To: Borges
I hated that book! They made us read it in high school!
My English teacher was fresh out of college and thought it was perfect for us to read.
Why on Earth did they think that teenagers wanted to read a book about a teenager trying to get laid?.....................
7 posted on
07/14/2026 10:48:28 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
To: Red Badger
That’s not what it’s about. Holden is mentally ill and having a nervous breakdown.
9 posted on
07/14/2026 10:53:16 AM PDT by
Borges
To: Red Badger
Why on earth would a fresh out of college English teacher sit on her desk in a short dress in front of hormonal boys? She didn’t last long, she got replaced when she got pregnant.
10 posted on
07/14/2026 10:53:52 AM PDT by
BipolarBob
(If you hate God's Holy Law, you hate God. Both are love based and perfect.)
To: Red Badger
We had to read it in HS also and I couldn’t tell you the storyline today if you held a gun to my head. I can’t remember one thing about it but I vividly remember “Of Mice and Men”
13 posted on
07/14/2026 11:04:46 AM PDT by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: Red Badger
I started reading that book. Never finished it. I don’t remember why.
Maybe I’ll pick it up again someday. Or not, since I’m not an adolescent boy.
15 posted on
07/14/2026 11:13:05 AM PDT by
Responsibility2nd
(It's not what the media reports; it's what they don't report that's important)
To: Red Badger
I had to read in hs also, and found it boring
16 posted on
07/14/2026 11:14:27 AM PDT by
goodnesswins
(Most Congress Critters should be referred to as what they are....LOOTERS)
To: Red Badger
Agreed. WAAAAY overrated.
17 posted on
07/14/2026 11:18:07 AM PDT by
j.havenfarm
(25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
To: Red Badger
Agree. In fact there were more than a few of these so called literary pieces we were forced to read with nothing good in them but that sort of thing. Creepy.
18 posted on
07/14/2026 11:18:50 AM PDT by
Beowulf9
To: Red Badger
Why on Earth did they think that teenagers wanted to read a book about a teenager trying to get laid?
If you read the "Current Communist Goals" of the early 1960s, it makes perfect sense.
24 posted on
07/14/2026 11:23:34 AM PDT by
Antoninus
(Republicans are all honorable men.)
To: Red Badger
Catcher in the Rye isn't just about a pretentious, angtsy teenager, it's written for pretentious, angtsy teenagers. It's one of those books that many people think is great when they read it as teens, but then outgrow it just like they (hopefully) outgrow Holden Caulfield-like behaviors and attitudes.
Content aside, I also don't find Salinger to be a great stylist.
To: Red Badger
The only book I hated worse than that one was “Death of a Salesman.” To me that was the literary equivalent of nails on a chalkboard.
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