rejoice

the catcher in the rye <3

yay another gd book!!! must go n read this one, i totally love this book la! it’s about a teenage boy who got kicked out of high school. he left the school but instd of going home immediately, he stayed in a hotel and loitered ard numerous places. everywhere he went n everyone he met was depressing to him. he’s such a critical and depressed boy!

oh and i found the following on wikipedia, interesting sia. and thk these are the reasons making this book controversial in the early days.

“Mark David Chapman, who assassinated John Lennon, was carrying the book when he was arrested immediately after the murder and referred to it in his statement to police shortly thereafter.  John Hinckley, Jr., who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was also reported to have been obsessed with the book.”

hehe but i felt really happy after reading this book leh. cos this was really gd to read and i was super addicted to it la. :DD

n a quote from the book that gave the book its name i thk : “  . . . I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all.”

so where’s the elephant?

been reading this book by my beloved author haruki murakami. it includes super interesting short stories. i’m again totally amazed and enchanted by the way he writes and the plots he came up with. though some of the stories are just super weird n ridiculous. haha but they are still a pleasure to read. his stories are ’so rich with the genuine sense of daily living’ (haha quoting what he wrote in ”a window”.)

hehe if u r bored n haf nth better to do, his books will be the best company for the lonely afternoons on a living room sofa.