Anyone else read "The Catcher in the Rye"?

[Furyline]

Originally posted by: paulney
I read it int ranslation and liked it. But then, a lot of people say, that particular translation was better than Vonnegut's writing. Gotta reread it in original.

Actually, it's by JD Salinger.

I thought it was a decent book.

Edit: after rereading your post, maybe you're just comparing it to Vonnegut in general. Personally, I prefer Vonnegut's stuff.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: Legendary
Great book, I loved it.

 

[MrCodeDude]

Something about catching bodies. I liked the book, especially when he gets the prostitute and just wants to "talk."

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: WhiteKnight

Anyone else read "The Catcher in the Rye"?

Only everyone that went to high school.

i didnt read it
i went to high school
i remember the old man and the sea and the scarlett letter
meh to them both
my high school sucked

 

[BW86]

great book

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: neonerd

Originally posted by: WhiteKnight

Anyone else read "The Catcher in the Rye"?

Only everyone that went to high school.

ok, anyone remember liking it?

one of the few books i remember reading in grade school.

that and A Separate Peace, Killing Mr Griffin, The Great Gatsby, and The Outsiders

 

[neonerd]

Originally posted by: TheLonelyPhoenix
Catcher in the Rye is the #2 banned book in high schools... I forget which the first was.

I thought it was an interesting read, gives some perspective into the thought processes of people that are usually just dismissed as "crazy".

how can it be the #2 banned book if we've all, or most of us read it in highschool?

Our class is reading it right now, I decided to skip ahead because i liked it

 

[nageov3t]

good book. I liked The Bell Jar a lot more, though.

 

[paulney]

Originally posted by: Furyline

Originally posted by: paulney
I read it int ranslation and liked it. But then, a lot of people say, that particular translation was better than Vonnegut's writing. Gotta reread it in original.

Actually, it's by JD Salinger.

I thought it was a decent book.

Edit: after rereading your post, maybe you're just comparing it to Vonnegut in general. Personally, I prefer Vonnegut's stuff.

Duh! Of course it's by Salinger. I have no idea why I said Vonnegut. Probably because I read his stuff around the same time (and in translation, too).

 

[Mucho]

Reading it when you are a teenager is one thing reading it as an adult is totally different the teen angst thing sems like whining to adults.

 

[neonerd]

so how is it a banned book?

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: paulney

Originally posted by: Furyline

Originally posted by: paulney
I read it int ranslation and liked it. But then, a lot of people say, that particular translation was better than Vonnegut's writing. Gotta reread it in original.

Actually, it's by JD Salinger.

I thought it was a decent book.

Edit: after rereading your post, maybe you're just comparing it to Vonnegut in general. Personally, I prefer Vonnegut's stuff.

Duh! Of course it's by Salinger. I have no idea why I said Vonnegut. Probably because I read his stuff around the same time (and in translation, too).

Vonnegut is far, far better though. Schlacthof funf, bitte... very good book.

Originally posted by: neonerd
so how is it a banned book?

I believe it was a cussing issue and the hooker that did it.

 

[abc]

hmm what happened to our holden caufield in anand?


anyway, those who read it, i remember the character in a hotel room and he saw some other guy in a room with a suitcase with women's clothes or something...

 

[Wuffsunie]

Originally posted by: Mucho
Reading it when you are a teenager is one thing reading it as an adult is totally different the teen angst thing sems like whining to adults.

It seemed whiny when I read it as a teenager, too. I thought it was the biggest waste of time. A mental case's weekend in New York. Big whoop.

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Originally posted by: neonerd
so how is it a banned book?

Lots of cursing and a prostitute.

It's common in English curriculums, which draws attention to it, which gets it banned in some places. This is why a large number of us read it in high school but it still holds a high place on the list. "Of Mice and Men" was 3rd on the list, IIRC, and a lot of us probably read that one too.

 

[Cawchy87]

Ya, I had to read it for Lit Focus 40S. But I just read sparknotes. Sounded like an interesting book tho. Just would rather read Stephen Hawking or various other physics books.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Wuffsunie

Originally posted by: Mucho
Reading it when you are a teenager is one thing reading it as an adult is totally different the teen angst thing sems like whining to adults.

It seemed whiny when I read it as a teenager, too. I thought it was the biggest waste of time. A mental case's weekend in New York. Big whoop.

exactly how i felt when i read in in 11th grade and when i read it in college

 

[Siva]

I didn't even read the sparknotes for it. I think I wrote a paper on it though. I got an A in the class, so I guess the paper couldn't have been all that bad.

 

[timosyy]

It's short enough that you don't need to read sparknotes ...

Then again, I'm guilty of looking up the summar to Metamorphosis, and thats even shorter so .. haha

Thought Catcher was a pretty good book. There was some controversy at our school when one of the teachers was talking about how cuss words lose their bite after you hear it so many times, and told his students to go to their basements and just repeat "fvck" over and over to themselves. One of the kids (I don't even know why you would take this seriously) objected, wrote about it, raised hell, got radio and local media involved -_-

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: Muadib

Originally posted by: spanky
i read the cliffnotes. oh yeah.

LOL me too!! I rarely read my books in high school. Tried it in college and got burned.

me too. heheh

 

[rocadelpunk]

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Legendary
Great book, I loved it.

 

[Zee]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Wuffsunie

Originally posted by: Mucho
Reading it when you are a teenager is one thing reading it as an adult is totally different the teen angst thing sems like whining to adults.

It seemed whiny when I read it as a teenager, too. I thought it was the biggest waste of time. A mental case's weekend in New York. Big whoop.

exactly how i felt when i read in in 11th grade and when i read it in college

 

[DanTMWTMP]

if you haven't read the book, you missed out on a great, amusing, entertaining, coming-of-age book.

one of the best book's i've read. some people say yah, it's some dude who's complaining about everything, but hey you get those kinds of people everyday. I just found it very amusing on how a pessimistic guy views the world. hehhe.