lucky wander boy

[digitalpress]

So who's read this?

We've finally posted our book review HERE:
http://www.digitpress.com/archives/arc00156.htm

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[klimatron8]

Do people still read?(ha) Actually that looks really good, thanks for the tip.

[Achika]

I've read it. I kind of have mixed feelings about it, but they are currently sitting on the side of: I didn't like it that much, but then again, I never liked Catcher in the Rye either. Sometimes when the narrator went off on his thoughts, I got lost a bit.

As a female reader, you start to hate the main character throughout parts of the story.

[Kid Fenris]

I was wondering when someone here would bring up Lucky Wander Boy. I'd really like to read it, but the obscurant folk at my local library don't even have it on record. Maybe I'll actually have to buy the elusive thing.

I can tell you one thing without reading it, though: I hate D. B. Weiss, because he has apparently created the same kind of satirical, metaphor-heavy, game-related novel that I've been trying to write for a year now. I focused on the culture of the early '90s, yet I'm sure that my book, if published, would come off as an imitation of Weiss. Phooey. I'll just have to settle for writing that 400-page fanfic about Kid Kool.

[digitalpress]

Thought I'd bump this review once more before letting this thread drift into obscurity.

[TheRedEye]

I never liked Catcher in the Rye either.

It's so weird how opinions of that book absolutely have to be extreme, one way or the other.

For what it's worth, I loved it. All of Salinger's other stuff is great too. If your only gripe is Holden's ranting (totally essential to his character!), then give Franny and Zooey a shot.

[Achika]

I never liked Catcher in the Rye either.

It's so weird how opinions of that book absolutely have to be extreme, one way or the other.

For what it's worth, I loved it. All of Salinger's other stuff is great too. If your only gripe is Holden's ranting (totally essential to his character!), then give Franny and Zooey a shot.

Thanks, but I'm sticking to my Palahniuk for now. :)

[TheRedEye]

No arguments here, I like him too! In fact, I'm going to shut up before I start spouting more authors. It's just so hard to find people who actually READ.

[portnoyd]

I never liked Catcher in the Rye either.

It's so weird how opinions of that book absolutely have to be extreme, one way or the other.

For what it's worth, I loved it. All of Salinger's other stuff is great too. If your only gripe is Holden's ranting (totally essential to his character!), then give Franny and Zooey a shot.

Thanks, but I'm sticking to my Palahniuk for now. :)

Hehe, Palahniuk rules.

dave

[Nynaeve]

Just ordered this and one other book (to qualify for free shipping, whoo hoo) from barnesandnoble.com - I'm looking forward to reading it...

[slapdash]

No arguments here, I like him too! In fact, I'm going to shut up before I start spouting more authors. It's just so hard to find people who actually READ.

I wish I had more time to read (outside of email/newsgroups/message boards and magazines)...

Even then though, I read more sci-fi than anything else, so I missed the classics and books like Catcher In The Rye (classic or not, you decide). *sigh*

[NE146]

I read Catcher in the Rye in high school.. and I remember I just *didn't* get it. Maybe I couldn't relate but I guess at the time I read it, it just seemed that it was this guy walking around, doing stuff, talking, hanging out (i.e. doing nothing) etc. But then in discussions they started talking about the 'problems' this guy had and his alienation.. nuances I did not deduce one bit from reading it! The guy seemed pretty happy to me LOL So when he ended up at a psychiatrist's office I was totally baffled as to why. It seemed that came out of left field :P

But then again, I was a happy senior who's only concern in life was whether my pal was going to bring his Iron Maiden record in to trade. I might be a little more obvservant if I read it now...

[Six Switch]

Catcher in the Rye is the only book I have read for school so far that I have liked.I hoe to find this book at Borders,but you never know. :/

[Achika]

Catcher in the Rye is the only book I have read for school so far that I have liked.I hoe to find this book at Borders,but you never know. :/

That's where I found it, in the Fiction Section (the regular one, not young adult)

[Sothy]

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