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	I am Charlotte Simmons, Sinner
		Charlotte’s gradual loss of willpower, for example, may not reflect the truth of neuroscientific claims, but rather her exposure to these ideas, which lodged in her mind and enabled her to justify poor behavior.
		Charlotte’s values, we are told, were imparted by her devout Christian mother, but with whom Charlotte cannot, due to poverty, speak on the phone during her time at Dupont.
		Charlotte’s resistance to peer pressure begins to fade the longer she is at Dupont, away from the mother who had been the rock of her moral existence.
	www.boundless.org /departments/pages/a0000979.html (1179 words)

	Amazon.com: I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel: Books: Tom Wolfe,Dylan Baker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe masterfully chronicles college sports, fraternities, keggers, coeds, and sex--all through the eyes of the titular Simmons, a bright and beautiful freshman at the fictional Dupont University.
		The plot is centered around Charlotte losing her virginity, a hopelessly quaint theme for a book...it reminded me of Herman Wouk's "Marjorie Morningstar", with it's old-fashioned concepts of virginity vs. sophistication.
		Flawed, yes, and perhaps not entirely convincing, "I Am Charlotte Simmons" is nonetheless an engrossing read with enough appealing characters, surprising turns of event, and occasional tart moments to keep your nose in the book for a good long while.
	www.amazon.com /I-Am-Charlotte-Simmons-Novel/dp/1593975201 (2580 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Book Review: I Am Charlotte Simmons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Not surprisingly, Charlotte Simmons is the focus of the novel, and her jarring introduction to college life mirrors the surprise Wolfe hopes many readers unfamiliar with the subject will feel.
		Charlotte’s academic pursuits initially suffer setbacks as well, as when she takes a class on French Literature populated by “steaks” like Jojo who are ushered through easy courses to maintain GPAs eligible for NCAA competition.
		When drunk for the first time, Charlotte starts to say something, forgets it, and the narrator dryly explains: “the truth was, she couldn’t remember whuh wuz funny, dude.” Assuming for the sake of argument that Charlotte is believable, open contempt of her foibles defeats the very purpose of her creation.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=504859 (1569 words)

	I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe: Reviews
		There is plenty of entertainment, but the emphasis on Charlotte's inner torment is such that we sometimes feel she is a pill, whose dominance of the novel inhibits Wolfe's humour.
		Another issue is the resolution of the plot, which seems to leave Charlotte at least conscious of a decision she has made to pay less attention to her grades and her future, and more attention to what really motivates her in her new environment.
		Charlotte's character was very real to me, and her torment and depression had an osmotic quality.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/wolfetom/iamcharlottesimmons (1511 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Tom Wolfe - I Am Charlotte Simmons at Epinions.com
		Poor Charlotte Simmons, the sweet and highly intelligent bumpkin from North Carolina, is clearly out of her depth in this den of iniquity, and disaster (and lots of fl comedy, in the Wolfe style) ensues.
		Charlotte does find some intellectual stimulation along the way, and even one decent professor who appreciates her (even though he gives her a D after a bout of post-deflowering depression takes her mind off her studies).
		Charlotte herself is interesting--sweet, smart, and believable, not too goody-goody, though her naivete about men (and about the snotty fraternity crowd) is hard to fathom.
	www.epinions.com /content_265422671492 (616 words)

	I Am Charlotte Simmons \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		Many early readers of Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons have been openly disappointed with the book, probably because Wolfe normally spends so much time researching and writing his novels that it's especially frustrating when he comes up with a plot this slight and forced.
		Wolfe seems to genuinely dislike and distrust all of his characters, and none more so than Charlotte, a shallow academic superstar who somehow lands a scholarship to one of the best schools in the country, though she appears to lack both passion and interpersonal skills.
		He has intense sympathy for Charlotte when she's dumped and depressed, but he can't pull a satisfactory resolution to the mess he creates for her, because he apparently doesn't believe that the lives of any of these kids today can be salvaged.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/21535 (429 words)

