I read Catcher in the Rye for the first time this year and I really enjoyed it, I loved how the character did everything in his power to not realize that he didn't want to think about himself. Especially in the time period it was written in and how the writer had the story just sway through the night. How mental health really had no meaning in those days and if you had problems, you were really all on your own.
I read Nine Stories last week and I also really enjoyed it, though I am left with a whole lot of questions. I have a feeling that each story is an anecdote for mental health problems, at least that's what I thought for the first few stories. The ones I think about the most are 'The Laughing Man' and 'Teddy'.
I would love to know what others thought of the book.
Did anyone notice that people shooting hat in episode 8? I love the nod to good ol' Mr. Caulfield. It has to be. Come on.
#The catcher in the rye
Pour faire différent, je vais parler d'un livre que j'ai détesté. J'avais souvent entendu parler de celui-ci, que c'était un classique de la littérature américaine. Que c'était une histoire profonde sur le passage à l'âge adulte et l'angoisse adolescente. La phrase "I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes" m'avait particulièrement frappé lorsque je regardais Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. J'avais donc des attentes élevées.
Je fus incroyablement déçu.
On suit Holden Caulfield lors de ce que je ne peux appeler que des péripéties puériles. Il n'y a pas d'histoire en soit: On croit lire la description de quelques jours sans importance dans la vie d'un jeune homme. Caulfield ne semble pas particulièrement intelligent, est égoïste et n'apprend pas de ses erreurs. Il est insatisfait de sa vie, ne sait pas où il s'en va, fait face à plusieurs situations sans grande importance puis à la fin est satisfait de sa vie pour des raisons incompréhensibles.
L'histoire n'a ni queue ni tête, les scènes se suivent sans aucune cohérence, le protagoniste est méprisable et sans intérêt et les thèmes du livre semblent vagues et mal développés. Si le but de Salinger était de créer une histoire qui produit un sens de frustration et de manque de direction avec un personnage détestable, il a réussi.
Épargnez-vous ce torchon et allez lire un Safarir à la place, ce sera plus profond.
The catcher in the rye
J.D. Salinger, 1951
I'll start by saying that I have never liked the "classic" books. Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, A Tale of Two Cities, whenever I have tried reading these books I could hardly even understand them let alone enjoy it. However, I was recommended The Catcher in the Rye by a really good friend. It's her favorite and I trust her judgement so I gave it a try. It was amazing, I don't know if it was supposed to be funny but I found the way Holden narrated everything annoying but hilarious at the same time. He exaggerated everything and made stuff seem so much more important than it may have actually been. I'm glad I gave this book a try. I also loved how true everything Holden said was, sometimes he was over the top, but I could always see what he was getting at and thought that he had somewhat of a point. I believe everyone should read this book, there's so much you can pull from it, and many different ways to interpret what actually happens to Holden.
Hello,
currently looking for something new to read and I've absolutely loved the books mentioned above because of the picture they painted. I like books that are related to arts and have a dark academia feeling to them. Or more simply books that have amazing descriptions and are quite lengthy in their sentences. I've also liked The Book Thief (Markus Zusak) for this exact reason!
I think that all these books provided very nice insight into their characters and had enough plot twists (whether it'd be in self-reflection or in action) for me to stay interested. Not necessarily looking for something that checks all the boxes just anything that vaguely relates to anything I've mentioned!
Thank you
It’s been at least a decade since I read this book I picked up in a bargain bin at a grocery store. I think there was a donut on the cover, though I could be mistaken.
It follows a man who works in Hollywood (can’t remember if he’s an exec or writer or what) and is in the midst of a mid-life crisis. He meets an old man that turns out to be J.D. Salinger, and who obsessively uses IV supplements to retain his vitality.
The protagonist has an estranged son, who ends up being sexually attracted to him, which was terribly uncomfortable to read.
I hope that’s enough information. I’m not sure I even want to read this again but I need to confirm that it was not a fever dream. The fact that I got it for $3 in a bin at a supermarket suggests it was not very successful.
What do the initials of the author J. D. Salinger stand for?
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I'm a college student trying to get through books a lot of people read in high school I never did. I much preferred The Bell Jar, but I did like the way Catcher was written, with it almost being like a story told by a friend. It somewhat reminded me of Perks of Being a Wallflower.
What do I read now? Gatsby? Girl, Interrupted? Lord of the Flies? I've read quite a few books, but it's 4am and I'm too tired to list them. Name a book and I'll see if I read it or not.
As someone with depression, I related a lot with Esther/Plath and even Holden Caulfield at times. Something else with themes of mental illness would be nice, but I'm not exclusively looking for that.
remove if not allowed but this feels like a piece of at least partially lost media.
Salinger by Shane Salerno was a 2013 documentary that aired in the US as the 200th episode of the PBS show American Masters, and i cant find it anywhere, except Itunes, sadly I dont have itunes on anything, and the only physical copies i can find are region locked to outside the US. I just need to know if it was even released on dvd in the us, or if there is a torrent anywhere, anything helps <3
Hello everyone,
I genuinely hope you're all doing well. Please be aware that this post contains spoilers of the book. I highly reccomend reading it first and coming back to this post if you don't like things spoiled to you before you get a chance to look for yourself, if you haven't read it and might want to. I will use spoiler tags/formatting anyway.
I guess I should write, as a sort of disclaimer, that I went into reading this without knowing just how well it might resonate with me being a communist. I was also not aware of any of the controversy over it, or that it was labeled a "communist plot" at one point. I was never given the book as an assignment to read as a part of my standardised education, either. I just decided to take another break from reading sci fi (aka: marxist theory), as I do now and then, and decided to look for more popular works. I was more than pleasantly surprised with this one. I also didn't search this subreddit - I felt an inclination to effortpost rather than read your thoughts from 7-10 months ago, so I thought I should considering this hardly ever happens.
I think, because I suffer with ADHD that I have developed this process for reading books. I have a pretty hard time actually reading the words of a story on a page for more than a few minutes even though I'm treated with medication. So I listen instead, mostly when I'm driving somewhere (I have a long commute to work - 1 hour each way), and then read the wikipaedia article on the book, sometimes the article on the author as well, and then I read or listen to a few reviews. Because ADHD is like an internal gaslighting mechanism, I'm always second guessing myself, so what I'm really doing is making sure that I've not missed anything important, rather than trying to find other people's opinions or interpretations. This time though, I was a little disheartened when I started reading reviews >!that kept likening Holden's struggle to that of becoming an adult, or that labelled Holden as an arrogant and judgemental teenager. !<
While that isn't necessarily untrue, I don't think that it was what Salinger was trying to point out in writing the book, but rather it was just the method he used. In my own reading of it I felt, as I think most of you would, that >!what Holden was actually grappling with was the lack of humanity in most of the people that he was having to interact with and the realisation that he was already past the point at which society expected one's hum
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