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Tom Wolfe Bad Sex
The British Literary Review's Bad Sex Award went to Tom Wolfe for his carnal descriptions in I Am Charlotte Simmons; a close runner-up was Andre Brink's Before I Forget. For amusing snippets, read Danielle Demetriou's article in The Independent and even more in The Guardian.
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posted by Georganna Hancock M.S. | 2:40 PM
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Wolfe didn't get the mountain dialect for North Carolina right. I grew up there. And it's "plain-old"; not "plain-long."
Charlotte is unbelievable, but the remainder of the characters are. A genious mountain-girl would not have settled for being popular; nothing in her character would have led to that as a question to be pondered.
He let's the Virginia patrician's attitude about North Carolinians color this book pervasively.
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