"Catcher" is great, but you have to be in the right frame of mind to appreciate it. I wasn't when I started it; besides, it was August, and the novel is set at Xmas time, this disappointed me a bit. But then I really started feeling for Holden, and I quite enjoyed the book. Anyway if you've just started reading a novel you shouldn't be posting here! ;)
Now I'm reading "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", the first novel by Agatha Christie, and I've just finished "Casino Royale", the first by Ian Fleming. My plan is to read eveything by both (not that difficult with the latter, might take a couple of years with the former).
My favourite novels: 1984, Lord of the Flies, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, Of Mice and Men, A Clockwork Orange.
The author I've read the most so far is Stephen King: I've read all of his novels from the 70s and 80s (the rest are waiting on the shelf), for an essay on his translators that I wrote last year.
And I think that's it. :)
Posted: 2009-02-17 12:15:49