The Catcher in the Rye
3 journalers for this copy...
A slightly battered copy of this classic novel.... hopefully another reader will enjoy this one!
Amazon.com
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.
Amazon.com
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.
Journal Entry 2 by 
lmn60
at By Mail in RABCK, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, September 5, 2007
lmn60 at By Mail in RABCK, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (9/5/2007 UTC) at By Mail in RABCK, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
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Journal Entry 3 by nikkilovesbooks from Secret Harbour, Western Australia Australia on Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Thanks. Received today. I have always wanted to read this book, but somehow I have never gotten around to it. It will go into my tbr pile.
Journal Entry 4 by nikkilovesbooks from Secret Harbour, Western Australia Australia on Sunday, April 20, 2008
I just finished this book. I LOVED it. I recently read Markus Zusak's 3 stories about the Wolfe family (The Underdg, Fighting Ruben Wolfe & Getting the Girl)- and it is easy to see where he got his main inspiration from. I just loved the catcher in the rye idea - that this is all that Holden really wanted to be. I loved his relationship with his family. It was EXCELLENT. I'm sending it off to zimra as a RABCK. Sorry it is in such a delicate state - but it is worth persevering with all of the loose pages!!
Yay, the first book Ive caught, and a book I had been looking to read for some time. Thankyou to Nikkilovesbooks for the send.
