I don't read many books during the school year since I'm busy with work and I hope to reignite my recreational reading in just a few short weeks.
The last book I read in its entirety is
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. The premise is rather simple-boy gets expelled from school, leaves campus grounds and tries to establish a dream life for himself with a girl he lives, and ultimately returns home to repent for his past wrongdoings and try to lead a better life. I found a lot to relate to in the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, for he faces many of the same problems teenagers are confronted with today. The book also contains what is now my third favorite book quote-after two from
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway and Di.ckens's (added period to prevent censoring)
A Tale of Two Cities, respectively-"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody".
As of yesterday I began reading
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. Seeing as how I've barely read any of the book, I can't come to a solid opinion just yet but the plot is solid thus far and war novels have always interested me. I think it's particularly important to understand the physical, moral, and above all psychological hardships men felt going to fight in a far off land they had little knowledge of and from which they would ultimately be forced to retreat in humiliation-Vietnam.