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Franny and Zooey and Youngblood Hawke for me. Loved the Salinger, enjoyed but didn't love the Wouk.
Just finished Franny and Zooey and thus COMPLETED my "1001" books category, which seems like just as much of an achievement as completing the challenge itself.
#25 jhedlund I read Franny and Zooey when I was about 17 or 18 and loved it :-) I loved it so much that for a while the names "Franny" and "Zooey" were on my "future baby names" list.. lol. Oddly, now the only thing I really remember about the book is that Zooey was a child genius or ...
I put down A Confederacy of Dunces last week and started Franny and Zooey to complete my "1001 books" category in the 999 challenge. I just wasn't into A Confederacy of Dunces right now, but I know I will ultimately read and like it. I plan to pick it up again next year. Enjoying F&Z in ...
...
Lewis, C.S.: Till We Have Faces (fiction)
Oliver, Mary: Evidence (nonfiction)
Best in June:
Salinger, J.D.: Franny and Zooey (fiction)
McPherson, James: Battle Cry of Freedom (nonfiction)
Best in July:
McKillip, Patricia: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (fiction)
St ...
... C.S.: Till We Have Faces (fiction)
Oliver, Mary: Evidence (nonfiction)
Best in June:
Salinger, J.D.: Franny and Zooey (fiction)
McPhearson, James: Battle Cry of Freedom (nonfiction)
Best in July:
McKillip, Patricia: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (fiction)
S ...
Book #24-- finished Franny and Zooey last week, another book off my TBR list, woo hoo. I don't know if I'm going to finish by the end of the year but I am going to try!
Book #25 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. A delightful little suprise. A very interesting portrait of New York ...
20. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
5) Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger.
This book was a lot different than I expected it to be and it held my attention to the end. I felt like I was learning a moral or something but didn't really know what to think about the end of the book. I'm glad I've finally read it but will have to give ...
... subconsciously...)
The Little Prince
Catch-22
Shogun
His Dark Materials Trilogy
The Shadow of the Wind
Franny and Zooey
The Secret Garden
The Last Unicorn
Pride and Prejudice
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
... Svejk
Pride and Prejudice
Passage to India
Iliad, Odyssey
Huckleberry Finn
Good Soldier
Lord Jim
Franny and Zooey
Grendel
Song of the Lark
Wise Blood
The Outsider
Daring Young Man
No Country for Old Men
Finished Franny and Zooey (book 20) this morning.
I quite liked this book but I can't quite figure out why!
11. Franny And Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Didn't care for this one that much--it was about a brother and sister and their religious beliefs. Not really my thing.
56. Franny And Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Not really my thing. I liked The Catcher In The Rye when I read it a few years ago; this one, not so much.
... - Henrik Ibsen (122)
347. The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck (448)
348. Crazy for the Storm - Norman Ollestad (288)
349. Franny and Zooey - J. D. Salinger (208)
350. In Praise of Folly - Desiderius Erasmus (108)
351. Traveling Mercies - Anne Lamott (275)
352. This is Where I Leave You ...
From grelobe's library I chose Franny and Zooey . Time for a little Salinger...
... the book, I suppose). But on the other side (and this is where I scream!) there's a best sellers' list from 1962 which has Franny and Zooey as number one bestseller at the time. Now some of you might know that F&Z is one of my favourite books ever so can understand how happy I was when I saw ...
Just finished Franny and Zooey which for a short book tried my patience. Now starting All Quiet on the Western Front while waiting for Remains of the Day to arrive.
... Cather: The Old Beauty and Others (2/26/09)
3. Lewis, C.S.: Till We Have Faces (5/27/09)
4. Salinger, J.D.: Franny and Zooey (6/01/05)
5. Franklin, Ariana: Mistress of the Art of Death (6/16/09) (Mystery)
6. Stewart, George R.: Earth Abides (7/16/09) (Sci-Fi)
7. Morley ...
... Geraldine Brooks
70. The Necklace by Cheryl Jarvis
71. So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger
72. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
73. Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
74. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
75. The White Queen by Philippa G ...
Finished Dangerous Liaisons which was great and now just starting Franny and Zooey
Category 1: 1001 Books to Read Before You Die
1. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
2. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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15. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger. I found this among a pile of books my uncle has at our clubhouse, and brought it home to read. It was on my TBR list, although I don't have it noted where I got the idea to read it. I really liked this book. I shouldn't have. It was kind of ...
