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Nope, Shakespeare wasn't a novelist, so reading The Catcher in the Rye is more important.
(sigh)
The only books that I remember not liking in school were A Separate Peace by John Knowles and Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, which were both read during my sophomore year of high school. I think this was mostly because I was a fairly advanced reader and my teacher portrayed the books as ...
... Books about "hot topics" such as 1984 and Lord of the Flies--I loathe them. Fortunately, I never was forced to read Catcher in the Rye . I've just scanned a page or two, to see what people are so thrilled by, and came to the conclusion that the whining protagonist needed a good hard kick ...
I liked Lord of the Flies , but found Catcher in the Rye The Scarlet Letter and The Faerie Queene .
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7. To Kill a Mockingbird
8. The Once and Future King
9. Lord of the Flies
10. The Old Man and the Sea
11. The Catcher in the Rye
12. 1984
13. Animal Farm
14. Pippi Longstocking
15. The Stranger
16. Their Eyes were Watching God
17. The Hobbit
18. Lady Chatterl ...
Catcher in the Rye . I couldn't understand the point of it, or why it was supposed to have any relevance to me. And why all the swearing? There are too many interesting books around to go back and try it again.
... Flowers for Algernon. Great Gatsby. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. A Streetcar Named Desire. Animal Farm. Catcher and the Rye .
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Midnight's Children, Slaman Rushdie
The Diceman, Luke Rhinehart
The Catcher in the Rye , J D Salinger
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn ...
It's been entirely too long! I'm over 50 for the year, but I'll be posting these in short bursts.
29. Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
OK, don't shoot me, but I didn't like this book at all. I felt like it went nowhere. I didn't see the point. Maybe it's got something to do with the fact ...
... by Ursula K. LeGuin
8. The Telling by Ursula K. LeGuin
9. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
10. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
11. Dune by Frank Herbert
12. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Wish me lucks folks! I'm really going to ...
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger - read after seeing the movie Conspiracy Theory
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Dracula
Frankenstein
Paradise Lost by Milton
Catch 22
Lord of the Flies
The Iliad
The Odessy
The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
... some, but not others...
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Grea ...
... Tracy Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl
R-Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
S-Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
T-Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit
U-Updike, John Witches of Eastwick
V-Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse-Five
W-Walker, Alice The Color Purple
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... a wonderful job bringing the local culture to life. I agree with one reviewer who described this book as a cross between Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird. It is poignant and vulnerable and sarcastic and smart-ass all at the same time, and it addresses hypocrisy and racism. It ...
... a child genius and a quiz show and so much more. I'd say definitely worth a re-read. I, like many others, had only read The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger. I figured it was high time I read something else by him.
#216, this reviewer agrees with you about Catcher in the Rye . I really could not stand that book and wish I had had the fortitude to stop reading it!
Among YA novels, don't forget The Catcher in the Rye !
... James
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Extraordinary tales by Allan Poe
The Catcher in the rye by Salinger
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
So----------There I was; surrounded by the original list and thinking--hmm ...
I'd lose The Catcher in the Rye -- I don't think it really stands the test of time. Replaced with the incomparable
Beloved by Toni Morrison.
And I second Urania's replacements. I like both Hemingway and Fitzgerald, but I think they'll go down as secondary 20th c. writers. Saul Bellow ...
# 35 I also gave The catcher in the rye 3 stars, and I agree with you about Holden.
... by Syrie James
157. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
158. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
159. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
160. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
161. The Beast in the Jungle and Other Stories by Henry James
162. All Passion Spent ...
It makes it too easy by allowing multiple Tweets. For example, Catcher in the Rye could be summarized by: "Confused, misfit youth wants to keep children from falling off a cliff"
... Selvadurai (1994 Harvest)
The Messenger aka I am the Messenger - Marcus Zusak AUS.
Recommended Titles:
Catcher in the Rye - J.D.Salinger
Forever - Judy Blume
of which I've read neither, will get to them one day.
I just picked up The Ghost's Child by Sonya H ...
... Ruis Zafón and there is a foreword by Mario Vargas Llosa, praising the book, naming it the Spanish equivalent to The Catcher in the Rye .
Andrea comes to Barcelona by train, no one is there for her for she is late. She takes a cab for her relatives' place where she is going to live. ...
... a coming-of-age novel or a quest novel. Which do you think it is? Could it be both? It has been compared to Tom Sawyer, Catcher in the Rye , The Outsider, Pernod, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Christmas Story, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Peace Like a River, Extremely Loud and Incredibly C ...
19. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Minnetonka High School:
ideas-The Catcher in the Rye , Of Mice and Men, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
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I even have identical copies of a couple of books - my husband's Catcher in the Rye from high school and my copy of Catcher in the Rye from high school. Plus some duplicate copies of old romances. :)
I want LT to tell me exactly how many books I have, so enter every single book separately ...
56. Franny And Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Not really my thing. I liked The Catcher In The Rye when I read it a few years ago; this one, not so much.
... read stuff that doesn't appeal to me.
I love, love, loved To Kill a Mockingbird!~! (thanx Whisper1) and I really liked Catcher in the Rye an awful lot too. I don't know why I didn't read either of them years ago. I think I actually knew the Catcher in the Rye kid. I think everyone knew ...
... cartoons....sometimes cable is so great! Never really cared for Henry James. Loved To Kill a Mockingbird and especially Catcher in the Rye . I have been following the October scary reads thread (that's not exactly the right name) and remembering Dracula, House of Seven Gables, etc. I ...
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
My thoughts and comments:
I read The Catcher in the Rye for Banned Books Week and when I had finished with it I just sat there with it in my lap wondering why I had resisted this book for forty some odd years. I think I was expecting something ...
>#182 & 183:
Mark & spacespuds;
I loved both books. The Catcher in the Rye really took me by surprise. I was expecting some dark, risque novel and was quite nicely surprised.
To Kill a Mockingbird, I think, is in a class of it's own. I found it lovely, heartwarming, with characters one ...
Belva & Ellie- Re-reading The Catcher in the Rye many years later, was a completely different experience. I truly loved it with more "mature" eyes. I also adored To Kill a Mockingbird and the experience was even richer the second time around. Take care friends!
Hey Belva! I'm so glad you enjoyed Catcher in the Rye - as I said, I think perhaps I expected too much of it first time around and perhaps on a second reading I'd enjoy it more...
This weekend's been pretty darn fantastic actually - yesterday was blustery and cold but we had a great day in ...
I read The Catcher in the Rye earlier and quite enjoyed it. It won't be in my top 10 for the year but I certainly do not know what I thought was so dark about it to scare me off it for these many years.
I am now into To Kill a Mockingbird and had best get back to it if I want to finish it ...
I'm reading some classics this week: Catcher in the Rye , Cold Comfort Farm, and I'm also still reading The Woman in White.
Oooooh, how I hated The Catcher in the Rye for taking up valuable hours of my young life... Maybe one day I'll come back to it without the weight of expectation and its own bookish ego hanging over it and appreciate it more.
I seem to do this a lot with 'change your life as a teenager' books - ...
... is always exciting to not know what you will be reading next. I own just two more books that are on the Banned Book List. The Catcher in the Rye and To Kill A Mockingbird. I thought that I would for sure pick up the latter, but when it came time to grab another, I grabbed Salinger's. Ya ...
I just finished The Awakening and I think I have time for one more off the Banned Book List so I grabbed The Catcher in the Rye . I can't believe that I have still not read this one. Oh well, by tomorrow night I won't be able to say that.
Happy reading everyone,
belva
P.S. The answer to ...
... you laytonwoman3rd), and am working on The Awakening. If I have time I will move on to To Kill a Mockingbird and then The Catcher in the Rye .
belva
... Their Eyes Were Watching God and have begun The Awakening. From there I will go on to To Kill a Mockingbird and then The Catcher in the Rye , given time.
In regard to Daphne Du Maurier; (I just joined the group on like the 25th) I read: Myself When Young, The Loving Spirit, ...
... Lucky Jim on Mount TBR
518 Casino Royale
519 The Judge and His Hangman
526 Day of the Triffids on Mount TBR
529 The Catcher in the Rye
535 The Third Man
536 The 13 Clocks
538 The Grass is Singing
545 Kingdom of This World
547 Nineteen Eighty-Four
551 The Heart of ...
I think my boss forgot to check if she had Blood Rites at home. in the meantime I've read Go Jump in the Pool and The Catcher in the Rye . I've got nothin' right now, though, so I have no idea what I'm going to read next.
84. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Rating 3/5
85. Other Earths by Nick Gevers
Rating 4/5
86. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (Audio)
Rating 5/5
87. Witch Way to the Mall by Esther Friesner
A wonderful short story collection about ...
... Pride and Prejudice is mostly a chosen book. The Catcher in the Rye is very often a forced book
Okay, so compare Catcher in the Rye with To Kill a Mockingbird instead. That's another book that gets assigned for school, and it's one place below Catcher in the Rye on the list, with ...
... mean that Talk is worthless?
Also, even with popular books, the ratings aren't all the same. Pride and Prejudice and The Catcher in the Rye are #11 and #12 on LT. One has a rating of 4.5 and one has a rating of 3.96. Both are popular enough to have been read by more than the expected ...
Just got back from a long weekend away. Lots to catch up on here!
#112> Reading Catcher in the Rye for the first time? Boy am I jealous. I'd love to be able to read that for the first time again!
Tonight I will start The Ultraviolet Sky by Mexican-American author Alma Luz Villanueva.
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15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (own but have not read)
21 Gone With The Wind - M ...
I have just finished The Lost Symbol and about to make a start on The Catcher in the Rye , (I can't believe I've never read this before now).
... of Nearly Everything
I, Claudius
Ulysses
The Grapes of Wrath
With honourable mentions to The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye , One Hundred Years of Solitude, At Swim Two Birds, To Kill a Mockingbird, and ever so many many more.
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... real but it turns out that it's way less cool to someone entering college than to someone entering high school. Fans of Catcher in the Rye and Rules of Attraction should try this one.
Favorite reread: Lunar Park or maybe What the Butler Saw or...
This one's hard to decide because ...
... anti-matter.
When I was a child I would read anything, so I didn't have too much trouble with assigned reading. I read Catcher in the Rye when I was too young, though--I was about 11 and hadn't reached the years of teen angst. I didn't really like The Old Man and the Sea because I ...
... many to choose from. I considered all of:
Einstein's Dreams, Fire from Heaven, Victory !!, Flyte, Twilight, the Catcher in the Rye , Finn's going, a Choke Chain, Tobacco Sticks
But I eventually chose:
God's Politics
What is the best advice you have to give:
A Voyage ...
Piccola correzione, Vale, e` che Holden non e` a Hyde Park bensi` a Central Park, visto che vive a New York.
Su Il giovane Holden sono d'accordissimo con te, ma vorrei spiegarti che il romanzo e` cosi` importante per gli americani perche` illustra in maniera eccellente le angoscie ed insicurezze ...
... spend the rest of the month reading them.
The Importance of being Earnest, the Color Purple, Lord of the Flies, The Catcher in the Rye , Going Solo, Dracula, 1984, The Jungle Book, Catch-22, Slaughterhouse 5, Jane Eyre, The Scarlet Letter, To Kill a Mockingbird, and ...
... James
157. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
158. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
159. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
160. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
161. The Beast in the Jungle and Other Stories by Henry James
162. All ...
48 - The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
A re-read. Nothing to say about this book that hasn't been said.
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I'm in the middle of Bloodhound and listening to The Soldiers of Halla. I also need to read Catcher in the Rye since I checked it out from the library almost a month ago and I still haven't cracked it open. I also have the manga version on The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons, which will ...
... Lev Grossman. The second two thirds of the book were redeemed by the LAST SENTENCE. Kind of Potter meets Narnia meets Catcher in the Rye . Now I found my original cuecat and this website and have been bookshelf diving and found In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead so I will be ...
#169 The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
This story is a classic, and it is not hard to see why so many people have enjoyed it. Following a very short period in the life of Holden Caulfield, an adolescent full of teenage angst, in the process of dropping out from society - this book is ...
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and loads The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan
The Bluebird of Happiness
Which three books would you love to pass down to ...
I can't bring myself to write any more reviews just yet, so still awaiting reviews:
#169 The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
#170 Marco's Pendulum - Thom Madley
And now also:
#171 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
#172 Marco and the Blade of Night - Thom Madley
30. Catcher in the Rye --J.D. Salinger
Rating: 4.5 stars
This is a book that rightly belongs in the list of classic American fiction, and particularly fiction that interestingly and compellingly portrays adolescence. It is not a YA book, though it is often read as if it were. Some of ...
#8,
Yes, Catcher in the Rye is YA; Salinger just isn't a YA author.
