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Catcher In The Rye
OneTreeHillFan
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I recently read this book in school as part of my GCSE coursework, and unlike most texts i read in school i found myself really enjoying it 
And with the news that JD Salinger has died...
Just wandered who else had read it and what they thought of it?
And with the news that JD Salinger has died...Just wandered who else had read it and what they thought of it?
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Me too, I hope I wasnt as annoying. there was a bit in the book that made me feel sick and it still sticks out - somebody eating cabbage with their mouth open :eek::eek:
My OH can't believe it as it's one of his favourite books ever.
A 'few' years on, older and wiser(?), perhaps I may well reavulate the novel somewhat after re-reading, but for me I will always regard TCITR as a brilliant, original piece of writing, a book of it's time maybe, but one that can still say a lot about young human nature 60 years after first publication. How often do books like that come along? All to rarely in my view.
I read it at 18 and thought Holden was a spoilt ungrateful little turd
It had a profound influence on me as a teeenager and I had new insights into it when I became the mother of a teenager myself.
I'll never get tired of it.
It is one of the books that has shaped my life.
I did have a few books that I studied (both at GCSE and A'Level that I still ove to this day)
Of Mice and Men being one and A Handmaids Tale is another. Both would make my top 20!!
I have since read it again every few years and I'm now in my 40's.
It would be top of any literature list for me. The more you read it, and the older you get, the more you 'get' it.
It's insight into various aspects of life still surprise me each time I read it.
But it's not bad