The Graduate

Today I made scones and they were tasty. I'm so tired these days, I don't know what's wrong with me.



19. The Graduate - Charles Webb
Another car boot bargain, and another famous movie that I haven't seen. I'd bet that this is much better in film form, as it's really dialogue-heavy and what little prose there is often reads like stage directions rather than description - it's practically a screenplay. To be honest, I didn't like it. The sense of disillusionment was well done, but Ben is a thoroughly irritating protagonist and there was hardly any sense of place or of time at all. It was so insular, and the lack of communication between the characters infuriated me. No doubt this was to convey the essentially inane nature of life or the tenuity of relationships or something like that...whatever, it was still boring.