... can be found here:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/42186
The first book I finished in August was a re-read:
1. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
Just finished The Lost City of Z and starting Franny and Zooey . The Serpent's Tale is in the car, The Ice Queen is in the MP3, Porgy in the purse.
also for fans of franz kafka, esp. the metamorphosis
and sylvia plath the bell jar
j.d. salinger franny and zooey
... "This is me!" and I was so excited that he too feels his reading habits are inadequate, he writes about not having read Franny and Zooey , "Shouldn't I have read some of these books decades ago? Franny and Zooey? Jesus."
He buys tons of books he will not get around to reading but some ...
27. Franny and Zooey
I don't think I'm smart enough for this book. Most books don't make me feel stupid, but this one did. I keep trying to figure out the meaning of all the things, but it's not working out.
... the J.D. Salinger read, since I have been trying to re-read Nine Stories and The Catcher in the Rye. I re-read Franny and Zooey last year and was happily surprised to see that it had held up for me after first reading it as an angsty teenager. I've been struggling with Catcher ...
>203 sanja: Ah, Franny and Zooey .... I may go back and read it again, remembering my dear sainted Irish Catholic mother, who bought the book for me when it was assigned reading in my AP English class, looking it over while waiting for me in the school parking lot. The tongue-lashing my English ...
... best friend has given me 2 books that I "absolutely must read." So I've finished The Last Lecture and am about to start Franny and Zooey .
... of this challenge (if not individually, then certainly through my thread) to read my favourite books. Take for example, Franny and Zooey - I have talked on and on about it. Yet, I have yet to write a review about that book. Why? Simply because I cannot say everything I want to say about it ...
Book 52:
Salinger, J.D.: Franny and Zooey
999 Classics & Fiction category (6/01/05)
Library 201 pages
I read Catcher in the Rye years ago when I was a teenager and was totally underwhelmed. I thought the story was boring and Holden Caulfield didn’t interest me at all. (I ...
... Marty had sent to me. Tuesday I had my first completely free day in ages and I planned to read. But I had just finished Franny and Zooey so I couldn’t get into another novel and all I really wanted was something light and mindless—and preferably funny. This one looked perfect in spite ...
... by, roni. I hope the next two weeks go quickly for you!
Time to start June.
Book 52:
Salinger, J.D.: Franny and Zooey
999 Classics & Fiction category (6/01/05)
Library 201 pages
I read Catcher in the Rye years ago when I was a teenager and was totally underwhelmed. ...
44. Franny and Zooey , J D Salinger; We all have access to the same language, right? I mean, all English speakers. Geography, generation and level of education dictates our exact vocabulary, but we all use the same basic words to express ourselves. So how is it that some writers are so inept? Rea ...
2. Random TBR
1. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
2. Christmas Train by David Baldacci
3. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
4. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
5. Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
6. Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
7. Duma Key by S ...
From the library of janoorani24 I have chosen Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger.
hey kidzdoc can I make a little suggestion?
Both Franny and Zooey , Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction are about the same characters: Salinger's famous Glass family. Now - from the Nine Stories the ones that deal with the Glasses are: A Perfect Day for Banana ...
... that other
Woman who stands on the Pacific Edge, who
crosses Three Californias singing her own descants, while
Franny and Zooey , The Cathers , The Ayotollah
and I watch Death and the Penguin dance.
... young lovers forced to sing their own Wedding Song, then, Frederick, perhaps it is, but which one? Hear this and judge: Franny and Zooey (yes, your college roomies), Tom Cruise, and the Ayatollah and I have discovered through the Angel Camus that the Crime of Galileo was not one of ...
Assembled from the lists of Dukedom_Enough, Charbutton & depressaholic's random books lists
Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons
World soul by Mikhail Tikhonovich Emtsev
Star Songs of an Old Primate by James Tiptree Jr.
Pacific Edge: Three Californias (Wild Shore Triptych) by Kim Stanley Ro ...
Re Franny and Zooey , it's my cousin's favourite book too - between the two of you, I clearly must re-read it some time - I read it and For Esme: With Love and Squalor, ooh, ages ago, after loving Catcher in the Rye, but I have virtually no memory of either strangely...
Re renaming books, I ...
