Holden wanted those children to maintain their innocence. He didn't want them to know about the "phoniness" and "fuck you" in the adult world. He would catch them from that stage of growing up and place them back in the rye field where they could romp and play and just be a KID.
I don't think Holden really wanted to be the catcher in the rye, but he felt it was a necessary job that nobody was doing. He was one of the kids on the cliff and he was going to fall, he just wanted someone to catch him, but nobody was catching him. So he now thinks he has to be the catcher for everyone else.
When I was in High School, my AP class read The Catcher in the Rye. I was the only one who actually enjoyed reading the novel. I felt some sort of connection with Holden I guess. I'm at a point in my life where I don't see any point in anything. I absolutely hate this feeling. In spring, when I attend college, I am going to study to become a teacher. I want to give kids hope that there's something better in life. If I can give one child hope then I will finally feel like I'm worth something.
I read hear that part now and it makes me think that anybody who felt that way wants to become a teacher or a friend or someones signifiant other but the fear of failing them conflicts with that desire. They do it anyway though cause thats all they could imagine being.
great writer appreciated how well the book was written, but sorry, I just found no connection with Holden, bit too much of a pretentious douche for my liking 2bh. Brilliant writing just not a likeable character once you've bee surrounded by asses like that most your life. I understand how people connect him though, there's a little Holden in all of us. R.I.P J.D. Salinger
Salinger is one of those authors that I personally would love to be terrific friends with, and give him a buzz every now and then to have coffee and talk. Just like you, hank, i wish we were terrific friends. i'm half in love with Salinger's obsession? for: Cigarettes swearing (goddam particularily) and words like helluva.. New York Vaudeville dancers snobs who hate snobs pretty girls with nice camel skin coats... its almost like all of his characters are the same one
Read JD in High School. Has been a monkey on my back ever since.
Only "A Bell for Adano" has followed me in the same way.
Gotta give kudos to my middle school English teachers for their part in my formation. I know its real 'cause my 10th grade teacher's obsession with "Watership Down:" left me with no impression whatsoever. All I read in college was immemorable shite.
But to be a catcher in the rye is Holden's way of stopping people from growing up because he is afraid of growing up. Holden is not to be idolised but to show us growing up is something necessary. His view of childhood (the rye) is too simple and easy. It's so smart. J.D. Salinger, you've changed my life :')
Actually, their both wrong. In the original Scots Leid the poem reads
"Gin a body meet a body,
Comin thro' the rye
Gin a body kiss a body
Need a body cry?"
Yes the entire poem is extremely sexual being about a girl having sex in a field of rye, which raises the question of why Phoebe, who was like ten, had it memorized in the first place?
While most people in my class hated Catcher, it was actually my favorite book that I read in english. It opened up new doors for me and I'm more open to other genras of literature.
The trouble with this book is that it's gave permission to millions of poor self-esteem dudes to go total Peter Pan and wimp out on life. In effect surrendering and parking their butts in libraries and nowadays on-line and doin' absolutely nothing but absorbing information, and convincing themselves that they are holding the world together by spouting their thoughts on Net msg boards whiles withdrawing all the whiles further.
@xxxMrSuspendedxxx And I might add that if I were to be a serial letter writer to teenage girls and invite them to my house the day after they turned 18 and bang them... well, I'd be in jail.
My teacher called JD a girl. I said""I'm pretty sure it's a guy dr." but she yelled at me and told me to sit down. It's gonna be a long year. This is the same teacher who talks when the class is wrighting papers and said "shh" 113 times in 45 min. Yay
This book got me through my junior year of high school, when i felt alone and without hope, i saw myself in Holden and decided to embark this twisted adventure we call life by his side. thank you Mr. Sanlinger.
I hadn't met holden yet when I needed a catcher in the rye. no one tried to help me make sense of the world i was thrust into. and no one listened to me when i had something childishly clever to say. so i stopped being childish. and now all i want is to pushed back up into the rye. or, i just want to be that girl holding holden's hand, julie, and try to feel something innocent again, with holden, in the rye.
I had read the Catcher in the Rye after watching this video, and as soon as I got to the part you're reading, it was like you were reading it to me. Which was pretty cool in a weird way.
