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I read it on a flight from JFK to Seoul. It was pretty good, and reminded me a lot of my college years. Of course, I wasn't as naive as Charlotte, but I knew a lot of girls like her!
Some more of my thoughts:
1. I went to school with a lot of kids who WERE Millenial Mutants. Of course, they didn't call themselves that. When Wolfe was describing Adam, he might as well have been describing half of the guys who worked on the independent newspaper on my campus--right down to being "bad-ass Rhodies."
2. I, too, thought it was sad that Charlotte didn't have any friends at the end of the book. Also...it seemed as if she stopped caring about school. Did being JoJo's girlfriend make up for all of that?
3. Regarding the Greek system on campus--it reminded me a lot of my own experience. Hoyt reminds me of several kids I knew who just assumed that they'd end up in i-banking just because of where they went to college.
4. The Sizzling Skillet part made me laugh the hardest! It made me think that maybe TW hung out in places like this to figure out what they were like.
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