By J.D. Salinger. Pages : 202I just finished reading this book and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was apprehensive about reading a book by Salinger. The only other I've read is 'Catcher In The Rye' and though I had liked it I wasn't looking for a similar read. This book is much better, all the more for the main characters and the all around picture it painted.
Franny and Zooey are the youngest of the seven Glass children all of whom were child geniuses, are well versed in literature, religious texts, philosophy. There are two parts to this book, the first titled Franny is a short read that plays a great role of introducing the character.
The second part Zooey is about what follows the weekend (part one) after Franny has a breakdown of sorts. When Franny gets home completely overwhelmed with ways of the world, disillusioned about her college education, Zooey elder than her by five years talks to her among other things about shooting for some kind of perfection on one's own terms and not anyone else's. He tells her that one has no right to think in the real sense about why others are the way they are - a boyfriend who is 'campusy', professors who have no real enthusiasm for their subjects, audiences that are not appreciative in the right way of her skills and so on. He wakes her out of indulging in spirituality without really understanding it, just as an escape from her duties.
What each reader gets out of this book would be very different, I'd highly recommend giving this book a try.
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