... Stephen Potts
#167 The One Percent Doctrine - Ron Suskind
#168 Pasha and the Lost Mountain - Gary Webster
#169 The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
#170 Marco's Pendulum - Thom Madley
#8,
Yes, Catcher in the Rye is YA, just not modern YA.
Is Catcher in the Rye YA?
... on my shelf. I rather suspect Botchan occupies a place similar in the Japanese literary firmament to that occupied by Catcher in the Rye in the American galaxy—a sort of "Catcher in the Rice," if you will. That is, I assumed it was the sort of book that everyone was forced to read at ...
... on my shelf. I rather suspect Botchan occupies a place similar in the Japanese literary firmament to that occupied by Catcher in the Rye in the American galaxy—a sort of "Catcher in the Rice," if you will. That is, I assumed it was the sort of book that everyone was forced to read at ...
... ...
Big brother | Nineteen eighty-four
The West Wing | Bartlett's familiar quotations
Cheers | The catcher in the rye (Yes, I know it should be pitcher...)
... this book, I wager, a decade or so ago. But now it seems so real, so agonizingly present, that it is almost like reading Catcher in the Rye at 15. This was the absolute right time for me to read about an aging, retired intellectual with a hearing problem and a father on his way to dementia. ...
In the discussion Calm refers to above I gave an example of using the conversations feature to find a discussion about The Catcher in the Rye . I had to search through 29 talk threads before I found one linking to an actual discussion of the book. The general feeling in that thread is that the ...
Calm and Sodapop,
I think Catcher in the Rye is best appreciated if originally read as a teenager. I have friends whose tastes are similar to mine that love it, but I read it much later than they did and really didn't see the appeal, in fact was mildly annoyed by the whole thing. It seems ...
>306 Your wish is my command: I picked Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye because it is #25 in the list of Most Reviewed books . The new book discussion thread is Book talk: Discussing The Catch ...
... and stand back. . . Perhaps say "Discuss this BOOK, NOT its reviews!!" and see what happens." I picked Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye because it is #25 in the list of Most Reviewed books .
It is my opinion that the classic ...
... 13, 2009
I enjoyed this book. I read it while lounging around on my couch this afternoon. Definitely reminds me of, The Catcher in the Rye for the Generation X reader. I loved the parts of the book which refer to 'mix tapes'. I really miss those! What are kids doing today? Technology ...
... love a book that others hate? Some hate Lolita, one of the greatest works of literature (to me) ever written. Some love Catcher in the Rye which I find nothing much except for its timing. When it was written it struck a huge chord. Some admire Ernest Hemingway who leaves me cold. Some ...
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Am reading The Catcher in the Rye at the moment, it's not Junichiro Tanizaki bleak, but it's very, very... shall we say, not Kafka alienating, but Holden Caulfield is probably quite lacking in having role models for him and people to talk to.
I never studied this book at school, but I'm ...
... it's time consuming writing things down for each scene.
Future books on my reading list include: The Handmaid's Tale, Catcher in the Rye , 1984, and 100 Years of Solitude. I plan on reading them once for pleasure and then doing the aforementioned plot exercise on them. I've already read ...
... Albom, Stephenie Meyer and Dan Brown.
Also some classics include Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye . I want to like them, but just can't get much out of them. Guess I should wait another 5 years to start reading them again.
That's The Catcher in the Rye , isn't it?
77. Catcher in the Rye , J.D. Salinger
edited months later to add a link to a great article in The Guardian that pretty much sums up how I read this book
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/jul/06/featuresreviews.guardianreview35
... got a good mark for it to, Freelunch. I wish I'd done more of that in school now, such good stories :-)
Oh yes, Catcher in the Rye was another one we did! Thanks for the memory jogger.
So did anyone else do any Aus Lit? I think I also remember doing Seven Little Australians ...
Ah, yes, I did The Catcher in the Rye too. Loved it at the time, but doubt I'll love it now. One of those books that should be read as a teenager/young adult, but at no other time.
When do you choof off to Thailand, Miss-Owl?
... are concerned!) and others I've picked up, that I absolutely love teaching (Hamlet, Wuthering Heights, Frankenstein, The Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby - the latter two especially when paired up with "American Beauty".)
I would have loved to read Rebecca in high school.
...
... left from the author's lamp to illuminate other beings" and still be considered a novel.
Where does that leave us with Catcher in the Rye ? Or The Trial? Or Robinson Crusoe? How about Heart of Darkness? To me, as I'd never heard the term "recit" before (and thank you for teaching me ...
... ancer
Native Son
The Stranger
The Little Prince
Animal Farm
Under the Volcano
Exercises in Style
1984
The Catcher in the Rye
Molloy
Memoirs of Hadrien
The Old Man and the Sea
Casino Royale
Fear of Flying
The Dispossessed
Kiss of the Spiderwoman
Intervi ...
... .
When I was in school I was required to read some books I didn't like. For instance, I simply could not see the point of Catcher in the Rye . I didn't like it, and I have no intention of ever reading it again. I feel no shame about that. I have read four or five Shakespeare plays. There are ...
From Rach974923's library, I choose The Catcher in the Rye .
... find as much 'renewed expression' as you want. To me it's much like Mark Chapman's constant rereading and obsession with The Catcher in the Rye .
... to me - if I hadn't had to read it for a class, I would have put it down after about two hundred pages. I also found Catcher in the Rye to be underwhelming, but I might read it again to see if I appreciate it more now.
Book 41 - The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
A strange book for me. I think I would have loved it if I would have read it about 8 years ago. I still liked it now, but only because I remember feeling the same way the main character felt in a lot of ways. I would say I feel the same way in ...
... find the last chapter!
Anyway, pardon the minor digression.
I think I'd be either Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Catcher in the Rye , The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. I feel like they each provide an experience I can ...
... Summer Book 3.5
Layton, Edith (R) The Duke's Wager 4
Palmer, Diana (R) After the Music 4
Salinger, J.D. (fic) A Catcher in the Rye 4
Sprinkle, Patricia (M) When did we lose Harriet? 4
Watson, Winifred (fic) Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day 4.5
Wyndham, John (fic) (SF) The Day ...
... the original list and to those already proposed as additions/revisions) . . .
Naked Lunch
Portnoy's Complaint
Catcher in the Rye
Catch 22 and
Invisible Man by Harlan Ellison
I think all of these books, to greater or lesser degree, pushed out the boundaries of how Ameri ...
... life, my father, when asked if he killed anybody during the war, said "Oh yes, I did." And didn't explain any further.
Catcher in the Rye is not my favorite work by Salinger, but I think I'll re-read it too. I read it in high school, on my own, not in class, and it was the start of my love ...
... author theme read, but maybe I can make the J.D. Salinger read, since I have been trying to re-read Nine Stories and The Catcher in the Rye . I re-read Franny and Zooey last year and was happily surprised to see that it had held up for me after first reading it as an angsty teenager. I ...
... ers
57. Nineteen Minutes
58. Science and Health With Key To The Scriptures
59. Practical Magic
60. Couples
61. Catcher in the Rye
62. The Call of Cthulhu
63. Profiles in Courage
64. A Civil Action
65. The Varieties of Religious Experience
66. Death at an Early Age
67. ...
I read Catcher in the Rye for the first time a few years ago as a semi-mature adult, a self-evaluation based on my no longer laughing at The Three Stooges . CR didn't bring back memories of teenage angst for me, I couldn't relate to HC in any way. What brought it home was reading an ...
...
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 Th ...
It's been a few years since I read The Catcher in the Rye and I was not overly impressed with this classic. Maybe it was because I came to the book with an adult perspective but I just found Holden Caulfield unlikeable and not particularly interesting. Perhaps I should give it a reread.
... buckles when I was a child; To Kill a Mockingbird showed me as a teenager that great literature can also be great reads; The Catcher in the Rye showed me as a adult that there is a right time in your life to read certain books; and Lolita taught me that it's okay to not finish a critically ...
Discuss your thoughts here on J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye .
To start things off...
It is definitely one of those books that people either love or hate and has come under great debate. There's a thread in a group debating what books should be included in the high school curriculum and ...
Since most people have read Catcher in the Rye I'll set up that post right away. Maybe then you can start up the discussion. :)
Interesting story.....someone wrote and marketed a sequel to The Catcher in the Rye Mr. Salinger, still kicking at 90, filed suit to block the publication of the book. A quick news search should pull up the story.
I may have to try F&Z now, too.
... book when we're that young when all that matters is finishing the stupid essay you have to do on the stupid book. I read Catcher In the Rye in the summer before grade 12. I hated it. I hated Holden and how angry at the world he was. I thought he was just a snotty teenager. I read it again in ...
... 52:
Salinger, J.D.: Franny and Zooey
999 Classics & Fiction category (6/01/05)
Library 201 pages
I read Catcher in the Rye years ago when I was a teenager and was totally underwhelmed. I thought the story was boring and Holden Caulfield didn’t interest me at all. (I think ...
... 52:
Salinger, J.D.: Franny and Zooey
999 Classics & Fiction category (6/01/05)
Library 201 pages
I read Catcher in the Rye years ago when I was a teenager and was totally underwhelmed. I thought the story was boring and Holden Caulfield didn’t interest me at all. (I think ...
... I've never read a whole Austen book ......
> 423 I read The Great Gatsby and can't remember much ...
Tried to read Catcher in the Rye - gave up; although one of my closest friends raves and says its her favorite book
As far Gone With the Wind - the only redeeming thing about good ...
I started The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger about two days ago.
Catcher in the Rye
Anne Rice
The Great Gatsby the last words.... I think The Catcher in The Rye quotes this line
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Say, has everyone seen our own girlunderglass's Hot Review of The Catcher in the Rye yet today (Friday)?
I completely disagree with her, of course, positing instead that lovers of this book simply possess superior discernment combined with elevated spiritual qualities and haters of it are ...
162-164: HATED Catcher in the Rye . I wanted to smack him for all of his whining and to tell him to get over himself!!
I had to give up on Catch-22. One of my good friends read it and recommended it. I got 1/3 of the way through it, but it didn't seem to be getting anywhere, and it was a ...
... are the ones that I hated:
Disgrace - totally forgettable
Lord of the Flies - they teach this in schools?! :(
The Catcher in the Rye - just not my thing; I respect it, I just don't care for it
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - I am not a Joyce fan - at all
Gulliver's Tr ...
I couldn't stand Catcher in the Rye . I know that many people think that it is the greatest book ever written, but I just didn't get it.
... I would have happily gouged my eyes out before I read the whole thing. *shudder*
It's been years, but I remember liking The Catcher in the Rye . Isn't if funny how everyone has such different taste in books? :P
# 159 - That's the problem I have with Holden Caulfield in The Catcher In The Rye . I disliked the book because I so intensely wanted to smack the protagonist.
... World in 80 Days
9. The Blind Assassin
1o. Brave New World
11. Breakfast at Tiffany's
12. Buddenbrooks
13. The Catcher in the Rye
14. A Christmas Carol
15. A Clockwork Orange
16. The Count of Monte-Cristo
17. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
18. Doc ...
... Mody-Dick by Herman Melville
16. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
17. Animal Farm by George Orwell
18. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
19. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
20. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
21. The Strange Case of Dr. J ...
Catcher in the Rye
I have both On the Road and Catcher in the Rye on the TBR tower, intending to read both of them sooner rather than later. As I am now far from an angst ridden teenager - I will look forward to discovering what sort of reaction I have to them.
133. The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield ...
I do agree - though it also fits up to recent novels. I read On the Road and Catcher in the Rye once I was out of the teenage stage and loathed them.
Oddly I can still read teen fiction that is aimed at teens and love it.
Smack by Melvin Burgess (aka Junk ; YA novel with several teen runaways)
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (runs away from boarding school)
I'm weighing in at 22.
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Bible
Nineteen-Eighty Four
Great Expectations
The Hobbit
Catcher in the Rye
Great Gatsby
Crime and Punishment
Grapes of Wrath
Chronicles of Narnia
The lion the witch and the wardrobe
Animal Farm
Da Vinci Code
H ...
The Salinger mini-theme read runs from May-August, and I'll start with The Catcher in the Rye , which I bought last week. I'll probably get to it later this month, but I may wait until June, as I have a few other projects (Reading Globally monthly group read, Dostoevsky year long read) or goals (s ...
... Ellis.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
I don't own any multiples, but I've gone through three copies of Catcher in the Rye . The first was stolen, the second was borrowed by an ex and then burned in a house fire (which he started), and my third copy is never leaving my ...
... class where we discussed it. I remember thinking it was quite convoluted. However, it was a lot better novel than Catcher in the Rye which was read as a comparison piece. (I was not an English major--this was for our required 4 semester Western Civilization course.)
