I was shocked to learn that he passed away yesterday. I never actually read Catcher in the Rye until after I graduated from college. I even called myself an English major...
Yes, RIP Salinger... I read Catcher in the Rye in high school, which is probably the best time to read it. Maybe I should finish Franny and Zooey once and for all..
Oh no... I saw that in my little headlines news thing and thought it was a joke... cause I thought he was dead too. Crap. Who else is still alive that makes the summer book list? Beverly Cleary?
Must also say... Catcher in the Rye didn't do much for me (which I read after highschool).
Actually, I could make an entire post about all the really good books I did read after highschool though, because they were on ISABELLE's list. We had stuff like The Awakening...
(Catch-22, Slaughterhouse IV, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...).
The other book option for a paper at the same time was "Tess of the d'Ubervilles" of which I was one of two who chose to write the paper on. I liked it! Everybody else chose Awakening because it was a) more feminist or b) short. I personally thought she was terrible to leave her kids. You can be a feminist and a mom!
YES! In fact, I thought I wrote something about that in my comment too, but apparently I just thought it ;p I loved it.
Btw, I was trying to explain the difference between good, compelling stories vs. good, compelling writing vs. not so exciting stories vs. not so good writing last night (between a few beers, I might add) and was focusing on Twilight and Paradise Lost. Heeheehee.
Edit: I had been thinking "Out of Paradise" and actually meant "Tender is the Night," which I constantly forget even in a sober stance. There you have it ;p
I qualify books into those categories all the time. It's like Stephen Covey's quadrants in 7 Habits of Highly Effective People...Anybody read that? I read it for work once, maybe twice...or maybe I was supposed to read it but just skimmed it. It probably isn't very effective of me to not remember. Anyway, badly written-no good story is the worst (Tristram Shandy comes to mind which my professor even called the "most overrated novel of all time." Loved her but she made us read it anyway) versus great story-great writing (Pride and Prejudice).
Who knew he was still alive??? Seriously...
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Yes, RIP Salinger... I read Catcher in the Rye in high school, which is probably the best time to read it. Maybe I should finish Franny and Zooey once and for all..
well...I thought he was already dead
Oh no... I saw that in my little headlines news thing and thought it was a joke... cause I thought he was dead too. Crap. Who else is still alive that makes the summer book list? Beverly Cleary?
Must also say... Catcher in the Rye didn't do much for me (which I read after highschool).
Actually, I could make an entire post about all the really good books I did read after highschool though, because they were on ISABELLE's list. We had stuff like The Awakening...
(Catch-22, Slaughterhouse IV, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...).
The other book option for a paper at the same time was "Tess of the d'Ubervilles" of which I was one of two who chose to write the paper on. I liked it! Everybody else chose Awakening because it was a) more feminist or b) short. I personally thought she was terrible to leave her kids. You can be a feminist and a mom!
Did you read the Bell Jar? I alway thought if girls had to read Catcher in the Rye, boys should have to read the Bell Jar. Only fair...
YES! In fact, I thought I wrote something about that in my comment too, but apparently I just thought it ;p I loved it.
Btw, I was trying to explain the difference between good, compelling stories vs. good, compelling writing vs. not so exciting stories vs. not so good writing last night (between a few beers, I might add) and was focusing on Twilight and Paradise Lost. Heeheehee.
Edit: I had been thinking "Out of Paradise" and actually meant "Tender is the Night," which I constantly forget even in a sober stance. There you have it ;p
I qualify books into those categories all the time. It's like Stephen Covey's quadrants in 7 Habits of Highly Effective People...Anybody read that? I read it for work once, maybe twice...or maybe I was supposed to read it but just skimmed it. It probably isn't very effective of me to not remember. Anyway, badly written-no good story is the worst (Tristram Shandy comes to mind which my professor even called the "most overrated novel of all time." Loved her but she made us read it anyway) versus great story-great writing (Pride and Prejudice).
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