<p>and oh, god, catcher in the rye is a bore. its a classic, so maybe i missed some deep meaning from it...??</p>
<p>cross was so sweet in the beginning but lee was just so ackward--- and what she did disgusted me!</p>
<p>I hate Lee. I despise people like her. Extremely shallow. Just... so... immature. Kinda reminds me of those immature-unpopular-loser-awkward-loner-intellectually belowaverage- girls at my school.</p>
<p>I liked the other characters like cross and those other girls (the popular one and lee's friends- the hispanic girl and her roommate in her senior year)
They... had lives....</p>
<p>wait, what did Lee do that disgusted you?</p>
<p>lee had no redeeming qualities. she wasn't that intelligent, didn't have much personality, and no backbone. lee just... was despicable in general.</p>
<p>I'd say it was an accurate portrayal of what it's like to be in boarding school. </p>
<p>It's like, ZOMG LET'S PUT A BUNCH OF TeenAGE ANGST IN ONE PLACE AND CALL IT A DORM!</p>
<p>It was a brilliant book, in my opinion. If there's auditions for a movie based on this book, I'd definitely try out to be Martha Porter. </p>
<p>I liked Lee for her thorough vigilance, but I was a bit bothered by her self consciousness. I could empathize with her falling for Cross, but never would I fall so hard that I'd become my crush's sex slave. But honestly, it took me a while to realize that. I thought an actual relationship would blossom between the two. But alas, books don't end like that anymore.</p>
<p>there WAs a reason y i stopped looking at boarding schools after i read the book last spring! i go to a private scum bag back stabbing special ed school full of BOys(3/4 boys) and some girls who have credit cards from daddyyyyyy! IM one of the exceptions. But daddy spoils me. But then i dont have a bag worth 2k.</p>
<p>Well it didn't seem to negatively effect too many as boarding school applications continue to rise. In Lee they portrayed smeone you will certainly find at most boarding schools, an insecure person who has poor social skills and can't work to fit in. And when I say fit in, I mean find a group of friends with whom she can identify which almost anyone can at any prep. In concentrating on her angst, they missed a lot of the dynamic at a good prep, leaving the reader who knows nothing about these schools first hand with long held stereotypes.</p>
<p>"lee had no redeeming qualities. she wasn't that intelligent, didn't have much personality, and no backbone. lee just... was despicable in general."</p>
<p>see! that's partly why i liked the book! for the first time, the narrator was not some incredibly witty, pretty-but-modest, hardworking, diligent supergirl. i'd say the general population of girls arent greatly intelligent; they dont have a profound personality, or a backbone to boot. however, lee is an interesting character because of her observations.</p>
<p>curtis sittenfeld hated prep school, i think. she went to groton, and now says that she would never let her children go to boarding school. i don't think thats the right thing, though.</p>