How long does it take to read I Am Charlotte Simmons?
Tom Wolfe, Bernard Cohen, Joan Solé
I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe, Bernard Cohen, Joan Solé takes about 13 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 56 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2004. 760 pages, about 209,000 words.
28 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 23 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 31 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Dupont University - the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition... Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a wide-eyed, bookish freshman from a strict, devout, poor and poorly educated family in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the uppercrust coeds of Dupont, sex, Cool, and kegs trump her towering academic achievement every time." "As Charlotte encounters the paragons of Dupont's privileged elite - her roommate, Beverly, a Groton-educated Brahmin in lusty pursuit of lacrosse players; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont's godlike basketball team, whose position is threatened by a hotshot black freshman from the projects; the Young Turk of Saint Ray fraternity, Hoyt Thorpe, whose sense of entitlement and social domination is clinched by his accidental brawl with a bodyguard for the governor of California; and Adam Gellin, one of the Millennial Mutants who run the university's "independent" newspaper and who consider themselves the last bastion of intellectual endeavor on the sex-crazed, jock-obsessed campus - she is seduced by the heady glamour of acceptance, betraying her values and upbringing before she grasps the power of being different and the exotic allure of her innocence."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Race relations, Bildungsromans, Social classes, Difference (Psychology), Women college students, College stories