... the point is to see which book people would recommend above all others. I'm now very keen to read both A Fine Balance and Franny and Zooey because of the passion with which bonniebooks and girlunderglass put their case. I don't feel compelled in any way though.
I'm still ...
#101 I got confused because I thought the non-Catcher in the Rye book I had by Salinger was Franny and Zooey .
And I can never understand why books have different titles across the ocean.
Your response question 27 makes me want to move it right up the TBR pile. Which I wil.
#102 Those ...
So I'll just copy this from my thread:
Franny and Zooey . Though 90% of the people I would force to read it would absolutely hate it. This is the reaction I would expect: "Oh but nothing ever happens!!! *moan moan moan whinge moan bitch ineedanexcitingplot bitch moan * "
And then I ...
girlunderglass , you're really selling Franny and Zooey to me - I want to read it NOW. However, my self-imposed borrowing and buying ban means I'll have to wait :(
I see bonniebooks has started a thread based on question 9, which is a very good idea, but bad for my resolve, I ...
Ooh, fascinating. I love quizzes like this! I will make sure to give Franny and Zooey a go.
Regarding question 21, if that's the only Eliot you've read then I suggest you try The Mill on the Floss or Middlemarch. I had to study Silas Marner at school and I hated it (and not just because I ...
... times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; i.e., Goodnight Moon does not count)?
Harry Potter series. Franny and Zooey and Nine Stories. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Poe's short stories. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten ...
... These articles can also be printed for offline reading.
The entire contents of three of his books, Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey , and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, can be found in back issues of The New Yorker, except for two of the short ...
... own favourite and it won't make the top at all - which is unfair considering how many people like/love the whole series)
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Mitchell Is Moving by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The Sea, The Sea ...
... Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Nonfiction: Evidence by Mary Oliver
June:
Books Read:
52. Salinger, J.D.: Franny and Zooey
53. McCrumb, Sharon: Bimbos of the Death Sun
54. Wallace, Edgar: The Murder Book of J.G. Reeder
55. Harr, Jonathon: The Lost Painting (Audio)
...
... Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
7. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
8. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
9. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
10. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
11 ...
... Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
7. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
8. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
9. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
10. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
11 ...
It's actually a pretty good anthology. Another book (fiction) that deals with the subject in an oblique fashion is Franny and Zooey .
God, this is gonna sound terrible, but when I'm depressed, I like to read books that make me more depressed.
Franny and Zooey , mainly. (Franny, moreso than Zooey.) The Fan Man. Any manic-depressive memoirs - I guess I'm looking for people who understand. And also to project a ...
It's probably too late for me then with Catcher in the Rye. I read Franny and Zooey in high school. My reaction was: "I don't get it."
... everything he writes because I like his style, Catcher is by no means up there with his other books like Nine Stories or Franny and Zooey . However, I do not think he was aiming the book at young adults, for the simple reason that Holden does not think like a young adult. Maybe maryjanemanolos in 1001 Books to read before you die : What Book From the 1001 List are You Reading: February 2009 (Feb 4, 2009, 9:40am)
Well, finished Franny and Zooey and tried my hand at Middlesex and gave up on that one....I had this moment of.."oh...incest..sex changes..how....interesting (snore modern lit scares me snore)" so now I'm on to Treasure Island!
I'm reading Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger!
girlunderglass:
I'm somewhat undecided on Franny and Zooey . I certainly don't mind that there's not much action in the story; what bothers me more is that none of the main characters seem like persons of action themselves. I can't help but compare it to The Old Man and the Sea (or any of Hemi ...
... going to read it again, give it a fighting chance post-teenager before I give it up as just not for me. But I've not read Franny and Zooey yet, I think I might prefer it to Catcher...
1. Salinger, J.D.: Franny and Zooey
Great book, I'm read the part of Franny, I love this character of the girl.
Now I'm at the middle of Zooey's part.
7. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
8. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
I've finished two more since last updating my list--I'm just flying through them this month! At this rate, I'll far surpass 50 this year, but who knows? I'll have to tackle some ...
... Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
7. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
8. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
9. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
10. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
11 ...
... by no means his best work. If you like short stories I would absolutely urge you to read Nine Stories. Also, for me, Franny and Zooey was life-changing.
