Catcher in the Rye

[ItsAPoorlyKeptSecret]

"Dont ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

[CHEETZzz]

holy shittttt

lol i have to read this for school RIGHT NOW
i need to read the whole book and have dialecticals done by thursday and havent started lol

though from what i know it's really good and i will love it :D

[c73]

I've heard so many things about this book but I've never actually had enough incentive to pick it up and read it. Is it worth a read?

[ItsAPoorlyKeptSecret]

(c73) yes damnnit go read it, right this minute!!!(me spazing out hajhasjdhasjasdjasdjsajhsdjasd) haha just go lose yourself in this guys self depressin, teen angst.

(cheetz)yea i have this book and read it like 5 times and i dont kno what you mean by dialectals but i'd be glad to answer any questions as best i can and help out if needed

[freetibet]

i heard the guy who killed john lennon was inspired by this book

[LiveWire]

I love the Catcher in the Rye. Its so depressing but awesome at the same time

[ItsAPoorlyKeptSecret]

Mark David Chapman
Mark David Chapman, who murdered John Lennon in 1980, was carrying the book when he was arrested immediately after the murder and referred to it in his statement to police shortly thereafter. He also read a passage from the book at his sentencing.

John Hinckley, Jr.
John Hinckley, Jr., who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was also reported to have been obsessed with the book.

Robert John Bardo
Robert John Bardo, who murdered Rebecca Schaeffer, was carrying the book when he visited Schaeffer's apartment in Hollywood on July 18, 1989.

[ItsAPoorlyKeptSecret]

(livewire)i kno right great book and so easy to relate too in lots of different ways

[freetibet]

i've never read it... i'm afraid it might make me like the beatles less lol

[LiveWire]

Very... first time i read it is was depressed already and it almost made me want to kill myself...
I enjoyed it alot more the second time.
But yea its an awesome read.
And bits of it really stick in your mind ages after youve read it

[ItsAPoorlyKeptSecret]

haha no it wont do that i read it millions of time and love the beatles. Seriously its a good book to read, it just so happens that murders like to read to and they relate to the book because of all the teen angst and depression. and i forget if it was on that guy who shot john but he read the book and related to the part of wanting to save children(i'm paraphrasing) but the idiot then realizes the ending of the book after he shot him that Holden realizes the children have to save themselves or some shit like that. like seriously he was just waaaaaay to obsessed witht he book wanting to change his name to Holden and everything

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it"

[Phoenix Fire]

So I should read this book and.

I'm gonna kill somebody important?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxNiOK_-hrs

[ItsAPoorlyKeptSecret]

i dont kno what that vid was?

but yes appaerently if you dont end up killing yourself you'll go kill some "phony" to be a "catcher in the rye"

i'm gonna quote that passage:
"Daddy's going to kill you. He's going to kill you," she said.
I wasn't listening, though. I was thinking about something else- something crazy. "You know what i'd like to be?" I said. "You know waht i'd like to be? i mean if i had my goddam choice?"
"What? Stop swearing."
"You know that song 'If a body catch a body comin' throught the rye'? I'd like-"
"It's 'If a boddy meet abody coming throught the rye'!" old Pheobe said. "Its a poem. By Robert Burns."
"I know its a poem by robert burns."
She was right, thought. it is "If a body meet a body coming through the rye." I didnt kno it then, though.
"I thought it was if a body catch a body," i said. "Anyway, i keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around- nobody big, i mean - except me. and I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What i have to do, i have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they dont look where they're going i have to come out from somewhere and catch them. Thats all i'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know its crazy, but thats the only thing i'd really like to be. i know its crazy."

[Buddha]

I read Catcher in the rye a couple months ago. When I was done I threw the book at the wall.

My favorite book I've read in the last year is the bell jar. It was fucking amazing. Then again I was on Prozac at the time and I'm one of those people who shouldn't take Prozac apparently so it was REALLY deep. But what ev. Read it recently and it was still good.

