Charles Webb
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| Title | : | The Graduate (The Graduate #1) |
| Author | : | Charles Webb |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 272 pages |
| Published | : | April 2nd 2002 by Washington Square Press (first published 1963) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Romance |
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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.Specify Books During The Graduate (The Graduate #1)
| Original Title: | The Graduate |
| ISBN: | 0743456459 (ISBN13: 9780743456456) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Graduate #1 |
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From BBC Radio 4:It's the summer of 1963 in suburban California and Benjamin Braddock has the world at his feet. He's just graduated from university with a teaching scholarship, his dad has bought him a fancy new Italian sports car, and all the Braddocks' friends and neighbours have been invited to a house party to celebrate. There's just one problem. Benjamin refuses to leave his room...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.
"...koo-koo-ka-choo Miss-us Rob-in-son...dee dee dee dee doo doo doo doo doo...wo, wo, wo...This book is pointless and inane, but I had to satisfy my curiosity. The best thing I can say about it is that it's short. I might have given it 2 stars if it actually had an ending. ANY kind of ending. But it does not. It just stops, like it's the end of a chapter and more is coming. Don't bother looking for more pages. It really IS over. I've never seen the film, but I remember when I was a kid those
I am not trying to seduce you."I know that. But please, Mrs. Robinson. This is difficult for me."The Graduate by Charles Webb. I cannot do this book justice in a review. Classic, fantastic, must read.
Can you love a book and hate it at the same time? Mrs. Robinson played true to her seductress role was more devious than I anticipated. Ben is a spoiled entitled brat. There was no rooting for him. Elaine was a week character that pretty much did whatever anyone told her. Ugh! And the other three were plain victims. But even with all of that I couldnt put it down. Webb did a great job of making me feel Bens anxiety, and I Bens desperation to get Elaine back. I had to know what happened. At the
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
It's probably pretty obvious that I didn't like this book. It was 260 pages of a book that was mostly dialogue so it should have taken 5 minutes to read, or three hours at most. This is what really happened:ReadingI need a napReadingNap for an hourReadingI want to buy some booksReadingI don't really have any I want to buyRea...What about some of those Martin Amis ones I've been drooling over?ReadingI really need a new purseReadingMaybe I should do a reading challenge for postmodernism next year
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