... O'Brien, 1990's
179. Catch 22, Joseph Heller, 1969
180. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark, 1970's
181. Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger , 1968
1968
... O'Brien, 1990's
179. Catch 22, Joseph Heller, 1969
180. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark, 1970's
181. Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger , 1968
1968
... Cather: The Old Beauty and Others (2/26/09)
3. Lewis, C.S.: Till We Have Faces (5/27/09)
4. Salinger, J.D.: Franny and Zooey (6/01/09)
5. Franklin, Ariana: Mistress of the Art of Death (6/16/09) (mystery)
6. Stewart, George R.: Earth Abides (7/13/09) (Sci-Fi)
7. Morley, ...
... by Leo Tolstoy *March 4
2. Middlesex by Jeffrey Euginides *June 24
3. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger *November 22
4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte *October 12
5. Siddhartha
... (finished 7/27/09)
Confessions Of A Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella (finished 7/17/09)
Franny And Zooey by J.D. Salinger (finished 10/6/09)
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Light In The Forest by Conrad Richter (finished ...
...
I have a Haiku nudge:
The little girl on the plane
Turned her doll's head around
To look at me.
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
... ignite a warmth of worlds perfect for days wrapped in blankets and drinking tea (err...wine).
Other good winter reads:
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
The Aeneid by Virgil
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard
Poetry by Anne Sex ...
Bumping to F-books.
Still love Franny and Zooey , but I read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas not long ago and really enjoyed that as well, so it is a close second.
-- M1001.
... year:
So far my most interesting nonSF reads was the rest of the Salinger material besides Catcher in the Rye, namely Franny and Zooey , Nine Stories and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction. I was suprised to find out how funny and singular this material ...
Moving to S-Authors:
J.D. Salinger:The Catcher In The Rye is good, but Franny and Zooey is great, as well as any of his stories about the Glass Family.
He put the Funk in Dysfunctional.
-- M1001
... more than it gave to me. I found it a little more bland than I was hoping for. The prose seemed a bit muddled as well.
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger Basically the story revolves around two siblings and the nervous breakdown of one of them. Most of this involves conversations ...
... farrell
jane eyre charlotte bronte
it all began with jane eyre: or the secret life of franny dillman sheila greenwald
franny and zooey j.d. salinger
zoe and her zebra clare beaton
... r
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
... by John Crowley
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Demien by Hermann Hesse
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Lord of the Rings trilogy
King of the City by Michael Moorcock
Cruddy by Lynda Barry
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Babel ...
... for last. It was simply gorgeous, but I doubt I would've gotten as much out of it had I read it before Nine Stories and Franny and Zooey . It belongs at the end, a fitting finish to our knowledge of the Glass family.
(But so help me, do I ever hope Salinger's sitting on about six million ...
... I loved the book. I should probably go see the movie too even though I will probably be disappointed. Oh well.
44. Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger 202 pages *** 1/2
It's an 1001 book and I finished it in one sitting. A good read, but I love Salinger.
44/50 (88%)
16,259 / 16,000 YAY ...
... ve:
Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion by Jane Austen
A Tale of 2 Cities by Charles Dickens
Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey , and Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ...
... best H.S. choice or maybe it is good for H.S. boys. I didn't like it (and I read it as an adult) but I loved the stories in Franny and Zoey if you liked the Royal Tennenbaums then you'll find the family is closely related to the Glass family of the other short stories.
The only book I ...
... hypocrisy, etc, are topics I find interesting.
Having said all of that...if you want to read a great Salinger book, read Franny and Zooey . Much better than Catcher in the Rye.
-- M1001
... else he wrote 'way more than Catcher. Nine Stories, Raise High the Roofbeam Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction, Franny and Zooey , plus all his (pirated) uncollected short stories and stuff you can still only find in old magazines. They are all re-readable.
The Glass family is ...
... books and making connections with other readers is fun.
Part of why I started this list.
You should really check out Franny and Zooey , too. Great, great novel.
Let's end "F" on our positive note and start "G" on the same note:
The Garden Party
It is a short story that packs a ...
#47: I agree, Felicia's Journey was probably a second choice for me after Franny and Zooey . Reminded me a bit of The Collector, which was one of the other "C" books I enjoyed. Both had villains who felt completely justified committing terrible acts, which make them so much more creepy to me. ...
I just posted this in the alphabetical list post and realized I haven't posted it here yet.
