Catcher In The Rye

[MrDawn]

Did anyone enjoy J.D Salinger's novel Catcher In The Rye?

I must have read this book a hundred times, and I've enjoyed it immensely. One of my favorite scenes from the books was this.

" Finally, what I decided I'd do, I decided I'd go away. I decided I'd never go home again and I'd never go away to another school again. I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. Everybody'd think I was just a poor deaf-mute bastard and they'd leave me alone. I'd meet this beautiful girl that was also a deaf-mute and we'd get married. She'd come and live in my cabin with me, and if she wanted to say anything to me, she'd have to write it on a goddam piece of paper, like everybody else. If we had any children, we'd hide them somewhere. We could buy them a lot of books and teach them how to read and write by ourselves.

Its totally epic. I mean the character is hilarious as well as depressed. Holden is my all time favorite character out of all the novels I read about. He has a strange way at looking at life.

 

[seasidemike]

Yes, it has been a long long time, but I remember it being an excellent book

 

[Jazzy]

Loved this book it's a literary masterpiece. I have the book in my library collection.

I like this quote in Chapter 22, spoken by the character Holden Caulfield:

"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."