I think the author of this review only wanted to show off all the big words he found when he opened a dictionary.
NOBODY speaks like that in real life.
...and the book is the most overrated book in history bordering on booring.
I didn’t like the book, didn’t like it when Redford did it, wouldn’t like it for Leo, either. Especially, Leo....a more little wimped out wuss could never be. I don’t care if he’s got a trainer and pumped up his little girly muscles, I’d still bust the twit in the chops, old man that I am.
I'm sorry, that distinction goes to The Catcher in the Rye
Thanks for clarifying that, I thought I was stupid because I couldn't understand a word he said..........
As a side note, I think I was supposed to read The Great Gatsby in high school but I don't think I did......maybe it was the Cliff Notes.
IMHO, books like that and Shakespear and A Tale of Two Cities should not be required reading for high schoolers since the majority of them, like me, don't have the intellectual capacity to understand the author. And I still don't......
Nobody talks like that in real life, but then again, no-one ever used to write like they talked. If you ever get the chance to read letters Civil War soldiers wrote home to their mothers, the poetry and formality is almost shocking to our modern ears, but can leave you wondering how is it that lowly farmboys turned warriors can write so much better than the most artful of modern writers. The key, though, is that they expressed so much better what they meant.
By the way, in many cultures, written and spoken languages are entirely different. For instance, Standard Arabic is written throughout the Islamic world, yet the local spoken languages vary greatly. And, of course, throughout medieval Western Europe, Latin remained the standard written language, while the local dialects drifted away into Iltalian, Portgueses, French, Romansch, Romanian, Spanish, and dozens of smaller languages which most people no longer even know about, like Languedoc, Catalan, and such.
It wasn’t that the Catholic Church was using some code language; it was that anyone who knew how to write wrote in Latin!