I’m not really sure what to think of this one. J.D. Salinger is obviously an amazing writer. The voice of Holden is flawless.

Maybe I took it too seriously, maybe the satire went over my head, but I didn’t care too much for the plot. Maybe my teenage angst is too far behind me. 4 years ago

do it 4 years ago

One of my childhood favorites. I always wanted a dad like Atticus. 5 years ago

This book has the best last line of anything I’ve ever read. I didn’t really respect Hemingway until I read this. 5 years ago

Another high school read. An unusual plot, for sure. It was unexpectedly and alarmingly violent. 5 years ago

My all-time favorite novel. I read it in a hammock over a couple of summer days. It’s linguistically playful and Hum’s descent completely draws you in. It’s the first book of Nabokov’s that I read. 5 years ago

First introduced to it in high school, but I’ve come back to it several times since. One of my favorite tragedies. 5 years ago

Checked this out from the library, underlined so many passages, dogeared so many pages and fell so in love with it that I never returned it. 5 years ago

I read this in middle school and found the allegory to be a bit heavy-handed, even then. Good satire though. 5 years ago