I'm reading Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger. I don't think I'm smart enough for Salinger. I should really give up. I mean, I read the stories and I like them (The Laughing Man's my favorite. I know everyone chooses A Perfect Day for Bannana Fish, but I've got to go with The Laughing Man so far), but what is he talking about? Where does he come up with this stuff? What is in his head that makes him write this? What life expiriences drove him to formulate those stories? The real reason that I'm reading Nine Stories is because I want to read books that are worth something. I'm also currently reading High Fidelity (good both in book and movie form, check it out) by Nick Hornby. And I just finished Kick Me by what's his face (the creator of Freaks and Geeks) yesterday. And I'm reading Lord of the Rings, ha.

Next on my "to read list" (in no particular order):
About a Boy (Nick Hornby)
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
Give a Boy a Gun (Todd Strasser)
How to be Good (Nick Hornby)

And that's all that I can think of at the moment.

"I'm here, in this stupid little flat, on my own, and I'm thirty-five years old, and I own a tiny failing business, and my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost. And if I went back to sleep and slept for fourty years and woke up without any teeth to the sound of Melody Radio in an old people's home, I wouldn't worry that much, because the worst of life, i.e., the rest of it, would be over. And I wouldn't even have had to kill myself."
Rob - High Fidelity


- posted by Jonathan@ 7:51 PM