Oct 02, 2001 02:08 AM
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If ever a 16yr old had the patience to write an entire book this is probably how it would sound. This book is more the kind of book to be heard rather than read. The author has written the book in exactly the same manner as the language a 16yr old guy would have spoken.
Take for example the very first few words of the book :
''......the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.......''
The entire book is written in a similar flippant fashion, with absolutely no regard for formal speech or anything else that someone would expect to be the last thing to be spoken from the mouth of a 16yr old.
The book is basically about this kid called Holden Caulfield who does not have his priorities right it life, and has just flunked out of maybe the 3rd or 4th school he has attended. The guy drinks, he smokes like a mad man and has almost no redeeming qualities to think of. Yet he is the main character, and the narrator in our book.
Now coming to whether I'd recommend this book... well its not exactly Pulitzer material, but for all you know it could have even won the darn thing. I'd give it a 3 out of 5. Read it if you wanna, but don't exactly be expecting heaven and earth, settle for earth :)
