Well the name of the author of this strange novel is JD Salinger. Incidentally it doesnt hit most of us at first shot what the title means....but I shall leave it to the reader to find out!
Well, I read the book mostly for a singular reason that my room mate had it and I was more than free to read it...But i didnt know a few things about this book until i started reading it....This book was banned in America after its first publication..
Reason ? There it is ...i paste this from a blog....
John Lennon's assassin, Mark Chapman, asked the former Beatle to sign a copy of the book earlier in the morning of the day that he murdered Lennon. Police found the book in his possession upon apprehending the psychologically disturbed Chapman.
However, the book itself contains nothing that could be attributed with leading Chapman to act as he did - it could have been any book that he was reading the day he decided to kill John Lennon - and as a result of the fact that it was The Catcher in the Rye, a book describing a nervous breakdown, media speculated widely about the possible connection.......
Well thats a surprising intro to a book that is actually quite sweeet at some points, well but not entirely so....
Its about a guy who is chucked out of one more school again for his inability to apply himself at school....The whole novel is about a vacation that he decides to take after the expulsion and before he finally goes home to face his parents....he explains some really tiny human elements that sort of appear very similar to the way we feel about certain things but we have never had time or the vision to analyse them or even recognise these elements within us.....
I must mention that is a sort of a depressing book in some parts when we actually think of oursleves fitting so well in the category of the Phonies of the world....but then it is quite thought provoking.....a well written novel, applauded mostly for the fascinating and enlightening description of our human condition
I dont know if I must finally recommend this book to anybody...but yes, if you have a liking for understanding human behaviour, you should try this....
If you are looking for Time pass and a non engaging, cool reading, sheldons are always there.....
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I liked the book...
I also liked the guy a lot.... I could in fact identify with him a lot being quite an 'unsocial' myself... ;-)
And now every second person I meet seems to be a 'phoney' :-))))
Invokes a lot of introspection, has the ability to hurt u bigtime.
Still, would recommend this book. U will be a better person once u r finished reading it.
Makes me remember the phrase Silas uses in DaVinciCOde - Pain is good monsieur.
Anyways, I would prefer reading this book 10 times to reading that deepthought book where 80% of it is used up in describing each planet, the creatures and all. I keep thinking - come on get on with it & the moment I turn the page we have 1 more planet this time with some huge sea....time to throw the book away.
I know u will hate me for this. ;)
@Bina, yeah i think the book makes you see the phoney part of the world much more clearly! :-)
@Dammy, You are right ( more in the last line of your comment)
hehe,U hang on now...I will post one for my favourite book too :-D
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