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The Graduate

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The basis for Mike Nichols' acclaimed 1967 film starring Dustin Hoffman -- and for successful stage productions in London and on Broadway -- this classic novel about a naive college graduate adrift in the shifting social and sexual mores of the 1960s captures with hilarity and insight the alienation of youth and the disillusionment of an era. The Graduate

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Published April 2nd 2002 by Washington Square Press (first published 1963)

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Mar 12, 2013 Gavin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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In 1963 a young man by the name of Charles Webb published a book called THE GRADUATE, a story that was supposedly based on a true story. It was a sensation. Four years later, it became a hit movie starring Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, and Katherine Ross. Okay, we all know these facts. Let's leave the movie alone and just focus on the book.

The plot is simple: a disenchanted, recently graduated, well-to-do young man has an affair with an attractive, well-to-do, older woman whose husband just so...more In 1963 a young man by the name of Charles Webb published a book called THE GRADUATE, a story that was supposedly based on a true story. It was a sensation. Four years later, it became a hit movie starring Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, and Katherine Ross. Okay, we all know these facts. Let's leave the movie alone and just focus on the book.

The plot is simple: a disenchanted, recently graduated, well-to-do young man has an affair with an attractive, well-to-do, older woman whose husband just so happens to be business partners with the young man's father...don't forget that the young man also falls in love with the older (cougar) woman's daughter. Got that? Good. Because there really is not much else going on in the book.

And, to be honest, it was not the story that made me like this novel. No, it was the way in which it was told that made me like this novel. Charles Webb was 24(!) when he published this novel. This was his first foray into writing. Pretty impressive, even with all the flaws. You see, what attracts me to this story is how Webb created, and sustained, entire scenes by using dialogue. Sharp and ironic and sometimes haplessly mundane, these exchanges between the characters create scenes that evoke a sense of time and place. Additionally, the reader can really feel the isolation and alienation of all the characters through what they say...or, through what they don't say. (This often lead me to want to brain a character, especially Elaine. Where are your brains, woman?)

This book is a better, stronger version of what I think THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, written much earlier in 1951, was trying to be. I could be wrong, that happens. Regardless, Webb wrote a brilliant, sardonic, and ludicrously funny novel that illustrates a moment in time. The one flaw I see of the novel that is jarring to the reader is the ending. Perhaps Webb puttered out, stopped the story at a place that made sense to him. For me, there needed to be more. Not much, just enough that I knew where Ben and Elaine were headed on that bus.

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Apr 04, 2013 MJ Nicholls rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: novels, merkins, penguin-classics

Charles Webb is a possible candidate for the BURIED book club, if this book wasn’t still popular, and it isn’t really—the film and stage show and tea towel and thong range are popular, who reads the book nowadays? The novel is written so sparsely and simply it functions pretty much as a blueprint for Mike Nichols’s script—90% of the action is told in dialogue with occasional flat descriptive passages for the frantic parts. A neurotic boy wonder returns to the suburbs to deliberate on the predete...more

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Aug 27, 2011 Shovelmonkey1 rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: would be seducers

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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...more 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 the art of seduction. A Graduate he may be... but not from the school of life or love.

1. Never ask the person if they are trying to seduce you. Forcing them to say, "Umm well yes, as it goes, I was trying to get in your pants" is a sure fire mood killer. AWK-WARD!

2. Folding your clothes prior to coitus. Nothing says control freak and lack of spontaneity better than a neatly folded pile of clothes on the bureau or chair.

3. Referring to sex as coitus. Watch Big Bang Theory and see why.

4. Telling your paramour that they're a drunk. If you stop them drinking it might make it harder to get them into bed in the first place (note here that I am not suggesting that drunkeness equals the word "yes".... EVER). Once that tipsy haze has gone, she'll see you for the buffoon you really are Benjamim Braddock, and clearly Mrs Robinson needs to be wearing the thickest beer goggles possible.

5. Describing the first encounter as climbing on top and beginning the affair. She is not Ben Nevis, or any sort of peak to be scaled. You are not planting a flag (insert appropriate pole joke here) and frankly this sentence implies that she has all the sexual allure of a bunk bed.

6. Chatting about your lovers child pre or post the bumping of the uglies, and musing on how you may go on a date with them at some point. OK, so the offspring in question is your own age but this is so not cool.

