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To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favorites...Catcher in the Rye, not so much. What'd ya think?
I loved To Kill a Mockingbird and I wished we read something like this in school.
I'm coming up to about half way through Catcher. I wasn't sure for the first 2 chapters but now i'm quite enjoying it. I can see how a lot of people would be turned off by it. I guess it all depends on getting to grips with his narrative style. Although if he says he gets a 'bang' out of something one more time I may scream
To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favorites...Catcher in the Rye, not so much. What'd ya think?
I loved To Kill a Mockingbird and I wished we read something like this in school.
I'm coming up to about half way through Catcher. I wasn't sure for the first 2 chapters but now i'm quite enjoying it. I can see how a lot of people would be turned off by it. I guess it all depends on getting to grips with his narrative style. Although if he says he gets a 'bang' out of something one more time I may scream
It's not that it was a bad book, I just think it was a little juvenile even though I understand it's an adolescent "coming of age" type story...I never could figure out exactly how old Holden was portrayed to be though. 19-20? TKAM was required reading in my HS and hands down my favorite!
I loved To Kill a Mockingbird and I wished we read something like this in school.
I'm coming up to about half way through Catcher. I wasn't sure for the first 2 chapters but now i'm quite enjoying it. I can see how a lot of people would be turned off by it. I guess it all depends on getting to grips with his narrative style. Although if he says he gets a 'bang' out of something one more time I may scream
It's not that it was a bad book, I just think it was a little juvenile even though I understand it's an adolescent "coming of age" type story...I never could figure out exactly how old Holden was portrayed to be though. 19-20? TKAM was required reading in my HS and hands down my favorite!
I read Catcher in High School, and absolutely loved it. I've always wanted to re-read it, but I can never quite bring myself to do so ... i don't think i would identify with the story the way i did at 16, and I don't what that to sour my memories of the book.
Oh, and Holden says at one point in the book that he's 17, and the story he is telling happened a year ago, making him 16 at the time.
I started reading Catcher in middle school, then in high school, and have never finished reading it.
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I loved To Kill a Mockingbird and I wished we read something like this in school.
I'm coming up to about half way through Catcher. I wasn't sure for the first 2 chapters but now i'm quite enjoying it. I can see how a lot of people would be turned off by it. I guess it all depends on getting to grips with his narrative style. Although if he says he gets a 'bang' out of something one more time I may scream
It's not that it was a bad book, I just think it was a little juvenile even though I understand it's an adolescent "coming of age" type story...I never could figure out exactly how old Holden was portrayed to be though. 19-20? TKAM was required reading in my HS and hands down my favorite!
I read Catcher in High School, and absolutely loved it. I've always wanted to re-read it, but I can never quite bring myself to do so ... i don't think i would identify with the story the way i did at 16, and I don't what that to sour my memories of the book.
Oh, and Holden says at one point in the book that he's 17, and the story he is telling happened a year ago, making him 16 at the time.
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"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. Getting a head start to my reading for spring semester. I am going to be hammered with reading for next semester.
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"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. Getting a head start to my reading for spring semester. I am going to be hammered with reading for next semester.
I couldn't finish it. I love his writing but I hated every single character in that book. Every single one!
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"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. Getting a head start to my reading for spring semester. I am going to be hammered with reading for next semester.
I couldn't finish it. I love his writing but I hated every single character in that book. Every single one!
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Thanks. After I have to read his play "The Importance of Being Earnest." I plan on not reading the book and play when we we're assigned to so I can read for other classes.
Life of an English major.
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"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. Getting a head start to my reading for spring semester. I am going to be hammered with reading for next semester.
I couldn't finish it. I love his writing but I hated every single character in that book. Every single one!
Have fun
Thanks. After I have to read his play "The Importance of Being Earnest." I plan on not reading the book and play when we we're assigned to so I can read for other classes.
Life of an English major.
I was an English major too. See where it got me! :P
DT, surprised you couldn't finish Dorian Gray. Yeah, the characters were ridiculous but the book is so short! I just looked at the whole story as a melodramatic joke and didn't even try to take it seriously.
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Nice... good choice!
Donald Ray Pollock's "The Devil All The Time"
Jim Thompson's "The Killer Inside Me"
Colin Bateman"s "Divorcing Jack"
Paul Cleave's "The Laughterhouse"
Just starting Michael Connelly's "The Reversal"
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This was really compelling . And chilling. But a great read.
"Let's check Idaho."
"Let's check Idaho."
I have started Catcher in the Rye yesterday and bought The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time today.
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I loved To Kill a Mockingbird and I wished we read something like this in school.
I'm coming up to about half way through Catcher. I wasn't sure for the first 2 chapters but now i'm quite enjoying it. I can see how a lot of people would be turned off by it. I guess it all depends on getting to grips with his narrative style. Although if he says he gets a 'bang' out of something one more time I may scream
I read Catcher in High School, and absolutely loved it. I've always wanted to re-read it, but I can never quite bring myself to do so ... i don't think i would identify with the story the way i did at 16, and I don't what that to sour my memories of the book.
Oh, and Holden says at one point in the book that he's 17, and the story he is telling happened a year ago, making him 16 at the time.
"Let's check Idaho."
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"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
I couldn't finish it. I love his writing but I hated every single character in that book. Every single one!
Have fun
Life of an English major.
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
DT, surprised you couldn't finish Dorian Gray. Yeah, the characters were ridiculous but the book is so short! I just looked at the whole story as a melodramatic joke and didn't even try to take it seriously.