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[scoradh]

Franny and Zooey, JD Salinger

I'd love to say I'm being rebellious by not reading The Catcher in the Rye first, but in fact the library just didn't have it. (Although maybe I get points for avoiding it when I was a disaffected teenager?)

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[jehnt]

hmm, I've only ever made it about a half-dozen pages into this book before abandoning it in favor of something more interesting. Maybe I'll give it another shot, lol.

[scoradh]

*amused* It is really not that long! And Zooey reminds me of fanon!Draco, hee.

[jehnt]

Well, I think I never made it through the Franny chapter because I was always stuck at the supremely boring conversations with the Ivy League guy or w/e happens in the beginning there.

[scoradh]

I was so sure they were going to need an abortion. I was disappointed.

[n_isfor_neville]

I was completely unimpressed with The Catcher in the Rye (books that have been on the ban list at one point should be awesome, right?), and so my friend told me to read Franny and Zooey. That was a couple years ago, and all I remember about it is that it was better than The Catcher in the Rye, but not good enough to be memorable, obviously. Both books are super short, at least.

[scoradh]

I actually got Catcher out of the library once (before they swapped it, obviously ... probably for Twilight). It was definitely longer than F&Z, and I didn't get past the first chapter where he's walking down a hill towards a football match or something. Catcher and The Grapes of Wrath are inextricably linked in my mind; I kept thinking, 'So, where is the farm?'

I'll give it another go, if the library gets it back in. I'm not pushed to buy any of his books. Why was Catcher banned, incidentally? Or is that a spoiler?

[n_isfor_neville]

That would be a spoiler, but it's pretty mild. I read it on my own, on summer break from college, because I wanted to know what the fuss was about the book. My thoughts after I finished it, were basically "That's it?"

I liked The Grapes of Wrath, minus every other chapter being irrelevant to the plot. It could had been a lot shorter. I had to read it in high school.

[dirtylaugh]

WRITE fanfic about the Glasses. Plz.

I really liked this. The worst thing that can happen to a book is for it to be ridiculously hyped up for you before you read it - that happens to be the case for loads of people with Catcher and happened to me with The Great Gatsby, which I felt to be unbelievably meh at the time. Luckily, Franny and Zooey is not famous-like, so no-one had ever told me anything about it. And I approved.

I think you might prefer For Esme, with Love and Squalor, though, which is basically the same length but is made up of lots of short stories. And it is SOSOGOOD.

Seymour is in it, too.

[scoradh]

I saw Esme in the library! But I have a passionate hatred for short stories (or rather, my inability to finish a volume of them), so I got Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenter. Which apparently also features Seymour. :DDD

I bloody will end up writing fanfic for this family, oh god.