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Friday, June 10, 2005 at 11:48 PM
Edited Friday, June 10, 2005 at 11:49 PM Am i the only one who's excited about this new book?
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Saturday, June 11, 2005 at 9:29 AM my fave  —000 |
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Saturday, June 11, 2005 at 10:30 AM Caller: Dexter, can you reccomend me a good book?
Dexter: Catcher In The Rye. That's a good one. Everyone's read that one.
Adam: Nope. Not the Aceman. Yeah, keepin' it real. —Yesterdaze |
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Saturday, June 11, 2005 at 6:13 PM When I was little, before I had ever even heard of Loveline, I used to say that The Phantom Tollbooth was my favorite book. —mandeemoo22 |
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Saturday, June 11, 2005 at 7:03 PM I'm almost wary of saying this, but I am reading The Catcher in the Rye currently, for the first time. Ummmm. When's the last time any of you read this? I'm about 1/2 way through, and still waiting for it to get great. I start reading it and remember I need to get my teeth cleaned, or gums poked, or some other more enjoyable task. I'm not saying this is the worst book I've read, and I'm sure I was supposed to read it in school, but. Where's the baseball? Where's the rye fields? Just some miserable rich kid who needs a slap. —oh-for |
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Saturday, June 11, 2005 at 7:23 PM
Edited Saturday, June 11, 2005 at 7:23 PM There's no literal "catcher" or "rye" in Catcher in the Rye. But as I remember, it's a metaphor of what the main character wants to do with his life. He explains it as catching people in a rye field. —Folgers |
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Saturday, June 11, 2005 at 7:29 PM I think that there is a stage in life when one can more easily relate to Rye. Once you've passed that stage, it just makes you want to slap the rich kid. —pookie |
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Saturday, June 11, 2005 at 7:39 PM I had such a feeling, pook. I think it might be the same with LOTR, which I DID read in middle school. And I was kidding about the baseball and rye fields. I'm assuming the rye would be an alcoholic reference. —oh-for |
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Saturday, June 11, 2005 at 9:15 PM The metaphor about being a catcher in the rye field is about stopping children from growing up into adults. Its something like the rye field represents childhood and it is on a cliff and he wants to prevent the children from falling off the cliff into adulthood. Holden thinks that all adults are phony, so he doesn't want the children, who are currently honest and innocent, to become phonies. Buuuut, the irony is that Holden himself is one of the phonies because he continually lies and is deceptive. There is my literary analysis of the day. I usually hate the books that I read in school, but this is one of about four that I really really liked. The others would be The Great Gatsby, A Separate Peace, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. —mandeemoo22 |
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Saturday, June 11, 2005 at 10:16 PM I hate literary messages. 18 year old Jewish girls are always talking about some lousy book they read and trying to be a goddamn intellectual type. I hate those intellectual types. If I were like that, I wouldn't spend all crummy day talking about messages in books. Except for Catcher in the Rye, that book was allright. It had some lousy parts. I hate books with lousy parts. Body catch a body.... —Drew, Please |
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Saturday, June 11, 2005 at 11:00 PM It's funny, everyone says they've read Catcher in the Rye in school, but I NEVER read that book in high school. It wasn't on the curriculum as far as I could tell. So I've never read it. —clodhopper |
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Saturday, June 11, 2005 at 11:37 PM I read it in freshman year, I love it. Some schools didn't teach it because of all the vulgar words used in it, it has always been a contravercial book. —DrJ69s |
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Sunday, June 12, 2005 at 12:09 AM I made sure to read Catcher in the Rye on my own before I had to read it in class. There's something about reading stuff for school that just makes everything blow more than it would otherwise. —shakrat |
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Sunday, June 12, 2005 at 7:07 AM Yeah, I think the reason that I hated so many of the books that I read for school is that the teachers make you over-analyze everything up until the point of not even remembering what the book was actually about. —mandeemoo22 |
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Sunday, June 12, 2005 at 11:42 AM Excellent post, DP. I thought I was reading straight from the book. —oh-for |
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Sunday, June 12, 2005 at 12:50 PM Yeah, interesting take on Catcher in the Rye, Oh-for. I read it when I was in high school, not because I had to, but I liked it then. Can’t remember a damn thing about it now. Maybe it’s one of those books that you only like because you are a teenager, and know nothing of the world, and haven’t got too jaded? I don’t know, but I can see your point now, about the take you have on it. Catch-22 is another one in the same vein, high school requirement, but that was a good book, and I think it still is, probably. Hope it wasn’t some liberal message or something, but I remember it being good, and surprisingly the movie followed it closely, and was good as well.
