36. Read 5 classics (2/5)
Finished Catcher in the Rye today. I sort of feel like I may have missed the point. Like, I think it’s a great character study but I feel like if I had been reading it in English, we would have analysed it in some detail and I probably would have got more out of it but probably ended up hating it at the same time. So I suppose I’m glad I finished it and said, ‘hrm. Cool.’ and tossed it in the returns bin and went on with my life.
I did enjoy it though. Holden, as a narrator was sort of whiny and pessimistic and I think old Phoebe hit it right on the head when she asked him to tell her something he really liked because there really wasn’t anything. I feel like I know people like that, who aren’t quite sure where they want to be in life because there isn’t something that they’re just mad about. I sometimes feel like I’m crazy about too many things, really.
I’ll probably read some Bronte or Austen next, I think. Susan and I made a list of 30, including some Oscar Wilde, Kurt Vonnegut (he might be next, actually), Thomas Hardy and so on. Right now though I have a lot of brand new things to read before I get back to the classics.
