Shelley, I read this years ago -- I think as a college graduate, too--because I'd heard so much about it. I didn't care for it, either. I think it's a guy's book. Males probably can relate to it better than we. Cindy --- "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You know, after reading this book for the second > time, as a college > graduate, smile, I still am not too impressed with > it. > > Guess it is just one of those books that I just > won't like. > > Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden > juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. > Graduate Advisory Council > www.guidedogs.com > > The vision must be followed by the venture. It is > not enough to > stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. > > -- Vance Havner > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 11:38 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Replacement submitted > > > Replacement for > The Catcher in the Rye > by J.D. Salinger > > This is a revamped replacement copy for the one in > the collection. > > The validator should note, that there is a new long > synopsis, but the old > short one works, and that this book SHOULD not be > marked adult as it is used > in many high school literature courses, and since > high schoolers can't see > adult marked books, well you see my logic. > > From the Book Jacket: > Anyone who has read J. D. Salinger's New Yorker > stories - particularly A > Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in > Connecticut, The Laughing Man, > and For Esme - With Love and Squalor, will not be > surprised by the fact that > his first novel is full of children. > > The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an > ancient child of sixteen, > a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through > circumstances that tend > to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves > his prep school in > Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City > for three days. > > The boy himself is at once too simple and too > complex for us to make any > final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the > safest thing we can say > about Holden is that he was born in the world not > just strongly attracted to > beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. > > There are many voices in this novel: children's > voices, adult voices, > underground voices-but Holden's voice is the > most eloquent of all. Transcending his own > vernacular, yet remaining > marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly > articulated cry of mixed > pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and > clowns and poets of the > higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and > for, himself. The pleasure > he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It > is there for the reader > who can handle it to keep. > > J. D. Salinger was born in New York City in 1919 and > attended Manhattan > public schools, a military academy in Pennsylvania > and three colleges (no > degrees). "A happy tourist's year in Europe," he > writes, "when I was > eighteen and nineteen. In the Army from '42 to '46, > most of the time with > the Fourth Division. > > "I've been writing since I was fifteen or so. My > short stones have appeared > in a number of magazines over me last ten years, > mostly - and most happily - > in The New Yorker. I worked on THE CATCHER IN THE > RYE, on and off, for ten > years." > > Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden > juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. > Graduate Advisory Council > www.guidedogs.com > > The vision must be followed by the venture. It is > not enough to > stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. > > -- Vance Havner > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.7 - Release > Date: 4/12/2005 > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs