Rik's Reads

CategoryBooks
* • I Am The Grand Canyon
Classics • Farenheit 451
• Beowolf
• Catcher in the Rye
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Grapes of Wrath
• Neuromancer
• Silas Marner, The Weaver of Raveloe
• To Kill a Mockingbird
Geeky • Death March (Surviving Doomed Projects)
• Executable UML: A Foundation for Model Driven Architecture
• Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions
• Just XML
• Using Perl 5 for Web Programming
General • The Bastard Brigade
• Tails of the City
Humor • The Joy of Work
• Owt, Nowt and Summat A Toast to All Tykes
Must Read • The Code Book
• Grapes of Wrath
• I Am The Grand Canyon
• The Silicon Boys and their valley of dreams
• To Kill a Mockingbird
Must Read • A Confederacy of Dunces
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Relaxing • Cannery Row
• Into Thin Air
Sci-Fi • Artemis
• The Martian
• Ready Player One
Sci-Fi • Farenheit 451
• Neuromancer
Techie • Alice in Quantumland
• The Code Book
• How to Invent Everything
• This Book Isn't Safe
Techie • Backroom Boys; the secret return of the british boffin
tbd • The Crystal Cave
• The Santa Cruz Trailbook
  Catcher in the Rye    
Catcher in the Rye
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Putting two and two together - This book plus Cannery Row - you might think I'm doing a reading tour of popular US literature.

Actually, I got this book as it got a mention in some Mel Gibson film called Conspiracy Theory.

I've laughed a couple of times while I've been reading it. Definatly a teenage angst book.

It's a monologue by a schoolboy (Caulfield) who keeps getting thrown out of various private schools (public boarding schools if your English). Obviously a rich drop-out. He hates everything and everybody.

Actually, I haven't quite finished it yet - so don't spoil it for me. I am expecting that Caulfield kills either himself, some innocent bystander or a loved family member before the end of the book ... but I could be wrong.

If it ends as it has progressed so far I would have to say - Don't rush out to buy this one. Unless of course you're a teenage public school drop-out who thinks you're much smarter than everyone else, you think everything sucks and everyone around you is a phony. In which case read it and you'll realize how disimilar you are to the rest of society.




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