the catcher in the rye

 
for chrissake, i felt depressed as hell too when i was reading this book, though i dont look at this phony world the same way…but i did feel depressed and sorry..despite the witty language…and started to mind my own size mind..well..maybe we are all lost in some way, trying to find some attachment that can practically drag us back to the world which is not supposed to look like what it is now…
 
language and language users empower each other..or it’s probably triangular with readers involved…
i think i will have to reread the book..
 
here are some quotes i like from the book
 
1. What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by.  I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them.  I hate that.  I don’t care if it’s a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it.  If you don’t, you feel even worse. 
 
2. I don’t even know what I was running for – I guess I just felt like it. 
 
3. I mean most girls are so dumb and all.  After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains.  You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn’t any brains. 
 
4. If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late?  Nobody. 
 
5. Don’t ever tell anybody anything.  If you do, you start missing everybody.
 
6. The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has – I’m not kidding.
7. All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
 
8. Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat. —my personal fav
 
9. People always clap for the wrong things.
 
10. The thing is, it’s really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs – if yours are really good ones and theirs aren’t. You think if they’re intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humor, that they don’t give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they do. They really do. It’s one of the reasons why I roomed with a stupid bastard like Stradlater. At least his suitcases were as good as mine.
11. Catholics are always trying to find out if you’re Catholic.
 
12. It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
 
13. Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around – nobody big, I mean – except me. And 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 do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be.
14. If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn’t rub out even half the ‘Fuck you’ signs in the world. It’s impossible.

15. ……

of mice and men

 
themes..i would say great depression, dreams, loneliness and powerlessness…
george, lennie, candy, crooks, and curley’s wife are the representatives
lennie wanted to have rabbits to pet..a dream so small like this only seemed too far to reach
as the strongest man in the ranch, lennie was killed by his own strength all because of his dream he desired so bad
reasons…social, economic and racial factors…
look at people of today..what a resemblance..
so where is our empowerment, where is our homestead? what is it behind dreams?

breaking dawn

ok..so..finally finished the fourth book of twilight saga…
 
one question formed in my mind..
what if people all over the world became vagetarian vampires?
answer:
we would be perfect looking, strong, immortal…and most of all…many world cirses would be resolved…
like energy..vampires prefer running…cars are too low efficient
diseases…i dont think they would get the swine flu or any kinds of epidemics…or food-transmitted diseases
wars…they are peace makers
crimes..this is complicated..even the cullens are not perfectly honest citizens
economy..they can work double shift if needed..they never get tired and never sleep..and more importantly..they are talented
sexism..wel..women can be stronger than men
racism…they make friends of different races
education..they got infinity to learn
 
what else?
 

 

eclipse

 
又一个记号 通知大家声 我看完eclipse啦 比计划晚了半个月 我错了。。
情节的发展还真有点出乎我的意料 bella同时爱着vampire和werewolf 明目张胆搞affairs
很不喜欢和vulturi有关的任何文字 总觉得那是伪正义的一群人
不过vampire家族还真是庞大呀。。

new moon

和twilight在情节上有很多相似点 但是更喜欢new moon 感觉不管是作者还是人物 都在成长 内外都复杂化了 虽然到了最后各种矛盾才激发出来 也给eclipse留了很大的卖点 哈哈哈。。今天拿到书了。。

edward和jacob很像 都完美得很不完美 唯一能想到的不同就是他们的语言 jacob是个实在人 不玩花里胡哨的 edward不愧是百岁老人 说话有模有样的 脸不红 心不跳。。比如快到结尾时的一段告白 有点搞。。

before you, bella, my life was like a moonless night. very dark, but there were stars—points of light and reason…and then you shot across my sky like a meteor. suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. when you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. i couldn’t see the stars anymore. and there was no more reason for anything.

这就是读书报告了。。我也很失语。。发现这书一本比一本厚。。eclipse计划二月中旬看完吧。。大家新年好!

freakonomics

确实是本很怪诞的书 涉及了很多生活话题 比如枪和游泳池哪个更危险 比如KKK党和房地产经纪人有什么共同点 比如小黑和小白的名字有什么不同 比如对艾滋的恐惧能不能改变人的性取向 比如为什么某些人那么热衷于投票 比如父母对孩子成长的影响

第一版的书一共六章 每章针对一个问题 修订版的又加了些来自其他渠道的文章

1. what do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?

2. how is the ku klu klan like a group of real-estate agents?

3. why do drug dealers still live with their moms?

4. where have all the criminals gone?

5. what makes a perfect parent?

6. perfect parenting, part II; or: would a roshanda by any other names smell as sweet?

简单附上本座的答案

1. they both cheat.

2. they both take the advantage of information asymmetry.

3. they (foot soldiers) actually do not make much money.

4. they are not born because of legalized abortion.

5. it is what parents are rather than what parents do. for example, well-educated, smart, hard-working parents are more likely to have successful children. while reading to the children every day or taking them to the museums does not matter much.

6. yes. a name matters. it is the reflection of parents’ life and/or expectations.

看完最后一章 喜欢上两个大俗名 曾经是很受米国白人喜欢的名字 emma和jake 没有特别的原因 deja vu吧 以后我们家孩子就叫这俩名字了

这书还挺火 碰见了好几个看过这书的活人。。还挺好玩的 严重推荐。。。

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