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| Original Title: | The Graduate |
| ISBN: | 0743456459 (ISBN13: 9780743456456) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Graduate #1 |
Charles Webb
Paperback | Pages: 272 pages Rating: 3.41 | 8258 Users | 663 Reviews
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When Benjamin Braddock graduates from a small Eastern college and moves home to his parents' house, everyone wants to know what he's going to do with his life. Embittered by the emptiness of his college education and indifferent to his grim prospects—grad school? a career in plastics?—Benjamin falls haplessly into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, the relentlessly seductive wife of his father's business partner. It's only when beautiful coed Elaine Robinson comes home to visit her parents that Benjamin, now smitten, thinks he might have found some kind of direction in his life. Unfortunately for Benjamin, Mrs. Robinson plays the role of protective mother as well as she does the one of mistress. A wondrously fierce and absurd battle of wills ensues, with love and idealism triumphing over the forces of corruption and conformity.
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| Title | : | The Graduate (The Graduate #1) |
| Author | : | Charles Webb |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 272 pages |
| Published | : | April 2nd 2002 by Washington Square Press (first published 1963) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Romance |
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Ratings: 3.41 From 8258 Users | 663 ReviewsCriticism Out Of Books The Graduate (The Graduate #1)
I am sure I can write a review in the style of this book. I read most of it on a subway and then on a bus. I stopped and stared at the words on the pages sometimes. Then I would talk to myself."Self, are you enjoying this book?""Why? Are you trying to seduce me?""I have no idea what you're talking about. I just want you to unzip my dress because I can't reach the zipper. But really, are you enjoying this book?""Not really. I mean it's interesting in the way that truly awful things are alwaysI think reading this novel in my early twenties was another experience as compared to watching the movie. Around four decades ago, my friends and I enjoyed the film (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gra...) starring (the great) Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock, Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson, and Katharine Ross as her daughter Elaine as well as some fantastic, romantic and wistful songs by Simon and Garfunkel, for instance, 'The Sound of Silence', 'Scarborough Fair', 'Mrs. Robinson', etc.
This book was pointless! The dialog was so boring... "Elaine""What""Nothing""What".... ugh, I'm not afraid to say that these characters made absolutely no sense. Ben and Elaine, I hope you really end up together and leave your poor parents alone.Mrs. Robinson was not great, but she was the most interesting one and the one who acted with purpose. She was depressed and/or bored with her life, and an alcoholic. She reacted ~"as expected"~ when Ben went out with Elaine. I didn't like her husband or
Authors like Charles Webb who can create a novel almost entirely out of dialogue awe me in a way. The year is 1963, and Benjamin Braddock has graduated from college. His parents are thrilled, the family friends are proud, and Ben is at a complete loss as to what to do next. He falls into a fugue of sorts--sleeping till late in the afternoon, then floating in the pool for hours, then getting drunk and watching TV till late into the night. His parents are at a loss as to how to help him. Watching
This book was just meh. It's very dialogue heavy and the story line got kind of boring towards the end. I didn't hate it but I didn't particularly enjoy it either.
Probably best known as a film and for those famous lines "Mrs Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?"So the first point of order in this review is this: if someone has to ask if you're trying to seduce them then it probably follows that you are doing a piss-poor job in the seduction department. Either that or your object of lust is particularly obtuse. In fact, much of this book and the bumbling inanities of the young Benjamin Braddock provide a clear selection of examples of how NOT to practise
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