Dubliners ...
... and bought a copy of The Same Sea, which looks interesting. Have you read it?
Other books I bought yesterday:
The Catcher in the Rye : the Author Theme Reads group will be reading Salinger from May to August ...
... and bought a copy of The Same Sea, which looks interesting. Have you read it?
Other books I bought yesterday:
The Catcher in the Rye : the Author Theme Reads group will be reading Salinger from May to August ...
... Oak Books , a great used book store in Berkeley, across the Bay from San Francisco, and bought a few more books:
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Innocent by Ian McEwan
Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga
The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
The Same Sea ...
... New World by Aldous Huxley
13.Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
14.Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
15.The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
16.The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
17.To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
18.Cat and Mouse by Gunter Grass
19.The ...
25. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
I'm embarassed to say this is the first time I've ever read this! Some English teacher I am...
13. The catcher in the rye by J. D. Salinger
This was the first time I had read this book, somehow I missed it during my school years, I'm not sure how.
Wow, what a book, for something that was written over 50 years ago, many of the themes still ring true. And for anyone to write about ...
Sutpen >>
I have read The Catcher in the Rye , so that one is out.
And although Blood Meridian is very high on my to be read (and to be bought!) lists, I was hoping to confine my list to those authors very literally contained within the movement, which seems to rule out anyone who wasn't a ...
Have you also read The Catcher in the Rye ? Because that would certainly fall into that category.
Another book with the same sort of protagonist, even though it's not normally thought of in this way, is Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.
41- The catcher in the rye *
42- Memoirs of Hadrian
43- The old man and the sea *
44- Lord of the flies
45- The lord of the rings
46- Doctor Zhivago
47- Manon des sources
48- One hundred years of solitude
49- 2001: a space odyssey
50- The godfather
51- The year of the ...
... appropriate but the writing will fit his reading level. Plus, the book is short, so he won't feel overwhelmed.
Also, The Catcher in the Rye is a possibility.
Louis Sachar, Jerry Spinelli, and Darren Shan are all authors who interest all ages and have some reading level ...
I never Catcher in the Rye , but had to endure A Separate Peace in high school (or was it middle school?). I also had a philosophy teacher in high school recommend I should read The Fountainhead
The best things I read usually weren't in high school. That's when I discovered William Gibson ...
... Caulfield (or his social set, or Salinger), but it would be a big mistake to confuse that feeling with a judgment that Catcher is a poor novel.
Things Fall Apart isn't going to work for sophomores unless they are unusually patient readers. In 15 years of teaching, I've never met ...
Catcher in the Rye is probably responsible for at least two school shootings.
Dead Poet's Society is trash too, and Catcher in the Rye is arguably the worst book ever written (in relation to how often it's read).
Actually, I think those books ought to stick around and be read... by wealthy kids going to exclusive New England boarding schools.
To the original ...
... lit class, I can barely remember. I remember reading Dickens, no idea which one. Walden made no impression at all. Read Catcher in the Rye in high school; remember nothing except there was supposed to be (according to the teacher) some kind of significance that Holden wore his cap backwards. ...
... have not included any YA, and probably won't. Someone on another thread suggested Catch 22 and I love that idea too. Catcher in the Rye might cause trouble because of the language, and, because so many people dislike it, I don't know that it is a good choice.
Catcher in the Rye ...
... some, but not others...
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Gre ...
... some, but not others...
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Gre ...
... some, but not others...
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Gre ...
Perfect Grave by Rick Morfina. A thriller I read a couple of years ago.
#382 - Tid - I've never read Catcher In the Rye either!
Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
I'm ashamed to say I never read this yet. But at least I admitted that - I'm not a phony!
... some, but not others...
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (I watched ...
... of Down at the Dinghy and De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period from Nine Stories.
I'll still need to purchase The Catcher in the Rye , though.
Nine Stories
1. A Perfect Day for Bananafish: The New Yorker, 1/31/48
2. Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut: The New Yorker, 3/20/48
3. Jus ...
8.4 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger started 4/5/09; finished 4/10/09
... Day.
- And I am oh so proud to admit to having read Bridget Jones's Diary! :P
- I really was not all that fond of Catcher in the Rye and The Shadow of the Wind.
- And I own 11 (plus about 10 others that I didn't feel like verifying) more that are waiting to be read.
1/13 Catch 22 ...
... and his puffery. And this from someone who made it all the way through Finnegan's Wake. Here's another I can't abide. The Catcher in the Rye . And hey, it's a guy thing. But not this guy. Poetry, scifi, philosophy, great ideas well put in a great read...I'm your man.
... (Harry Potter, The Shadow of the Wind, The Secret History) and I hated a couple - Alice in Wonderland and Catcher in the Rye , I mean you. Among the ones I never finished are Nineteen Eighty-Four, Emma and Dracula. They're all standing by for a second try though!
Thank ...
... 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - read some, but not others...
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - Reading Now
28 ...
... Shakespeare.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD SalingerT ...
... history ones.)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
*16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
*22 The ...
... But the problem there is that I would then be restricted by novels of my own experience since books like Billy Liar and Catcher in the Rye as well as Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the dog in the Nighttime essentially describe my own kind of experience.
It is a quirk of my ...
... by David Benioff
38. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
39. Night Shift by Stephen King
40. Dracula by Bram Stoker
41. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
42. Cujo by Stephen King
43. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
44. Son of a Witch ...
You've got me on Catcher in the Rye . You'd have me on more but that I'm perpetually skint (broke).
... think it's so good. Picked up Fahrenheit 451 instead. Halfway through that and rapidly coming to the conclusion it's the Catcher in the Rye of the science fiction world...
I've never heard of it either.
I'm still reading The Catcher In the Rye . But we are almost finished reading it. YAY! The book's getting interesting I must admit.
... and its sequal Billy Liar on the Moon by Keith Waterhouse, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber and The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger strike me as being excellent descriptions of individuals with these conditions as well as superlative works of fiction.
If ...
There is a library book sale this weekend and tonight was Friends of the Library preview night. I got Catcher in the Rye even though I already have a copy because my older one has writing in it. But it made me feel like Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory .
The catcher in the rye by J. D. Salinger and The slippery slope by Lemony Snicket. I have an exam coming in July so I can't spend much time reading now and that's why I've been reading The slippery slope for about 3 months.
... between the two, nor do I believe that Amory changes all that much.
Amory's voice reminded me a little of Holden in The Catcher in the Rye , a book that I do not really enjoy. Both boys are lazy, sarcastic, self-important characters who complain a lot but do nothing. The up side of This ...
7. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. I'm teaching the book to my students and figured I should reread it. I notice and appreciate more about the book every time.
I read To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye in school, and while I loved them both at the time, nearly a decade later I can't remember what either was about.
Lorie, I'm so glad I found your thread! Starred. I'm enjoying your reviews and eagerly awaiting more. Thanks!
... Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
26. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
27. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
28. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
29. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
30. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
31. The Little Prince – An ...
I have recently read The Catcher in the Rye . I absolutely hated it. Now To Kill A Mockingbird is another story. I finished it just the other day and LOVED it! What a wonderful book. I wished that I had read it sooner. Please don't group the two together.
... read a Capote bio, I have so much other reading waiting for me, but I'll be sure to let you know.
#160 lunacat, I read The Cather in the Rye a very long time ago, and remember almost nothing about it, so maybe you're not missing much. But you're missing a very good book in regards to To Ki ...
... read To Kill a Mockingbird or the other book I always think of as in the same category in my mind (don't ask me why) The Catcher in the Rye . And I have no desire to read either!
So keep on reading them and biographies of their authors please so I don't keep adding books to my wishlist ...
Count me as someone who read The Catcher in the Rye after watching Conspiracy Theory.
Also I noticed one of my books, Lily White, is sitting on Professor Jules Hilbert's bookshelf in Stranger Than Fiction. I haven't read it yet, but it's been moved up in my TBR pile as a result. Do you ...
... Anthony and Cleopatra and cutting my next class to read Act III.
Wishing myself one with Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye and vowing never to become Marjorie in Herman Wouk's Marjorie Morningstar
... simple terms but still probably engaging; she's interested in autism so it's sort of a tie-in), and I'm thinking of giving Catcher in the Rye to the 15-year-old but I don't know if she would like it or if it would be too hard for her. And I'm stuck for the rest. Ah well, I'll figure it out, I ...
I read it in high school (or early college). Like Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Rings, these are books best consumed while young and impressionable. That said, I had my Kerouac and Hermann Hesse stages. I loved Burgess's subtle take-down of Hesse in Earthly Powers I might check ...
Catcher in the Rye. I read this one on my own because my high school English teacher was the only one who didn't include it in her tenth-graders' syllabus and all of my classmates who had other teachers and had to read it for class LOVED it. Turns out she knew what she was doing. I was a ...
... herwood
29. Animal Farm - George Orwell
30. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
31. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
32. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
33. The Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway
34. Lod of the Flies - William Golding
35. The Last Temptation of Christ - Ni ...
... herwood
29. Animal Farm - George Orwell
30. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
31. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
32. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
33. The Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway
34. Lod of the Flies - William Golding
35. The Last Temptation of Christ - Ni ...
... herwood
29. Animal Farm - George Orwell
30. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
31. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
32. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
33. The Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway
34. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
35. The Last Temptation of Christ - N ...
... 0
28. Blue Smoke by Nora Roberts
9/10
29. The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling
10/10
30. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
8/10
27) The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Synopsis:
The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Ho ...
... mething?
And I put a stop to The Decameron because I have one million different books to read.
In school I have to read The Catcher in the Rye and I'm reading Watchmen right now. It's pretty good. Really bloody though.
... mething?
And I put a stop to The Decameron because I have one million different books to read.
In school I have to read The Catcher in the Rye and I'm reading Watchmen right now. It's pretty good. Really bloody though.
Catcher in the Rye also makes an appearance in the anime Ghost in the Shell
... first online person I've heard admit that besides myself. :)
Oh, I just remembered, I don't think I ever would have read Catcher in the Rye if not for Conspiracy Theory. I'm not sure whether that's good or not, I really disliked that book, but loved the movie.
... -- William Golding
57) Invisible Man -- Ralph Ellison
58) The Old Man and the Sea -- Ernest Hemingway
59) The Catcher in the Rye -- J. D. Salinger
60) 1984 -- George Orwell
61) Cry, the Beloved Country -- Alan Paton
62) Animal Farm -- George Orwell
63) Ficciones -- J ...
... by Joseph Heller, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson, The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger and the Post Office series of novels by Charles Bukowski are all classics.
Is it worth a hyperliterate 30something -- me -- to read Catcher in the Rye ? Then I can put it in the bookcase next to the Turner Diaries and Steal this book!
... from my husband (that were stored at his mother's), his mother, and HER mother. I've got two copies of Dune, three of The Catcher in the Rye , two of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, too many Bibles, all of which are on my shelves, and several copies of several books by Georgette Heyer since ...
Since I'm feeling feisty this afternoon, a few words from me on Catcher in the Rye . I'm not trying to change anyone's minds here, just sharing my different personal experience. Catcher's one of those books that people just seem to have a visceral like or dislike for, and there's really no ...
It's probably too late for me then with Catcher in the Rye . I read Franny and Zooey in high school. My reaction was: "I don't get it."
... old favourites? Were there YA books back whenever, or were the original YA books classics like Wuthering Heights, The Catcher in the Rye , The Stranger, Pride and Prejudice, etc?
What's wrong with buying multiple copies of Catcher In The Rye ?
...
1) Hair on Palms
2) Checking For Hair On Palms
3) Talking About Oneself In The Third Person
5) Buying Multiple Copies Of The Catcher In The Rye
6) Owning Both A Hardcopy And A Softcopy Of The Same Book
7) Not being able to find Number (4) On This List
...ummm, bad news i'm afraid.
sandalphon,
Nice to see Catcher in the Rye and The Old Man and the Sea on your list. These sure do get a lot of flak throughout other LT discussions.
geneg,
Yes, yes, bub. This here-a readin' thing is a really new to me too. Tough call, and no where near as toffee-nosed as some other ...
... for me because they change a lot. But here goes, Coraline, Neuromancer, lolita, Brave new world, Swann's way, catcher in the rye , Jude the obscure, Ender's game, old man and the sea, beowulf.
... toying with the idea of trying to find the LEC editions if they are affordable.
The Master and the Margarita...YES! the Catcher in the Rye ...YES! Hitchhiker's YES!
I'm traveling now but hope I have the mailer so I can cast some votes. How about Pedro Paramo? The Lion of Ireland? ...
From et2304's library, I choose The Catcher in the Rye .