If you wanna see how the depressed person's thought process goes it's a great book. I think I'm sylvia plath's reincarnation.

[LNT-5265F]

it's an american classic. what's the characters name? let me go back to high school haha...... hold...holden.... caulfield or something?

anyway, the title is a reference to marijuana, specifically, the main character is a catcher in the rye. or to decode, he lives his life in a third person narrative sort of "fog" which is marijuana. marijuana=rye. i win.


oh and im not just making that up, take a college course on american classics

[superflysuperwhite]

hjolden caulfield was a ferind of mine we go drinking from time to time which i find gets harded everytime ~ streetlight manoifesto

i actually thoght the book was.. over rated holdens a vagina

and dave, you're wrong o this one... no it has nothing to do with marijuana.

[CHEETZzz]

OK i read it!
it was pretty damn good, and i thought uncanny how similar Holden's thought process was to my own, specifically his indecisiveness, hypocrisy, and depression..

only thing i didn't like was the ending, idk it was lame.

and @ ItsAPoorlyKeptSecret, dialecticals are like quote analysis things we do, and i didn't finish mine lol so had to copy most of my friends, which was lame because i'm awesome at literary analysis.

i was sort of unemotional when reading the book, partly because of the intense stress of procrastination i had, but mostly i was just mildly interested everytime i read something that was exactly what i would have thought/said/done

but apparently every guy can relate to this book, and i thought i was special lol
so damn! there's no Lennon for me to kill anymore!

[ItsAPoorlyKeptSecret]

OK i read it!
it was pretty damn good, and i thought uncanny how similar Holden's thought process was to my own, specifically his indecisiveness, hypocrisy, and depression..

only thing i didn't like was the ending, idk it was lame.

and @ ItsAPoorlyKeptSecret, dialecticals are like quote analysis things we do, and i didn't finish mine lol so had to copy most of my friends, which was lame because i'm awesome at literary analysis.

i was sort of unemotional when reading the book, partly because of the intense stress of procrastination i had, but mostly i was just mildly interested everytime i read something that was exactly what i would have thought/said/done

but apparently every guy can relate to this book, and i thought i was special lol
so damn! there's no Lennon for me to kill anymore!

Yay glad you liked it. You shuold read it again a 2nd time, when your under less stress to hurry up and finish it, and just enjoy and soak it all in. Plus when you read something you already have you remember things or notice thing you didnt the first time.

Yea Lennon was taken already but there are still 2 beatles left haha or there arent any "lennon" persona kind of starts maybe kill Bono? or Obama? couldnt find it anywhere but i think Oswalt had a copy of the book when he they finally got him for "killing JFK" So a president or beatle should do right? haha

[LNT-5265F]

hjolden caulfield was a ferind of mine we go drinking from time to time which i find gets harded everytime ~ streetlight manoifesto

i actually thoght the book was.. over rated holdens a vagina

and dave, you're wrong o this one... no it has nothing to do with marijuana.

tell that to my Sociology: American literature 352 professor

[BadKarma..]

i hated reading school books. but ireally liked this one..

now to move on to one flew over the cuckoos nest that was a few threads below this...get to tear that one apart

[Grimble Grumble]

i've never read it... i'm afraid it might make me like the beatles less lol

You're right. In fact I remember reading a part in the book that specifically mentioned John Lennon and that someone should kill him.

[CHEETZzz]

You're right. In fact I remember reading a part in the book that specifically mentioned John Lennon and that someone should kill him.

please prove this with an actual quote because i do not recall this at all.
otherwise, GTFO

[ItsAPoorlyKeptSecret]

i think that was sarcasim??? o.O maybe no i dont kno

[deathlord888]

we just started this crappy book in class today

[ItsAPoorlyKeptSecret]

*gasp* its not crappy, *insert immature remark here* so there!

[deathlord888]

well i got bored and had more fun taking apart my juicebox after the first paragraph