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News Roundup
Jun. 21st, 2009 10:44 amTwo interesting articles in today's (Sunday) New York Times, which I ordinarily read only for the pictures of naked women.
First, and possibly of limited interest (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
regyt, I'm looking at you), Bees! Being kept! In New York!
Second, The Catcher in the Rye is finally getting the respect it deserves.
I read Catcher in my early teens and I loathed it. I read it again a few years later, when it was assigned in high school, and I loathed it more. It's not that I couldn't relate to feeling isolated: if anything, I felt even more isolated in my teens than Caulfield. But I, personally, found things to do besides whining about it. If he couldn't, well, I found nothing edifying, or even marginally entertaining, in reading 200-plus pages about it.
First, and possibly of limited interest (
regyt, I'm looking at you), Bees! Being kept! In New York!Second, The Catcher in the Rye is finally getting the respect it deserves.
I read Catcher in my early teens and I loathed it. I read it again a few years later, when it was assigned in high school, and I loathed it more. It's not that I couldn't relate to feeling isolated: if anything, I felt even more isolated in my teens than Caulfield. But I, personally, found things to do besides whining about it. If he couldn't, well, I found nothing edifying, or even marginally entertaining, in reading 200-plus pages about it.