I was going to say how much I loathed Catcher in the Rye , but I admit I liked it when I read it in high school. It's only later that you see how shallow it is - which is humbling as you realize how shallow you were in high school. I am so grateful to my English teachers that the only Ayn Rand ...
22. Franny and Zooey by J.D.Salinger 201pp. I believe I liked this better than Catcher in the Rye . ****
23. When will there be good news by Kate Atkinson 388pp. What I liked about this book was all the intertwined ...
... to make it but I do no have an expresso machine to my dismay.
Catey
Next up on the agenda: Finish East of Eden and Catcher in the Rye
ETA: I have updated my ticker to 365 since I seem to read more than I thought. :)
I always have thought that Salinger was targeting the young adult audience with The Catcher in the Rye . I have not read it yet, but it will be interesting to see what Catey, who is 18, thinks of it. She has it home from the library to read.
... shelf for awhile
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
A Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Society of S by Susan Hubbard
A Year of Disappearances by Susan Hubbard
The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
I agree! I know so many people who think The Catcher in the Rye is the greatest book ever, but I just didn't care for it. I found Holden to be extremely annoying, and I just do not understand the connection people feel with him. To each her own, I guess!
7.) The Catcher in the Rye , J. D. Salinger ***
I feel sort of fantastically "eh" about The Catcher in the Rye . Salinger demonstrates great skill in creating Holden's character and his voice, but I feel very little sympathy for him. I had to force myself to keep reading because by about ...
041. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 02/01/09
042. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass 02/03/09
043. Embers by Sándor Márai 02/05/09
044. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 02/05/09
045. Richard III by William Shakespeare 02/06/09
... 75 book challenge)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Tales from the Arabian Nights by Pete Hamill
Robin Hood by Paul Creswick
To Kill ...
041. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 02/01/09
042. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass 02/03/09
... I am very intrigued by The Brutal Art, Booksloth, and dianestm you read some of my favorites - Rebecca, The Road, The Catcher in the Rye , Tess of the d'Urbervilles. I wish I had time to read that many books.
I agree with Booksloth, dianestm - please tell us which you liked the ...
... completely mad
The Road by Cormac McCarthy - 4 stars, heart wrenching story of a father and son with a surprising end
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger - 3 1/2 stars, very confused and lonely young man lacking any direction
Belonging by Sameen Ali - 3 1/2 stars, very moving biography
Tes ...
That's why I really expected to 'get' Catcher in the Rye - I wasn't much of a typical teenager either, if I'm honest... I have kept it though, I'm going to read it again, give it a fighting chance post-teenager before I give it up as just not for me. But I've not read Franny and Zooey yet, I ...
>11 - I second that question, I didn't rate Catcher much but this one seems to get positive feedback...
I tried so hard to like American Psycho - and having given up on it I actually really enjoyed the film, which despite being hailed as a explicitly bloody gorefest was NOTHING on the book... ...
...
2. Financial Expert
3. Madras on rainy days
4. The White Tiger
5. The end of the affair
6. The Catcher in the Rye
7. A Tiger for Malgudi
8. Love in the time of Cholera
9. Parrot's Theorem
f. Non Fiction
1. Imperial Life in the Emerald ...
... McCarthy
2) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3) Embers by Sandor Marai
4) Clark Gable: Tormented Star
5) The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
6) Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Total pages read: 1830
I've had a quite good start to the reading ...
... this month:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
#142> Thanks for your comments :) I can completely see what you mean, although I likened it to The Catcher in the Rye and in that sense I really enjoyed it. The protagonist was very unlikeable, but at the same time I felt sorry for him!
I'll be moving on to Miss Smilla's Sense of Snow just ...
... adult for who they will be as they mature and move away.
In it's own way this book was like an updated, Irish version of The Catcher in the Rye , which is one of my favorite books. There is depravity, there is insanity, there are coming-of-age stories, there are mistakes and confusion and ...
... adult for who they will be as they mature and move away.
In it's own way this book was like an updated, Irish version of The Catcher in the Rye , which is one of my favorite books. There is depravity, there is insanity, there are coming-of-age stories, there are mistakes and confusion and ...
... age, often correcting them and therefore alienating them and preferring to be alone. His voice reminded me of Holden from Catcher in the Rye because of his distaste for people who conform and accept that which is out of their control. That being said, this was a fast read, at times sad, funny ...
... age, often correcting them and therefore alienating them and preferring to be alone. His voice reminded me of Holden from Catcher in the Rye because of his distaste for people who conform and accept that which is out of their control. that being said, this was a fast read, at times sad, funny ...
... for reminding me of that.
So far the books on that list of mine that I have from the library are: East of Eden and Catcher in the Rye , Animal Farm and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, I think thats it so far. But I will try to get more throughout the years since their is ...
... of Gilgamesh, Antigone, Julius Caeser, The Odyssey, The House on Mango Street, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Catcher in the Rye , Flatland, Candide, or, Optimism, Henry V, The Stranger, The Trial, The Prince, Death in Venice, The Scarlet Letter, Huckleberry Finn ...
12)The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
This is one of those classics everyone seems to have read but me. I'm glad I finally got around to picking it up. I loved it! 5 stars.
Welcome to the challenge nooli! Wow, it seems that we have very similar taste in books. I'm so glad you liked The Catcher in the Rye , Salinger is one of my favorite (if not my favorite) writers! I would definitely recommend more books by him, particularly Nine Stories, if you're into short ...
... Hoff and The Secret Garden with A Little Princess.
and
up next: East of Eden and Animal Farm and A Catcher in the Rye .
Catey
Finished The Catcher in the Rye last night, and am a few pages into Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China.
Double posting.
... to make choices about books.
Now, I'm more lenient than a lot of people - I definitely think schools should have Catcher in the Rye and Huckleberry Finn in their libraries. However, I don't think a school library should stock Penthouse Uncensored (even though most high-schoolers ...
... If This is a Man, 2008
54. Nineteen Eighty-Four, 2007
55. The Heat of the Day, 2008
56. The 13 Clocks, 2006
57. The Catcher in the Rye , 1980s
58. The Old Man and the Sea, 1970s
59. The Lord of the Flies, 1970s
60. The Lord of the Rings, 1970s
5) The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Holden Caulfield is a troubled young man who's lost his way in life after losing his younger brother Allie to cancer. He doesn't care anymore, and flunks out of school - and not for the first time. After getting into trouble with his roommate he ...
Just finished reading Clark Gable: Tormented Star and will shortly begin The Catcher in the Rye .
... William Shakespeare
1984 George Orwell
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Fellowship of ...
28. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Finished 21 January 09
Book No. 18
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
3 1/2 stars
Holden Caulfield is a 16-year-old prep school student who has been expelled from school two weeks before Christmas. Days before he's expected home for Christmas vacation, he leaves school planning to spend some time on his ...
billiejean: I really do believe The Catcher in the Rye to be pretty great. The thing is, readers tend to either love or loathe it. I hope you love it, haha..
theaelizabet: Thanks a lot!
4. Oedipus Rex - Sophocles : Recounts a portion of the story of Oedipus, prince of Thebes, doomed at ...
... from "The Lies of Locke Lamora", but I've always daydreamed of wandering dark New York streets with Holden Caulfield from "Catcher in the Rye" .
As for authors, I will always love Hunter S. Thompson (and it's a happy coincidence that my real-life love looks like a 30-something Hunter!)
ro ...
I have been wanting to read The Catcher in the Rye . It must be really good if you read every year. Maybe I will read it soon. It is plenty cold here. :)
--BJ
... Strange and Mr. Norrell, and virtually anything Oprah Winney likes. This is a great list. I could keep going for ages. The Catcher in the Rye is a guy thing. I threw Stranger in a Strange Land out a window. I've also stopped reading Elizabeth George. Actually, just lately I've been ...
i just found out about this website a few days ago and when i saw the 999 challenge i knew i had to be a part of it. i don't think the challenge is so much in reading the books as in narrowing it down to which books you will read! i'm having a hard time picking nine categories but figured i can ...
3. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (reread) : ...my annual reading of The Catcher in the Rye . I believe it really enhances this book to read it during the winter when it really is snowy, cold, and "icy as hell" out. It almost embarrasses me how much I enjoy this book... haha.
... MONOGRAMS
1. The Invisble Man by H.G. Wells {1/15}
2. Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee {1/30}
3. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger {2/1}
4. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald {2/9}
5. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence {2/20}
6. "The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P. ...
... for an identity, looking for a place where he can fit in all of this. Louis Menand once said about Holden Caulfield (The Catcher in the Rye ) that "he never lets anything stand by itself. He always tells you what to think. He has everyone pegged... He seems (and this is why his character ...
... 1960's
149. The Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing, 1970's
150. The End of the Affair, Graham Greene, 1990's
151. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger , 1960's
152. Foundation, Isaac Asimov, 1960's
153. The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham, 1960's
154. The Old Man and the Se ...
... 1960's
149. The Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing, 1970's
150. The End of the Affair, Graham Greene, 1990's
151. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger , 1960's
152. Foundation, Isaac Asimov, 1960's
153. The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham, 1960's
154. The Old Man and the Se ...
I took a break from the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy so my first book is:
1) The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger
I really liked the book and thought it was much better than I expected. I know some people find the style of writing difficult but I enjoyed it a lot. It reminded me a ...
... the character's voice. At least those are the terms that I learned.
Some of my favorite first person narratives include Catcher in the Rye , The Great Gatsby, Moby Dick and Heart of Darkness. Also, as mentioned, Huck Finn.
... Boxall
1. The Ghost Road by Pat Barker **
2. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster *
3. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger ** 4 stars (Completed 9/09 )
4. Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce **
5. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides * ...
Seventy-five may actually be a challenge, as I tend to come in between sixty and seventy in a year and often fall off in October and November. But I've been trying to spend less downtime being aimlessly aimless (repeatedly refreshing Behind the S ...
... Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
... for 10 million euros--or 50 million. J.D. Salinger, after all, has steadfastly ignored incredibly lucrative offers to film Catcher in the Rye , as well as many of his other works.
I can't help feeling that there's something Pecksniffian about Süsskind's decision--despite the high-flown ...
I've read The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,
But I've never read The Catcher in the Rye .
... Roxana
Uglies
Emma
Wuthering Heights
David Copperfield
Gone With the Wind
Charlotte's Web
Catcher in the Rye
Catch-22
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Shining
Interview With the Vampire
The English Patient
The Poisonwood Bi ...
... Emily Bronte - 3 stars
5. To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee - 4 1/2 stars
6. Catcher in the Rye : JD SalingerA Clockwork Orange: Anthony Burgess - 4 stars
8. Light in August: William Faulkner
... oreau
8. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
9. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
EXTRAS:
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Books with 200 Pages or Less (Another from 888) (8)
1. Red Dog by Louis ...
... Bolyn Girl is Out and The Pillars of the Earth are in - a few days ago, The Diary of Anne Frank comes in to replace Catcher in the Rye and yet...
The Book of Mormon and Twighlight are still there.
All I'm saying is that even TRL used to retire videos after a certain ...
... or fifteen. I never finished it. It's always bothered me that there are only male characters in it.
I tried to reread The Catcher in the Rye once after first reading it in high school. I couldn't get past page two because of all the swearing.
... people from reading it when it..looks thick..
Speaking of my classmates, my classmates (and my brother!) generally loved Catcher in the Rye
I hope this was helpful..
Holden Caufield in The Catcher in the Rye , a rich kid whining about rich kids.
Holden Caufield in The Catcher in the Rye , a rich kid whining about rich kids.
... I've also read and enjoyed Pride and Prejudice, The Old Man and the Sea, Slaughter-house Five, Alas, Babylon and The Catcher in the Rye . I also re-read Jane Eyre.
... I've also read and enjoyed Pride and Prejudice, The Old Man and the Sea, Slaughter-house Five, Alas, Babylon and The Catcher in the Rye . I also re-read Jane Eyre.
... = 3.90.
28. The Memory Keeper's Daughter byKim Edwards. LT # 186 - 5,817 owners - 218 reviews - rating = 3.49.
29. The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger. LT # 12 - 21,714 owners - 257 reviews - rating = 3.99. not an evergreen for USA Today
30. Memoirs of a Geisha by Ar ...
... I have to complain that it doesn't work the other way. Imagine an Australian translation of Flannery O'Connor, or even Catcher in the Rye . As a reader, I have to dp the work of translation for myself!
... by Margaret Drabble
Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford
The Plague and I by Betty MacDonald
That Wild Lie by Naomi Jacob
Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
... beware -- it's seductive and addictive.
*Examples of 50,000 word novels: The Great Gatsby, Brave New World, The Catcher in the Rye , The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Of Mice and Men.
