raspberryskies
09 Jan 2005, 10:34 PM
I'm not a big fan of reading, but I absolutely adore this book. I bought this book months ago and I let my friend borrow it, but he never returned it. Anyway, it's a pretty rare book, well... not anymore. I bought it for $17 and it's less than 200 pages. I wish I could say it's worth it because I love this book, but... Now it's a little cheaper on amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1841952516/qid=1105327600/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-2258462-7146226?v=glance&s=books&n=507846). (ignore the idiot selling it for $69.99. You shouldn't spend more than $10 on it.)
anyway, I adore this book mainly because of what it's about. My friend thought it was a boring book, but it's basically about that point in his life. Anxiety. obsession with time. Trying to figure out what is the meaning of life. Making lists for a more accurate decision or just to remember? He has a bad friend and a good friend; both very essential to his life. My friend also said there's no real point of it, but I thought to myself, what about the book "Catcher In The Rye". Very entertaining to read and the movie "Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas" is a very entertaining movie and very well done and so is the book "Catcher...". Naive, Super made me think though because I could relate to it. Anyway, I do hope you check the book out. If your friend has it, borrow it. I highly recommend it from the bottom of my heart. Best to read it in one sitting. It's short anyway so you'll end up finishing it in two hours or so. I do hope you could find a cheaper place to get it though.
If what I said didn't persuade you, then maybe the editorial reviews might?
Editorial Reviews
Product Description:
When this novel appeared in 1999, it became a publishing sensation in the author's native Norway, sitting at the top of the best-seller list for over a year. The twenty-five-year-old unnamed narrator of Naive, Super quits college in search of a raison d'etre. He begins to write lists. He becomes obsessed by time and whether it actually matters. He befriends a small boy who lives next door. He yearns to get to the bottom of life and how best to live it. Set partly in New York, this deceptively simple, highly enigmatic, deeply odd, and hysterically funny debut sets out to answer life's big questions.
anyway, I adore this book mainly because of what it's about. My friend thought it was a boring book, but it's basically about that point in his life. Anxiety. obsession with time. Trying to figure out what is the meaning of life. Making lists for a more accurate decision or just to remember? He has a bad friend and a good friend; both very essential to his life. My friend also said there's no real point of it, but I thought to myself, what about the book "Catcher In The Rye". Very entertaining to read and the movie "Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas" is a very entertaining movie and very well done and so is the book "Catcher...". Naive, Super made me think though because I could relate to it. Anyway, I do hope you check the book out. If your friend has it, borrow it. I highly recommend it from the bottom of my heart. Best to read it in one sitting. It's short anyway so you'll end up finishing it in two hours or so. I do hope you could find a cheaper place to get it though.
If what I said didn't persuade you, then maybe the editorial reviews might?
Editorial Reviews
Product Description:
When this novel appeared in 1999, it became a publishing sensation in the author's native Norway, sitting at the top of the best-seller list for over a year. The twenty-five-year-old unnamed narrator of Naive, Super quits college in search of a raison d'etre. He begins to write lists. He becomes obsessed by time and whether it actually matters. He befriends a small boy who lives next door. He yearns to get to the bottom of life and how best to live it. Set partly in New York, this deceptively simple, highly enigmatic, deeply odd, and hysterically funny debut sets out to answer life's big questions.