Comments on: Salute to Salinger: The Plainsman reviews The Catcher in the Rye, April 1962 http://www.thewareaglereader.com/2010/01/salute-to-salinger-the-plainsman-reviews-the-catcher-in-the-rye-april-1962/ Auburn's Daily Meta-Memoir Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:28:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Val Hietter http://www.thewareaglereader.com/2010/01/salute-to-salinger-the-plainsman-reviews-the-catcher-in-the-rye-april-1962/comment-page-1/#comment-659594 Michael Val Hietter Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:12:02 +0000 http://www.thewareaglereader.com/?p=8905#comment-659594 I successfully avoided reading this book in high school when almost everybody else in my class did (and college as well), but I may give it a chance now. However, I have a funny feeling I am going to find it over-rated, not because of the lack of quality of the "ratee" but rather the hype of the "raters"--kind of like I feel about The Grateful Dead. Michael Val (who first has to train his mind to read a novel again, after developing the attention span of a flea with so much blog reading!) I successfully avoided reading this book in high school when almost everybody else in my class did (and college as well), but I may give it a chance now. However, I have a funny feeling I am going to find it over-rated, not because of the lack of quality of the “ratee” but rather the hype of the “raters”–kind of like I feel about The Grateful Dead.

Michael Val
(who first has to train his mind to read a novel again, after developing the attention span of a flea with so much blog reading!)

]]> By: Auburn'97 http://www.thewareaglereader.com/2010/01/salute-to-salinger-the-plainsman-reviews-the-catcher-in-the-rye-april-1962/comment-page-1/#comment-5950 Auburn'97 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:14:25 +0000 http://www.thewareaglereader.com/?p=8905#comment-5950 Alex P: Not saying that I was the most well adjusted teenage male but overall I did not enjoy the novel. There are other novels that "spoke" to me but this particular one did not. I don't question your literary review, it is very good by the way, its just that Catcher was not one of those...ideal books that spoke to me. I can remember getting into a similar debate with friends and classmates over this same topic. I guess we will have to agree to disagree. There must be somebody that the book speaks to as evidenced by its continued popularity. War Eagle Alex P: Not saying that I was the most well adjusted teenage male but overall I did not enjoy the novel. There are other novels that “spoke” to me but this particular one did not. I don’t question your literary review, it is very good by the way, its just that Catcher was not one of those…ideal books that spoke to me. I can remember getting into a similar debate with friends and classmates over this same topic. I guess we will have to agree to disagree. There must be somebody that the book speaks to as evidenced by its continued popularity. War Eagle

]]> By: Alex P in Smyrna G http://www.thewareaglereader.com/2010/01/salute-to-salinger-the-plainsman-reviews-the-catcher-in-the-rye-april-1962/comment-page-1/#comment-5778 Alex P in Smyrna G Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:08:44 +0000 http://www.thewareaglereader.com/?p=8905#comment-5778 Holden isn't supposed to be a hero. He's the most extreme personification of the struggle every young adolescent male goes through in trying to figure out how to be a man. He has every insecurity and misconception -- where most of us only have some of these. That's why everyone can identiy with at least something he says or does, from his confusion about girls to feeling compelled to find his life calling, but lacking the maturity to do so -- which is why he comes up with something as irrational/simplistic as catching kids before they run off of a cliff in the middle of a rye field. So I hope no one can identify completely with Holden (because that would make them a total headcase), but if there's nothing he says or does that makes you go "WOW I'VE HAD THAT SAME THOUGHT BEFORE" then you're either lying or were the most well adjusted teenage male EVER. Holden isn’t supposed to be a hero. He’s the most extreme personification of the struggle every young adolescent male goes through in trying to figure out how to be a man.

He has every insecurity and misconception — where most of us only have some of these. That’s why everyone can identiy with at least something he says or does, from his confusion about girls to feeling compelled to find his life calling, but lacking the maturity to do so — which is why he comes up with something as irrational/simplistic as catching kids before they run off of a cliff in the middle of a rye field.

