Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:41 am Posts: 5867 Location: Providence, RI Gender: Male
Master Slave wrote:
I picked up Catcher In The Rye again after I finished 1984 the other day. Jesus Christ I love that book. Probably because Holden reminds me of myself in many ways. And because after reading it I feel like theres a Holden Caulfield I could call up and talk about the state of the world with. Or something.
That's how I felt when I first read CITR at about age 15. Then I read it again when I was about 18. I got an entirely different view of Holden and myself when I re-read it. I suggest you do the same a few years down the road.
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:41 am Posts: 5867 Location: Providence, RI Gender: Male
I read The Plague by Alberu Camus today. Good stuff. Tomorrow I've got to read a book about Ralph Nader or read Melville's Bartleby and Benito Cereno. Ah, college.
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has anyone read "the golden compass"?....it's the first in a trilogy called "his dark materials" by phillip pullman.....so fucking incredible....blows the harry potter series completely out of the water....aimed at the same crowd, but is on a completely different level....
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Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:15 pm Posts: 25452 Location: Under my wing like Sanford & Son Gender: Male
Bacchanal wrote:
has anyone read "the golden compass"?....it's the first in a trilogy called "his dark materials" by phillip pullman.....so fucking incredible....blows the harry potter series completely out of the water....aimed at the same crowd, but is on a completely different level....
Oh man, I read the first two books and was blown away, but I never got around to the third. I think I'm going to re-read all of them this summer.
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:13 pm Posts: 444 Location: NJ
i just finished reading Ann Rule's "Green River - Running Red" about the Green River serial killer who was just recently captured through DNA evidence 20 years after the murders... good stuff.
Bacchanal wrote: has anyone read "the golden compass"?....it's the first in a trilogy called "his dark materials" by phillip pullman.....so fucking incredible....blows the harry potter series completely out of the water....aimed at the same crowd, but is on a completely different level....
Oh man, I read the first two books and was blown away, but I never got around to the third. I think I'm going to re-read all of them this summer.
i highly recommend you do....the third is just as good...i liked it more than the second i think......i believe there's movies in the works, if not in pre-production already....
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