[usalady]

Although Catcher in the Rye became No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list when it was published in 1951, it attracted the attention of censors immediately. It was banned from public libraries and schools for reasons ranging from using excessive vulgar language, sexual scenes, moral issues, excessive violence, racist, rude and the occult. Regardless of efforts to ban the book, it was translated into 30 languages and sold more than 65 million copies.

[GeronL]

Schools and libraries want kids having sex now.

I like it back then better

[j.argese]

they should have banned it because it sucked but it definitely foreshadowed the “Cult of Me”.

[therightliveswithus]

a self-centered kid in our society? no!

[GOPJ]

Authors DREAM of getting ‘banned’. It assures big sales... for liberals.

[GOPJ]

Authors DREAM of getting ‘banned’. It assures big sales... for liberals. Crying all the way to the bank...

[rlmorel]

I hated that stupid book. So he is offended by phonies...get over it. Today, Holden Caulfield would be taking hostages at the Discovery Channel.

[Andrea19]

But John Hinckley and Mark David Chapman loved this book!

[Snickering Hound]

Should be banned just for missing Yoko.

[GOPJ]

Regardless of efforts to ban the book, it was translated into 30 languages and sold more than 65 million copies.

That should read, "BECAUSE of efforts to ban the book.

They turned-on to the idea that getting 'banned' would sell books. And sell 'art' - it worked so well it became the first choice of the talentless.

Liberals competed to become the most offensive - a plastic crucifix submerged in the 'artist' urine was the poster work of this type of 'art'.

Eventually the idea became so fashionable liberals couldn't find anyone to ban their works...

Mapplethorpe was the last of the great 'finger in your face' type 'artists'... After him - it was hard to get banned, but they kept trying... In a hundred years the 'art' that existed only to express hatred for traditional Americans will be classed with hate pictures of Jews and Blacks from an earlier time. Mapplethorpe Photography

[Darkwolf377]

Amazing book, stylistically a roadmark that is still read and copied in hundreds of crappy knockoffs each year.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

the occult? It’s been a while, but I can’t recall how that worked into it all

[Disambiguator]

I had a conversation with my mother about this book. I said I had to read it in high screwl (back in the 1970s), and I thought it was stupid.

Apparently my sister had the exact same comment about the book.

For some reason English teachers adore the book.

[wintertime]

Holden Caulfield: One very spoiled and self-centered egotist.

What he needed was a kick in the rear end and a stern reprimand to “Go! Get a life!”

[AZLiberty]

The Guardian obituary is interesting, not least because the author, Mark Krupnick, died seven years before Salinger.

[goat granny]

So was the childrens book Little Black Sambo, a story of a boy that lived in the jungle....The libs had it removed from all library’s and its never been published....was not racist in any way...a story of a little boy and a tiger...my father used to read me books all the time, especially sunday mornings in bed. 3-4 year olds didn’t see race as a problem....now its shoved in everyone’s face every day, just like the gay (?) agenda..