hammerito:

But I hate Catcher in the Rye with the fire of 10,000 suns.

“Ohhh I’m so saaaaad goddamn it Jiminy Cricket damn hell. I just want to get a hooker to show you the full range of my angst.” Hey, Holden? Go fuck yourself.

If Holden Caufield were a real person, I’d give him a wedgie, dunk his head in a toilet, and poop in his shoes.

I agree, I never really got the appeal of that book. Although it still changed my life. Without reading it, I never would have been able to say “Catcher in the Rye sucks.”

adamhrabik:

not-ean:

mejoe:

so-me:

thatryguy:

therivanqueen:

tumblingnoodle:

humanwarmth:

saysomethingclever:

closingwallsandtickingclocks:

iwalktheline:

jessicachu:

(via kreachar)

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD BY HARPER LEE

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

stargirl by jerry spinelli <3

dolores claiborne by stephen king.

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Kushiel’s Dart ~ Jacquelyn Carey

My side of the mountain- Jean Craighead George

props to Dolores Claiborne, mine was Infinite Jest

The Catcher in The Rye - J.D. Salinger

1984 by George Orwell (also, and in an equally significant but entirely different way, America the Book by Jon Stewart)

There have been few books that I have read that haven’t changed my life, but I’m gonna have to go with Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Just bought the last two KV books I haven’t read yet: Bluebeard and Hocus Pocus. I’m gonna put off reading them, because I know when I finish them I’ll be sad that there won’t be anymore new Vonnegut to read anymore.

Except this. Although, most of those collections are rehashes of the same stuff in Timequake and A Man Without a Country.

menstrom:

“A collection of short stories by Kurt Vonnegut will be published posthumously in November.”

KV: the Tupac of literature.

I just read Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis a few days ago and did a Google image search to find different artists’ interpretations of what the beetle thing looked like and this was in the first page of results. I guess they’re technically not “furries”…

P.S. This one was my favorite interpretation.

shadeofgrey:

kari-shma:

fishy:oldfilmsflicker:tjohyeah:mrduffy:geiss:bella-remorso:growingup:

sierrasayshaii:can-be-infinite:weareinfinite:birdwillbirdwont

“in the novel of which vittorio de sica’s movie is an adaptation, alberto moavia constructed the character through the physical signs of a concrete and vital femininity, attributes that are translated into cinematographic language, in a less explicit manner, through the figure of sophia loren and her costumes.” - the house dress - a story of eroticism and fashion by elda danese

I really like these chains.

“They interacted with the New York School of poets.” -the “Art & Photography” section in Let’s Go: New York City.

‘Students are boycotting classes not books’, he announced grimly, holding up a list of demands. —- The Japanese Wife by Kunal Basu.

“The bad news is that these personality risk factors are substantial in their impact, but the good news is that something can often be done about them.”—Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers by Robert Sapolsky

“He used the word ‘certainly’ twice. It grated.” - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut (Not technically the closest to me, but the closest that belongs to me)

I submit that there should be a little upward spike at the beginning, before it starts to go down. As any Vonnegut fan can tell you, “Granfalloon” is the greatest word ever.

I just finished reading the book and I gotta say, I’m pretty excited for this. The trailer doesn’t look spectacular, but apparently it won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance, so I’m pretty optimistic.