What the hell is up with this book?!? I've been told it's such a great book and all I find is a guys ramblings about his shit ass life...what's so special about this book? I'm on the 13th chapter, and it's getting to the point where I just don't want to read.

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I've been told by a (net)friend to buy a book called, "Fight club" It came out recently but who was it by?!?! Jamopy mentioned it in another post but all he remembered was Charles...

Thanks

yea i didnt liek catcher that much either.
i think fight club is by Chuck Palahniuk

Catcher In The Rye is a character study more than anything else and what really intrigued me about the book was how that everyone in the book is someone you know. It's full of catches. For instance, Jane isn't even really a person. She's much more of a piece of Holden. The part of him that still cares about where everything is going in life.

I'm supposing you already got pass the duck and pond thing. The duck and pond thing (if you didn't notice) is a metaphor for Holdens own personal conflict. He just got kicked out of Pency Prep, so does someone come and get him (fix the problem) or is he supposed to do this on his own (fly away). Is he supposed to wait for life to find him or is he supposed to go out and find life.

I don't know if you already got to the part where he meets up with Pheobe, but Pheobe is very much a comfort symbol for him. He's very proud of his brothers and sister. For instance, he seems to feel he's the black sheep of the family and all and he's proud of DB's writing and pissed that he started whoring himself to the big Hollywood execs. About how upset he was when his kid brother died and how fucked up was that of Stradlater. I was pissed when Holden didn't connect with that.

In any case, I thought it was a lot better after reading twice. It makes a lot more sense, then.

Cheers,
Lost

Whoa that was a cool post, I never read into it that deep heh

read "Ham on Rye" by charles bukowski, that will cheer you up

Thanks, I really like that book. I've read it about a million times, and each time I read it, I pick up something more.

Steppenwolfe is a lot like that. So is Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass. Hermann Hesse and Lewis Carrol were fucking geniuses.

Ham On Rye is a great book, too. But, if you read Ham On Rye, you have to read Women directly afterwards.

Bukowski is such a good time. By the time you read Women, you actually like Henry Chinaski.

Cheers,
Lost

The best part about that book was the ending. It left me freaking out, wanting to remain a part of that fucked up boy's life until he got things straightened out. (ie: he figured out that he really did want to be with Jane and all that shixx.) He never quite does what he wants to do. All I wanted the whole time was for him to just get up the fucking courage to go out to the midwest or whatever he wanted to do.

It's a deep book, but its also so glossy on the surface that I thought it was tough to put down. Unfortunately, I had to read it for school, but I'm glad I did.

Read Siddhartha next. That's deep.

FIGHT CLUBS THE SHIT, THE MOVIES OK BUT THA BOOK IS THE SHIT AS I SED BEFORE< READ IT BEFORE I KILL YOU BITCH

yea, fight clubs by chuck somthin, like dOm sed, read the bood before u see the movie, itl be better,

*blinks*

*blinks again*

Is it just me, or did the IQ level just drop fifty points?

Cheers,
Lost

I read Ham On Rye and I didn't think it was great. Don't build it up to be better than it is.

Bukowski is a badass. so is hesse. i liked narciussus and goldmund best though, not most ppls pick. but unlike t0ne, you need to be able to pick up on the metaphors. some books are more than "stories," ya know?

If you like fight club, try reading invisible monsters.

Inivisible monsters was really no good. Survivor, his second novel, was excellently written. It's far preferable over his other books. If fight club hadn't been his first novel it probably would have been better, or at least I would have enjoyed the concept more if it was written better.

catcher gets better in the end. i dont like fiction books so i didnt really enjoy this one or any for that matter. it just seems like a waste to fill three hundred pages full of fluff when you can do the same thing in two or three pages of prose.

Yeah i can confirm that fight club is by chuck palahniuk.
I havent read it but i read 'choke' by the same geezer.
I wasnt a great deal impressed but it had its ups and downs
Beany