I am Charlotte Simmons

Wolfe, Tom

| 2004

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Dupont University - the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition- Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from Sparta, North Carolina, who has come here on a full scholarship. But Charlotte soon learns that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, Cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time. As Charlotte encounters Dupont's elite - her roommate, Beverly, a fleshy, privileged Brahmin in lusty pursuit of lacrosse players; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont's godlike basketball team; the Young Turk 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 Gellin, one of the Millennium Mutants who run...

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Erika Sörqvist

2009-11-04

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Jag tycker att boken har potential att bli bra, men slutet förstör det hela totalt. Normativt och tråkigt, alldeles för uppenbart. Den är dessutom några hundra sidor för lång.

Yvonne Larsson

2009-06-18

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En av de sämsta böcker jag tagit mig igenom.