From Franny and Zooey , for the eastern philosophy crowd:
...to be in a state of pure consciousness...is to be with God before he said, Let there be light.
-- M1001
I'll have to go with Franny and Zooey as well. My favorite Salinger book and one of my favorite novels overall. The Glass Family is horribly dysfunctional, yet lovable. I understand that the film The Royal Tenenbaums is based on the Glass family, so if you liked that movie I'm sure you would ...
It's been 43 years since I read Franny And Zooey and I'm now only vaguely haunted by it. Now might be a good time to revisit that youthful angst.
My favourite F book is Franny and Zooey - I love and adore this book.
I have read The sea and really loved it.
Anyone read Franny and Zooey ?
I read and own a now beat up and tattered Franny and Zooey - easily my favourite book of all time :)
... Proulx)
God of Small Things (Roy)
Ground Beneath Her Feet (Rushdie)
The Accidental Tourist (Tyler)
Franny and Zooey (Salinger)
My Name is Aram (Saroyan)
East of Eden ( Steinbeck)
The Good Soldier ( Ford Madox Ford)
The Scarlet Letter (Hawthor ...
Franny and Zooey was wonderful, the Salinger that has probably held up the best for me after 40 years. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich was incredibly vivid. Unlike everybody else in the world, I never read To Kill a Mockingbird.
I read all of White's Making of the President books (four ...
Ive read Franny and Zooey and To kill a mockingbird
... Catcher in the Rye but the greatest benefit I received was an interest in Salinger's other works. I love re-reading Franny and Zooey , Raise High the Roofbeam Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction and Nine Stories. In high school I spent hours and hours reading all his uncollected ...
... 2 lists
27) The magic mountain 2 lists
28) Midnight's children 2 lists
29) In search of lost time 2 lists
30) Franny and Zooey 2 lists
31) The god of small things 2 lists
Sorry, double post
... the results to date.
My top 25 - in no order - except for the first book which is my favourite book of all time.
1) Franny and Zooey
2) The bell jar
3) Cry the beloved country
4) Dangerous liasions
5) Einstein's dreams
6) Family matters
7) Gilead
8) The joyluck club
...
... Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason - Jessica Warner (NF)
American Born Chinese - Gene Luen Yang
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader - Anne Fadiman
The Giver - Lois Lowry
... books this year, fearing that they would not hold up for me. I have been pleasantly surprised to find that not only did Franny and Zooey hold up extremely well, I actually appreciated it MORE as an adult than as a teenager. I am curious to see if others, especially The Catcher in the Rye, ...
... got made here was that I flip-flopped The Catcher in the Rye, which used to be in the "Books I Already Own" category with Franny and Zooey , so that the former is in this category and the latter is in the latter category. Even though I love Franny and Zooey , I think Catcher is the more "class ...
Mine are:
1) Franny and Zooey
2) The belljar
3) Catcher in the Rye
4 The joyluck club
5) War and Peace
6) I know this much is true
7) The hitchikers guide to the galaxy
8) The life of insects
9) Life of Pi
10) The poisonwood bible
Hmmm... no idea. Probably something sports related, if it was with my own (allowance/lawn mowing) money, or Franny and Zoey if it was a paycheck... first album ever bought was Earth, Wind & Fire's greatest hits, first truck was a '78 Chevy Luv...
... - Michael Pollan (NF)
Review
(12) Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger (F)
(13) Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys (F) (finished the novel, will be dipping into the critical essays in the Norton Critic ...
... - Michael Pollan (NF)
Review
(14) Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger (F)
(15) Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys (F)
Review
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... like to be me. He was my hero. I loved it so much the second time, I read everything else Salinger wrote. I still love Franny and Zooey , almost named my kids after them... almost.
The third, and last, time I read Catcher, I was a mother of five, the oldest being 12. I hated it, again, ...
Franny and Zoey ?
For my light, portable reads, I'm just finishing up Franny and Zooey , and will be starting next on Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day, and then for my heavy, non-portable reading, I'm tackling War and Peace.
... got Travels with Charley, the two cookbooks, and the New English Bible with the Apocrypha.
As a sidenote, I liked Franny and Zooey better than "The Catcher in the Rye."
... going to have to read something else on my train rides, because W&P is too huge to lug around! I think probably I'll read Franny and Zooey for my next portable read.
