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Title: Comic without meaning to be!
Review: Tom Wolfe has always been a bit over the top, but at his best with his peculiar brand of non-fiction. His two previous novels (Bonfires of the Vanities & A Man in Full) were pretty boring, something that is hard to do when the writing is so good. With "I am Charlotte Simmons" he seems completely out of it, so much so that the writing is pale, dull and foppish and the dialogue is laughable in its triteness. Either TW has lost his talent, phoned it in or is trying a new style that fails miserably. It appears as though his research, which was said to be extensive, was ignored or poorly done. He is out of touch with today's college scene, and so much so that if he had placed it in the sixties it might have done better as a spoof. My advice to TW is give up fiction and try another "Electric Kool Aid Acid Test" so we can see if the talent is still there or gone forever.