I've read that one. Surprised no one's mentioned Catcher in the Rye yet.
... Wikipedia list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books):
Da Vinci Code 57,000,000 24141 0.04235%
The Catcher in the Rye 65,000,000 20667 0.03180%
The Hobbit 100,000,000 24364 0.02436%
The wind in the willows 25,000,000 3638 0.01455%
Le petit prince 80,000,000 9 ...
I think King has already written two versions of Catcher in the Rye . They're called Rage and Apt Pupil.
... one sister survives, but goes mad, and then the Dad comes home to her trying to kill him?
What about King's version of Catcher in the Rye ?
Last time around, I chose Catcher in the Rye . This hasn't changed, but there are several other C-books worth mentioning:
Chocky, because all the books in the 1001 list by John Wyndham are good.
The Castle, because Franz Kafka is a unique and gifted writer.
Cause for Alarm ...
... is on my TBRR (to be re-read) pile
THE BOOK THIEF by Markus Zusak (Historical Fiction)
bought this month, TBR
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger (Fiction)
read long ago
THE CHOCOLATE WAR by Robert Cormier (Fiction)
TBR
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-T ...
... non SF books for this year:
So far my most interesting nonSF reads was the rest of the Salinger material besides Catcher in the Rye , namely Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction. I was suprised to find out how funny ...
... some of the things were written so beautifully, but as a whole, this book wasn't as much as I'd hoped it would be.
19. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. Read this on the plane rides to and from New York City. Felt like I should since I never did in high school...regret reading ...
... I get more excited about my children's set texts than they do. This year I read Dracula, Huckleberry Finn and Catcher in the Rye . They are much more interesting books than I remember studying at high school thirty years ago.
Catcher in the Rye isn' bad, it is just not one of J.D. Salinger's best works. I mean, Franny and Zooey is so much better crafted and more interesting.
Personally, I think Steinbeck is Satan and reading Of Mice and Men was one of the most grueling experiances of my literary life. ...
Just finished The Jewish Messiah by Arnon Grunberg. Liked it, like de asielzoeker
I started The Catcher in the Rye yesterday evening.
Ik heb zojuist De joodse messias uit. Ik vond het een mooi boek.
Nu ga ik beginnen aan een engelstalig boek, the catcher in the rye .
Daarover zal ik in deze nederlandstalige groep zwijgen ;-)
Moving to S-Authors:
J.D. Salinger:The Catcher In The Rye is good, but Franny and Zooey is great, as well as any of his stories about the Glass Family.
He put the Funk in Dysfunctional.
-- M1001
... one for each of them as they are so totallly screwed up & I finally concluded that they deserved one another! I liked Catcher in the Rye in that it captured totally the way some teenagers think or rather what they would like to believe is thinking in which everything is filtered through ...
I am not sure that there is a hardback copy of The Catcher in the Rye in print. Would a FS edition at say $40 really eat into the profits of the paperback editions? It would most likely be a second copy for most FS members.
Re #90: I doubt we will see a Folio Society edition of Catcher in the Rye until Mr. Salinger shuffles off this mortal coil. As he apparently has several unpublished works in his possession, it would be a wonderfully fitting nose-thumbing were he to contract with the FS to publish a Limited Edit ...
Yes - subject to copyright problems I really don't think it can be too long before we see a FS edition of The Catcher in the Rye . The FS has set its cap at greater penetration of the US and inevitably that means choosing titles that have particular appeal to that market.
... in Folio editions, also a few Cormac McCarthy titles would be nice!
And how about One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Catcher in the Rye ?
I finished rereading The Catcher in the Rye last night; my review is up at Stella Matutina .
Now I'm focusing in on my reread of Thieves & Kings for a little while. I love this series! I think I may start Breaking Dawn today ...
154. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - keeper
The morning after I finished Forest Mage, I woke up and realized that of all the books in the world, I currently wanted to read Catcher the most. So I did.
I enjoyed it just as much at twenty-five as I did at fifteen. This book ...
A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
To Catch a Thief by David Dodge
A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
I had to read Catcher in the Rye at school. Never did see why it's a classic. It always struck me as far too artificial.
... since I know said curmudgeon hasn't actually been to that section in five years.
It's like those people that want to ban Catcher in the Rye and have never read the book themselves.
... To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
40. White Oleander by Janet Fitch
41. Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
42. Catcher in The Rye by J.D. Salinger
Currently reading:
43. An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan for a school book report. It's my second time reading it, and, if it's ...
... Cat Who Walked Through Walls by Robert Heinlein
Hunting Badger by Tony Hillerman
The Swimmer by John Cheever
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Marathon Man by William Goldman
... boring. It dragged forever. Although I did choose it for school which may have increased my dislike for it. Catcher in the Rye as well I could have lived without reading. Oh and Frankenstein. Maybe I should stop before I name every classic I have read.
... I'd been WANTING to read it since it was first published. Maybe my expectations were too high?
Tonight I finished The Catcher in the Rye so I could take advantage of John Green's "lectures" on it (he is doing it for the Nerdfighters' book club). It certainly didn't impress me as much ...
Have just finished The Catcher in the Rye which I've read before, but probably in 1965! I've got to say, it didn't hold up well. Although it surely was the first of its kind, the body of young adult titles out now far surpass it.
But I wanted to reread it so I could join in the Nerdfighters' ...
Have just finished The Catcher in the Rye which I've read before, but probably in 1965! I've got to say, it didn't hold up well. Although it surely was the first of its kind, the body of young adult titles out now far surpass it.
But I wanted to reread it so I could join in the Nerdfighters' ...
... a college lit class and had only 5 pages to go to finish, and just thought, "Why bother? I hate this book." Also hated The Catcher in the Rye . For a great alternative, I suggest Fateless by Imre Kertesz. That is a great story, with a main character who is similarly unimpressed with ...
... fact she will be with us through Z. If Grafton rounds the horn to AA I refuse to follow.
I forgot that I didn't like The Catcher in the Rye . It's been 25 years since I read it but now I remember I thought Holden Caulfield was going to still be living at home when he turned 30. Everybody ...
11. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
I found this in the garage (yet again, there is some amazing stuff in that garage of ours) and really enjoyed it. In a way, it sort of reminded me of My Brother Jack. I don't know, that's just what I thought. I liked it a lot, but yeah, it did seem ...
11. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
... read it, but I think deense (message 10) may have a point...
Still reading Living for pleasure but have also added Catcher in the Rye for school & am absolutely loving teaching it.
... old "loss of innocence" theme is portrayed better and more intensely here than in other assigned novels.
2. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye : The diction, narration and content of this story is simply "by a teenager, for a teenager."
3. Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar: A novel that ...
... of Darfur for which I owe ER a review. Bad girl, I've have been. But I also have bookmarks in The Lions of Al-Rassan, The Catcher in the Rye , American Pie Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads, Pocketful of Names, Alice in Wonderland, Yurts Living in the Round, and ...
... me, and all that David copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
The Catcher in the Rye
... by John Green
Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
Thinking Straight by Robin Reardon
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
I absolutely loved Peeps. I have read quite a lot of vampire books of late and I really enjoyed Westerfeld's fresh take on ...
... Hobbit
69. Rebecca
70. For Whom the Bell Tolls
71. The Outsider
72. The Little Prince
73. The Plague
74. The Catcher in the Rye
75. The Judge and His Hangman
76. Lord of the Flies
77. The Story of O
78. The Lord of the Rings
79. On the Road
80. Homo Faber
81. ...
... act.
I re-read A Prayer for Owen Meany and The Sparrow every year or two. I re-read The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye about once a year.
I've already started thinking about my reading resolution for 2009, and it will definitely involve a set number of re-reads.
...
... up a book I think is new and within a few words I know if I have read it before. I put it down. But recently I picked up Catcher in the Rye and realized I had read it so so so long ago I might actually be able to re-read it and appreciate the writing from a whole new perspective.
I try to ...
... I loved it, and I think it's a book I might not have come across if not for the class. I also liked A Separate Peace, Catcher in the Rye , and Fahrenheit 451.
My senior English teacher let me and a few other students who had already read Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights read other ...
... of Mockingbird for a modern look at an old classic - and it also has a heroine who runs away, shades of Holden Caufield in Catcher in the Rye .
... random relaxing the hands as a response to the lovely warm bath. Which I think I'll go take right now. I am re-reading Catcher in the Rye in paperback.
But I am also reading Merle's Door on the Kindle and I love it. By the way I agree re: reference books. Even dictionaries.
Color. ...
... e
Ender's Game
The Grey King
A Wizard Of Earthsea
The Lord Of The Rings
The Silmarillion
Desolation Road
Catcher In The Rye
The Wasp Factory
The Riders
The Shipping News
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
The Book Thief
... that quite a bit this year. Since January 1, I have read the following:
1. Hominids - Robert J. Sawyer 1/14/08
2. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger 1/20/08
3. Humans - Sawyer 2/01/08
4. Hybrids - Sawyer 2/?/08
5. Lolita - Nabokov 3/17/08
6. Screwtape Letters - Lewis 3/2 ...
Bread & wine: an erotic tale of New York City, by Samuel R. Delaney
Catcher in the Rye , by J.D. Salinger
... the Purple Sage - Zane Grey
The Book of Salt - Maxine Truong
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread - Don Robertson
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons - Lorna Landvik
Real Men Don't Eat Quiche - Bruce Feirstein
Everything On A Waffle - Polly H ...
24. Knife of dreams by Robert Jordan
25. Catcher in the rye by J.D. Salinger
I recently just read Cather and the Rye. (I think it was around January??)
I had been meaning to read it for a few years now, but I was definately glad that I didn't attempt it until now. (Maybe this has do with entering high school???) It's not that I couldn't identify what was going on and ...
... Kim Edwards Good story, don't know why so many people didn't like it.
83. A Sack of Teeth by Grant Buday
84. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
85. Dress your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
86. The Third Twin by Ken Follett
87. The Dogs of B ...
Finished About a Boy for the second time. Still fabulous.
Started reading The Catcher In The Rye . Not so fabulous. This Holden Caulfield fellow needs to stop whining about how all the adults in the world suck and get on with his life. It's like reading modernist Emo poetry, only this guy hates ...
On another thread, someone mentioned that they didn't like Catcher In The Rye , except for the final paragraph. So it's possible, i guess. Personally, I don't think i've come across it. I could probably find a bunch of examples of good books with bad endings, but not vice-versa.
... this book since I guess I was a teenager, and finally decided I should read it, decades later. At first it seemed like The Catcher in the Rye meets The Devil Wears Prada but of course it soon moves onto a more serious topic - mental illness.
I think the book got a lot of attention back ...
... laid. Yawn.
HOWEVER, now that I have finished it, I don’t feel the same way. It will never speak to me as well as The Catcher in the Rye , which is more timeless, more universal, and also annoyingly adolescent if you read it at the wrong time in your life. However, if you are young and ...
... Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevski
22. The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
23. Nine Stores by J.D.Salinger
24. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
25. Tales of Solomon Kane by Robert Howard
26. How to Write by Gertrude Stein
27. The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold ...
... Old Ace in The Hole) so I wouldn't forget and shelf it again.
It was an engaging story that seemed a cross between The Catcher in the Rye and a diary of Ed Gein. Nonetheless, it was very interesting and I am very glad to have read it. It was not a gruesome as I had heard it would be. ...
... Old Ace in The Hole) so I wouldn't forget and shelf it again.
It was an engaging story that seemed a cross between The Catcher in the Rye and a diary of Ed Gein. Nonetheless, it was very interesting and I am very glad to have read it. It was not a gruesome as I had heard it would be. ...
... I wonder if there is a book that everyone in this group has read? Or which one comes closest. Nineteen Eighty-four? Catcher in the Rye ? The Great Gatsby? Jane Eyre?
Question to the forum, re: Separate Peace, The Chocolate War, Catcher in the Rye et al.
Why is the public school fascination with private schools?
Whenever I read any of those book in public school, I would invariably start comparing the oak lined rooms in the books with the ...
... Witches of Eastwick are coming this way. "They have Sweet Revenge in their eyes."
"I Know This Much is True,"said The Catcher in the Rye , "There will be a Rebellion on The Reef."
*Good tie-in extrajoker*
Catcher in the Rye ?
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
The Animal Things We Say
The Corn is Green
Harvest Home
Catcher in the Rye
... problem: most of my shared libraries overlap comes from high school staples. Knowing someone else has Mark Twain, Catcher in the Rye , The Color Purple, and The Scarlet Letter really only tells me that someone kept their books from an American Lit class at some point.
The best ...
... classics that I love:
Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion by Jane Austen
A Tale of 2 Cities by Charles Dickens
Catcher in the Rye , Franny and Zooey, and Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mock ...
