AHAHAHAHAHAHA. That's amazing. And please do, though I think I'm going to end up hopelessly lost and just along for the ride.
Um. I read it sophomore year in HS and was totally convinced (because it was the class where we read "Hills Like White Elephants" and such) that there was some hidden meaning I'd missed. But there wasn't.
From what I can remember, it starts getting good at this sentence: "Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone." And stops being good shortly thereafter.
No, I kid. I think a lot of the appeal is that Holden is this disaffected teenager that high schoolers can easily relate to, especially after reading Homer and Shakespeare and what have you. I really like the way he values innocence, but other than that, I didn't connect with him.
Hahaha, apparently there's some passage in there about how he dislikes old people, which inspired a class discussion along the lines of "Are old people worthless?" The general consensus was that yes, they were, but one girl did offer that they tipped her well when she caddied for them. Oh, high school.
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Date: 2007-08-03 01:09 am (UTC)The second hundred or so pages are my favorite part (though all of it is really great(.
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Date: 2007-08-03 11:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-03 01:27 am (UTC)See you on the other side.
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Date: 2007-08-03 11:35 am (UTC)I have so much writing I should be doing.
...but it's so good. SIGH. (How come everyone but me has heard of it??)
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Date: 2007-08-03 09:08 pm (UTC)I am having THE HARDEST TIME EVER getting into Catcher in the Rye. When does it start getting good?
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Date: 2007-08-04 03:08 am (UTC)Um. I read it sophomore year in HS and was totally convinced (because it was the class where we read "Hills Like White Elephants" and such) that there was some hidden meaning I'd missed. But there wasn't.
From what I can remember, it starts getting good at this sentence: "Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone." And stops being good shortly thereafter.
No, I kid. I think a lot of the appeal is that Holden is this disaffected teenager that high schoolers can easily relate to, especially after reading Homer and Shakespeare and what have you. I really like the way he values innocence, but other than that, I didn't connect with him.
Hahaha, apparently there's some passage in there about how he dislikes old people, which inspired a class discussion along the lines of "Are old people worthless?" The general consensus was that yes, they were, but one girl did offer that they tipped her well when she caddied for them. Oh, high school.