Franny And Zooey and Travels With Charley: In Search Of America. Both are still treasured possessions.
... Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
The Virgin in the Garden, A.S. Byatt
Franny and Zooey , J.D. Salinger
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
Vi ...
... is not even mental. If it were, I'd never remember what I was supposed to read, like before LT.
To the Lighthouse
Franny and Zooey
David Copperfield
Mrs. Dalloway
Henry and June
Pale Fire - Nabokov
Far from the Madding Crowd
Bleak House
The Prince - Machiavelli, ...
US Fiction
1. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone 802 copies on LT
2. Franny and Zooey , J. D. Salinger 4,384 copies
3. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 14,386 copies
4. Mila 18, Leon Uris 347 copies
5. The Carpetbaggers, Harold Robbins 88 copies
...
Category 3 – Favorite Authors
(1) Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger (F) (a re-read) - 03/16/2008
(2) Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader – Anne Fadiman (NF, essays) - 03/18/2008
(3) The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger (F) (a re-read)
(4) A Pale View ...
This space used to contain the full category list, but there got to be too many touchstones, so I've broken them out into individual entries below and decided to delete this one.
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Buddha by Osamu Tezuka (this is actually series, but it's really more of a very long story told in multiple volumes)
The Josephine B. Trilogy by Sandra Gu ...
#83 jemlunchbox - how do you like Franny and Zooey ? I read it last month and just loved it.
... what's going on beneath the surface in a conversation. His books read like stage plays, in some ways. My favourite is Franny and Zooey .
If you like classic novels, Alexandre Dumas is a ton of fun. There's lots of action and adventure, and I get a big kick out of his prose style. T ...
#155
I absolutely love and adore Franny and Zooey - probably my favourite book of all time :) I hope you enjoy reading it.
... finishing up Deer Park, the fifth volume of Osamu Tezuka's Buddha biography. After this, I plan to greedily devour Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger.
Over the next little bit, I want to get through:
Deer Park by Osamu Tezuka
Ananda by Osamu Tezuka
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Darkwing by Kenneth Oppel
Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
I've also ...
... - library
210. The Orc King by R.A. Salvatore - library
211. Deer Park by Osamu Tezuka - library
212. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger - keeper
213. When the Bough Breaks by Mercedes Lackey and Holly Lisle - keeper (in omnibus)
214. Serenity: The Official V ...
50 by the end of the year might still be doable at this point. Here's what I've finished in 2007 so far:
1. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
2. Understanding Morphology by Martin Haspelmath
3. Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
4. Ill Nature by Joy Williams
5. Kafka on the ...
I read Franny and Zooey as an adolescent and liked it better than The Catcher in the Rye. I read The Agony and the Ecstasy when I was a student in Italy. I haven't read the others, but the movie version of The Reivers has a great musical score.
I've only read Franny and Zooey .
I'm going to try to bring up the right Touchstone for The Prize.
... your thoughts on Salinger. We just went through a debate about him at this group: I'm definitely in your camp about Franny and Zooey . Cliff, however...
... up and it just opened my world to other ways of being. It helped me stay away from unhealthy relationships as well.
Franny and Zooey - where to start. Because of this book I have a significant detachment to anything and everything - which I think is the opposite of what Salinger ...
... ion
The Virgin in the Garden
By Jane Austen:
Sense and Sensibility
Persuasion
By J.D. Salinger:
Franny and Zooey
Nine Stories
Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
The Bhagavad-Gita
Something Wicked This Way Comes by ...
... to college.
Another Salinger work that seems to fit with these, although it doesn't directly reference Buddhism, is Franny and Zooey . Franny's chanting of the Jesus prayer is reminiscent of some Buddhist practices, but there's a desperate quality to it that seems peculiarly American.
... May, The Agony and the Ecstasy. The Reivers, (I think) became a television series.
Only books on the list I've read are Franny and Zooey and The Agony and the Ecstasy.
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55. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Meh. The main character is a tool. It's as if you took Franny and Zooey , gave them the selfish personality of Holden Caulfield and outdated them and their references 50 years. It's very similar to the plight of the female ...
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger was fantastic. I am just finishing Raise high the roofbeam, carpenters and Seymour: an introduction also by Salinger which I suppose may yet challenge it, though I am finding the introduction less rewarding than other mentions of Seymour.
