so, let's talk about how i was probably the last person on the planet to read The Catcher in the Rye. people have acted shocked and appalled that i graduated from high school without reading it. and...a couple of decades later, i thought i'd read it on vacation.
good work J.D. Salinger for crafting a well-written piece of history. however, it's lost on me how this little gem became, well, such a gem. anyone care to help in understanding the book's gem-status? was the writing, the plot...anyone......anyone.....
(on other late-breaking reading news, i read The Pilot's Wife by Jodi Piccoult - good, but cheesy at times and i started On the Road by Jack Kerouac and it's a little slow-going. i have simply decided to catch up on all these books that the public seems to refer to over and over and make me feel inferior for not having read them by this point in my life)
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Yeah, well...I've never read that either. Never.
I've owned this book for probably 10 years and still haven't read it. Every time I start, I think, "This is not interesting. Why am I reading this again?"
(And I am NOT a fan of Jodi Picoult. I read another one of her books and found it dreadful. Totally with you on both of these.)
Ill never forget the time I openly admitted I had not watched any of the Godfather films....yikes! Ive watched them since...I liked them, but not exactly my all time favs.Lord, I thought I would be hung for not reading or ever wanting to read the DaVinci Code. People get crazy about that stuff.
As an English teacher I love Catcher, but I would never judge someone. Reading a book is the start of a relationship..dont force it if you are not feeling it.
I remember thinking the same thing about this book. Was not a fan.
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