instead of 30+ hours); and I usually do not like abridged versions. It's too bad; I really wanted to like this as I like other stories by Wolfe.
I guess I don't get it
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Just pretend it was written by a teenage girl and used as a primer for high school health and hygiene classes.
Don't listen to the experts...
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The reader, Dylan Baker, is astonishing. He is a consummate professional and I will chose books in the future based solely on the fact that he is the reader.
A great experience
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What did you love best about I Am Charlotte Simmons?
Dylan Baker as narrator was terrific. He made the story come to life. What a treat listening to him.Dylan Baker totally rocks.
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Good performance, Forgettable book
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The narrator is awful!
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Good Job !
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Thank you Mr. Baker!
Dylan Baker did a great job!
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Oh Charlotte, I Just Want to Hug You
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I am Charlotte Simmons
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