Catcher in the Rye

[Do'Urden]

So, read Catcher in the Rye a while back. Thoroughly unimpressed, I took nothing away from that book, except for the fact that apparently in some schools they do not teach people that birds migrate. And all fields of rye have a giant cliff embedded in them...somewhere. It was a well written book, but I never understood the fuss over it. It was a rare book for me, because it did not hold my attention well. Maybe I expected too much out of the book because of the fact everyone recconmended it so highly. Ah well

[sweeter]

I thought it was okay, though I agree it's not as great as it's cracked up to be. Maybe because it's overhyped?

Try Franny and Zooey. I found it immensely better.

(:

[Aeolyn]

Maaaaan, I don't know if there's something wrong with me or what, but that's my favorite book EVAR.

I've read it 7 or 8 times

I love Holden. So much.

[Princess Tofu]

I read it, and enjoyed it very much so (even though the middle chapters slowed down alot for me, and weren't as much a pleasure to read, the beginning chapters, such as when Holden arrived at the hotel, and the ending with Phoebe). I'm not usually a fan of teen-angst novels, but with this one, I felt a huge connection between the narrarator and myself, such as the way we talk in scrambled thoughts, how we digress constantly, and how we clash with ourselves to find out what we really feel, or what we really think.

[Takeshi]

It was an OKAY book for me, Holden saw things in an awkward manner, like when that pimp beat him in the gut for not paying his ho an extra five dollars, shortly after when the pimp and the ho left, he acted like he was in a movie where which he had been shot or stabbed ( Can't remember which one). I thought that was pretty weird. And he seems to think about alot of things that normally wouldn't matter to an average person, like the migrating ducks for example. The book to me is just Ok, but Holden was a very interesting character, no other character I have ever read about compares to the unique qualities to that of Holden.

[Princess Tofu]

thought that was pretty weird. And he seems to think about alot of things that normally wouldn't matter to an average person, like the migrating ducks for example.

That was actually a very symbolic tone in the book. The "I wonder where the ducks go in the winter" is supposed to be that Holden is looking for others to tell him where he should go, what path he should take and what he needs to do when he's in a position where he can do hardly anything at all, i.e. the lake freezing over.

[Do'Urden]

That was actually a very symbolic tone in the book. The "I wonder where the ducks go in the winter" is supposed to be that Holden is looking for others to tell him where he should go, what path he should take and what he needs to do when he's in a position where he can do hardly anything at all, i.e. the lake freezing over.

I think that's why I was so against this book. I just don't understand how someone could really expect for other people to tell them thier path in life. Not for me.