LG/ Bib I can appreciate Catcher in the Rye and the unreliable narrator. I just don't enjoy Holden Caulfield that much. (Bib I think it is because he is an angsty boy that I don't connect- then again Hamlet was an angsty boy and I connected with him.) I enjoyed Salinger's other short stories ...
I vaguely remember attempting The Catcher in the Rye in High School and giving up. I wanted to be angsty (it was the mid-90's that's what people my age were supposed to be) but I never could quite pull it off.
#26 I never noticed it either, granted it was 8th grade when I had to read it. Th ...
#25 El Catcher in the Rye is another one that I think may not be the best H.S. choice or maybe it is good for H.S. boys. I didn't like it (and I read it as an adult) but I loved the stories in Franny and Zoey if you liked the Royal Tennenbaums then you'll find the family is closely related to ...
... Stephen King, etc. -- feel like they were written just to fulfill a deadline.
#25, elba, I won't say not to reread Catcher in the Rye , but I will say I still don't like it at all. I felt the same way you seem to about it when I read it as a teen and it didn't improve with my age. But ...
Oddly, when I was in high school, I absolutely detested The Catcher in the Rye and was pretty vocal about it. This made me a rarity at school, and I think this made me even more adamant about hating it.
Now, in my thirites, I love the book. Perhaps getting distance from high school helped a ...
... Great Expectations and The Great Gatsby both fell waaaay short of "great" in my mind. I was also unimpressed with Catcher in the Rye . Look at me, I'm Holden Caulfield and I swear a lot blah blah blah.... is that too harsh? I haven't read it since I was an angsty teenager so if ...
... - Tolkien
21. Lolita - Nabakov
22. Bonjour tristesse - Francoise Sagan
23. The go-between - L. P. Hartley
24. The catcher in the rye - J. D. Salinger
25. 1984 - George Orwell
26. The little prince - Antoine de Saint Euxpery
27. Good morning, midnight - Jean Rhys
28. Nig ...
#219. Don't waste your time on Catcher in the Rye . I will never get back the time that I wasted on that book.
Catcher in the Rye doesn't have much of a plot; it is less a story a more a character study of Holden. Whether you love or hate him, he is an interesting character and that's a big part of the appeal of the story. I didn't find him particularly likable either. He is a hypocrite and has a lot ...
... by Kate Elliot (in a total escapism type of way), but have never gotten into any of her other books
I finally tried catcher in the rye this year and didn't enjoy it, I plowed through moby dick a few years ago - sheer grim determination got my through, and like mrgroomism rather enjoyed ...
I remember loving The Catcher in the Rye as a teenager. I'm almost afraid to re-read it. I have 3 copies on my shelves - mine, my husband's, and my MIL's first edition. Have to keep them all for sentimental value.
The best thing about Catcher is that it caused me to read all of J.D. Saling ...
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16.To the lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
17. Medea. Stemmen - Christa Wolf
18. Good morning, midnight - Jean Rhys
19. The catcher in the rye - J.D. Salinger
20. Het dagboek van Malte Laurids Brigge - Rainer Maria Rilke (2nd time)
21. De gedaanteverwisseling - Franz Kafka (2nd time in ...
...
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling (you can't deny it's a hit)
Romeo and Juliet by ...
...
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling (you can't deny it's a hit)
Romeo and Juliet by ...
Op het moment lees ik De vanger in het graan van J.D. Salinger. Leest lekker en is verrassend goed geschreven. Ik vind het alleen wel jammer dat ik niet het origineel heb kunnen vinden, want de Nederlandse vertaling rammelt soms nogal, vooral omdat het in spreektaal is geschreven.
... - 03/16/2008
(2) Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader – Anne Fadiman (NF, essays) - 03/18/2008
(3) The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger (F) (a re-read)
(4) A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro (F)
(5) Sanditon and Other Stories – Jane Austen (shor ...
MY DATABASE CHALLENGE:
1. The Catcher in the Rye Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (6/10)
3. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut (9/10)
4. Animal Farm by George Orwell
5. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
6. ...
... only read 9 books on the list:
The Black Dahlia
Interview with a Vampire
To Kill a Mockingbird
Foundation
The Catcher in the Rye
1984
The Little Prince
Brave New World
Dracula
There were a couple that I know I've started, but I couldn't remember if I'd finished, ...
Self-important whiny-boys and layabouts. From Confederacy of Dunces, we have belligerent, big-bellied Ignatius. From The Catcher in the Rye , we have our favorite rebel without a clue, Holden Caulfield. Who would you put your money on?
... - Portuguese literature: The Man Who Planted Trees
PR English Literature: Romeo and Juliet
PS American Literature: The Catcher in the Rye
PT German Literature etc.: The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka
PZ Fiction and juvenile belles lettres: Le Petit Prince
Q Science (General): Ea ...
Yesterday I bought The Catcher in the Rye , The Great Gatsby, and The Bluest Eye for my grandson. School assignments for him.
For myself I bought St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, The World at Night. I also bought The Heart of the World by Ian Baker. (The touchstone kept ...
Perhaps Catcher in the Rye was more popular when I was a kid because our parents hated it. I, even I, have been known to defy authority simply for the sake of defying authority!!
And I do agree - after awhile I wanted to slap some sense into Holden. :-)
... like Feed, don't look like the kind of stuff any teen I know would be interested in.
THANK YOU for not choosing Catcher in the Rye . I know teens are "supposed to" like it, but really, I'm around teens all day, I don't want to read about teens too. That kind of whiny teen angst just ...
Just finished Catcher in the Rye and loved it. How I wish the powers-that-be at Marquette or St. Joe's had recognized the value of putting Salinger's brilliant work on our reading lists.
What a coincidence: I'm going to be starting "Middlesex" very soon. I'm finishing Al Gore's "An Assault on Re ...
... poet I've read.
I gave up on Last of the Mohicans half way through, and I almost never do that.
In defence of The Catcher in the Rye , an unlikeable protagonist / narrator doesn't make it an unlikeable story, surely? Not for me anyway. Besides, Caulfield isn't that bad a kid! Lay ...
... have the same physical calm as those in a sensory deprivation tank.
Teddy is a short story taken from Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger . It is a beautiful story of a young boy who believes he has a spiritual connection with God and it focusses on his ideas about how to reach enlightenment ...
... points of the book, the people that do the good things are not always the nice ones, and vice versa.
The same goes for catcher in the rye (#98) - of course it's got "poor grammar, limited vocabulary, annoying main character". The guy's a teenager, he's confused, he does not know what to do ...
... by Jack Kerouac
*Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
*Altered States by Paddy Chayefsky
*Teddy from Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
All touched on the idea of Buddhism...has really got me thinking!
3) Completed 09/18: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
... down? Should I ask that girl I like out?
All these questions have affected my writing too, so many themes in books like Catcher in the Rye and On the Road that I've only started to begin to understand, they're not about Angst, it's about leaving that self centered Angst behind, and ...
... as 'people helpless in the face of a crisis'.
Now this may have been based on the 'classics' I had to read for school - Catcher in the Rye , Tess of the D'Urbervilles, etc. But I have tried reading mainstream fiction and disliked everything I've tried (and I have only recently developed the ...
... with) include:
Lord of the Flies - hated the writing style... felt completely emotionally detatched from it
The Catcher in the Rye - didn't like the main character at all. Had such high expectations due to so many people claiming it as a 'favourite'
Catch-22 - admittedly I ...
I could never take Catcher in the Rye seriously; Holden was having a sixth grade existential crisis at the age of seventeen. I still don't understand why Holden is revered by so many people. Nine Stories was commendable, but I have no shame in giving "Cather" a solid one star.
Similarly, I ...
... Shoot, we were all sobbing. I guess that's one way to keep your students in line. Charlotte's Web destroyed me, too.
The Catcher in the Rye and The Diaries of Adam and Eve get me every time. As an adult.
... Prince
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Generation X
Slaughter-House Five
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Bell Jar
Catcher in the Rye
My Antonia
Maggie Cassidy
Mere Christianity
... Prince
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Generation X
Slaughter-House Five
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Bell Jar
Catcher in the Rye
My Antonia
Maggie Cassidy
Mere Christianity
... Prince
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Generation X
Slaughter-House Five
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Bell Jar
Catcher in the Rye
My Antonia
Maggie Cassidy
Mere Christianity
No, I think my fears are public knowledge.
The person below me has read Catcher in the Rye
#103 I loved the sea
#46 I loved Cather in the Rye . For me, at the time of reading this, I loved the alientation and the random thoughts he expresses (where do the ducks go in the winter?) and the feeling that everyone is phony. I totally related to his tone and his emotions and so for me, ...
... Eragon but wasn't ready to jump into another one after I read it. I hope it doesn't disappoint.
#46 (sunnycat) -- The Catcher in the Rye didn't blow me away either. I found Holden pretty annoying actually.
I read catcher in the rye which really did not blow me away - I didn't really get what all the fuss was about. I'd be interested to hear other people's opinions of it.
Now I'm halfway through the memory keeper's daughter which is really good.
... the recent film)
Greenmantle by John Buchan
Right Ho, Jeeves by P G Wodehouse (Continuous re-cycling of these)
Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
Waiting in the wings are the Aubrey/Maturin books and A Dance to the Music of Time
I read Salinger's short stories first and much preferred them to The Catcher in the Rye . Some of the characters in the short stories are cynical, but the overall perspective is not cynical at all. My favorite has always been "To Esmé with Love and Squalor." The title sets a humorous tone, and ...
... did my Master's thesis on Salinger. It is called From X to I: The Evolution of Salinger's Narrative Method. It is not on The Catcher in the Rye but rather his short stories.
I only read Catcher after I had turned twenty-four. It had a deep impact on me.
Your second paragraph is ...
... The Secret of Hurricanes, a slender, emotionally dense story that makes me think of Salinger. I was never a huge fan of Catcher in the Rye , but aspects of it have lingered in my memory decades after I read it, so Salinger was clearly doing something right. Both Hurricanes and Catcher are ...
... me of an Onion headline: "Thirteen-year old girl can't believe how immature everyone is." Which is kind of the point in Catcher in the Rye .
... title of this thread I instantly thought of the Scarlett Letter, its great to see I'm not alone. I also didn't care for Catcher in the Rye although at least it was a quick read.
I am so excited that many mentioned The Pearl I forgot how much I truly hated that book. My friends and I ...
Teacher in high school suspended me because we got into a screaming fight over Catcher in the Rye , and whether or not he was A) gay, B) a murderer, C) dead, and E) a woman. Then I called her a lunatic nymphomaniac. I was awesome in high school.
... Dove by Larry McMurtry
Raoul Duke - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Holden Caufield - The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Zaphod Beeblebrox - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Those are all the book characters from my 'of ...
... it interesting that the books I suffered through in high school I actually enjoyed as an adult. To Kill a Mocking Bird, The Catcher in the Rye and Shakespear.
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chili Queen by Sandra Dallas
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris (the orange peel on the cover always makes me think of orange zest)
Is There a Nutmeg in the House? by Elizabeth David
Skeletons in Purple Sage by Barbara ...
... and the futuristic ideas. Yet, nobody in the book really accomplished anything, and so in a way it reminded me more of The Catcher in the Rye in that it attempted to be a great piece of work and just... didn't get anywhere. The part that intrigued me the most was actually the SchoolTM bit, ...
... sad moments, there were many parts that i found hilarious, especially the encounters with kilgore trout.
and I thought The Catcher in The Rye was funny in parts also (actually the only book ive read that i laughed out loud about
#46 I'm 21, so maybe it's a generational thing. While I logically know that Nine Stories is superior, Catcher in the Rye managed to perfectly capture how much being a teenager sucks - in the most beautiful, heartbreaking, and funny way possible.
I used to be able to recite most of it from ...
#42 - ellevee - My son (25 years old) says Catcher in the Rye is one of the best books he's ever read. The first time he read it, he turned around and immediately reread it.
... as much validity as my own personal list would - less, actually, because MY list would include Hunter S. Thompson.
#27 Catcher In The Rye is one of the pivotal books that helped me to survive an truly heinous high school experience. If it is despicable, that is only because of its subject ...
Some of my most owned books are:
The Harry Potters, The Hobbit, 1984, Catcher in the Rye , Pride and Prejudice, To Kill a Mockingbird.
After HP, I have 1984, Catcher in the Rye , To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, and Jane Eyre. I think I have most of the really common books on LT. I also have LotR and the Hobbit (obviously) but in a box set so they're not up there on my list.
#30 - Most shared that I have is The Hobbit, 13.680 copies ;-)
followed by 1984, 12.845 copies
Catcher in the Rye , 12.587... why do I own this books? I don't like it!
