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Article: Tom Wolfe delivers an interesting book, but not a great one.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- November 25, 2004
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Byline: Jeff Guinn
``I Am Charlotte Simmons'' by Tom Wolfe; Farrar, Straus & Giroux ($28.95)
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To use Tom Wolfian punctuation and assorted quirks-in-print, any book by this _ "master!" _ must be treated (as it certainly "deserves to be treated!" _ like an Event, a purely cataclysmic moment that must, in some way, also be History! Who, among the punier minds contemplating his Genius, who dare to criticize (even constructively?) something that, if they didn't like it, "must by definition" be something too wonderful for their lowlier minds to Fully Comprehend? "Who could disagree?"
Ah, let's just say it. After two great novels ("The ...