Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly one of America's literary treasures.
You Either Love Or Hate It...
Linlinterrupted(Dalian)
I'm not trying to get clever here at all. All I wanted to say was, its a good book, a really good book. I think you can only talk a lot when the book is kinda good, because then you can talk about what you think is nice or not nice about it... so and so... but when the book is this good, all you gotta say is, its a good book. I think about it like love, true love, cannot be reasoned. Well... I did have a problem with all him "and all", it got on my nerve by the end... and a few other things got on my nerve but i still loved it... that's just the way it is...
I finished the book in 2 days, at 9pm friday night, just before i was going out into town for a couple of drinks with friends. I couldn't put it down so i was almost an hour late. It was an easy read, almost too easy. You'd feel you can write something very similar, but less the soul of it. Its difficult to explain, the book, i mean, you can easily turn around and say its overrated, if you didnt feel it. But you might connect, and its always a beautiful thing to connect with the writers of books. Like the moment when the boy said, all i wanted to be is this catcher in the rye, protecting kids from falling off the edge. and i liked that, i liked that and how he liked his red hunting hat, the record for his little sister, the ducks...
People say its a depressing book... immensly depressing a book... but i thought otherwise, it made me smile, all that childish anger really made me smile, made me laugh at myself for being him and the people he hated at the same time. its not depressing at all, its full of love and hates, the beautiful emotions of our life... and searching, endless searching... all in all... i enjoyed it but will not recommend it to anyone else. its one of those books.
2006-12-29 18:43 | comment
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