Well, I do remember reading it in high school, but it did not leave any mark on me.
Where was Obama’s Catcher in the Rye when he needed him and where is Uncle Sam’s Catcher in the Rye now that we need him?
Great book, should be read by everyone interested in quality American literature, and I hope it never gets made into an awful movie, which is the only kind which could be made from this.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep...How long till Robert Frost gets a film?
Frost says only phony people read A Catcher in the Rye.
“The phony people must die said the Catcher In The Rye...”
“People never notice anything” — J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
Too bad, because the perfect guy to play Holden, River Phoenix, is pushing up daisies, and would be too old by now anyway.
Little known Salinger quote:
“I am a paranoiac in reverse-—I believe people are plotting to make me happy.”
Charlie Manson and his pals unwittingly brought The Beatles’ “White Album” into a strange new cultural perspective where it was already popular just for the fact that it was a Beatles album but then it gained a certain notoriety through the Manson family trials, Bugliosi’s book “Helter Skelter”, made-for-TV movies and documentaries.
The Catcher in the Rye is notorious for much the same reason as the White Album but it was not really one of those instant hits in ‘57 like the White album was in ‘68...
It took the murder of John Lennon for The Catcher in the Rye to get people’s attention again 23-24 years later with probably more new readers around the world than there were in the time leading up to Lennon’s death.
Bottom line- The White Album is more deserving of it’s cultural status than is The Catcher in the Rye and it’s author, J.D. Salinger (RIP).
65 million copies sold and he may not die rich?
I wonder why General Motors never built a Holden Caulfield
I liked the novel quite a bit. As for a movie...it could work. I’m normally wary of film adaptations of novels I like, as I’m often disappointed (Dune and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas come to mind), but Catcher... could work with the right director and cast.
The film adaptation I am absolutely DREADING is the forthcoming Atlas Shrugged. No way in hell is that going to work.
The only reason I read the book in high school was because it was banned from the school library. In a way I can understand, Salinger went to the same military school.
I read it in high school. I thought it was boring... Well, beyond boring. I think that is because most of the HS English teachers were women. I guess it’s a chick book.
Asimov and Heinlein were what I read for fun. Butt... they weren’t on the HS reading list. We had to read Lord of the Flies and Silas Marner and Catcher in the Rye. Ugh!
Chick books.
