The last book you read?

[Latimer]

Agree to disagree. My lack of vocabulary isn't an indictment on anyone but myself. He's not some quack poet who happened to run into a publisher while panhandling

-clinical psychologist and the director of behavioral medicine at the University of Massachusetts Health Services
-published in numerous scientific journals
-PhD, ABPP certified honey
-awarded by the APA

I have lots of friends who read and I cant say I've got a single one who's never struggled through at least one book, I remember also not understanding what was the fucking point of Catcher in the Rye. Felt like a series of short stories about an entitled brat. In The African Unconscious Dr Bynum touches on everything from archaeology to DNA he's a gifted writer, I'm just a dum dum.

I'll have to trust you on Dr. Bynum. His C.V. looks to me to guarantee what I suspected. That said, you're no dum dum. Catcher IS a series of stories about an entitled brat. There IS no point. Tiresome book about a tiresome character. Way up there on the overrated list.

I learned a new word this morning, or at least a new word relating to architecture: chasmic, as in chasm, but used to describe an undercut molding in the design of a door surround by Edwin Luytens. (Luytens is thought by many to be the greatest British architect of the 20th century.)

 

[PipRosi]

I think books like 'Catcher' or The Bell Jar were part of a pre-sixties/seventies counter-cultural expression by young people. In a similar vein to Beatnikism. I think it's difficult to imagine just how bizarrely stifling, restrictive and contradictory the world war/post-world war culture was. Books like these signaled unrest, an unwillingness to float with the tide of conformity and so had an important impact on the generation. James Dean and Marilyn Monroe were starting to become of that 'disturbing to daddy' ilk as well. Soon of course the 60s/70s peace movement had its day in a major way... before being summarily destroyed by the bourgeois counter-revolution.

 

[Riverrick]

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut.

 

[PipRosi]

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut.

That's the only one of his I haven't liked so far. Though I'm glad he tells the Dresden story.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut.

I remember his name from working in Booksamillion, never read his work.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

I'll have to trust you on Dr. Bynum. His C.V. looks to me to guarantee what I suspected. That said, you're no dum dum. Catcher IS a series of stories about an entitled brat. There IS no point. Tiresome book about a tiresome character. Way up there on the overrated list.

I learned a new word this morning, or at least a new word relating to architecture: chasmic, as in chasm, but used to describe an undercut molding in the design of a door surround by Edwin Luytens. (Luytens is thought by many to be the greatest British architect of the 20th century.)

I wish I knew why that word feels familiar.

 

[purina]

^Because it rhymes with orgasmic?

 

[Riverrick]

That's the only one of his I haven't liked so far. Though I'm glad he tells the Dresden story.

I actually liked the time travelling. It allowed him to tell his character's life story and comment on it at the same time. I think it would be a good way to write an autobiography, to keep it more interesting.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

^Because it rhymes with orgasmic?

Haven't had one of those all summer. Between hubby's work schedule and my running around trying to save the world from burning I've barely gotten a kiss since May.