	Strand Bookstore: I Am Charlotte Simmons; by Tom Wolfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		And throbbing at the center of this happy maelstrom is Charlotte Simmons, oblivious of her role as catalyst in all of the lives she encounters.
		His real subject is the nature of identity, of the individual soul (Charlotte's in particular), and whether or not it can survive uncorrupted in the acid storm of sex and alcohol and power and peer pressure into which we ritually plunge our young in the name of higher education.
		Charlotte is shocked by the campus goings-on--sex, drugs, rock & roll, and worse--and by the amoral, high-living students she encounters: her roommate is a snooty rich girl with no morals, and (in a graphically described scene) Charlotte loses her virginity to a caddish heartbreaker.
	www.strandbooks.com /profile?isbn=0374281580 (420 words)

	The New Atlantis - Love in the Age of Neuroscience - Mickey Craig and Jon Fennell
		Charlotte’s experiences at the fictional Dupont University shed light on these questions, as the ambitious girl from backwater North Carolina is transformed by her sophisticated and salacious surroundings.
		Charlotte loves being the center of attention, whether it is at her high school graduation, or holding Hoyt’s hand at a Saint Ray fraternity party, or sitting with Jojo in the student snack bar, or showing off in class with a brilliant answer to a professor’s question.
		Charlotte agrees to accompany Hoyt to the Saint Ray formal in Washington, D.C. The interminable description of this affair culminates in drunken, unerotic sex between Hoyt and Charlotte.
	www.thenewatlantis.com /archive/10/craigfennell.htm (4948 words)

	I Am Charlotte Simmons -- 1593975201 (Audio Renaissance.com)
		I Am Charlotte Simmons is the much-anticipated triumph of America’s master chronicler.
		Baker's mastery of the spoken word is evident in all of his readings, and especially so in "I Am Charlotte Simmons," the story of a naive young woman suddenly thrust into a world she has never known.
		Charlotte leaves her small Blue Ridge Mountain town believing that as a freshman at Dupont University she will expand her mind, increase her mental acuity.
	www.audiorenaissance.com /product/product.aspx?isbn=1593975201 (1064 words)

	John Derbyshire on I am Charlotte Simmons & Tom Wolfe on National Review Online
		In I Am Charlotte Simmons he has even ventured a typographic innovation (I think — it is new to me, at any rate): using strings of colons for ellipses in interrupted or disconnected thought.
		I therefore came to I Am Charlotte Simmons with high expectations, and was not disappointed.
		The heroine, Charlotte Simmons, is a very bright and hard-working girl from a poor family in back-country North Carolina.
	www.nationalreview.com /derbyshire/derbyshire200412030818.asp (1771 words)

	The Claremont Institute: Tom Wolfe's Struggle With God and the Greeks
		Charlotte is far more in love with her reputation than with what is truly good for her soul.
		Charlotte is as conventional as the 1950s she appears to reflect, in mores and even clothing.
		Charlotte's life, by comparison, is transformed by Socrates or at any rate by her use of Socrates.
	www.claremont.org /writings/041222masugi.html (1465 words)

	Tom Wolfe’s school days by Brooke Allen
		Into this firmament steps Wolfe’s heroine, Charlotte Simmons, an innocent in the tradition of Voltaire’s Candide—or, more properly, Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg’s Candy, for she is almost as clueless, and her adventures almost as lubricious, as that cutie’s.
		I Am Charlotte Simmons is, in this context, immediately seen to be an ironic phrase; Charlotte, who had been thoroughly drilled in her own brilliance and exceptionality by besotted teachers and parents, repeats this mantra with increasing hopelessness as it becomes ever clearer that she is in no way unique.
		The supposedly brilliant Charlotte is just about the dumbest heroine we’ve seen in years, with as little self-control or self-understanding as the most vacuous of the sorority chicks she scorns.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/23/jan05/wolfe.htm (1910 words)

	I am Charlotte Simmons - Global Affairs Forum, Politics, Law, Science, Health
		I am Charlotte Simmons is about College life today being looked upon someone who was never been exposed to this type of life, a "looking in from the outside" sort of an angle.
		His latest, "I Am Charlotte Simmons," is about a young woman who leaves Sparta, a small town in North Carolina, and enters an elite university.
		Also another nitpick as to the realism, Charlotte is constantly worried about money including paying for food, including at one of the on campus places she went to eat with the basketball star, and yet it is said the scholarship paid for her meal plan.
	www.globalaffairs.org /forum/showthread.php?t=29637 (1536 words)

