Second of all. Today is a book that has changed my views on life or something.
I am going to go with the Catcher and the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
This book was required reading in high school, and I was a little excited to read it when I found out about it. It seemed like it was going to be interesting. Especially since the debate we had about it before we started. As a class, we had to decide if we were going to say the "N" word. Things got intense.
We started reading, using the "N" word by the way, our class decided that censorship of this particular book was wrong. I really didn't think I was affected by it or that I was really able to take anything from it.
Until my sophomore year of college. I woke up one morning and things made sense: the unspeakable loneliness, the longing for something greater, the idea of people caring, but not really caring, the need to connect with another human being.
It is beautiful. SO very beautiful.
I have never been able to get the scene in which he attempts to gain some sort of human connection by speaking with a prostitute out of my mind.. It is something that is there inside me. I know it sounds odd or strange, but read it. Maybe you will get it. And if you don't, its okay. It is with me though.
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