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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2018 0:55:37 GMT
I loved it.
The simplicity of a kid floating around New York and being cool as fuck.
Any similar books to this?
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Post by Flying Monkeys (Flying/Monkeys on Jan 24, 2018 22:04:48 GMT
I was intrigued by the first half, for sure.
Don't know any similar books although a certain sense of pointlessness can be found in Catch 22, which I thoroughly recommend. My favourite book.
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Post by Colin Sibthorpe on Feb 8, 2019 3:27:33 GMT
I bought Catch 22, quite a nice edition too, about 15 or 20 years ago, and still haven't got round to it.
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Post by Flying Monkeys (Flying/Monkeys on Feb 8, 2019 8:50:10 GMT
I bought Catch 22, quite a nice edition too, about 15 or 20 years ago, and still haven't got round to it. Please do. I read your recommend! BTW, the first chapter is boring. Just get through it.
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Post by yggdrasil on Feb 8, 2019 11:13:00 GMT
I bought Catch 22, quite a nice edition too, about 15 or 20 years ago, and still haven't got round to it. Please do. I read your recommend! BTW, the first chapter is boring. Just get through it. Doesn't it start straight away with Yossarian in hospital? Haven't read it in years but I thought it was great right from the off. Couldn't get on with Heller's other work though.
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Post by Flying Monkeys (Flying/Monkeys on Feb 8, 2019 11:29:38 GMT
Doesn't it start straight away with Yossarian in hospital? Haven't read it in years but I thought it was great right from the off. Couldn't get on with Heller's other work though. Yes, in hospital. I tried Good as Gold, but it wasn't anything close.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2019 13:43:10 GMT
Two posts in and the Catcher in the Rye thread becomes about Catch 22.
Fucking Internet.
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Post by Flying Monkeys (Flying/Monkeys on Feb 8, 2019 13:55:52 GMT
Two posts in and the Catcher in the Rye thread becomes about Catch 22. Fucking Internet. That's nothing, there's some 'person' around here who keeps irrelevantly bringing Fast and Furious into threads about other films.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2019 14:06:55 GMT
Two posts in and the Catcher in the Rye thread becomes about Catch 22. Fucking Internet. That's nothing, there's some 'person' around here who keeps irrelevantly bringing Fast and Furious into threads about other films. And you just keep on clicking...
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Post by Colin Sibthorpe on Feb 10, 2019 1:51:17 GMT
I bought Catch 22, quite a nice edition too, about 15 or 20 years ago, and still haven't got round to it. Please do. I read your recommend! BTW, the first chapter is boring. Just get through it. Point taken. I am hunting around for my copy but seem to have put it somewhere strange.
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Post by Colin Sibthorpe on May 8, 2019 1:17:28 GMT
I never did find my copy of Catch 22 but I have just bought it on Kindle. High priority once I finish Jordan Peterson.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2020 2:01:34 GMT
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Post by yggdrasil on Jan 12, 2020 10:46:51 GMT
I was intrigued by the first half, for sure. Don't know any similar books although a certain sense of pointlessness can be found in Catch 22, which I thoroughly recommend. My favourite book. Did you watch the whole TV adaption in the end, I thought it was done as well as could be hoped for. Certainly one of the best books I have read too. Perhaps one should encounter it best at a certain age would you agree?
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Post by Flying Monkeys (Flying/Monkeys on Jan 12, 2020 11:01:28 GMT
Did you watch the whole TV adaption in the end, I thought it was done as well as could be hoped for. Certainly one of the best books I have read too. Perhaps one should encounter it best at a certain age would you agree? I have seen the first three episodes and thought it was okay. I appear not to be rushing back, though, so that tells me something. Not sure what age would be best, I read it when I was 21. (Not even sure if I've read it a second time.)
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Post by yggdrasil on Jan 12, 2020 13:19:33 GMT
Did you watch the whole TV adaption in the end, I thought it was done as well as could be hoped for. Certainly one of the best books I have read too. Perhaps one should encounter it best at a certain age would you agree? I have seen the first three episodes and thought it was okay. I appear not to be rushing back, though, so that tells me something. Not sure what age would be best, I read it when I was 21. (Not even sure if I've read it a second time.) Should watch it all, does get better all the way through. Yeah, I was late teens and it seemed to fit that age somehow. Will have to read it again, just got about 50 books backed up already.
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