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Title: The Graduate by Charles Webb ISBN: 0-7434-5645-9 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (21 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Every High School Grad Should Read this Book
Comment: I think this book was poignant, and should be a high school's grad, last easy read. It helped me get over the high school graduation slump. It's so easy to get trapped into living off your parents money, and letting sexual relationships be your entire existence. It showed that even though this seems like an ideal way of living, it is an entirely futile lifestyle, and your better off just doing what is a more acceptable path, it's acceptable for a reason.
I think people who are unattractive and not reasonably well-off, wouldn't understand how something like this could happen, but it happens all too often. Married People and Despairing Students seem to be two of a kind, and when they find each other they fill each other with hopeless and despairing intentions.
Rating: 2
Summary: Doesn't graduate
Comment: The movie "The Graduate" is a modern cinematic classic of changing worldviews and morals. But the book it's based on is only a classic because the movie is. You know those books that are so simple you can read them in one afternoon? "The Graduate" is so simple you could write it in one afternoon.
Ben Braddock is the graduate, a young man from a good family who has just finished college. By his family's expectations, he should now go on to a good graduate school and then to a good career. But Ben doesn't really have any ambitions, and isn't sure what he wants to do with his life. He's cynical and depressed, unwilling to go in any one direction.
Then he meets Mrs. Robinson, the seductive wife of his father's best friend, and a woman old enough to be his mother.Though Benjamin is initially reluctant, Mrs. Robinson has some idea of what Ben is feeling. She lures him into an affair, which goes very awry when he meets Elaine Robinson, his lover's daughter -- and falls for her.
Charles Webb seems to be shooting for a biting, witty look at the stagnated culture of the 1960s, and how that culture turned itself inside out with rapid, bewildering changes in morals and worldviews. The problem is, this book is neither biting nor witty. Some parts of it are amusing, but it's impossible to get into the story. As a social commentary, it makes its point. But as a novel, it's a failure.
It's hard to really get into a book when it's written like a screenplay. Unfortunately, Charles Webb's style is less like an author and more like a screenwriter. Minimal description, basic dialogue, and a few bloodless descriptions of the characters' actions; even the sex scenes are ice-cold, almost like a step-by-step "how-to" guide for seduction. And the lack of insight into what the characters are thinking or feeling makes most of them feel like cardboard cutouts, just types like "wealthy sexy woman" or "disillusioned youth."
Some authors are able to take the minimalistic approach and make it work. Webb's writing just seems like he was too bored to include further detail. Ben comes across not as a disillusioned youth, but as a spoiled brat who stalks a girl he won't be interested in for long. Elaine is both boring and rather annoying, as she seems willing to marry anybody who asks. Mrs. Robinson is one of the few characters that has a spark of life to her.
Very rarely does a movie outstrip the novel it's based on. But "The Graduate" is one of those. While Webb's book produced a much-beloved cinematic classic, it accomplished nothing more due to its graceless execution and flimsy writing.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great book
Comment: i am a beginner in English im not good in this lunguage.. this book was perfect for me cause it have a simple english..
This book also very intersting i found it very good one..
Chales Webb did great work of writing this book, anyway i like the most Elaine in the book cause she was very mystory girl and it pull me to be interst in things she did..
Just read this book for having fun..
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