Awesome! I loved that book! If I could write, I would write like Tom Wolfe.

I enjoyed much of I Am Charlotte Simmons. In fact, it struck me as an indepth anthropology report in the guise of a novel. Wolfe misses a few things (I think he mentioned quarters instead of halves when describing a basketball game), but as one who interacts with undergrads daily I'd say he got almost everything right.

However, after all this marvelous detail, I thought the ending was a bit weak. Perhaps John Watson can write a better ending to the story.

I being a sophomore undergrad myself can definitely attest that this book was extremely acurate in depicting college life. It's awesome they are making it into a movie. But, like Glenn, I thought the ending was terrible...the rest of the book was great and very detailed and to end it like that seemed like he had just got tired of writing and just picked a page and stopped with no intention of having a plausible ending. Maybe the movie makers can "dress" the ending up a bit...

I have to disagree with you, who think the ending is weak. I think it is an extremely powerful ending that truly “confirms” the irony, but at the same time realistic/naturalistic truth, that I believe Wolfe writes with. The book is titled "I am Charlotte Simmons", but the problem is that, in the end Charlotte, instead of defining herself as the Charlotte Simmons she would have liked to become in the beginning of the book, turns into a person she almost dislikes. She accepts her failure (as in defending her faults), which she never would have done before, and thereby she looses her identity. In the end she is no longer Charlotte Simmons, instead she is reduced to Jojo's girlfriend. It is a sad ending, but "it is not the ending. It is not even the beginning of the ending. It is merely the ending of a beginning". She has only finished her freshman year, and that might give the reader a hope that three more years at Dupont will open Charlottes eyes and help her find herself again. I also believe that Wolfe chooses to jump forward in time and skip details in the end, because that empathizes the loss of Charlotte’s identity and the interest in her. She is not “the Charlotte Simmons”, but rather one in the crowd. The ending is no Hollywood ending, and I hope it stays so.