Loner sonouvabitch told the best stories. Really, he did. I mean, you shoulda' heard the kind of stories this guy could spin. It was like you were a little kid, right? And no one gave a damn, which is really sad, 'cause everybody deserves a damn, even aimless rubberneck jerks who hate everyone because their beautiful dead older brother never taught 'em how to live. Even them. But, boy, he knew how to bust barriers. Marvelous.
Maybe, if we read it together, we could keep the lake from freezing.
Thanks JD for writing a book that taught me that it's OKAY to be like Holden, who many may see as disturbed, psychotic, depressive....but in reality you were teaching me that it's okay to be human. Holden is forever a part of me and so many others. Thanks for putting all of our thoughts down on paper when we couldn't. RIP
So, here in the book, Holden talks about a Robert Burns poem, and in the Catcher in the Rye, Part 1 video, John apologizes for splitting an infinitive at the beginning of the video: "...to BELATEDLY talk about...". Interestingly, Robert Burns is known as a good example of a writer who used split infinitives. How nerdy was that for me to notice, huh?
We have a family friend, a German woman who, although she's been in the States for many years, still has some difficulty reading English. She owns only one English-language book: The Catcher in the Rye. This book redefines 'dog-eared'. It looks like she's read it a hundred times... which she denies.
Holden wants desperately to come home...to the rye field where he can catch the falling kids. It doesnt matter that his dream is based on the lyrics of a childhood song he remembers imperfectly. Holdens rye field is...like my sense of home: an imagined place that brings together the comforting elements of childhood. For Holden, these elements are the remembered song, the dreamlike images of other children, and an urge to love and protect them."
Es increible como hablas, mas increible como te entiendo. Soy Alan, de México, gracias por la explicación de los simbolismos en la obra "El guardián entre el centeno" (Sí pierde toda el significado en español) Si gustas te puedo recomentar libros en español, también tenemos grandes escritores ¡con grandes simbolismos!
Thank you for this video. J.D. Salinger has been the brunt of many jokes in the past month and so many petty remarks by those who would be blessed to have one tenth the talent that he had. My favorite Salinger book is The Nine Stories. RIP Mr. Salinger.
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I love "Catcher in the Rye" but I hate audio books .
I hate even the idea of it. It ruins all the way you have to imagine what's going on in the book. It's how you read it and how you imagine it and not how's somebody's reading it makes an impression on you.
My Holden would never speak the way John does. He's a dreamer and he's lost. His Holden knows exactly what he wants to do. For those who's still haven't read the book: Create your own Holden, read the book don't listen to audio version
: ( RIP JD I really loved your book, at sometimes "it killed me" and made me realize I'm surrounded by phony bastards... I hope you left us some more novels that will be published upon your death : P
PLEASE DONT READ THIS. YOU WILL GET KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. HOWEVER IF YOU DONT POST THIS COMMENT something bad will happen. NOW UV STARTED READIN DIS DUNT STOP THIS IS SO SCARY. SEND THIS TO 5 VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES WHEN UR DONE PRESS F6 AND UR CRUSHES NAME WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS. THIS IS SO SCARY CAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS THIS ACTUALLY WORKS
This is a good goddamn book. It really killed me. It really did. I hate how a bunch of phonies read it though. You know, those kids that sit in the back of a classroom or some shit. Trying to look cool because they're reading a book with curse words in it. I can't stand those goddamn people. They make me want to paint the damn walls with my brains. They really do.
i completely goddamn agree. There is a time and place to read this book, and it is not meant for everybody, especially those classic novel mongers who sit around reading all the classics when theyre fucking 13 years old and don't know what to make of them. This book changes lives.
@IHaveNoNameRawr I hate dumb fucks that try to imitate the way a "cool" character talks. You are the exact kid in the back of the classroom trying to look cool. Even if this was intentional, fuck you.
