week 7 new book.. yay

I just finished reading Catcher in the Rye, all i can say about the ending is that i did not like it. It feels like it just left me hanging there with very little of an idea as to what happened next in his life. It was kind of a bummer for me because i got so into this character and everything Holden Caulfield was so it is disappointing to get an ending like that. Besides the disappointing ending though, i thought it was a good book and i would even go back and re-read a little bit of it again. Probably just the first half of the book though, that was my favorite part because it felt most interesting.

Even though i liked Catcher in the Rye, it is a bit of a relief to go on to another book. Holdens character was getting repetitive and, although funny, slightly annoying. It is kind of nice to move on to some new characters and not the stay on the same one which was focused on for a whole book. Now i am reading about the world of Winston Smith in the book "1984" by George Orwell.

I like the book so far, it is very interesting imagining a world that is completely censored because i live in the United States, one of the most free countries there is. Although it is interesting, it can be very depressing sometimes. The scenes described in this book always seem dark, worn away, and cold. So this can make it a little hard to read.

The beginning starts off with the main character writing in a book about basically nothing, except for a few flashbacks which make you understand who the character is and what he believes a little more. Once you find out using a book is illegal you find out he is against the government (Big Brother) which seeks to control every citizen under its area.

Everything is so watched in the city that the character even says "Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull." This is scary to me, i dont know about other people, but i wouldn't want to be monitored all the time in everything i do. That would make me go crazy or something. Scary stuff, i hope that Winston breaks out of this control and finds others who want to rebel against it.

In the story there are supposed to be many other people that are secretly against Big Brother but Winston doesn't know anything besides that people are caught everyday for conspiring against the government. Maybe Winston will find some people and work along with them. Or maybe he will make his own anti-government group. I will keep reading and let you know what happens next week.