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The Great Gatsby
Johnny C:
If you didn't like The Grapes Of Wrath, give The Winter Of Our Discontent a try. It's probably my favourite Steinbeck book.
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--- Quote from: Linds on 12 Dec 2007, 08:12 ---The Catcher in the Rye is overrated. When I read it in high school everyone loved it, but I honestly didn't. It was ok, but I didn't see why so many people thought it was awesome. The Great Gatsby, however, was pretty good.
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Simply because it involves the most easily identifiable-with protagonist in American literature.
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I just thought he was an ass. (But then again I thought all the people in my class that raved about it were asses, too.) There were few that felt the same as I did. But then again, those few and myself were also the only ones in my English class that actually liked Jane Eyre.
As for Steinbeck, my favorite novel of his was The Moon is Down. It's definitely more readable, if that's what most people don't like about Grapes.
Joseph:
I like both Jane Eyre and The Catcher In The Rye rather greatly.
Ozymandias:
I think J.D. Salinger made the most perfect representation of the disaffected teenager and, as such, Catcher in the Rye is a great book.
I also think that I don't like disaffected teenagers and I did not enjoy it.
KharBevNor:
Oh man.
No dissing on the fucking Bronte sisters. Not on my watch.
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