	Bookreporter.com - I AM CHARLOTTE SIMMONS by Tom Wolfe
		Charlotte Simmons is a very naïve, extremely smart mountain girl whose intellect and consequent “prizes” (a perfect SAT score, Presidential Scholar award, and full scholarship to elite Dupont College) have elevated her to an academic plane her backwoods family and friends cannot even see.
		Charlotte’s tentative foray into the college social scene, and subsequent triumphs and failures, could have been scripted from my own college days almost twenty years ago.
		Many of Charlotte’s mannerisms (including her speech) and her priggish attitude towards the many fellow students she considers below her should be enough for the reader to start hoping she gets her comeuppance.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/0374281580.asp (744 words)

	I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe \| PopMatters Book Review
		In the middle of this hedonistic hubbub is Charlotte Simmons, a hard-working, intellectually curious, undeniably beautiful girl from rural North Carolina.
		As in previous novels, Wolfe constructs Charlotte Simmons in lengthy vignettes, some of which are tours de force of understated comedy (an athlete tries to convince the celebrity coach to let him take a 300-level class) or active description (a scrimmage basketball game reveals depths of racial politics).
		At times Charlotte Simmons seems fueled by what may be Wolfe's disdain for his characters, suggesting that even as he relishes all the collegiate bawdiness, he remains reluctant to dirty his hands or his white suit.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/i/i-am-charlotte-simmons.shtml (1269 words)

	Kirkville - Book Review: I Am Charlotte Simmons
		When I Am Charlotte Simmons was released, there was a flurry of lackadaisical and even hostile reviews in all the usual media - many that mentioned the reviewers' anger at not receiving copies of the book in advance.
		I Am Charlotte Simmons can be reduced to a simple plot-line: unsophisticated girl from the mountains of North Carolina goes to Ivy League college (on a full academic scholarship) and finds that it is Sodom and Gommorah.
		In the true Victorian manner, Charlotte is used; taken advantage of by a frat boy as she "loses her pop-top" at a frat formal, embarrassing herself even more by the drops of blood she leaves on the sheets.
	www.mcelhearn.com /article.php?story=20041203100005212 (1035 words)

	Books & Culture Corner: Modern, All Too Modern - Books & Culture
		Charlotte is scandalized by the coed dorms, where even the bathrooms are shared by individuals of both sexes, and by the general atmosphere of sex and drugs and rock and roll that seems to make up contemporary college life.
		Here Charlotte and her creator explore the latest advances in neuroscience and sociobiology, which provides a scientific basis for a notion that Wolfe has long purveyed: that the fundamental motive behind most human behavior (after all of our direct survival endeavors) is the pursuit of social status.
		As it happens, Charlotte is transported by this vision of great truth, and all the lessons of her past life are obliterated by this well-meaning, Nobel Prize-winning professor.
	www.christianitytoday.com /books/features/bookwk/041213.html (1829 words)

	I Am Charlotte Simmons Book
		As Charlotte encounters Dupont's privileged elite--her roommate, Beverly, a Groton-educated Brahmin in lusty pursuit of lacrosse players; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont's godlike basketball team, whose position is threatened by a hotshot fl freshman from the projects; the Young Turk of Saint Ray fraternity, Hoyt Thorpe, whose heady sense...
		Charlotte Simmons is from Sparta, North Carolina - a small mountain town passed over by modern development.
		On the brink of her high school graduation she is proud of her accomplishments as valedictorian of her class and admission into the prestigious Dupont University in Pennsylvania.
	www.book-4u.com /fiction/i-am-charlotte-simmons-book (605 words)

	Amazon.ca: I Am Charlotte Simmons: Books: Tom Wolfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe masterfully chronicles college sports, fraternities, keggers, coeds, and sex--all through the eyes of the titular Simmons, a bright and beautiful freshman at the fictional Dupont University.
		I AM CHARLOTTE SIMMONS is not without its flaws, and some of them are fairly glaring.
		"I Am Charlotte Simmons" is not just a scathing attack on collegiate culture, but on broader American culture as well (after all the super hoops players in the novel have FANS), and must rank alongside the great Billy Wilder Films "Sunset Boulevard" and "The Big Carnival" as a a cultural critique.
	www.amazon.ca /Am-Charlotte-Simmons-Tom-Wolfe/dp/0002005913 (2395 words)