PLEAS DONT READ THIS .YOU WILL GET KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAYBY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. HOW EVER IF YOU DONT POST THIS COMMENT something bad will happen. NOW UV STARTED READIN DIS DUNT STOP THIS IS SO SCARY . SEND THIS TO 5 VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES WHEN UR DONE PRESS F6 AND UR CRUSHES NAME WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS .THIS IS SO SCARYCAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS THIS ACTUALLY WORKS
I couldln't think of anything to write in my facebook status the other day so I offered other's to write their own comments. My cousin wrote the exact quote you read because Catcher in the Rye was my favorite book. It was the book that was required in highschool that I actualy was interested in reading. Thus began the reading frenzy that never stopped. Thanks JD Salinger.
Marcus Valerius Martialis places a little hard turd on the grave of Salinger, & completes the ceremony by a urinary libation. "I offer this food & drink to the divinity of today's youth, clothed in rags & sackcloth".... In truth, what is this "Catcher"? It is the personal confession of man-boy full of resentment & disappointment, suffering from the indifference & selfishness of others, including himself. No savior, no heroes: only cheap solace in nostalgia, indolent compassion, & self pity.
Obviously JDS thought of himself as the "Catcher" & his book is meant to be something like a 'portable catcher' in literary form for unhappy young persons. The analogy, however, fails. The book cant supply us with a profound source of self interpretation. The serious & great conflicts of life are obscured by 'symbolism' & consoled with easy pity.The popular response to the book reveals genuine needs in the soul; but its message is degrading & shallow. "Imitatio Christi" for the Last Man, or Boy.
Always makes me cry, this one.
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brilliant video
shellybirdy 1 week ago
1. that was beautiful
2. the day after i finished this book for the first time, J.D. Salinger died.
4mayZing 1 week ago
John, have you read the Salinger biography that came out in 2011? By Kenneth Slawenski? It's really phenomenal.
thetypewriterisholy 1 week ago
I love your voice over/ reading voice
randobanana 1 month ago 5
Holden wanted those children to maintain their innocence. He didn't want them to know about the "phoniness" and "fuck you" in the adult world. He would catch them from that stage of growing up and place them back in the rye field where they could romp and play and just be a KID.
blondybash321 2 months ago 10
this video killed me.
heyitskimmyk 3 months ago
disliking this video is factually inaccurate.
suburiboy 3 months ago 5
I don't think Holden really wanted to be the catcher in the rye, but he felt it was a necessary job that nobody was doing. He was one of the kids on the cliff and he was going to fall, he just wanted someone to catch him, but nobody was catching him. So he now thinks he has to be the catcher for everyone else.
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LachrymoseMelon 3 months ago
@AlwaysAPotterhead I am the same way... Only with Hamlet... I read the catcher on my own time and loved it!
Singinevryday 3 months ago
Must kill Ronald Reagon!
VerifiedAccess 4 months ago
Must kill Ronal Reagon!
VerifiedAccess 4 months ago
idgi
iL4wlz 4 months ago
When I was in High School, my AP class read The Catcher in the Rye. I was the only one who actually enjoyed reading the novel. I felt some sort of connection with Holden I guess. I'm at a point in my life where I don't see any point in anything. I absolutely hate this feeling. In spring, when I attend college, I am going to study to become a teacher. I want to give kids hope that there's something better in life. If I can give one child hope then I will finally feel like I'm worth something.
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JMort95 4 months ago
I read hear that part now and it makes me think that anybody who felt that way wants to become a teacher or a friend or someones signifiant other but the fear of failing them conflicts with that desire. They do it anyway though cause thats all they could imagine being.
lovelylostlady 4 months ago
love this part, too bad this is what mark david chapman read this in his court proceedings for murdering john lennon....now he, he was crazy
bellster24 4 months ago
i like the south park version better
Mrinebriation 4 months ago
great writer appreciated how well the book was written, but sorry, I just found no connection with Holden, bit too much of a pretentious douche for my liking 2bh. Brilliant writing just not a likeable character once you've bee surrounded by asses like that most your life. I understand how people connect him though, there's a little Holden in all of us. R.I.P J.D. Salinger
bodacioused1 5 months ago
@PremiseTester Thanks dude.
TheMaggieEliza 5 months ago
"There's nothing more boring than listening to a writer talk". JD Salinger (refusing a reporters request for an interview).
