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Anderson Cooper's Boo ([info]amaz_za_zing) wrote in [info]50bookchallenge,
@ 2008-03-08 18:45:00


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Hi! I started the challenge at the beginning of the year, but just joined the community. This is what I've read so far:

1) The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
2) I Am American and So Can You! - Stephen Colbert
3) Where I Was From - Joan Didion
4) Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
5) The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerad
6) Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck

As you can probably tell by most of the books I've read, I'm on a mission to read the classics.
Under the cut Are my ratings/reviews for each.


oo1."The Catcher in the Rye" (1951)
author: J.D. Salinger
finished: Jan. 14 rating: 4/5
comments: I really enjoyed this book, although I personally
found the main character hard to like. I get it, you're an angry teenager.
Shut up and fulfill your responsibilities for a change. But the book itself
is interesting, despite the ending. It ends too abrupt for my liking.
But it's a classic book with such a deep-rooted history that you have to
check it out for yourself.

oo2."I Am America (And So Can You!)" (2007)
author: Stephen Colbert
finished: Jan. 20 rating: 4/5
comments: As far as humorous political commentary goes,
you can't beat this. It's loaded with comedy gems in the footnotes and
margin notes, plus some sticker pages and hilarious illustrations. As
a special treat, the transcript of Colbert's Presidental Address at the
2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner is included at the end,
accompanied by commentary in the margins!

oo3."Where I Was From" (2003)
author: Joan Didion
finished: Jan. 28 rating: 4.5/5
comments: Didion's examination of California's history is
unlike any other; it's not a mundane timeline of facts, but rather a deep
investigation into what makes California what it is and how it's changed,
or hasn't changed, from the time pioneers first settled the land to the
present. She also delves into her own family's history and examines her
roots as a Californian born and raised in Sacramento, making
"Where I Was From" a beautifully woven story not of a place, but of people.

oo4."Fahrenheit 451" (1953)
author: Ray Bradbury
finished: Feb. 5 rating: 4/5
comments: Once you get past the convoluted imagary
this book really pulls you in with a well-developed characters and
relationships and keeps you blazing through its pages with its
thrilling and frightening tale of a future where books are outlawed.

oo5."The Great Gatsby" (1925)
author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
finished: Feb. 28 rating: 5/5
comments: I absolutely loved this book. The story is so
well-constructed and the characters are so finely developed that
you're fully immersed into the enthralling world Fitzgerald has
created before you even finish the first chapter.

oo6."Of Mice and Men" (1937)
author: John Steinbeck
finished: March 2 rating: 4.5
comments: A short read, "Mice" chronicles a short
period in the life of two friends. A tale of hopes and
aspirations in the time of monotony and depression that
anyone who's ever yearned for something better can relate to.


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