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PunkRawker677
9th April 2002, 20:30
I just started reading this for the third time.. its one of my all time favorite books..

what do u all think about it?
pce
9th April 2002, 21:35
hell yeah, it's awesome. i've only read it once but i read it in two days it was so good. it's really pretty easy reading.
guerrillaradio
9th April 2002, 21:49
Yeah, it's a grate book. Very nihilistic...it was the first book that really spoke to me...
Blackberry
10th April 2002, 06:06
Quote: from PunkRawker677 on 8:30 pm on April 9, 2002
I just started reading this for the third time.. its one of my all time favorite books..

what do u all think about it?


You need some catching up to do.....I've already read it 6 times. :P
oconner
12th April 2002, 20:51
read it: yep
Like it: It's ok but not one of my favourites.
samaniego
12th April 2002, 21:02
THAT BOOK ROCK'S IT IS TRULY AN ALL TIME CLASSIC.
Naive
18th April 2002, 02:31
It's fantastic, I've read it 3 times. Holden is so real, not many authors can write a character like that. I totally identify with his whole unwillingness to grow up thing and I get really depressed every time I get to the part where his little sister wants to run away with him and he's so horrible to her.
Love that book! If I know a friend of mine has never read it, I make it part of their birthday presents.
Shyne
25th April 2002, 02:22
Holden was very sarcastic. he was also very self indulgent. he only thought about himself when he decided to do something. he also was very disrespectful to women. he always had a negative view towards females that he did not know personally
Blackberry
25th April 2002, 04:12
How was he disrespectful to women?

He had more respect than anyone else would have for women.
Shyne
25th April 2002, 04:53
Quote: from Neutral Nation on 8:12 pm on April 24, 2002
How was he disrespectful to women?

He had more respect than anyone else would have for women.


remember the book was written in the 50's and in the 50's women were viewed differently as they are now.
anarhosocijalist
7th May 2002, 11:25
Yeap that is some book. I could read it one more time.
Lardlad95
7th May 2002, 13:36
one of the greatest books of all time. alot of people say I'm alot like HOlden...though not in the over critical crazy way...I'm not gonna end up in a mental institution...yet
Menshevik
7th May 2002, 22:05
It's funny how auto-biographical that book is. Salinger of course moved out to the middle of no where in New Hampshire with his 19 year old girlfriend, just like Holden planned on doing. Catcher In the Rye is really Salinger trying to explain himself to the public. He wrote this book while he was in the worst fighting of WWII (he had landed on Omaha beach, was present at the occupation of Paris, was in the Ardennes during the Bulge, and finally ended up fighting on the Rhineland, thats enough to fuck anyone up) and after his return he was sickened by the self-absorption and phoniness of American society. Holden embodys everything Salinger finds virtuous: his individualism, obssession with innocence, his love of children. Salinger's dream is to be Holden Caulfield, the Catcher in the Rye, and in some ways he has become good ol' Holden.