Thursday, April 11, 2013

I didn't do this one post so I'm making it up. Reading Response time.

It is totally quite possible that I have just started to actually read the Catcher in the Rye. Mostly because I did just start and I would like to say that I find it so incredibly obnoxious the way he words some things. Like he will say "That killed me" on like every page and if he was talking about eating icecream he would say "The ice cream was really good. It really was. The cashier gave me a crumby smile". As a matter of fact I really think that I just quoted a chapter I haven't gotten to yet because I'm about halfway through.

Beside him talking like that I don't know why but I actually sort of like the book. It's one of the most uneventful books ever written and I feel like the way it's said just makes it seem like a time well spent. Maybe it's because it's so full of detail. He will go on about how nail clippings on the floor bother him; "they really do" he would say. But I feel like it's told so slow that I lose track of whats going on. There was a point in the book where he spent about a whole page talking about how hard he punched someone and the next one he says he was bleeding and the next he says he was sorry and it's just unnecessarily long like dragon ball z. But I don't really know. It sort of adds to the story. It's better than other books I've read. The only thing I really don't get is why did he kill John Lennon?

3 comments:

  1. Interesting Post Nick!I see you really like Dragon Ball Z!

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    1. Who are you to tell me what animations I am and am not fond of. You don't know me. You don't know what I've been through.

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  2. I'm surprised you so dislike Holden's narration, but I'm happy to see detail and response here. You might want to clarify the relationship between John Lennon's killer and Catcher in the Rye.

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