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For lack of a better title, The Book Thread!
sp2:
--- Quote from: onewheelwizzard ---Catcher in the Rye is a weird quandary ... it's so perfectly written that you realize how little it's actually saying (it is, after all, written from the point of view of an angsty adolescent, and therefore not particularly meaningful, all things considered). It doesn't present any new ideas, what little social commentary it contains is hardly groundbreaking or particularly perceptive, and I didn't see any valuable lessons to be learned in it. But it's such a 100% perfect rendition of what it's presenting that it's impossible to shrug at. Salinger's a great writer, but I can't say his work interests me to any great extent ... I'm long past the stage in my life when Catcher in the Rye was anything approaching relevant.
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I recently reread Catcher in the Rye. The last time I read it, I was in junior high, and the angst really resonated. When I reread it, I noticed that No one was more a phony than Holden Caulfield. In this light, the book took a completely different tone, that of a kid railing against the world because in all actuality he was railing against all the parts of himself he hated. It became a totally different book, and meant something completely different to me.
This was, of course, because I was going through different parts of life at each of these times, so the book read completely differently. I consider THAT to be the mark of a truly relevant book...that it has different meanings at different times.
elcapitan:
I feel a bit ashamed to admit that I've never read Catcher in the Rye. All the hype about it... I dunno.
boeuf:
You loved me before, Bateman?
Aw shucks.
Another good author I forgot to mention is Dave Eggers, wonderful man.
Harper_Knight:
to the people who read stuff on chocolate bars when there's nothing else around: yeah, i do that too. i read constantly. CONSTANTLY, i say. eat, slee..okay, mebbe not sleep. but almost constantly, then.
i admit i didnt read the whole thread...but even if it's been posted before, i say read:
the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. and...lesse.
the Malazan Book of the Fallen series (first book: Gardens of the Moon, because the series name is in really small type on the books), by Steven Erikson (sp)?
both of those are very good high fantasy-ish series. should keep you going for a while.
sp2:
--- Quote from: Harper_Knight ---the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. and...lesse.
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Cough hack sputter.
I'm not going to say anything. Really, I'm not. Really really.
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