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Oh, the irony!
1 posted on 01/29/2010 5:05:03 PM PST by DogByte6RER
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To: DogByte6RER

I struggled through “Catcher in the Rye” one time about 30 years ago and wondered what the heck all the fuss was about.

It ranged between utterly incomprehensible to totally boring.


2 posted on 01/29/2010 5:10:55 PM PST by Ronin
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To: DogByte6RER

Shouldn’t them “angels” be teenage boys ?


3 posted on 01/29/2010 5:11:03 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: DogByte6RER

Ha! I love Steve Breen’s cartoons.


10 posted on 01/29/2010 5:38:39 PM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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About all I ever got from that book was Caulfield’s ‘secret slob’ roommate, who had to shave twice; I’ve had to do that a few times.


11 posted on 01/29/2010 5:38:43 PM PST by real saxophonist (The fact that you play tuba doesn't make you any less lethal. -USMC bandsman in Iraq)
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To: DogByte6RER

Great book. I really liked Franny and Zooey. The second half is excellent.


12 posted on 01/29/2010 5:40:13 PM PST by Porterville ( I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum)
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To: DogByte6RER
Salinger is your typical insane liberal.

Sleeping would be more beneficial than reading his nonsense.

23 posted on 01/29/2010 5:57:30 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: DogByte6RER

Holden Caulfield is now running the country. Even given the passing of his creator, it’s unfortunate for conservatives to be celebrating him.


36 posted on 01/29/2010 6:11:34 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (No apologies.)
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To: DogByte6RER
He was a pretty good writer, not really great. Catcher was a pretty good book, not really great. I don't understand either the adulation or the animosity.

J.D. Salinger was okay, pretty good, not great.

39 posted on 01/29/2010 6:14:00 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Obama: The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers)
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To: DogByte6RER

..back in college we read CITR in American lit class...along with Melville,Faulkner,Steinbeck,Hemingway and Fitzgerald....I’m GLAD they had us read those great writers...guys like Steven King and John Grisham couldn’t carry their jockstrap...on their best day!


45 posted on 01/29/2010 6:30:06 PM PST by STONEWALLS
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Anything made mandatory in school will be disliked. In Germany, all students are required to read Book 1 of Goethe’s Faust. On my own, in the US, I had voluntarily read Book 1, and without missing a beat, read Book 2 as well.

When I mentioned this to some recent graduates of a German gymnasium, or high school, they looked at me with a most unique combination of amazement, derision, confusion, and puzzlement.


53 posted on 01/29/2010 6:59:24 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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I must be one of the few Boomers who managed to avoid reaing C.i.t.R.


54 posted on 01/29/2010 7:04:45 PM PST by clintonh8r (Nobody's 'bot!!)
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