...followed by the LoTR books, but the odd thing is American Gods manage to squeeze in between TTT and RoTK... How can ...
I read Catcher in the Rye a long time ago, and it was ok, but didn't speak to me, because I didn't feel the same alienation. I did like the story of the Glass family in Franny and Zooey and Raise High the roof beam, carpenters and Seymour--an introduction. When I mentioned this to a Presbyte ...
... and
The Red Tent both made me seriously consider going on killing sprees.
Edit: Oh, and I LIKED the following books:
Catcher In The Rye - seriously saved me in HS
1984
Lord of the Flies
The Old Man and The Sea
Of Mice and Men - still makes me cry
I just graduated from ...
... it. On the top of my worst list from high school days is Tess of the D'Urbervilles closely followed by Moby Dick and The Catcher in the Rye .
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
Viva El Vet by David Grant
Lunch with a Soldier by Derek Hansen
The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris West
Royal Assassin byRobin Hobb
... not my cup of tea I guess. What about Absalom, Absalom!? I think I´ll try The Sound and the Fury after I´ve completed The Catcher in the Rye .
Next books I´ll read:
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Hamlet - Shakespeare
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
... that HP has the same narrative strength as LotR, though. Nor does HP strike me as having the coming-of-age interest of The Catcher in the Rye (although there aren't many who read that for fun these days) or of Judy Blume's oeuvre .
So my expectation is that the popular HP ...
... that HP has the same narrative strength as LotR, though. Nor does HP strike me as having the coming-of-age interest of The Catcher in the Rye (although there aren't many who read that for fun these days) or of Judy Blume's oeuvre .
So my expectation is that the popular HP ...
... Play by Robert B. Parker
The Diamond in the Window by Jane Langton
Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Foul Ball: My Life and hard times trying to save an old ballpark by Jim Bouton
... .
Strike Three You're Dead by R. D. Rosen
Home Run by Gerald Seymour
Foul Matter by Martha Grimes
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Prisoner's Base by Rex Stout
...
Servants of the map : stories by Andrea Barrett
Henry James: The Imagination of Genius, A Biography by Fred Kaplan
The catcher in the rye by J.D. Salinger
Edit: Author touchstones removed for myshelves
... only get to read one or two books in the whole semester.
On the other hand, having read The Old Man and the Sea and The Catcher in the Rye I would definitely say I would not want to read those books for a high school class. The only thing they have going for them is that they are short, ...
This is from The Catcher in the Rye , and it is just a very thought-provoking quote, or at least I thought so. I am not very religious, but the sentiment of the quote comes through pretty much no matter what you believe.
"I remember I asked old Childs if he though Judas, the one that betrayed Je ...
... Was
The Only Girl in the Car
The Five People You Meet in Heaven:
King Ralph
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
The Catcher in the Rye
Arthur & George
Good Time Girls
Crazy About Lili
L'Affaire
Le Divorce
When Did You Stop Loving Me
One more (I love this!)
H ...
my list, on top of my head
Dune
My JD Salinger books: Nine Stories, Raise High Your Roofbeams, Carpenters, The Catcher In the Rye
Whit, or Isis Amongst the Unsaved by Iain Banks
A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle
Reel to Real by bell hooks
...a selection from northern England:
The catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The little world of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi
The house of Doctor Dee by Peter Ackroyd
Trent intervenes by E. C. Bentley
Dunt Esk!! by Milt Gross (sorry!)
... the end of the semester everyone had already taken their tests. So I went to Half-Price Books and bought eight copies of Catcher in the Rye . Someone had taken the time to black out every single cuss word in one of the copies. It was hilarious! I hadn't realized how many were in the book ...
Dances with Dependency
Timbit Nation
The Truth About the Drug Companies
The Catcher in the Rye (groan!)
Sideways is about touring wineries
... Looking for Alaska is hardly subtle like The Giver.
I too dislike the comparison between Looking for Alaska and The Catcher in the Rye which I never liked. Books don't need to be compared to classics or bestsellers, they should be able to stand on their own. Similarly, it bothers me ...
... more and enjoy them.
I was a little leary of this book when I began it because of a blurb on the back comparing it to The Catcher in the Rye - I hate when reviewers do that. Just because you like one book doesn't mean you are going to like another and that just sometimes puts me off. I ...
... not a book I would have read on my own. There are quotes on the back or inside comparing it to A Separate Peace and The Catcher in the Rye , both books that I didn't really like. Plus, I just usually don't like realistic YA fiction in general.
But I was pleasantly surprised by this ...
... (which most of them were), they were real. I think Holden was "real" in that same way. But that's just my opinion.
The Catcher in the Rye was banned from the school library because the librarian had very rigorous standards about proper language. I actually had some sympathy with her ...
... have come along since, but back then there wasn't a lot of competition, not that I was aware of anyway. I don't know if The Catcher in the Rye is a great book (and if I were to reread Salinger today, it would probably be Franny and Zooey), but it was a necessary one.
Well, after adoring every second of The Eyre Affair, I followed it in very quick succession with The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger and Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klaus. I'm off sick so I read both of those just today.
Next up is Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin...
Well, I'm off sick at the moment, so what do I do but devour books at a rate of knots? I finished The Catcher in the Rye this morning, then swiftly moved onto the book my lovely hubby brought home to cheer me up - Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klaus. It didn't last long - I read it ...
... sick at the moment (bad bout of the flu) so I've been reading a LOT, seeing as how I can't actually get any sleep. Finished The Catcher in the Rye in double-quick time, as it's such a short book anyway (it wasn't bad, but wasn't as good as I was expecting), and then swiftly moved onto Blood and ...
Next up for me is The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger...
Thought I'd give another "great" a go - The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger is up next...
I loved The Eyre Affair - I'll definitely be reading the rest of the Thursday Next series!
Next up is The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger...
I'm about to start The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger. It's not a book I ever fancied before, but I thought I'd make a concerted effort and see what i make of it...
TheTwoDs in Book talk : Catcher in the rye... worst book ever!!!?!!! (Maio 31, 2007, 11:30am)
... said, I understand what Salinger was aiming for, and largely succeeded in - had there been a coming-of-age story before The Catcher in the Rye in which the protagonist really didn't grow and learn from his experiences?
Reading it now, especially as an adult who has read other coming-of-age ...
... ez
2 * Damaged by Cathy Glass
3 * The Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
4 * The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger - which i am despising. One of the ...
the catcher in the rye for me was definitely a stinker. what a terrible book, poorly written, poor grammar, limited vocabulary, annoying main character, boring storyline. In no way whatsoever does it deserve tha acclaim and status it holds.
the catcher in the rye definitely the worst book i've ever read, also anything by Jane Austen, and Drusilla Modjeska's The Orchard.
The first because it's a poorly written piece of garbage no matter what time in your life you read it, it's boring and lacking substance. It is full of poor ...
Definitely The Catcher In The Rye , the most poorly written piece of trollop i have EVER read. I struggle to see how it achieved the status it did. Quote from the book - "I'm quite illiterate but i read a lot".(?) I think JD Salinger was illiterate, as this book is so poorly written. It annoyed ...
... understand it and better explain it than Mrs Byrne, who is quite obviously only in it for the money. I also agree with Catcher in the Rye . Its been a while since I read it in, I think, sophomore year of highschool, but I remember fucking hating the main character. He was, to my way of ...
On May 16, I have completed reading Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger .
Now I am a reading a different book . As of 0000H GMT of May 19, I have so far completed 54% of the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald .
... them, mostly by the time I was a teen, and have read many of them to my children.
My mother forbade me to read two books - Catcher in the Rye and Fanny Hill. Naturally I broke my neck to read both of them by the time I was in the 8th grade.
Actually she wanted me to read them and knew that ...
... them on plot points and character traits.
Conversely, there are other books that should only be read in high school. The Catcher in the Rye is a book for adolescence. It is an amazing read when, like Holden, you are 16 and full of anger and hormones. But read it when you are in college ...
... They seem to attack the readers of the work (those who love it) more than the work itself.
Let me add that I also adore The Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby, which a lot of people on LT really seem to love to hate.
>12 - i'm with you on the catcher in the rye . i've read it twice and still can't figure out what's so great about that book.
in my more recent reading history, i forced myself to finish tad williams' otherland series, because i bought all the books before starting it... i've seen rave reviews ...
... Leaves and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell very much.
As for the highly acclaimed one I hated, it would have to be The Catcher In The Rye . I kept waiting for something interesting to happen and it never did.
... it's been fascinating to read through them and see what she considered important. In a similar vein, I received my copy of The Catcher in the Rye via a favourite books swap and was delighted to see that the sender had gone through and underlined all her favourite bits. I did the same and added ...
I'm torn between Catcher in the Rye , (because I'm the guy alway watching out for people who are close to 'falling over the cliff'), and Farenheit 451, because it's a cliff of a different sort.
... they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want the truth."
-- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
And some others I like:
"They're all dead now."
-- Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
"The Santa Anas ...
I would pick Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger this was one of my fav books in high school, I was actually required to read this one in my english class.
Here are a few I've read:
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Where do Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" and Ray Bradbury's Fahreheit 451 stand?
... – Brave New World (audio book) (1932)
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar (1963)
June:
J. D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince (1943)
L. Frank Baum - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
July:
D. H. Lawrence ...
... I studied philosophy, they just have to mention Ayn Rand. Please. Don't waste my time. More dreck.
And I agree that Catcher in the rye is unworthy of notice.
As for DaVinci Code, I haven't read it. Just not my cup of tea. But I loved one reviewer who said the novel was the 'heurist ...
... me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." - Catcher in the Rye
"'Did Mama sing every day?' asked Caleb." - Sarah Plain and Tall
"Marley was dead: to begin with." - A Christmas Carol
"Serene was a word ...
I love Catcher in the Rye just for the tightly controlled prose that seems to steer the narrative so effortlessly, yet never loses sight for a moment of where it's going. Salinger is such a treat to read for me because his ear for any character's "voice" never falters, and I walk around with the ...
I didn't find The Catcher in the Rye especially interesting either. Holden seemed annoying to me - immature despite his sense of self-importance. I think the novel mainly appeals to boys rather than girls, who are less inclined to misbehave just for the sake of asserting their independence by ...
... connect to and be sympathetic towards. On the flip side I was one of maybe five high schoolers in the country that hated The Catcher in the Rye because I could find nothing redeeming about Holden.
Stevens and Christopher Banks are very similar characters in some respects: uber-proper Britis ...
... Hughes's A High Wind in Jamaica, for example. To be sure, there are novels I certainly do not consider great ex. The Catcher in the Rye , a rather despicable work I've argued heatedly about with friends. And there is The Maltese Falcon, which was better as a movie. In this forum, I' ...
I didn't like that one either. Nor was I interested in 1984 or Catcher in the Rye or really most of the courses in my English classes from HS. They almost never let us pick from the list.
In college, my reading intensive courses had much more interesting books in my opinion. I liked Small ...
... Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
39. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
40. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
41. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
42. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
43. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
44. Heart of Darkness by Jospeh Conrad ...
GreyHead, I enjoyed The Shadow of the Wind very much.
I'm currently rereading Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and reading Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulker. I have a couple of YA books I will probably mix in with these two.
...
I love the earlier VC Andrews books. This one is okay, but doesn't seem to have the same writing style as the others.
3. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
It was okay. It might have been because I did not have a choice in reading it, but Holden seems a lot like me.
4. Dear Miss Demea ...
... they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want the truth." The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
And I haven't read the rest of the book yet, (it's up next), but I love the first line from Perdido Street Station by Chi ...
same with catcher in the rye , the same happened a few days ago, but got fixed or otherwise changed back to normal... don't really know what the problem is, seems to be a bug occuring every now and then... the bookdata shows the real number of copies for the different editions at least...
... teacher. This was a while ago, so no specifics, but I think he was very dismissive of fans. I know he intended to write Catcher in the Rye for adults and I think that may have something to do with it. I really liked Catcher in the Rye , so that's a shame. It helps to explain how he could ...
... don’t have the world experience to relate to those things. An exception (and it may be the only one) to the rule is Catcher in the Rye . It’s great when you are 15-16 but read it when you a few years older and you realize how immature Holden is, which completely changes the power of ...
... I'm starting The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner. The only thing I know about Ring Lardner is that he's mentioned in The Catcher in the Rye .
I also just picked up This Side of Paradise from the library. The only Fitzgerald book I've read is The Great Gatsby, and I love the 1920's, ...
... times I've read that one.
