The Catcher in the Rye
3 journalers for this copy...
This is one of my favorite books of all-time because I find the main character, Holden Caulfield, to be incredibly intriguing.
The book starts out in Holden's usual cynical tone as he sets the reader up for a tale about a few days of his life as a sixteen-year-old expelled from a prep school he didn't want to go to anyway: "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..... I'm not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography or anything. I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy."
The book starts out in Holden's usual cynical tone as he sets the reader up for a tale about a few days of his life as a sixteen-year-old expelled from a prep school he didn't want to go to anyway: "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..... I'm not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography or anything. I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy."
I sent this out in the mail today to a BookCrosser as a surprise RABCK for a wish list item. Enjoy!! :-)
Thanks for the bonus book. I have wanted to read this forever.
Just another in a long line of "classic" that I have tasked myself to read and have been sadly disappointed by! I just don''t get it. I''m a fairly smart girl. I like to read. I don''t read trashy love novels or murder mysteries. I liked most of the books I was forced to read in high school. However, lately I seem to be continually let down by these novels that are supposed to be the very pinnacle of literature. What is it that I am lacking? Why can''t I seem to see the thing that has caused so many to call this and others a "masterpiece"? Perhaps the next owner of this book will find that which I could not.
Reserved for a Book Box
Journal Entry 6 by stagecrafty at ABBC Bookbox in Book Box, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, October 21, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (10/26/2007 UTC) at ABBC Bookbox in Book Box, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases
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Going into my 2 or More Book Box:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5545489
Going into my 2 or More Book Box:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5545489
I've been wanting to try this one.