PremiseTester 5 months ago
Dude. He died on my birthday. WTH.
:O
emilykodd 5 months ago
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@emilykodd Believe it or not, it had nothing to do with you.
PremiseTester 5 months ago
Oh wow - John Green and J.D. Salinger manage to make me tear up in less than a minute.
aModernDandy 5 months ago
natmarmelade 6 months ago 3
My brother that died as an infant was named after Holden Caulfield. This being said, The Catcher In The Rye means more to me than you will ever know.
TheMaggieEliza 6 months ago
@TheMaggieEliza That's rough. Peace.
PremiseTester 5 months ago
thanks man
nothadnotbad 6 months ago
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books suck
swisscheeseMAFIA 6 months ago
@swisscheeseMAFIA *hits over the head with a heavy book* HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT!
yukilove21 6 months ago
Did he just spoiler the complete book?
TorinoAndGriffith 6 months ago
@TorinoAndGriffith no, but even if he did, it wouldn't matter much, because this book is not really about the story, but about the way things go :)
Chapinhalization 6 months ago
damm you Mr.bond.... DAMMMMMMMMM YOOOUUUU !!!!!!!!!!!
TaskerFilms 7 months ago
...hate this book. great video was good
michaelajenks 7 months ago
What a goddamn good book, no kidding.
kitchenflails 7 months ago 7
am I the only one who notices John looked like simon curtis with those glasses?
GrandestWords 7 months ago
It was this single video that made me realize what it is that i love about this book so much. thanks.
pokemonmaster181818 8 months ago
Man, this book changed my life.
Carliekinz 8 months ago 4
Hey there, Salinger, what did you do?
Just when the world was looking to you
To write anything that meant anything,
You told us you were through. -Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution -- Here's to Life
Well... sort of. The lyrics to that song were written pre-Salinger's death.
uiruu 8 months ago
I got chills and tears from this. Wow.
I forgot how that book actually made me feel when I was reading it.
I4gotmyMANTRA 9 months ago 2
"It wasn't crazy. And that's what you were for millions of us"
that almost brought me to tears
dimplexxify 9 months ago 92
@dimplexxify almost?
paulisnatis 2 months ago
I love how weathered your book is.
Jillikinz 9 months ago 4
If a body meet a body' comin' through the ryeI
Read JD in High School. Has been a monkey on my back ever since.
Only "A Bell for Adano" has followed me in the same way.
Gotta give kudos to my middle school English teachers for their part in my formation. I know its real 'cause my 10th grade teacher's obsession with "Watership Down:" left me with no impression whatsoever. All I read in college was immemorable shite.
alpha18412 9 months ago
roach paper?
MereMacolton 10 months ago
i hated that book
huangjiasheng 10 months ago
I finish the book. I was good book but it felt incomplete.
bordercomedens2 10 months ago
RIP J.D. By the way great style of reading, John.
ambiencest 10 months ago
My *twitch* favorite *twitch* book...THANK YOU!
Fireball0fawes0me 11 months ago
I actually have that quote on the wall next to me :)
TheSugarhi 11 months ago
I love your reading voice! You should read to us more!
MorganMichelleEri 1 year ago 4
I remember last year in my junior year we read The Cather in the Rye, and that he died when we were half way through the book.
PlatinumTyrant 1 year ago
Amazing books. JD Salinger was, and is, a legend.
G0ldstonE 1 year ago
But to be a catcher in the rye is Holden's way of stopping people from growing up because he is afraid of growing up. Holden is not to be idolised but to show us growing up is something necessary. His view of childhood (the rye) is too simple and easy. It's so smart. J.D. Salinger, you've changed my life :')
alygoodwin1 1 year ago
my catcher book is torn too=')
Hellgrinder0 1 year ago
Actually, their both wrong. In the original Scots Leid the poem reads
"Gin a body meet a body,
Comin thro' the rye
Gin a body kiss a body
Need a body cry?"
Yes the entire poem is extremely sexual being about a girl having sex in a field of rye, which raises the question of why Phoebe, who was like ten, had it memorized in the first place?
