News Roundup

[lawnrrd]

Two 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 (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.

Comments

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Finally, someone who loathed that book too!! Yay!

[lawnrrd]

We could form a Facebook group for people who loathed Catcher before loathing Catcher was cool.

[lisavnyc.livejournal.com]

Ms. Feinberg recalled one 15-year-old boy from Long Island who told her: “Oh, we all hated Holden in my class. We just wanted to tell him, ‘Shut up and take your Prozac.’ ”

Didn't have so much of a reaction to Catcher in the Rye, but that pretty much sums up my feelings on Hamlet.

[lawnrrd]

Hamlet himself always seemed more a candidate for something like Risperdal than the Prozac type.