Catcher in the Rye...love or hate it?
Catcher in the Rye...love or hate it?
YankeesFan175
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/05
#0Catcher in the Rye...love or hate it?
Posted: 11/8/05 at 6:32pm
hate it.
what about you?
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popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#1re: Catcher in the Rye...love or hate it?
Posted: 11/8/05 at 6:33pmThe same. It's a classic. A work of genius. Holden Caufield is an American Icon. But I really didn't like the book at all.
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#2re: Catcher in the Rye...love or hate it?
Posted: 11/8/05 at 6:33pmIt's marvelous. I love it.
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#3re: Catcher in the Rye...love or hate it?
Posted: 11/8/05 at 6:33pmLove it.
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DramaDork925
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/4/05
#7re: Catcher in the Rye...love or hate it?
Posted: 11/8/05 at 7:04pmAdore it
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ihearttheatre
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/12/05
#8re: Catcher in the Rye...love or hate it?
Posted: 11/8/05 at 7:09pm
Loved it,
BUT I almost felt as if reading it made me stupider.
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#10re: Catcher in the Rye...love or hate it?
Posted: 11/8/05 at 7:36pmLove it. Great book!
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Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#11re: Catcher in the Rye...love or hate it?
Posted: 11/8/05 at 7:44pmCatcher in the Rye is horrendous. I've never hated a fictional character more.
#12re: Catcher in the Rye...love or hate it?
Posted: 11/8/05 at 7:46pm
Hmmmm well now we know who all the crazies on the site are...
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#13re: Catcher in the Rye...love or hate it?
Posted: 11/8/05 at 8:13pm
Naw. Said I loved the book--didn't say I agreed with every value that Holden has. Plus, everyone always freaks out when they hear "Catcher in the Rye". Everyone always brings up "The 9/11 terrorists had a copy!" or "The kids who shot up the school had a copy!"
The book itself doesn't contain murders. It's just about a kid who needs to find his way and find his "reality". He's sick of the phonies.
So, just 'cause someone loves the book, doesn't make them crazy.
Plus, Cruel_Sandwich:
You can dislike the main character (although you are sort of supposed to since he is lost and trying to find who he is as a responsible human being). However, that doesn't mean the book is horrendous. I think it's hilarious and although it is unconentional, it's brilliant and classic.
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#14re: Catcher in the Rye...love or hate it?
Posted: 11/8/05 at 8:22pm
I love that Holden is so conflicted.
The pace of the book, the way nothing really hapens and the sheer devastation of life being nothingness are very well presented.
There are many things about the character that are hard to deal with, but using that as a mirror to see the things that are bad inside ourselves is the point of the story.
I think he is "good" through it all.
I love the book. And I am a "crazy" as well. 
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#15re: Catcher in the Rye...love or hate it?
Posted: 11/8/05 at 8:52pmLove it. Definitely.
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DramaDork925
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/4/05
#17re: Catcher in the Rye...love or hate it?
Posted: 11/8/05 at 9:28pmI think the genius of this book is that the protagonist (Holden) is so despicable and spoiled but somehow Salinger finds a way to make the reader oddly fall in love with him. I can't wait until I have to reread it for English this year!
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
#18re: Catcher in the Rye...love or hate it?
Posted: 11/8/05 at 9:32pmfirst time I read it, I hated it. Second time I liked it better. I appreciate that it's an extrordinary piece of literature, I just could never fall in love with it.
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#19re: Catcher in the Rye...love or hate it?
Posted: 11/8/05 at 9:34pmI think the appeal of Holden is that it is because he is so spoiled that he is so unhappy. It is certainly true that it isn't easy to "like," but I think Salinger intended it that way.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#20re: Catcher in the Rye...love or hate it?
Posted: 11/8/05 at 9:39pm
I'd be curious to know the age that everyone read it for the first time.
I didn't read it until I was 24 and I had a tough time relating to Holden at all. However, I think if I had read it at 15, I'd have been really into it and loved it.
In my experience with discussing this with friends mostly people who love it read it earlier than those who are lukewarm about it.
#21re: Catcher in the Rye...love or hate it?
Posted: 11/8/05 at 9:47pm
^ I am Laughing out Loud!!
I was about to post that I thought it would have been my favorite book if I had read it in High School.
As it is, I read it at 25 and considered it an interesting intellectual piece but hardly life changing for me.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
YankeesFan175
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/05
#22re: Catcher in the Rye...love or hate it?
Posted: 11/8/05 at 9:59pmi read it at 14 and still hated it.
Bob: "there is a chance, albeit a microscopic one, that our baby at some point in his or her formative years will get lodged in a tree"
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#23re: Catcher in the Rye...love or hate it?
Posted: 11/8/05 at 10:05pm
But how angry at life were you Yankeefan? 
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
YankeesFan175
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/05
#24re: Catcher in the Rye...love or hate it?
Posted: 11/8/05 at 10:07pm
hehe, the only reason i was angry at life was b/c my school was making me spend my summer reading catcher in the rye.
Bob: "there is a chance, albeit a microscopic one, that our baby at some point in his or her formative years will get lodged in a tree"
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