Sunday, July 3, 2011

The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger

"It is very well-written," I said.
"What make you think so?" Jia asked.
"Well, it precisely described what a teenage think -- and I share some of them, and the people and events described are typically ..."
"Is that enough?"
"Well, this is a typically issue of an American novel, well written, author of some talent, but it lacks something to make it great."
"okay, probably you can say that the book is not bad".

The American society makes a pattern of what a successful man and attractive woman should be, and then many people make a show in daily lives in order to fit the pattern.

Hardcover. Published by Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0316769533.

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