Sara's reading log

I am a book hoarder and reader. My main genre is SF, but I also love magic realism, fantasy and general fiction. Favorite authors are Iain M. Banks, Ursula K. LeGuin, Haruki Murakami, José Saramago, Isaac Asimov, Ben Aaronovitch and more. My rating system is based on five stars. I rate books based on my expectations and what a books aims to be. This means that the brilliant 'Fahrenheit 451' gets five stars because I thought it would be good, people said it was good, and it was good, but 'A Closed and Common Orbit' also gets five stars because in its series, in its style, I really enjoyed it and was not disappointed.

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

  • Started on: 2011-04-25
  • Finished on: 2011-04-26
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ***–
  • Genre(s): General Fiction

This is one of the classic must have read books for English. It was even on the “English class reading list” shelve at our local library. I had never read it before, so, to brush up on my classics, I picked it up.
The book, although most people will know it, is the story told by Holden Caulfield about the time he got kicked out of prep school (again) and he tries to figure out what to do next. He is a pretty impulsive guy who doesn’t seem to be able to socialize with people that well. He doesn’t like other people, but he doesn’t quite hate them either, and in the end he even misses them.
The book was a pretty nice read, but I have to admit that if it hadn’t been a classic, I wouldn’t have read it, it is not quite my taste. It was too much rambling, too open ended.

  • Started on: 2011-04-25
  • Finished on: 2011-04-26
  • Read in: English
  • Rating: ***–
  • Genre(s): General Fiction

This is one of the classic must have read books for English. It was even on the “English class reading list” shelve at our local library. I had never read it before, so, to brush up on my classics, I picked it up.
The book, although most people will know it, is the story told by Holden Caulfield about the time he got kicked out of prep school (again) and he tries to figure out what to do next. He is a pretty impulsive guy who doesn’t seem to be able to socialize with people that well. He doesn’t like other people, but he doesn’t quite hate them either, and in the end he even misses them.
The book was a pretty nice read, but I have to admit that if it hadn’t been a classic, I wouldn’t have read it, it is not quite my taste. It was too much rambling, too open ended.