101 in 1001: 022 read the catcher in the rye (j.d. salinger) [completed 10.03.05]
the texts i've assigned myself for this project are either freaky religious tracts or novels that i really should have read a long time ago (gravity's rainbow might be both). since i've always gone to comparatively touchy-feely schools, it's pretty shocking that j.d. salinger never reared his ugly head for me. now that he has? meh. it's pretty satisfying to have paved over such a big-ass cultural pothole, but the book itself underwhelmed. it's entirely possible that my arbitrary hatred of notable male americans is getting me in trouble here, but the truth makes even less sense: in my eyes, crumby kills any paragraph in which it appears. it sounds just like crummy and is probably period-appropriate, but the alternate spelling yanks me out of The Reading Zone and sets my jaw. i'm working on more substantive reactions, dear readers, but that's the best i can do for now.
6 comments:
oh, you are doing good, you reading fiend! i don't think my sociology text counts toward any of my long-term goals...
i guess when i go to read catcher in the rye, i won't have great expectations!
If you wait until you're twenty to read The Catcher in the Rye, it's too late. I know there are other books that are only good when you're an adolescent, but I can't think of them right now.
hegel's phenomenology of spirit. it seems really silly these days.
i'll see caulfield and hegel and raise you princess bride with "outside the 80s" as the caveat. man that movie was underwhelming in 1996.
i never thought i'd say it, but those "wheel of time" novels by robert jordan just don't hold up. surprising.
thank god for the muppet show. it ages like wine.
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