7. Ending the affair by politely thanking someone for their time and the instructive nature of your well-organised and sanitised couplings. You send polite letters about the instructive and educational nature of an event to your grandparents after they've sent you a nice jigsaw for Christmas. This is not the best way to leave your lover.

8. Referring to your now jilted paramour as "an older woman". Even if the age gap crosses the border into geological time scales, do not, under any circumstances draw attention to it in the format of the written word. This sort of thoughtless penmanship will never lead to anything good. Public humiliation, trial by peer and parent and a social meltdown will likely follow by way of revenge.

Ultimately this was a very easy read and Webb's stilted dialogue really pushes home that awful cringe factor of a world imploding and the fecklessness of unseasoned youth. But if you're entitled to a mid life crisis as popular culture would have us believe, then why shouldn't you be allowed to indulge in some splendid cusp of adulthood melt down. Failed to get out all your angst during your teenage years? Then follow the fine example set by young Benjamin Braddock and self-destruct on your 21st birthday instead. After all, if 40 is the new thirty doesn't that mean that 21 is the new, er.... 11? Oh, Mrs Robinson!(less)

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Oct 14, 2009 Jeanette rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: all-fiction, domestic-and-relationship-fiction

"...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 mo...more

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Feb 16, 2013 Marvin rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle

I was never enamored with the film The Graduate as was most of my peers. But I did sit in awe at the performances of Dustin Hoffman and the calculated socio-pathology of Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson. Unfortunately the novel on which the film is based doesn't even have that going for it. It is a rather pointless story with very unlikable and pathetic characters. Mrs Robinson fares fairly well as she is a cardboard precursor to Desperate Housewives but Benjamin Braddock comes off even more pathe...more

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Jul 15, 2011 Mai rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: kindle-books, made-into-tv-show-or-movie

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 always int...more

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Jan 08, 2008 Kirk rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: sentimental-faves

Just because I'm a print guy I figured I owed it to the history of the novel to read the book on which the movie is based. (If only the history of the novel would have been kind enough to thank me). As other posters note, the big surprise here is that much of what we think of as Buck Henry's wit in the film originated with Charles Webb. That said, Benjamin is a colder character here than when incarnated as Dustin Hoffman, whose nebbishness is the center of his performance's charm. It's also hard...more

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Nov 20, 2012 Mark Mallett rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, nook

This was like reading the movie, only less so. I've always wanted to read the book because I liked the movie, but wow, the film is mostly the book line-for-line, minus a couple of events, and plus a lot of atmosphere. And frankly, the book+atmosphere is way better than the book alone, to the point where it's hard to imagine that somebody read this book 50 years ago and saw enough worth in it to make a movie out of it. It seems to be a celebration of aloofness and self-centered decadence, or perh...more

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Jul 22, 2012 Laura rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: audio-books, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, america, contemporary-fiction, read-2012, book-and-movie

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...

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Apr 15, 2012 Franny rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I decided to read this book after watching the movie "rumor has it" with Jen Aniston. I read the book then watched the movie. Actually, this is one of those rare cases of exception when the movie is better then the book!? The movie stayed 100% true to the book to which I would add that the acting has slightly improved the story. In the book, you don't really understand or believe why Elaine would fall for Ben, really one is not convinced at all. Whereas, in the movie, it is a bit more believable...more

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Jul 07, 2011 Patrick rated it 3 of 5 stars

I don't really know why I decided to read this one, to be honest. Probably because I apparently spent $1.25(!) on it and that's a lot of money for me, and also possibly because I see it as one of the first novels to tackle the particularly middle or upper-middle class dillemma of being overeducated and not sure what to do with one's life, which has interest to me as it partains to "twntysomething/slack lit," which I am trying to read as much as I can of before I turn thirty.

Everyone's asking Ben...more I don't really know why I decided to read this one, to be honest. Probably because I apparently spent $1.25(!) on it and that's a lot of money for me, and also possibly because I see it as one of the first novels to tackle the particularly middle or upper-middle class dillemma of being overeducated and not sure what to do with one's life, which has interest to me as it partains to "twntysomething/slack lit," which I am trying to read as much as I can of before I turn thirty.

