[bksvol-discuss] Re: The Catcher in the Rye
- From: "Rose Combs" <rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 07:16:31 -0700
It is a coming-of-age book for I assume boys. I have read it twice, it
was OK but I did not see what all the hype was about myself.
Rose Combs
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The Catcher in the Rye
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
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> From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> 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
>
>
>
>
>
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