Posts Tagged ‘Catcher in the Rye’

Authors On “Great” Books They Hate

Friday, August 12th, 2011

Interesting piece, if only for the gratification of confirming that many other people loath Holden Caulfield every bit as much as I do.

Biggest surprise: Several people (including John Crowley) naming Gravity’s Rainbow as their least-liked great book. I didn’t get far into it myself, but I’m not sure I gave it a fair shot. The problem is finding a big block of time (something I’m preciously short on) to give it another go, as I have the impression that it’s not amenable to the “one chapter a night” method I used to read Moby Dick

(Hat tip: Bill Crider.)