I hate it.
I don't know if I'm not used to reading books like this or what. I just really, really don't like it and I have a tough time sitting down and reading it every night. Maybe it's the annotating I'm not used to or maybe it's the fact that I can't do it on my own time because I have deadlines. I don't know, whatever it is, I'm almost done with it and I'm glad.
I know some people disagree with me, but I feel like nothing ever happens. He's always sad, swearing, crying, complaining, or getting drunk. He's never happy.
I also think it's weird how he's always asking people to go and have a cocktail or go to dinner with him when he doesn't even know them. Especially when he asked the little girl at the park to get a hot chocolate with him. I just found it kind of weird, but maybe it's just him being friendly.
Another reason I don't think I like it is because I'm not very good at picking up on the underlying messages. I read and I think I understand it, but when we get to class everyone starts talking about the little repetitive things that keep getting brought up. The windows, for example, I never would have caught on my own. I have started to warm up to it a little since we've started talking about it in class, because I'm starting to understand a few things.
Well that's all I really have to say.
I can agree with that. I can also see why people like this book, I guess, but it's not something I'd read on my own. I prefer books were stuff actually, oh idk, happens.
ReplyDeleteYou make a good point about Holden though--really, he almost never seems happy, he's always drunk or sad or swearing, etcetc. Kinda makes for a sucky read when you already don't care for the book. :(
Anyway, it's almost over. Hopefully we'll both enjoy it more eventually.
I can agree with you on how nothing really happens in the book. No big events happen that everybody kind of would expect. However I do think that the book would have been pointless to read if we hadn't critically read it. If I hadn't sat down and annotated I wouldn't have picked up on half the stuff we disscussed in class either. The book was very repetitive, well actually Holden was very repetitive, and that's what I found annoying in the book, the same thing was always happening and being said.
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