I think I'll just curl up in a corner and cry. What a gorgeous, lavish, heartbreaking book. It'll take a few days just to soak everything up, short book thought it is.
I feel like I should re-read The Great Gatsby because I remember really not liking it and thinking it was boring. But... that tends to happen in a school-setting because of just being able to read the material, you have to be on the lookout for ~themes and ~symbolism. I want to do the same for To Kill a Mockingbird, too.
Catcher in the Rye, though, can burn in all nine circles of hell, and its ashes can burn in the circles too.
Yeah, that can happen. I didn't much like it either--well, what I've read of it, haven't successfully made it to the end yet.
I remember enjoying Catcher in the Rye though, however that may have been more because I was explicitly told not to read it and felt subsequently rebellious and cultured when I did.
I think what makes it hard is that all of the characters are hard to like: they're really shallow and up their own butts that it's hard to connect with them. Which, I know, is the point Fitzgerald is trying to make on the '20's flapper culture.
I absolutely hated Rye; but you share the same mindset that all my classmates shared--that it's somehow this "forbidden" book and we're so cool reading it. My parents couldn't have cared less that I had to read it. (Probably it helped that I complained about the book, they didn't have to be worried about me getting "ideas" from it!)
I think you have to be a teenager to enjoy Rye, for the same reason that most teenagers enjoy Hamlet-- it's effing ANGSTY.
But yeah, the shallow, arrogant, superficial characters made it hard. Everyone on AW goes on and on about the gorgeous language and imagery, which I get, but I just don't care about any of those people. I think Baz Luhrmann is the perfect guy to direct it though. He'll make it gorgeous.
I *love* Hamlet. One because Emilie Autumn draws a lot of inspiration from the Ophelia character. Most importantly, Hamlet is this psychological trip. The angst doesn't really hold my attention; but trying to figure out and dissect whether or not Hamlet's lost his marbles--at any point in the story--is fascinating. Plus, I like that everyone dies at the end. /promise I'm not a sociopath /maybe
Catcher in the Rye, though, can burn in all nine circles of hell, and its ashes can burn in the circles too.
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I remember enjoying Catcher in the Rye though, however that may have been more because I was explicitly told not to read it and felt subsequently rebellious and cultured when I did.
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I absolutely hated Rye; but you share the same mindset that all my classmates shared--that it's somehow this "forbidden" book and we're so cool reading it. My parents couldn't have cared less that I had to read it. (Probably it helped that I complained about the book, they didn't have to be worried about me getting "ideas" from it!)
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But yeah, the shallow, arrogant, superficial characters made it hard. Everyone on AW goes on and on about the gorgeous language and imagery, which I get, but I just don't care about any of those people. I think Baz Luhrmann is the perfect guy to direct it though. He'll make it gorgeous.
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Wow, Catcher in the Rye is that bad? Whew.
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