Top Ten Plus One Things You Can learn from JD Salinger s Catcher In The Rye 10.

You can affect generations and be a social recluse at the same time. 9. It s not always wrong to like an anti-hero. 8. Prep schools are full of kids who cut their toenails, smoke cigarettes, squee ze their pimples, and quarrel. 7. Give her the time in your car doesn t mean telling her what time it is. 6. The institution is never as it s shown on the brochure. 5. Friday night steak night is a ruse to fool the visiting mothers who ask their k ids on Sundays what they ate for dinner Friday. 4. It isn t always worth pleading your way out of expulsion for failing 4 of your 5 classes. 3. You never know who you ll meet on a train to Trenton. 2. Breaking the rules isn t always negative. and the #1 Thing You Can learn from JD Salinger s Catcher In The Rye is: 1. The simpler the word, the louder it s heard. .. and the Extra Thing You Can learn from JD Salinger Catcher In The Rye is: 0. Never play with someone else s money.

So I looked up Catcher in the Rye tags just for the hell of it and found so many people that hated that book. I loved this book. Still do. I think maybe people aren t seeing the main theme behind it. I did a paper on it f or my senior year English project. The whole journey of Holden Caulfield is the gradual loss of innocence during an entirely vulnerable age. Holden lost his bro ther who happened to be his hero. After the death he went on to fail out of scho ol after school. Think about it. What would happen to you if something traumatic happened to you when you were young? Not just with a loss of someone you love but maybe through abuse or sickness. The Catcher in the Rye isn t really the most modern take on tod ay s society but still the underlying theme is as basic as it could get. Don t read this and expect a thrilling book with action or a love story. It s about real life even if the characters are fictional. I love this book and al ways go to it for a read that will make me laugh and make me actually feel somet hing besides fear or suspense. This is the kind of book that I will look for in the library. I don t take any bullshit unrealistic story line. But, that s just me.

Of course I read The Catcher in the Rye .Wonderful book. I loved it. I pursued it. I wanted to make a picture out of it. And then one day a young man came to the office of Leland Hayward, my agent, in New York, and said, Please tell Mr. Leland Hayward to lay off. He s very, very insensitive. And he walked out. That was the e ntire speech. I never saw him. That was J. D. Salinger and that was Catcher in t he Rye. Billy Wilder

An artist s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own t erms, not anyone else s. J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey

12 Books You Need to Read. In no particular order: 1. Night by Elie Wiesel 2. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 3. Looking for Alaska by John Green 4. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield 5. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 6. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 7. Life of Pi by Yann Martel 8. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 9. The Color Purple by Alice Walker 10. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 11. Paper Towns by John Green 12. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Holden Caulfield: Because he's ruined men for us. *6 Among other things you ll find that you re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You re by no means alone on that score, you ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled mora lly and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You ll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if yo u have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It s a beautifu l reciprocal arrangement. And it isn t education. It s history, it s poetry.

Holden Caulfield is the American Hamlet: a troubled maybe-genius haunted not by his father s ghost, but by the ghouls of phoniness, the posturing culture of selfaggrandizement that, at the time when Salinger was writing his novel, was only j ust beginning to come into fully realized hideousness. I often wonder, when pondering an inexplicably popular chunk of baloney like Ame rican Idol or The Bachelor: what would Holden think? Then again, what would Hold en think of what Holden Caulfield has become? How would he handle leaping from the (in my edition s case) booger-stained and squashed-mosquito pages to discover tha t, 60 years after his fictional birth, he has become a lasting mythic figure of modern literature, the ultimate proto-emo sulker, a star? Such knowledge would kill him, most likely, as surely as it forced his creator i nto self-imposed exile so that he might avoid all that David Copperfield kind of crap as served up by the likes of People and In Touch, and live on to be just a s trange old man, allergic to fame, a writer writing only for himself. " Andrew Pyper (A fantastic author in his own right.) Cry For A Shadow- Beatle Bop I Saw Her Standing There- Seventeen Thank You Girl- Thank You Little Girl

I'll Get You- Get You In The End It's Only Love- That's a Nice Hat-Cap I've Just Seen A Face- Auntie Gin's Theme Yesterday- Scrambled Eggs Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)- This Bird Has Flown Think For Yourself- Won't Be There With You Eleanor Rigby- Daisy Hawkins Love You To- Granny Smith She Said She Said- Untitled Good Day Sunshine- A Good Day's Sunshine I Want To Tell You- 1: Laxton's Superb 2: I Don't Know Tomorrow Never Knows- 1: The Void 2: Mark 1 Penny Lane- Untitled With A Little Help From My Friends- Bad Finger Boogie Within You Without You- Untitled A Day In The Life- In The Life Of... Hello Goodbye- Hello Hello Flying- Aerial Tour Instrumental The Inner Light- Untitled Only A Northern Song- Not Known

It's All Too Much- Too Much Happiness Is A Warm Gun- Happiness Is A Warm Gun In Your Hand Don't Pass Me By- 1: Ringo's Tune (Untitled) 2: This Is Some Friendly Revolution 1- Revolution Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey - Untitled Long Long Long- It's Been A Long Long Long Time Good Night- Untitled Two Of Us- On Our Way Home Dig A Pony- All I Want Is You For You Blue- George's Blues (Because You're Sweet and Lovely) The Ballad of John and Yoko- The Ballad of John and Yoko (They're Going To Cruci fy Me) Oh! Darling- Oh! Darling (I'll Never Do You No Harm) I Want You (She's So Heavy)- I Want You Sun King- Here Comes The Sun-King She Came In Through the Bathroom Window -Bathroom Window The End- Ending

There have been several attempts to produce a movie of the novel, which were all turned down by Salinger, where he had said if he could not play Holden himself, it wouldn t happen. However, chances of a film version have now increased with Sa linger s death. He wrote: Firstly, it is possible that one day the rights will be s old. Since there s an ever-looming possibility that I won t die rich, I toy very ser iously with the idea of leaving the unsold rights to my wife and daughter as a k ind of insurance policy. It pleasures me no end, though, I might quickly add, to know that I won t have to see the results of the transaction. At one point, Holden Caulfield was the paradigmatic teenager, but now his star h as fallen as kids munch on antidepressants and try to be absorbed by, rather tha n rebel against, the growing ranks of other-directed kids in the lonely crowd. W hich is why he would probably get along with another unloved character, Draco Ma lfoy. If Holden and Draco were friends, however, Draco probably would have alrea dy failed out of Hogwarts and ended up somewhere in the bowels of London, smokin g cigarette after cigarette and drinking out of of a pocket flask as they discus sed their stupid classmates and even more ignorant parents. Phonies! The lot of e m.