the catcher in the rye

[Dinner]

War and Peace, how could they write a book about a war that was so boring.

I found War & Peace to be great. I especially loved how Tolstoy was so meticulously detailed in describing how people were dressed and what their living conditions were like even though I know a lot of people were bored by that. That's one of the reasons its worth so much today because it describes, so perfectly, what life and attitudes were like in late 18th and early 19th century Tsarist Russia.

[Dinner]

You read the whole ****ing book when you were 11?

I waited until I was 19 but John Miller is something of a nerdy bright boy and I mean that as a compliment. That's why he's a PHD in Physics and I am just a geologist, abet a very successful one.

[rah]

I found War & Peace to be great. I especially loved how Tolstoy was so meticulously detailed in describing how people were dressed and what their living conditions were like even though I know a lot of people were bored by that. That's one of the reasons its worth so much today because it describes, so perfectly, what life and attitudes were like in late 18th and early 19th century Tsarist Russia.

Other authors did the same thing without being so boring. Maybe he just didn't know when to stop. I had quite a few classes in Russian history and literature so I was forced to read a wide variety. While I enjoyed many of the "classics" there were some that just didn't live up to the hype. Unfortuantely that was decades ago and the memory is not as good as it should be.

[Krill]

Is it just me, or is Humour harder to write than insightful histories such as War and Peace?

[Elok]

The book appeals to whiny, self-absorbed smegs the way DOOM appealed to Harris and Klebold.

It's a great American novel with lessons for today.

See what I mean, folks?

[Theben]

I just read up on Harris and Klebold... I didn't recognize the names. Apparently Harris wasn't a disaffected youth. He had a mass-murderer mentality, and was planning on killing thousands of people with homemade bombs..