Embarrassing as it is, I think the last book I was looking forward to coming out was the final Harry Potter book
It's still the only series I've read as it was being written, so I would always look forward to the next one.

There are several I need to read; To Kill A Mockingbird, Of Mice And Men, Catch 22 (which I have at home), etc.

I thought Catcher In The Rye was absolutely shite, and the little I read of Dickens, I really didn't enjoy.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:32, 3 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Charles Dick-ens I call him!!!!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:36, Reply)

LOL!!!!!!!!!1!11!

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:36, Reply)

I love Catcher in the Rye, but my main ting is American fiction anyway.
You should try Less Than Zero.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:37, Reply)

I also liked Catcher in the Rye
see also Jack Kerouac's On the Road
( Peej, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:39, Reply)

I was expecting to like On the Road more than I did.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:43, Reply)

I have tried to read it several times and got bored each time.
I don't understand, because I'm sure it is supposed to appeal to me.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:54, Reply)

For the life of me I couldn't see how it 'shaped a generation' or whatever.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:00, Reply)

it was shit. FACT.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:12, Reply)

I have a couple of recordings of Kerouac reading excerpts from that and some other books
accompanied by a jazz pianist extemporising underneath it all, and that is excellent. The words and his delivery are very pleasing to listen to, but I still can't read him.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:13, Reply)

PONCE.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:13, Reply)

Perhaps.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:14, Reply)

If it's the same style as Catcher, I don't think I'd be able to enjoy it
The stream of consciousness style of writing just leaves me cold.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:46, Reply)

Thematically similar
But with coke, gang rape of a 12 year old, ennui, fast cars and male prostitutes.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:53, Reply)

Make them do what?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:00, Reply)

I thought Holden Caulfield was an irritating prick and that ruined the book for me.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:55, Reply)

have you seen the "family guy" where quagmire rants at brian about that book?
haha
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:57, Reply)

I have not, but I imagine I would agree with him.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:14, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/board/10271435
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:57, Reply)

Spot on.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:13, Reply)

Very much this.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:01, Reply)

I think I was the same age as Caulfield when I read it
perhaps if I read it as an adult I might've been more forgiving.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:16, Reply)

I was 14 at the time, I think that probably made me hate him less
If I read it now, I don't think I could get past the first few pages.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:18, Reply)

Don't bother with To Kill A spanking Bird, it is truly awful, plus there is a rabid dog that gets shot, may have my real name. We were forced to read it at school, it was uninteresting, talks about smacked up old women and magnolia or camellia bushes, and yes my namesake gets shot!
(feedingtimeatthezoo day 1 of his bikini diet started, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 16:13, Reply)