Il ne cria pas. Il tomba doucement comme tombe un arbre. Ça ne fit même pas de bruit, à cause du sable.
(le petit prince chapitre 26)
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Whenever we tell people that we didn’t like The Cather in the Rye, they immediately demand, “Well, when did you read it?” The prevailing wisdom, after all, is that it’s one of those novels you have to read at the right time — that is, the pinnacle of your own self-pitying, frustration-filled adolescence — in order to really get its brilliance. Well, we tried at the right time, and still thought Holden was totally obnoxious (he is, after all, one of the most divisive characters in literary history), and we tried again later and came to the same conclusion. That doesn’t leave the book without merit of course, but it does beg the question: why do high schools (and young men) everywhere revere this tale of the wanderings of a bitter, privileged slacker so much? As South Park’s Kyle complained, it’s “just some whiny annoying teenager talking about how lame he is.”
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Oh my God, I AM NOT ALONE. \o/!!! I first read this after high school, and had to put it down because I wanted to murder the lead character. How can someone be so idiotic and annoying? And then one of my guy friends, who doesn’t like reading, went, ‘That’s my favorite book’. And I’m like, ‘whut’.
Peeta is the male version of Bella Swan. #youaremywholelifekatniss #no1curraboutmesolemmedie #nothingmattersinlifeexceptyou!!
When I look at the passages I highlighted and bookmarked and made notes on in my Kindle:
25% consisted of feminist rants (Girls were painted as idiotic fools in love for most of the stories that had them and were very much second class citizens. Of course, this novel was written in the 1800s so the latter part was to be expected, but the former? That was uncalled for, sir Doyle.) or ‘this was easy’.
25% were of Philosophical and jarring quotes uttered by Mr Holmes
50% homoerotic subtext
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed.
- Rick Riordan
one only needs to look at my goodreads account to know how bad my distraction gets
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NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
