finished reading 'The Catcher in the Rye' by J.D. Salinger. it's a good book...I mean it's modern american literature, got lots of slangs and explicit language, and it's quite suggestive, but it's a good book to read if you want to kill time, or enhance your vocab (well, at least I did...my vocab's horrible.) The book is about a teen boy called 'Holden Caulfield' that got expelled from a school...and the whole book basically talks about the 2 days that he spent on the streets of New York and all that went through his mind....when Holden said sth feels like it was 'twenty years ago', it really does. So many things happen in between. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex actually used a quote from this book
"I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes." the story (GitS:SAC) actually included elements that was inspired from the book as well.
"The Laughing Man" logo was created with the help of this book....
on the last episode, a similar scenario (the F word written on a hand-rail) was created according to this:
"You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write 'Fuck you' right under your nose." anyways, I'd borrow this book again when I'm older...so I could understand what J.D. Salinger's trying to say through this book. To be honest, I don't get a crap what this book's trying to say haha. Oh, I don't understand what GitS: SAC's sophisticated plotline are trying to say as well. Every once in while, an episode would have sth like a plain conversation between a few people...one of those crucial eps that explains/reveals the plot and all. | 