Everyone's asking Benjamin what his plan is, but he seems content to throw away a scholarship to grad school and spend all day sleeping and all night drinking beer and watching movies. This is the part of the book I like most. When it starts entering its famous plotline I start losing interest. Why? Possibly because a lot of it involves dramatic irony concerning Benjamin's affair with Mrs. Robinson, partly because for whatever unfair reason the content seems dated. While there was some attentive build-up in the last forth of the book it's hard to think of Benjamin as nothing more than a little prick from suburbia with loving, comforting parents, his quest for Elaine clearly standing in for some (mysogonistic?) sense of purpose to his life, and not much more.

The book is more movie script fluff than anything else, with many pages full of breezy, realistic dialogue, so realistic and breezy in fact it matches the pace of the movie perfectly and becomes realitstically repetitive and irritating. The whole book is so deadpan it's easy to feel removed from the characters, who never reach any emotional depth (one of the lasting assets of the novel form) but float about with ambiguous motives much like in a film or an Ernest Hemingway story. I guess it's not a bad thing, but one can see how this story in particular makes a better movie than novel, as nothing is really lost if one cuts out everything but dialogue, as dialogue is as far as we ever get at a character's inner world.

I haven't seen the movie all the way through in a long time (although I did see a broadway production many years ago starring Jason Biggs) but I can't imagine it being very different than the book, other than the perplexing lack of the famous "plastics" conversation, one of the handful of iconic moments people remember from the movie. The Graduate: the movie, thanks to great performances and cinematography, can be funny and iconic: the book can only pass as cheeky, and so tongue-in-cheek it's practically choking on itself. The action moves so fast by the end that we don't have time to slow down and wonder why everything is happening, which makes this reader for one feel pretty dumb. But I guess that's life and growing up, right?(less)

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Jun 09, 2011 Jeruen Dery rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is probably one of the most disturbing novels I have read in a while. The thing is, I constantly did battle with every character in this novel. That may be a good thing, but sometimes, it can get into one's nerves.

Plenty here might have known about the movie that started Dustin Hoffman's career, back in 1967. He played a young college graduate, who gets seduced by an older woman, Mrs. Robinson, and then falls in love with her daughter Elaine.

So plot-wise, that is the basic gist of things. T...more This is probably one of the most disturbing novels I have read in a while. The thing is, I constantly did battle with every character in this novel. That may be a good thing, but sometimes, it can get into one's nerves.

Plenty here might have known about the movie that started Dustin Hoffman's career, back in 1967. He played a young college graduate, who gets seduced by an older woman, Mrs. Robinson, and then falls in love with her daughter Elaine.

So plot-wise, that is the basic gist of things. The first half of the novel deals with the awkward moments between Benjamin Braddock and his affairs with Mrs. Robinson. They set up this arrangement where they would meet at the Taft Hotel, and then have sex. Then halfway through the book, Benjamin cuts off the relationship, and starts pursuing Elaine.

So, I have ambivalent feelings about this book. First, I find the characters rather hard to believe. Everyone in the book, virtually everyone, has a defect. Benjamin is this psychotic young college graduate, who doesn't seem to know logic and reason. He doesn't seem to know how to think about his actions at all. His parents on the other hand seem to not have the ability to listen to him. The book starts with a graduation party, and Benjamin's parents just treat him as a trophy, showing him off to their other friends, and they don't get any sort of cue from Benjamin that he actually feels uncomfortable about the whole thing. Even when they gave him a scuba-diving kit as a birthday present, they wanted Ben to wear it and scuba dive in the swimming pool.

Mrs. Robinson is one wreck of a woman. Who in her right mind would want to seduce a 21-year-old son of one's husband's business partner? I guess if one is so desperate then that's what happens. Everyone is so manipulative here, it is just insane. Even Elaine, she cannot make up her mind whether she really wants Benjamin or not. Everyone here cannot make up their minds, and they all don't seem to know the concept of reason. I wonder what it is with the southern California air, maybe that is the cause of it all.

Anyway, I hate the way the book ends. I wanted closure, I wanted Benjamin to be destroyed, or put into an asylum, but no. The book ends in a way where the story continues, to no end, and the reader is left to his own devices when it comes to figuring out what happened next after Benjamin steps inside that bus.

