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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 12:44 AM
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Poll question: What'd you think of "Catcher in the Rye?"
I think it's alright, I guess. But it's kind of depressing.
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 12:45 AM
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1. fucking amazing
And to this day, I don't understand why it's so "controversal"...
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 12:46 AM
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2. I think it's brutal.
It's a mindfuck.

It's too effective, and I relate too much. I can't stand it.
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 12:50 AM
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4. absolutely
Which is why these books are so important...reading "happy" or "easy" literature is, to be honest, very worthless in comparison in something that, in a way, wounds you or makes you see yourself in the pages.
Everyone should read "All Quiet On the Western Front"
Everyone should read Franz Wright's poetry.
Everyone should read "Slaughter House Five"
Everyone should read "Ordinary Men" (not literature, but it's mindfucker about how a batallion of middle aged Germans in WWII became ruthless killers).

You know?
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antigone382 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 01:55 AM
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12. Add "The Bell Jar" to that list.
It's often called a female version of Catcher...though I personally think it was somewhat better written. Few books have affected me the way that one did.

And "Lord of the Flies" was a devestating, mind-shattering book for me.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 03:28 AM
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15. Those are some of the most memorable books I've ever read.
I recall "A Separate Peace" pretty vividly from high school, as well ...
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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 12:49 AM
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3. meh
maybe because I read it as an adult it didn't do much for me. I wanted to beat Holden Caufield with a shovel handle.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 12:51 AM
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5. One of my favorite books
I first read it when I was a young teenager--not because I was required to--but because I wanted to. I felt Holden's psychological breakdown in a significant way. I've always been drawn to stories of mental anguish, and ended up majoring in Psychology in college (and having a career in human services). I have a battered copy of CITR and still re-read it from time to time.
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Lubernaut Donating Member (614 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 04:47 AM
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16. One of my faves as well.
I love this book so much I named my son Holden!
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 04:55 AM
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18. Now that is devotion to a book!
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 12:51 AM
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6. A snooze. I just "didn't get it."
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DanCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 12:55 AM
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7. I haven't read it yet. Honestly or cant remember readdiing it.
Can you give me a plot outline.
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 12:56 AM
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9. Yeah, a 16-year-old kid gets kicked out of a private school and runs away
from it without telling his parents, gets his ass kicked a couple of times, robbed, complains a lot...
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DanCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 01:06 AM
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10. Ah so its alot like my jr. year in Catholic high school?
Thanks.
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 12:55 AM
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8. I wasn't impressed by the book.
I was probably too young when I read it, something like 12 or 13. I only read it because it was supposedly controversial. But it was nothing compared to some of the stuff I was reading at the time.

:blush:
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 01:52 AM
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11. I couldn't understand what the fuss was all about.
It was a depressing book to me. I kept waiting for the great part but never found it.
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njdemocrat106 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 03:13 AM
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13. I'm kind of neutral on it.
I read it in 10th grade (district requirement for sophomore year English classes). I had a good teacher that year for English, and he made the book more interesting than it actually was. Yeah, there were times when I thought Holden was a spoiled, rich brat, though.
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 03:19 AM
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14. it may depend on when a person reads it
If you read it when you are 14 or 15, you see it one way. I probably read it when I was 29 or so. I was like, "ehh it's got a couple of good lines in it, but over all it is weird and way over-hyped."
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 04:53 AM
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17. I was way to old when I read it...
Past teen Angst...

Marred by a distrust of the elite class....
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Borgnine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 05:49 AM
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19. It tells me to kill Beatles.
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