	Powell's Books - I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel by Tom Wolfe
		"Charlotte Simmons is a fat gray-and-green paperback now, and despite the assertion by Slate editor Jacob Weisberg, who wrote in the New York Times that Wolfe is fun but that no one ever rereads him, I recommend a second look.
		Wolfe masterfully chronicles college sports, fraternities, keggers, coeds, and sex — all through the eyes of Charlotte Simmons, a bright and beautiful freshman at the fictional Dupont University.
		Overall, I grew attached to the plight of Charlotte Simmons and wanted to see her succeed and be the success that she started as in her town in North Carolina.
	www.powells.com /biblio/2-0312424442-4 (1186 words)

	Independent Women's Forum
		Yesterday The Other Charlotte pointed out that Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons is not only on the best-seller list (despite being loathed by the critics) but on President George W. Bush’s reading list.
		When freshman student Charlotte succumbs to loneliness, vanity, the status urge and the heedless debauchery she finds at the elite Ivy-esque Dupont University and lets herself be deflowered by a frat-boy cad at a drunken orgy, author Wolfe, turning serious, treats the matter as a tragedy.
		Charlotte is neither elevated nor broken by the vulgar deflowering and the crises, academic and personal, that it provokes.
	www.iwf.org /inkwell/default.asp?archiveID=1088 (6966 words)

	FT February 2005: Books in Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In Charlotte Simmons, one finds all the features that have made Wolfe one of the greatest contemporary North American novelists: a plot that drives at breakneck speed through a major culture-shaping institution, an array of flawed yet yearning characters tested to the limits of their endurance, and startlingly authentic dialogue.
		We first meet Charlotte Simmons on the eve of her departure from Sparta, North Carolina, where, as a gifted student, she had felt rather isolated from (and superior to) her high school classmates.
		He is smitten with Charlotte, but she is no longer the girl who was hoping to find a soul mate with whom to share the life of the mind.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0502/reviews/glendon.htm (1205 words)

	I Am Charlotte Simmons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		I Am Charlotte Simmons is a 2004 novel by Tom Wolfe, concerning sexual and status relationships at the fictional Dupont University, closely modeled after Duke University and Stanford University.
		The novel centers on Charlotte, a naïve new student at Dupont University, a school boasting a top-ranked basketball program and an Ivy League academic reputation.
		In researching for Simmons, Wolfe attended a cocktail party hosted by the fraternity, known for its elitism and secrecy, in 2001.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/I_Am_Charlotte_Simmons (528 words)

	Tom Wolfe: I Am Charlotte Simmons
		Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina.
		But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the uppercrust coeds of Dupont, sex, Cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time.
		I Am Charlotte Simmons is the much-anticipated triumph of America's master chronicler.
	www.tomwolfe.com /CharlotteSimmons.html (97 words)

	Amazon.de: I Am Charlotte Simmons: English Books: Tom Wolfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Charlotte ist ganz sie selbst (und sich zu wichtig), 12.
		I did not open this book impartially, I opened it certain it would be great and passage by passage (although not word by word as the language is still spot on) I sunk further and further into the land of discontent.
		I swung between mild dislike and apathy towards Charlotte and often found her grating and overall, quite a shallow construction.
	www.amazon.de /Am-Charlotte-Simmons-Tom-Wolfe/dp/0374281580 (2640 words)

	Dumpster Bust Reviews: I Am Charlotte Simmons, by Tom Wolfe @ Blogcritics.org
		Charlotte herself is a little hard to believe at times: in an age of television and media outlets galore, she's literally clueless about modernity, pop culture, dating rites, etc.
		Charlotte's journey from country girl valedictorian to seasoned collegiate vet is bumpy, problematic, but ultimately worthwhile.
		Charlotte is so consumed with making sure everyone knows she is the one with Hoyt and that they see her superiority in mind and body, she has no clue Hoyt is using her.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/01/16/204605.php (2002 words)

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