[Accygirl]

Tom Wolfe book that came out about around a year and a half ago about the excesses of college lives. Charlotte Simmons is the a country girl who goes to college and basically caves into peer pressure. Hoyt is a hotshot frat boy who basically uses her to get what he wants.

It's kind of timely when discussing the Duke Lacrosse case, because Tom Wolfe based Dupont University on Duke (ie elite university with a famous basketball team). It's a good book (very graphic sex scenes though), and it does a nice job discussing the excesses of college life. It got "lukewarm" reviews, because it points out some ugly realities about college life.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Jeeez, life is ugly. Parents have a moral obligation to point that out. I never got to attend college as a young adult, so I can't comment on excesses, but I've heard about them.

Thank you for the synopsis.