So I hope no one can identify completely with Holden (because that would make them a total headcase), but if there’s nothing he says or does that makes you go “WOW I’VE HAD THAT SAME THOUGHT BEFORE” then you’re either lying or were the most well adjusted teenage male EVER.

]]> By: stacy elaine http://www.thewareaglereader.com/2010/01/salute-to-salinger-the-plainsman-reviews-the-catcher-in-the-rye-april-1962/comment-page-1/#comment-5715 stacy elaine Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:59:54 +0000 http://www.thewareaglereader.com/?p=8905#comment-5715 it's better at age 30. just read it last year. it’s better at age 30. just read it last year.

]]> By: Philip http://www.thewareaglereader.com/2010/01/salute-to-salinger-the-plainsman-reviews-the-catcher-in-the-rye-april-1962/comment-page-1/#comment-5679 Philip Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:25:12 +0000 http://www.thewareaglereader.com/?p=8905#comment-5679 Auburn '97, I'm right there with you and I'll never understand the people who openly say they identify with Holden. That always made me :facepalm:... Auburn ’97, I’m right there with you and I’ll never understand the people who openly say they identify with Holden. That always made me :facepalm:…

]]> By: Auburn'97 http://www.thewareaglereader.com/2010/01/salute-to-salinger-the-plainsman-reviews-the-catcher-in-the-rye-april-1962/comment-page-1/#comment-5657 Auburn'97 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:22:02 +0000 http://www.thewareaglereader.com/?p=8905#comment-5657 Maybe I am just off myself but I don't understand the hype about Cather in the Rye. It was required reading in high school, I read it once again in at Auburn for a paper, and still a third time after Auburn but each time I finished the book feeling that I had wasted my time. I thought the book to be boring. I know I'm in the minority with this opinion and I'm not discrediting Salinger's literary skills but this book was not for me. War Eagle. Maybe I am just off myself but I don’t understand the hype about Cather in the Rye. It was required reading in high school, I read it once again in at Auburn for a paper, and still a third time after Auburn but each time I finished the book feeling that I had wasted my time. I thought the book to be boring. I know I’m in the minority with this opinion and I’m not discrediting Salinger’s literary skills but this book was not for me. War Eagle.

]]> By: easyedwin http://www.thewareaglereader.com/2010/01/salute-to-salinger-the-plainsman-reviews-the-catcher-in-the-rye-april-1962/comment-page-1/#comment-5651 easyedwin Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:55:25 +0000 http://www.thewareaglereader.com/?p=8905#comment-5651 RIP, JD RIP, JD

]]> By: WarDamnAdam http://www.thewareaglereader.com/2010/01/salute-to-salinger-the-plainsman-reviews-the-catcher-in-the-rye-april-1962/comment-page-1/#comment-5642 WarDamnAdam Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:15:22 +0000 http://www.thewareaglereader.com/?p=8905#comment-5642 Wow. That is all i can say to that summary of a book that i know spoke volumes to so many of us. Wow. That is all i can say to that summary of a book that i know spoke volumes to so many of us.

]]> By: Kenny http://www.thewareaglereader.com/2010/01/salute-to-salinger-the-plainsman-reviews-the-catcher-in-the-rye-april-1962/comment-page-1/#comment-5635 Kenny Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:47:20 +0000 http://www.thewareaglereader.com/?p=8905#comment-5635 Salinger was an odd bird. Reading Joyce Maynard's memoir confirmed it. Salinger was an odd bird. Reading Joyce Maynard’s memoir confirmed it.

]]> By: Alex P in Smyrna G http://www.thewareaglereader.com/2010/01/salute-to-salinger-the-plainsman-reviews-the-catcher-in-the-rye-april-1962/comment-page-1/#comment-5621 Alex P in Smyrna G Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:22:11 +0000 http://www.thewareaglereader.com/?p=8905#comment-5621 Every guy should read TCITR once in HS or college. Every guy should read TCITR once in HS or college.

]]>