The Catcher in the Rye is a great book, in my view. Holden was a character that while I didn't particularly care for him in some respects, I completely empathized with him in others.
Brave New World is an excellent book. As is 1984. Different sides of the same coin to an extent there.
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machin ery of night.
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Brave New World
Hurrah that book spoke to me, i dont care to much about dystopian future books but the savage he spoke to me.
Really though i finished that book and i just sat there for a bit and was like woah. Ive been an avid reader since i was in grade 5 but when i picked up that book it wasnt just reading for a quick sci fi story it was something else.
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Really though i finished that book and i just sat there for a bit and was like woah. Ive been an avid reader since i was in grade 5 but when i picked up that book it wasnt just reading for a quick sci fi story it was something else.
The sequel was pretty horrible, though.
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There was a sequel?
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First book was good enough, i dont need a second one to mess up my love of the first.
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i dont need a second one to mess up my love of the first.
Kind of like Card's sequals to Ender's Game?
pickleprince wrote:
I liked Franny and Zoe better.
So did I.
Krogsbrew the Charming wrote:
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Actually, the myth is that if you like the book, you're a serial killer, since a few were known to like it.
Close Tricky, but not quite. Many serial killers have been found to have multiple copies of the novel in their possesion. It is not a matter of enjoying the novel, it is a matter of enjoying it enough to buy 15 copies of it.
I think it was the man who killed John Lennon who was obsessed with Catcher in the Rye. Perhaps I am mistaken.
Grady wrote:
The Catcher in the Rye is a great book, in my view. Holden was a character that while I didn't particularly care for him in some respects, I completely empathized with him in others.
Brave New World is an excellent book. As is 1984. Different sides of the same coin to an extent there.
Grady
Brave New World is an excellent book. As is 1984. Different sides of the same coin to an extent there.
Grady
The Brave New World where everyone is on drugs and their social station is determined pre-birth is very scary in a less obvious way then 1984.
Kelvyquayo the Furtive wrote:
It sucked a$$.
I hope it didn't suck because you are one of the fakers
I think everyone should read it in college when you are tempted to overanalyze works of literature or art. It is a warning, but if you haven't arrived at the point where you need the warning, it won't make any sense, on that level.
i think the problem was that the need for warnings had long passed..
bhodisattva Defender of Justice wrote:
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Hurrah that book spoke to me, i dont care to much about dystopian future books but the savage he spoke to me.
Really though i finished that book and i just sat there for a bit and was like woah. Ive been an avid reader since i was in grade 5 but when i picked up that book it wasnt just reading for a quick sci fi story it was something else.
...and that's the whole point of the list: its a bunch of books that spoke to people, in this way. Your milage may vary. No guarentee express or implied.
You don't read "entertaining" books in school because this is exactly the experience they are looking for. Of course, there is a generation gap, which there should be, and the same books which spoke to people 15 years ago might not speak to you. This is the challenge of probably the most banal form of assignment we were all given: the book report. Go find something which speaks to you in the way Catcher in the Rye did to your teacher, and tell your teacher why it speaks to you and then that's the kind of thing you'll be reading.
And you're supposed to grow beyond it. Maybe Johnathan Livingston Seagull spoke to you years ago, but you don't stop there and realize this is the end - this is the truth and the Plutonic form of book. It is just to open your eyes to a different way of looking at the same things. It's equipment you get for the journey - it's not the journey itself (for most of us). And thus it should look different now then it did when you first read it.
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I didn't see him as whiny, but rather disaffected.
I suppose the difference between those 2 is Empathy.
Eb
I didn't see him as whiny, but rather disaffected.
I suppose the difference between those 2 is Empathy.
Eb
Actually, that would be apathy.
I love Catcher, but that's namely because I can see a lot of myself in the main character.. but hey, if you didn't like it, your choice ^^
Ok. I checked out those lists. Hmmmm... Why do I get the feeling that there were a few specific organizations/lists out there that knew there was voting going on and totally skewed the readers list?
I can see the Rand and Hubbard stuff. After all, they have huge followings of devoted people who will vote in mass for this sort of thing. But somehow this must have spilled into a sci-fi list on the net or something. "DOUBLE STAR" by Heinlein? C'mon. I even like the guy's work a bit, but that's like waaaay down the list of even his stuff.
That's just too funny...
I can see the Rand and Hubbard stuff. After all, they have huge followings of devoted people who will vote in mass for this sort of thing. But somehow this must have spilled into a sci-fi list on the net or something. "DOUBLE STAR" by Heinlein? C'mon. I even like the guy's work a bit, but that's like waaaay down the list of even his stuff.
That's just too funny...
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