3 out of 5 stars.(less)

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Sep 22, 2010 ~Sara~ rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: 1001-books, complete-rubbish, general-fiction

Meet Benjamin. He's 21 and just graduated college. No seriously, he's 21, not a fifteen year old delinquent from a broken family. The author tells us so even though he forgot to make him act like it. Benjamin is mad at the world for being so materialistic. "Get that silver spoon out of my mouth! I hate you, I hate you, I hate you all!. I hate Mrs. Robinson, but I'll sleep with her anyway, I hate my parents for loving and supporting my useless ass, and I hate Elaine for being forced to date her a...more

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May 09, 2013 Jim Leckband rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

"One morning, as Benjamin Braddock was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that he had graduated."

Benjamin "Bartelby" Braddock would prefer not to. He has graduated, and as the term can be thought to imply, that means he has ascended. Ascended into a life of doing and feeling nothing. He just wants to be left alone. Even, at first, by Mrs. Robinson. But, then, the dictum of doing nothing, can also be applied to doing nothing that is expected. And one is not expected to sleep with their...more

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Mar 14, 2013 Kenley Bunch rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2013

I bought this book at a thrift store for about a dollar. I can see why it was at a thrift store.. for only a dollar. It was drab, monotoned, and just all around boring. I mean it didn't even have a real ending.

I didn't hate this book though, don't get me wrong. I did finish it in about one chunk, so I wasn't totally disinterested, but the reason I kept reading was because I was waiting for something more. Some more dialogue.. just anything with some subsistence.

I got the affair between Mrs. Rob...more

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Oct 26, 2012 Samantha rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this book out of pure curiosity. Obviously it became very famous as a film and it having then been referred to in other works for many years led to me eventually picking this book up.

This book is pointless. I don't think any of the characters are likeable. Not a single one. Benjamin as a character is a whiny brat, he constantly got on my nerves. At the start of the book when all he wants is to go for a walk to help clear his head as he seems to find the party a bit daunting I kind of felt...more

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Oct 12, 2012 Ian rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 1001-books

A classic of sixties rebellion from the American Dream. Benjamin Braddock has everything: a well-off middle class family, a sports car bought for him on his graduation, a glittering academic career with cast iron employment prospects. But he resents everything - the suburban phoniness and materialism and drops out of his prescribed future, sliding into an affair with the wife of his dad's best friend. I like this book on several levels: the authentic dialogue, the disbelieving parents and especi...more

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Jul 21, 2011 Courtney Lesueur rated it 4 of 5 stars

Maybe I'm biased since The Graduate's 1967 film adaptation is my favorite film of all time, but I really quite enjoyed this book. It's an easy summer read seeing as how the majority of it is dialogue, and I breezed right through it. Another thing that I quite liked about it is the fact that it went more in depth into the tension between the Robinsons and the Braddocks after the affair. You really got the impression that Mr. Robinson was distraught. Reading other reviews people have written I've...more

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Jul 18, 2011 Zaneta rated it 2 of 5 stars

I got this book, appropriately enough, as a college graduation/birthday gift. I've never seen the movie except for the infamous ending and (just now) the trailer, which actually gives away the entire plot (boy graduates from college, is seduced by an older woman, and then falls in love with older woman's daughter). But despite the little I've seen of the film, the novel has none of the quirky humor and appeal the film seems to have.

The plot itself is a "What is going on?" scenario. Bypassing the...more

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Sep 21, 2009 April rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2009, book-club

I don't know what to make of this book.

Benjamin Braddock, recent college graduate, returns home and becomes a slacker, mooch, and motherlover. He covered himself in glory while he was in school, but once school was over, he lost his drive.

I know there is a bit of depression that comes when one has to face adulthood, but Benjamin Braddock takes it to the extreme, dropping out of everything.

Perhaps Mrs. Robinson offers a distraction, or perhaps he really is attracted to her; at any rate, the two...more

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Apr 17, 2013 Prakriti rated it 4 of 5 stars

The Graduate is a fantastic book, and since the time I have heard rumours of it being based on a true story, autobiographical by some accounts, my respect for Charles Webb has gone up quite a few notches.

This has perhaps the best set of dialogues about a well, a Mrs. Robinson kinda love story that I have ever had the pleasure to read ("I think you are the most attractive of all of my parents' friends, Mrs. Robinson").

