jeremie's reviews
98 reviews

this is my favourite book ever probably. it's already fundamentally shaped the way i look at the world in so many ways. catcher in the rye is one of my favourites of all time and i've put off reading this for so long because i thought it would never be able to live up to that standard, but somehow it's even better. and i'm saying that as someone who thinks catcher in the rye is a perfect book with no flaws. genuinely i love j. d. salinger. the things he does with language in this book are really just extraordinary. there are lines from it that i keep repeating to myself in my head as i go about my day (a bit like the jesus prayer LOL) and i wanted to quote some of them here but i realised i'd just be quoting the whole damn book. i love love love love love this. i see so much of my brother in zooey. i just love this book. i need to stop typing because if i get into it this'll end up being a literary essay. genuinely just 100% recommend. please read this

coming back to edit this just to say that “i love you to pieces, distraction, etc.” is possibly the shortest yet also single most beautiful love poem ever

musste das buch für den unterricht lesen und war erstaunt, wie sehr es mir gefallen hat. "ich bin verloren" und die szene gegen ende , in der ill sich bei claire für die kränze und blumen für seinen sarg bedankt, sind beide so herzzerreißend. wirklich großartig.

i am such a massive chuck palahniuk fan and this book made me slightly embarrassed of that fact. which isn’t something i ever want to have to say about a book! i love palahniuk’s grit and almost juvenile edginess but something about the way it’s done in this novel just doesn’t work. it felt like someone parodying palahniuk’s style at points. i feel his book ‘rant’ covers some of the topics covered in this in a much more masterful way. still had a lot of fun reading this though, so rated 3.0 purely for enjoyment.

best ending to any agatha christie book hands down

i loved this novel as soon as i read it but for some reason the more i think about it the more i adore it. so many passages from this have stuck with me. the way the writing flows is just wonderful. highly recommend for anyone who is looking to get into modernist literature but is a bit scared of james joyce. 

lovely

wonderful, but so inconsistently so that it makes it difficult to recommend.