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"The Catcher in the Rye"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8084931.stm

Just read this article on BBC on one of my favourite books and I hate how it seems to have a Marmite-like way of polarising people!

Its first sentence is, I think, the greatest first sentence of any novel (that I have, read, anyway)

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied, and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of cr*p, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

Sends shivers down me.

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Reply 1

Illyria

I didn't read the whole article but I agree it's a wonderful book :smile:

I feel quite sorry for Holden, he reminds me of someone I know... I always wondered what illness he got at the end, was it leukaemia like his brother do you think?

Reply 2

khalaf

Looks cool, i'll look for it in the book store next time i'm there :smile:

Reply 3

Arturo Bandini

Massively overrated book.

I love that book!

No, he had to go into the hospital for some kind of mental illness. That is the implication, I think.

I love it

Yeah, it's rubbish.

Arturo Bandini

Massively overrated book.

I TOTALLY agree.

I bought it with the perception that it would change everything, as this is how I was told by everyone.
A "classic".

I didn't enjoy it. Quite a let down.

Brilliant book.

Looks like the "Marmite" analogy was more accurate than you thought, OP.

Reply 11

Yusuf.T

I Loooooved that book when i read it.
they mentioned it on '8 cimple rules' and i really wanted to read it.. and i really enjoyed it.

Reply 12

AhaShakeHeartbreak

Arturo Bandini

Yeah, it's rubbish.

nicky_innit

I TOTALLY agree.

I bought it with the perception that it would change everything, as this is how I was told by everyone.
A "classic".

I didn't enjoy it. Quite a let down.

You're obviously phonies :rolleyes:

Reply 13

nicky_innit

AhaShakeHeartbreak

Massively overrated book.

You're obviously phonies :rolleyes:

It was though!
I was expecting some life-changing epiphony after I'd read it, but it just left me thinking...
"I'll never get those 2 hours back...ever."

It left me feeling how I felt after I watched He's Just Not That Into You.
*shudders*

Reply 14

Illyria

serrellen

No, he had to go into the hospital for some kind of mental illness. That is the implication, I think.

Ah right... that makes more sense I guess!

Reply 15

onthejubileeline

I really loved it, so it's immaterial to me what anyone else thought of it; much like the rest of my interests and likes.

Reply 16

thunder_chunky

I thought there was going to be some major twist at the end but I'm sorry to say it wasn't.

It's an interesting read I think. Not amazing, not the most gripping page turner. However it is interesting.

Well written too.

Reply 17

Less_then_zero

good book.. i read a piece on the sequal in the guardian, seems hes really not into anyone adapting it into a film either hes turned down an offer by spielberg to film it...