Princess by Jean P. Sasson
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Aaand I think that's it. I like being on LT, it makes me feel normal! :p
... z
Mao II by Don DeLilo
The Recognitions and Carpenter's Gothic by William Gaddis
The Oil Jar by Luigi Pirandello
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, cuz' I gotta get it for English
Numbers in the Dark: And Other Stories by Italo Calvino
Some book of Charles Baudelaire Poems
Some ...
... du mal)
10. Harry Martinson - Aniara
11. Göran Tunström - Juloratoriet
12. J. D. Salinger - Räddaren i nöden
13. Joseph Conrad - Mörkrets hjärta
14. James Ellroy - En amerikansk myt
15. Don Delillo - Vitt brus (White noise)
16. G ...
I was talking to my son last night, and in the course of our conversation, he called Catcher in the Rye , without a doubt, the Great American Novel. Now I am a big fan of that book, but I am not sure it's all that. So, what is? To Kill a Mockingbird? Look Homeward Angel?
... Hobbit+The Silmarillion
Slaughterhouse Five
The Whole Earth Catalog
On The Road
Bright Lights, Big City
The Catcher in the Rye
Stranger in a Strange Land
Catch-22
Martian Chronicles
I haven't seen the article, but it seems to me some things are missing. Now I am ...
... x
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest x
The Feminine Mystique
The Autobiography of Malcolm X x
Understanding Media
The Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird x
Stranger in a Strange Land x
Catch-22 x
Johnathan Livingston Seagull x
Love Story
A Confederate General from ...
comment fait-on pour connaître les livres en communs en "raw" ? mis à part le huit, belle du seigneur et l'attrape coeur ?
... a way out of the self-absorption and provincialism I experienced as an adolescent. In somewhat chronological order:
The Catcher in the Rye (I wasn't the only angry kid), The Lord of the Rings (I could actually read a huge work), Childhood's End (hope for mankind), On the Road (there ...
... of withdrawal after reading the last word of each of their books (Les Miserables, Mother Night, Of Human Bondage, and Catcher in the Rye , respectively). I still feel, with the exception of Franny and Zooey in Salinger's case, that the first books I read by these authors were the best, ...
I'm glad to see other people that don't think 'catcher in the rye ' was the bestest thing ever. I really liked the beginning, which made the complete cop-out of the ending that much more disappointing. What happened??? It feels like he reached his publishing deadline and just gave up. Poo.
... through when I realized, uh, I couldn't find a point to the book. Sorry >_< I know that a lot of people compare it to The Catcher in the Rye but I couldn't get through that one either.
I finished Eragon but hardly felt that Eldest was worth reading. So I just didn't after a chapter = ...
... lit got its start in the late sixties with the publication of The Outsiders. Other classics or would be classics might be Catcher in the Rye , The Chocolate War, Flowers for Algernon, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Catch 22, Fahrenheit 451, The Pigman, A Separate Peace, etc.
You ...
The Catcher in the Rye is not bad, per se, but it's a disappointment after everybody and their grandma told me it was the best thing ever. Holden's voice strikes me as something J.D. Salinger must've had to put a lot of effort into keeping up throughout the story, and it therefore seemed ...
... with this wholeheartedly. Although part of the definition of a classic is that it withstands the centuries, books like Catcher in the Rye must seem very anachronistic and dumb to today's rather more jaded teens. And books about suicidal young people seem like risky reads for many teens. Alth ...
Looks like 1984 is in the lead again. LOL Or did you mean it edged out Catcher in the Rye ?
"And it's To Kill a Mockingbird, by a nose!!!"
I'm kind of shocked by this list, to be honest.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (11,539),
Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone (11,510),
...
... - don't get me wrong, I think she's an excellent writer, her stories just don't appeal to me. And I really didn't like Catcher in the Rye .
I doubt it would be possible to find a book that nobody dislikes.
I'll go with 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice and Catcher in the Rye as above. Does anyone agree with all of those??
... a bad choice.
It would probably have to be something that no one has very strong feelings about. As many people hate Catcher in the Rye as love it. (I could take it or leave it.) In fact, you're probably out of luck with anything that people are forced to read in school.
... and My Antonia when I was very young, and not liking them much, but I attribute that to tender age. Who could ever rip Catcher in the Rye to shreds, though? That's just crazy talk. I guess we know better. *grin*
... on them! To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favorite books. Of course many of my favorites are ripped to shreds on here: Catcher in the Rye , Great Gatsby, My Antonia.
I loved The Catcher in the Rye , it's one of my favorite books. I did read it for the first time in early high school; I wonder if that makes a difference in how one takes the novel.
Big disappointments are almost always recent American fiction including: History of Love, Memory Keeper's Daug ...
... but in the end it was just about one of those too good to be true children.
A big disappointment for me wasCatcher in the Rye . It was one of the banned books when I was in school, and then I watched 'Conspiracy Theory', so I was set to read a great book. Ugh. I felt as if I was ...
The first book that really changed my life and the way I read was Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. I read it in junior high out of a personal desire to be "well read," whatever that means. It completely blew away my entire conception about what classic literature was, or could be. I ...
... Women
Like Water for Chocolate
The Princess and the Goblin
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Princess Ashley
The Catcher in the Rye
The Secret Garden
The Wind and the Willows
Treasure Island
Black Beauty
The Hobbit
Alice in Wonderland
Sula
Around the World ...
... Franzen. There was heaps of hype when it came out but I thought it was just painful American angst - a bit like Catcher in the Rye which I agree also belongs on this list.
... with my Target gift card from Mom:
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
Eragon by Paolini
Night by Elie Wiesel
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
Me Talk Pretty One ...
Catcher in the Rye - read it in high school, made me want to slap both the character and the author... though that did cause me to find the way it was used in the movie Conspiracy Theory particularly amusing.
Had the "unfortunate opportunity" to cover Tale of Two Cities twice in high school E ...
Catcher in the Rye , A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and The Giver were the first that popped into mind. They are all among my favorites!
... right before a new one comes out...besides that, Gone with the Wind, The Great Gatsby, The Other Boleyn Girl and The Catcher in the Rye always bear re-reading to me...
... ace
Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides
And then there are The Great Gatsby, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, The Catcher in the Rye , and To Kill a Mockingbird. These I've read so many times I've lost count.
Certainly some books won't hold up, but rereading something rich and ...
... Babas was one of them.) When I read the last of the 944 pages, I wanted more, more, more. It's an amazing book.
2. The Catcher in the Rye , Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories, and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by J.D. Salinger. You can't read just ...
The books that we shouldn't teach includes Catcher in the Rye , Of Mice and Men, and Tom Sawyer. Just the other day we were told that if we taught The Chocolate War, we would essentially be putting our jobs on the line.
While Harry Potter has been used in the past, I wouldn't touch ...
... I also read The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, Animal Farm by George Orwell, Huckleberry Finn by Twain and The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
... awful, but I can't think of anything right now that I didn't at least get something out of.
I was indifferent to Catcher in the Rye and wondered what all of the fuss was about. It took me an absolute age to read On the Road when I was about 21, maybe because I kept waiting for ...
... having read Moby Dick. Knowing that the latter is about a whale is sufficient at cocktail parties.
I also read Catcher in the Rye in high school and was unimpressed. Some of my fellow classmates were drawn to the "dirty" words and adolescent sexual aspects but my parents had never ...
Catcher in the Rye and the The bell Jar
I love and adore those books and would call them classics
Honorable mention to Franny and Zooey, The life of Pi and The joy Luck Club
I guess my biggest problem with Catcher in the Rye was how nihlistic it was.
Holden Caufield(?) didn't seem to BELEIVE in anything, except what served his own needs.
Kinda like the way both politcal parties are nowadays.
I agree about both The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time and Catcher in the Rye (and I haven't read anything by Jonathan Kellerman). I had nothing against The Curious Incident... and would happily have read it even if it wasn't popular, but I don't know what everyone is raving ...
I'm sure many people will call me 'crazy' but I didn't think much of Catcher in the Rye
... aren’t you?
An Unquiet Mind
The Noonday Demon
Darkness Visible
Lincoln's Melancholy
The House of Percy
The Catcher in the Rye
Dream-catcher
The Bell Jar
No Exit
The Sun Also Rises
Dark Night of the Soul
Peanuts
... to not reading Moby Dick and several other 'classics' that are not considered canon works in England. I'm glad I read The catcher in the rye when I was 17: I can't empathise so much with the main character now. Several novels with 'classic' designations are stinkers, or at least lesser ...
...
Sometimes we don't connect with classics on the level of personal enjoyment. I was never all that thrilled about Catcher in the Rye , which some other folks swear is the best book ever written. But I can still appreciate it for the passion it continuously inspires in others.
And ...
... more are under "no title" or are stuck as part of the wrong work. As unsuggestions I got some very popular books (such as The Catcher in the Rye ) listed without an author. Small wonder that that version doesn't show up in too many libraries. (Don't blame manual entry. I've gotten no author ...
... that are on more than one list - would they be "great-squared"?
Nineteen Eighty-Four - required in High School
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road Jack Kerouak
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
Cry the Beloved Country Paton
The Handmaid's Tale Margar ...
Hi Blackbub,
Those are some good books - I loved To Kill a Mockingbird, and Jane Eyre. Catch-22 and Catcher in the Rye are two of those incredible kind of books that make you fall over laughing and want to cry alternatively.
Erica
Very cool meme!
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Travelers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials ...
... reads to the end and touchstone just those two.
The List:
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. SalingerThe Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kil ...
... sometimes (as in the question of Jane Fairfax's piano) it's even a whodunnit of sorts.
On the other hand, I was bored by Catcher in the Rye , Franny and Zooey and the rest of J.D. Salinger's oeuvre as a teenager... and I'm still just as bored now. But I can guess why other people enjoy ...
... oying.
I'd second To Kill A Mockingbird and anything by Judy Blume, Celia Rees or S.E. Hinton, but also try Catcher In The Rye , definitely Animal Farm and The Handmaid's Tale.
I'm quite envious actually of all the good reading you've got ahead of you :)
... I've been a LibraryThing user for almost a year now but I only joined the GSLIS group this fall.
My most shared book is The Catcher in the Rye . I have seventeen books in my library that are only shared with one other user. They are mostly writing and computer programming books, but there ...
Oh, I'm so glad I'm not the only one who couldn't stand The Catcher in the Rye . Bored me to smithereens in highschool, and still does.
The rule about reading a certain number of pages depending on your age belongs toNancy Pearl, the great librarian action figure. She says that if you're ...
... There, in the middle column below "top 25 books", you will find that with at present 4,303 copies in members's libraries, Catcher in the Rye scores the 10th place in popularity ranking, while Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (7,026 copies owned) is the most often owned book along Librar ...
... I thought were superb. On the other hand London Fields I thought was dross as well.
Another book I really disliked was The Catcher in the Rye . I can't see the attraction, just bored me the whole way through, although I did finish it.
Up until a couple of years ago I always finished books, ...
I know this sounds ridiculous in someone of my age, but I read The Catcher in the Rye and Fahrenheit 451 this weekend. I was not raised in the US, and my language of instruction at high school was not English, and so I never read it at the time when most Americans appear to have read it.
B ...
... J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country (the latter this morning with my hot chocolate in bed).
Have started on The Catcher in the Rye while eyeing the results of my recent book-buying spree stacked in a teetering pile on my dresser - I had a couple of gift cards (Amazon and B&N) ...
... ish.
Anything by Hemingway usually sends me screaming. It's just too masculine.
To disagree with some posters, I loved Catcher in the Rye as well as Gatsby; I've read both again and again. I also loved A Scarlet Letter though I hated it when I had to read it in high school. I've found ...
Definitely Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
and more recently
Autobiography of a Yogi by Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
Also Bhagavad-Gita As It Is is too Holy and Spiritual not to be influenced by...(A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)
... classical western canon, the work of revisionists has been enormously beneficial.
I will still never like Jane Eyre or Catcher in the Rye , though. Ever. I keep trying and I just keep hating them.
... etc, that may lose out.
We all have classics we don't like. I have never really warmed to Dickens, and I disliked The Catcher in the Rye . At the same time I can't help thinking that a bad classic is better for you than a good Jeffrey Archer.
Was disappointed by Catcher in the Rye . It didn't live up to my expectations.
... finishing it as a high school freshman or sophomore, and I did it again as a college junior.
I also absolutely despised Catcher in the Rye . I only finished the book out of stubborness and spite. I was so bored! And Holden annoyed the heck out of me. I wanted him to shut up, grow up, and ...
... a little intimidating at 688 pages, so a little extra time would be nice. Plus, I am a slow reader. I am currently reading The Catcher in the Rye for the first time, so I should be rolling on Tigana soon.
... I despise, that I own and keep rereading anyway because I'm supposed to like them. The first that come to mind are Catcher in the Rye , A Separate Peace, and Jane Eyre.
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