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I read Franny & Zooey last year, when I was 13. Along with Raise High/Seymour
and Nine Stories.  But I found Franny a little neurotic.  I felt she was too
passive with Lane. Lane! Dont get me started on him. What an egotistical jerk!
I always wondered why Franny says she hated egos (in the theatre class) and
she goes out with the king of egos!  Don't get me wrong, I do love Franny.
Dear Lovely Insane and Knocked Up Franny.  But I think I'm a cross between Boo
Boo and Zooey.  Like Zooey, I'm frustrated in conversations and I have high
standards in them. (And I'm quite rude to my mother, incidentally.)  Like Boo
Boo, I'm sort of ..gee. "Navy Like" (whatever that is). It may have something
to do with me being a former Navy brat and calling everyone "Soldier" or
"Lieutenant" or "Civilian" .. go figure. 

In my opinion we are forced to read Shakespeare in High School (well I can
only speak for Romeo & Juliet) because it takes a great deal of deciphering
the language. My teacher always said how we were supposed to appreciate the
times and how Ro and J could most likely be like YOU [me] someday.  Great
Caesar's Ghost.  With that rational we could throw in a couple John Hughs
movies into the ole' BETAMAX. (Public School)  

-Erinn

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