The Catcher in the Rye
2 journalers for this copy...
Do yourself a favor and read this book before any more of the evil nazis in this country decide to burn it. Here's how Amazon sums it up:
Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."
His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation.--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."
His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation.--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
And away it goes. Will be releasing it at Stone Soup in State College PA 4-15-2005 - Happy Tax Day.
Journal Entry 3 by SCOBCZ at Stone Soup Market - 1011 E. College Ave. in State College, Pennsylvania USA on Tuesday, April 19, 2005
RELEASE NOTES:
book left at stone soup by bookcrosser from Altoona
book left at stone soup by bookcrosser from Altoona
Journal Entry 4 by SCOBCZ at Stone Soup Market - 1011 E. College Ave. in State College, Pennsylvania USA on Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Released 19 yrs ago (4/15/2005 UTC) at Stone Soup Market - 1011 E. College Ave. in State College, Pennsylvania USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES:
Left at Stone Soup by Altoona Bookcrossers. Thanks.
Left at Stone Soup by Altoona Bookcrossers. Thanks.
As of 05/10/2005 this books has been removed from the bookshelf at Stone Soup Market but has not yet been journaled by the reader.