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Sunday, June 12, 2005 at 2:55 PM I really liked Catch 22 too. I read it as one of my independent reading assignments, so technically I didn't read it in school, just FOR school. —mandeemoo22 |
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Sunday, June 12, 2005 at 7:44 PM so do i. I still havent finished it yet and im kinda putting it on a break right now. i cant believe it's a school requirement in some high school; there are so many vocabularies and it's so thick too. p.s i heard that Closing Time didnt quite live up to its predecessor. —HocusPocus |
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Sunday, June 12, 2005 at 7:48 PM In Get It Right, from the Ignition CD, they make reference to The Catcher In The Rye:
Do you think you'd sell your soul
To just have one thing to turn out right?
For the thousandth time you turnand find
That it just makes no difference to try
Like Holden Caulfield, I tell myself
There's got to be a better way
Then I lay in bed and stare at the ceiling
Dream of brighter days
Holden Caulfield = main character
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Sunday, June 12, 2005 at 7:50 PM I suggest "Dispatches", by Michael Herr- one of the writers of the scripts for Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now. It is, by far, the best book I have ever read, and I am not exaggerating. —foob2011 |
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005 at 12:34 PM I would recommend the series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin. Three books currently out, and he just finished the fourth one after much delay, so that should be coming out soon. Been waiting forever for the fourth book, feels like. I myself have never read Catcher in the Rye, for school or otherwise. I read LotR in middle school, but not for school, it just happened to be during that time. (I did read Lord of the Flies in high school though. My god that book blew monkey balls.) —Dark Laith |
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005 at 3:11 PM /\Thanks for the tip. I just bought Lord of the Flies a couple weeks ago and haven't read it yet. Maybe I won't now....or maybe I will. Or...maybe I won't. —catloaf |
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005 at 3:14 PM I liked Lord of the Flies. Great book. It's what people are. —Masteel |
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005 at 3:16 PM Ok, ok, I'll read it. Eventually. —catloaf |
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005 at 4:29 PM Lord of the Flies is alright. I think the storyline is a bit of a stretch. You can't take the book literally really since it's mostly symbolic. But hey, how can you argue with a boar's head on a stick? —clodhopper |
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005 at 4:29 PM Books are so much better when you don't have to read them for school. I read the Lord Of the Flies for myself and enjoyed it, but I could tell that if it were a book where a teacher was telling me to read it in this deadline and summarize the major points of symbolism, I would have only gotten through about half of the book, thrown it into the bottom of my locker and refused to finish it. I could say that about Catch 22 also, great book that I never would have finished in high school. A really good book is Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie. —Robin |
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005 at 7:40 PM I remember my summer reading book for 9th grade was Lord of the Flies. We got it at the end of 8th grade and I decided that I was going to hate high school at that point. —mandeemoo22 |
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005 at 8:37 PM I was supposed to read Lord of the Flies in high school, but I threw it in the bottom of my locker and refused to finish (or, actually, START) it. —Dusty TheHick |
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Wednesday, June 15, 2005 at 3:08 AM That makes me think of the picture of Jackie? in the locker. —oh-for |
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Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 4:16 AM Well, she is like 14, right? —oh-for |
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Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 7:49 AM
Edited Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 7:50 AM I had to read Catcher in the Rye in 8th grade. I think I was too young to really get it because I recall not really liking it. I've never given it another try. Lord of the Flies was good though. Read it whoever it was that just bought it.
I ended up reading some great books in high school, although it was hard to appreciate them while reading to a deadline. The Stranger, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Mrs Dalloway, Brave New World, Farewell to Arms.
They were all really good. —shiner like a diamond |
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Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 9:44 AM
Edited Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 9:45 AM I only had to read a few books for school..I don't remember what, besides To Kill a Mockingbird and Things Fall Apart. I liked the latter, but I really don't get what makes the former so great. Edit: I read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, too. —chix0r |
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Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 9:51 AM I hated Things Fall Apart and The Stranger. Although those may have been books that we read at the end of the year, and at that point I pretty much chose to just hate anything assigned. —mandeemoo22 |
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Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 10:07 AM
Edited Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 10:08 AM I finished The Stranger... very odd book! Not "bad" just odd. I DIDN'T finish Things Fall Apart... too may yams to catch my interest. Neither of these were assigned reading in high school. I was in many of the dumb classes where The Giver and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn where the highest level of assigned reading we got to. I had to read Catch 22, Slater House 5, The Handmaids Tale, Lord of the Flies, and A Great New World on my own. Probably made it better reading. —Robin |
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Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 12:35 PM Alright, who the F told this guy he was funny?! 5 goddamn threads in a row for fuck's sake... —Ovid |
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Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 2:34 PM
Edited Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 2:35 PM Slaughter House Five, SLAUGHTER. Kurt Vonnegut was my favorite author for a long time. "Bluebeard" was awesome.
I liked The Stranger. The plot was interesting and the characters were fairly compelling. I know what you mean about end of the year books though mandee. The end of my junior year was spent forcing myself through Crime and Punishment. —shiner like a diamond |
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Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 2:42 PM We read Crime and Punishment in 10th grade, but I read half of it and did Sparknotes for the other half. God bless Sparknotes. —mandeemoo22 |
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