... copies
3. A Shade of Difference, Allen Drury 41 copies
4. Youngblood Hawke, Herman Wouk 72 copies
5. Franny and Zooey , J. D. Salinger 3,878 copies
6. Fail-Safe, Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler 137 copies
7. Seven Days in May, Fletcher Knebel and Charle ...
... nn
Tom Sawyer
Tristran Shandy
Tom Jones
Lazarillo de Tormes
Gil Blas
Grimmelshausen's Mother Courage
Fanny (by Erica Jong)
Don Quixote
Simplicimmus
... Chinese Daughter and From Reverence to Rape.
I have always liked Erica Jong's poetry but not her fiction except for Fanny , her attempt at an eighteenth century picaresque novel with a heroine instead of a hero. It is an adorable book, and kind of a companionable twin to Tom Jones.
17. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
After my recent bash at his short stories I couldn't wait to have a go at this and it was excellent, what a great ending -- I read a critic who felt it was a bit overdone at the end (despite her arguing the case for these stories against the critical ...
... Holden or you don't, and I think that plays the biggest part. Some of Salinger's other work is better though. I'd recommend Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters and Seymour, and Introduction (although I wasn't crazy about Seymour).
My dog was named Franny after the Salinger book Franny and Zoey .
My oldest child's middle name is Abigail because I was reading The Three Musketeers and the book kept mention the abigails and my wife and I thought it sounded good with the first name we had picked out.
I really enjoyed Winter's Tale.
I did a tagmash on novel, New York -- I've read a few of these that came up.
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster. These include City of Glass, Ghosts, and Locked Room. Well crafted, haunted tales.
Th ...
... it was ok, but didn't speak to me, because I didn't feel the same alienation. I did like the story of the Glass family in Franny and Zooey and Raise High the roof beam, carpenters and Seymour--an introduction. When I mentioned this to a Presbyterian minister once, he was worried about the ...
in the franny part of franny and zooey , i believe, they talk about performing for the fat lady in the third row, or something like that, but i'm sure about the origin or j.d. location of that phrase -- you might google it?
... I don't know if The Catcher in the Rye is a great book (and if I were to reread Salinger today, it would probably be Franny and Zooey ), but it was a necessary one.
... this is my favorite.
Chaos - Making a New Science by James Gleick
Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Franny and Zooey or any of the Glass Family stories by J.D. Salinger
Outside the Dog Museum by Jonathan Carroll - really, if you don't know who he is, run, don't ...
... depending on the edition.
The Great Gatspy F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Franny and Zooey J.D. Salinger
Just ‘cos its short doesn’t mean it’s not intense.
PS: If you find you are really off track, plays and graphica can usually ...
... focuses on the heinous murder of a young woman and her daughter, brutally killed by two of her brothers-in-law.
33. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger - Sort of a proto-Royal Tenenbaums, this story of two siblings from a family of child prodigies is a quick, if exhausting, read. It had ...
... Mother Night, Of Human Bondage, and Catcher in the Rye, respectively). I still feel, with the exception of Franny and Zooey in Salinger's case, that the first books I read by these authors were the best, but that may be because their style and wit and originality was simply most ...
... there's nothing wrong with that!)
4. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
5. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
6. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
And currently...
7. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan
8. The Children of Men - P.D. ...
... who wrote The Remains of the Day (one of my most favorite books). Did anyone else feel like this?
Now I'm reading Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger. I'll finish it tonight no doubt. His writing is wonderful. The characters are sad and funny at the same time. He pokes fun both at ...
#17 Salinger has published only one novel but there are 3 collections of short stories/novellas - Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey & Raise the Roof Beam. There are also a number of uncollected stories, which Salinger has refused to allow into book form.
Okay, I bought these Tuesday, but I've been busy so there. :p
I bought:
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Princess Daiana-An unauthorized biography by Richard Buskin
All the President's Men by Bob Woodward
The Summons by John Grisham
... in the Rye and the The bell Jar
I love and adore those books and would call them classics
Honorable mention to Franny and Zooey , The life of Pi and The joy Luck Club
... of Jane Fairfax's piano) it's even a whodunnit of sorts.
On the other hand, I was bored by Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey and the rest of J.D. Salinger's oeuvre as a teenager... and I'm still just as bored now. But I can guess why other people enjoy him, and it doesn't ...
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