Readable Classics

aulsmith : If you can stand to be in the same room with Holden Caufield for more than 10 minutes at a time, I guess it's pretty readable. When I read it in high school I counted the profanities per page and averaged them to keep myself reading ...

jain: Shows a perceptive and nuanced understanding of generational abuse. Accordingly, the beginning and middle of the book can be painful (though compelling) reading, but I find the eventual happy ending extremely catharctic.

aulsmith : I found pacing lose and disjointed. Had to start it a couple of times before I got through it.

aulsmith : It's readable, but I find the end disappointing every time I read it.

aulsmith : I just don't like the Bennetts.

aulsmith : I found the prose dense and the story odd.

jain: Surprisingly funny, both intentionally (see: the fart joke in Chap. 1) and unintentionally (see: Melville's very earnest argument that whales are fish and not mammals). Also intensely homoerotic--always a plus for me.

aulsmith: The descriptive narration was a little much for me, but I wanted to know what happened and kept reading.

aulsmith : Poe is very readable, but he gives me nightmares.