The ennui, the direction-lessness and uninvolved personality of Benjamin has...more

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Jul 11, 2012 Drew rated it 4 of 5 stars

Hmm. I got the feeling that maybe you weren't supposed to be cheering for the protagonist in this one. And I'm hesitant to recommend this book to anybody, even people who I think would like it because they might not. And more than that, they'd think I was a perverted creep for not only liking it, but recommending it.

I guess I liked it because I connected so much to Ben right from the outset. He's just finished school and he hasn't got a clue about what to do with himself. He feels larger than li...more

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Jul 31, 2012 Paul Servini rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: modern-fiction

I'm so infuriated having just finished reading this book. I feel like all the characters should be given... well for politeness sake I'll delete what I'd written here, from the lethargic Benjamin who for two thirds of the book just hangs around doing nothing, to the precocious Mrs. Robinson who takes it into his mind to seduce the son of a her husband's partner, to Benjamin's parents whose mollycoddling of their son is sickening. That's not to mention Elaine who falls in love with Benjamin after...more

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Nov 26, 2011 Julie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 1001-books-to-read-before-you-die, audiobooks, fiction

I enjoyed seeing this movie years - more like decades - ago. The combination of Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock and the fantastic score performed by Simon and Garfunkel, made this a hit for me and I was looking forward to revisiting this story in audio. The book closely follows the movie. Ben, a recent college graduate who has many offers of full scholarships at prestigious universities, is disenchanted with life and chooses to laze around his parents' house and have an affair with Mrs. Robi...more

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Apr 20, 2009 Gregg rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: suburbanhell

Young Benjamin Braddock finishes school and then realizes he doesn't know what he wants to do with his life. He struggles with this angst for all of twenty pages before his father's partner's wife makes a pass at him, an affair from which he progresses to the daughter and a madcap race for love and purpose.

Maybe I'm too steeped in the Gen X/21st century mentality that takes for granted the futility and torpor of what we deem modern suburban society too much to appreciate the social commentary i...more

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Feb 06, 2012 Michael Jenkins rated it 4 of 5 stars

Benjamin Braddock is a a recent college graduate, that is still unsure about his future, Despite his parents efforts to get him to pursue other career options, he thinks it is a waste of time and he wants to be independent. The only thing that is stopping him from being reserved and having alone time by himself, is Ms Robbinson a gorgeous woman he has known all his life. He is not keen on pursuing things with her, considering how close she is with his family. Nevertheless, the two embark on an a...more

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Aug 29, 2010 Sienna rated it 2 of 5 stars

I read The Graduate this morning. I liked it, I think.
However. It's really very strange, and rather annoying that you don't know the characters much more after reading the book than you did before. You don't know how they feel or what they think and therefore can't really take a stance.
Personally I think one of the best perks of reading is taking a position, having opinions on topics and characters. I have no idea what to think with this novel as the reader's insight is based solely on the awkw...more

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Jul 25, 2011 Amanda rated it 3 of 5 stars

I bought this at a Library book sale because I was curious to read the book that inspired the movie, and it seemed like a nice choice for a summer read. I really enjoyed my experience reading this book, and I read through it awfully fast, but after I finished, I just felt like I wasn't done. You spend so much time with one character, yet you barely know anything about him by the end. The lack of punctuation seemed a little strange to read, but it sort of flowed well together. I've seen people co...more

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Feb 23, 2012 mkld rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Como aspecto muy negativo, destaco que en esta edición de Penguin, el resumen de la contraportada cuenta toda la historia, incluido el final. Si ya procuro no leerlos para sorprenderme con el libro, éste me ha fastidiado el libro. No me explico cómo hacen eso.

Pero el libro me ha gustado mucho porque es corto, simple, no hay nada de trascendente, pero cuenta una historia bien contada, y por eso creo que es un buen libro. Utiliza un estilo muy oral, una elección y técnica excelentes, en mi opinión...more

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Apr 17, 2012 Rachel rated it 2 of 5 stars

Without Dustin Hoffman's acting infusing the character of Benjamin with nerdy charm, Book-Benjamin is instead entitled, self-obsessed, compulsive and otherwise unpleasant. In fact everyone in the book is horrible except for Elaine and I suspect her sweetness is actually just stupidity?

I gave the book two stars because the writing was witty enough to justify my continued reading. The story was a non-story. He had some post-graduate malaise and then! suddenly! in about 5 minutes had decided he wa...more

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