I envy my Goodreads friends who are able to dig deep beneath the surface of a book and give you insights to the themes, motifs, symbols and whatnot. Unfortunately reading between the lines is not my forte, I have enough trouble reading the actual lines themselves. I’ll just ramble on relentlessly as...
After years and years of wanting to but never doing it, I finally read “The catcher in the rye”. Once I started I couldn’t stop. I loved it, I really did. I needed it so much. The weird thing is, even if I loved the book from beginning to end, and wondered what took me too long to started it, I...
There are three things you don't talk about on first dates: religion, politics, and The Catcher in the Rye. A casual survey over the tubes to gauge the general opinion on the book is guaranteed to fail. To Kill A Mockingbird, while we're on the topic of mandatory high-school reads, seems to be forev...
~~Moved from GR~~ Salinger himself is a curious figure, reticent and, on the surface, shallow, but with deep, swift currents running underneath. Personally, my favorite writing of his is the short story, Bananafish, but Catcher is also a worthwhile read. My initial expectations were not high; I had...
New York, 1950er: Holden Caulfield wird mal wieder von der Schule (Internat) geworfen, weil er in jedem Fach, außer Englisch, durchgefallen ist. Anstatt noch die paar Tage bis zu den Ferien abzuwarten, fährt er schon Samstag abend wieder nach Hause, bzw. nach New York. Sein Plan ist es, erst zu sein...
OK, I can see how people might think this book was boring. Let's be quite frank, not a lot happens in it. Holden ditches school. Holden thinks about losing his virginity to a prostitute, reconsiders, then gets rolled by her pimp. Holden watches a movie. The scariest and most unexpected moment comes ...
صفحه 71: تمام بيشعور ها همين جورند. وقتي بهشان مي گويي بيشعور، از آدم بدشان مي آيد.صفحه 131: ... اما انصافا خوب پيانو مي زند. در واقع آنقدر خوب مي زند که مي شود گفت بد مي زند. من خودم درست نمي دانم که منظورم از اين حرف چي است، اما جديمي گويم.صفحه 148: خودمانيم، بزدل بودن چندان لطفي ندارد. ممکن هم هس...
I just had a shuffle through this book to remind myself what it was all about and it's pretty horrendous, sort of barely excusable on the basis that this person could exist and think these things. What's really depressing about it is that he's taken to be a hero rather than a frightening symptom...T...
"Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It’s more interesting and all.” Yes, this review eventually will be about the book. My reviews always are. I'm boring this way. I envy the ability of my friends to...
I remember being told when I was in college by a professor that Cather in the Rye was one of the novels most named by his Freshman students as a favorite. I think I get why. I think it evokes an aspect of adolescence and young adulthood--disillusionment, alienation. You find out your nation, your he...
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