Still one of my favorite books.
No. because pedophile homos are BAD in Catcher in the Rye.
“liberal” garbage forced down innocent children’s (my) throat in “school”! I learned the impetus of revolution at a young age!
We had to read it in class around 1960. I never did understand what it was trying to say.
Dang. I never knew it WAS “relevant”.
Did I miss something important?
I remember that I had to read it in HS English, along with other horrible books like The Octopus, The Scarlet Letter, etc. What was the point? I’ll never know.
Now they have to read....I have two mommies...One insane world.
Trimma tree, Sally?
Birthday? he’s dead, Jim.
Was it ever?
Only the good die young. It’s not generally true but in this case........
I thought it was horse sh*t.
A book about a young bastard who moans about his life is so bad, without e ever trying to do anything positive to change his life.
Typical of the Marxist mindset
I tried to read the book twice.
I just cannot identify with an effeminate pussy.
That sicko book killed John Lennon
Always just reminds me of the guy who killed John Lennon (and I’m not naming him on purpose. I don’t want to give him any notoriety).
He claimed he was like Holden Caulfield, catching the children who might go over the edge of a cliff in the rye by killing John.
A misinterpretation of Robert Burns’s Comin’ Through the Rye, he believed that to be the “catcher in the rye” meant to save children from losing their innocence.
It’s been so long since I read it I can’t even remember what it was about. But it’s been longer since I read Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn and I remember everything about those books. Maybe Salinger just wasn’t that memorable.
Had to read it during an extended NYC teacher’s strike.
I went to a makeshift public-school-substitute during the strike at a Hebrew school, where it was assigned.
At least for us, a teacher’s strike was not a vacation.
That was in the olden days kids had to read that. Now they have to read Rules for radicals, the Communist manifesto and Living History.
Read his bio on Wikipedia. He definitely quit while he was well-ahead.
“The Catcher in the Rye” was never relevant. Teenagers only think they are important, like the David Hogg. No one is until they actually get out and do something.