TheArtistOfKuroo 1 year ago 5
While most people in my class hated Catcher, it was actually my favorite book that I read in english. It opened up new doors for me and I'm more open to other genras of literature.
Thank You JD Salinger.
HarryPotterTrio91 1 year ago
I disagree. It is very crazy. Glen Quagmire (the FICTIONAL CARTOON character) is right about that kid being a spoiled brat.
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You get a FIVE star thumbs up for not replacing ratty old books that have seen better days.
tripthe1 1 year ago
Goddamn
Jasminebs2003 1 year ago
I hate that I can only get these books in Dutch. I want them in English AARGGH! :(
Flowerdream0394 1 year ago
@Flowerdream0394 fnac!
DollyMausDeux 11 months ago
@DollyMausDeux Awesome! Thanks! I'll take a look there :)
Flowerdream0394 11 months ago
Holden foreverrrr.
Carliekinz 1 year ago
i had a helluva time watching this goddam video. It killed me.
EqGib 1 year ago 489
@EqGib You made me sad smile.
annaslater11 8 months ago
@EqGib Greatest comment ever typed. :D
MajesticTOASTER 7 months ago
@EqGib This is the best comment ever. It really is.
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@EqGib it was kind of phony
azerskater 1 month ago
The trouble with this book is that it's gave permission to millions of poor self-esteem dudes to go total Peter Pan and wimp out on life. In effect surrendering and parking their butts in libraries and nowadays on-line and doin' absolutely nothing but absorbing information, and convincing themselves that they are holding the world together by spouting their thoughts on Net msg boards whiles withdrawing all the whiles further.
Get a job, dudes! Or jump off that cliff, okay?
xxxMrSuspendedxxx 1 year ago
@xxxMrSuspendedxxx And I might add that if I were to be a serial letter writer to teenage girls and invite them to my house the day after they turned 18 and bang them... well, I'd be in jail.
dedicated2WHOiLove 1 year ago 2
J.D., thank you for helping me jump off of that cliff. I wouldn't have been able to do it without you.
jaytummy 1 year ago
@jaytummy ROFL
swantonist 1 year ago
My teacher called JD a girl. I said""I'm pretty sure it's a guy dr." but she yelled at me and told me to sit down. It's gonna be a long year. This is the same teacher who talks when the class is wrighting papers and said "shh" 113 times in 45 min. Yay
isaacmakesvideos 1 year ago
@isaacmakesvideos haha "wrighting"
dritch11 1 year ago
The cover of my "Catcher in the Rye" looks the same, with pieces missing. But the quote in the end was so... deep, I guess. Salinger did catch us.
lazyyetloving 1 year ago
The day that we started Catcher in the Rye at school, J.D. Salinger died.
AARFantastical 1 year ago 2
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The greatest book ever written
josharniehtafc 1 year ago
Wow, I really just got chills from this.
miamikin9 1 year ago
that killed me. it really did.
luckynumber58 1 year ago 3
@luckynumber58 I mean it, too.
heyimtomato 1 year ago
Is that the new ipod his holding ?
Bizazah 1 year ago
Thanks J.D. Just...thanks.
ScousersRule7 1 year ago
This book got me through my junior year of high school, when i felt alone and without hope, i saw myself in Holden and decided to embark this twisted adventure we call life by his side. thank you Mr. Sanlinger.
gerherbel 1 year ago
That was a beautiful tribute.
PIRATESROCK101 1 year ago
i hate catcher in the rye.... i understood it but the way he talked made me want to kill him :/
HoopsMaster4 1 year ago
J. D. Salinger's toilet was on sale on eBay and yes it was used.
61teewssa 1 year ago
okay that actually made me cry
ImWellFiredUp 1 year ago
Daniel Solstice Landon needs catching, and Holden is there for him.
Check out Holden Caulfield, Where Are You?
CatcherCaught 1 year ago
I hadn't met holden yet when I needed a catcher in the rye. no one tried to help me make sense of the world i was thrust into. and no one listened to me when i had something childishly clever to say. so i stopped being childish. and now all i want is to pushed back up into the rye. or, i just want to be that girl holding holden's hand, julie, and try to feel something innocent again, with holden, in the rye.
katwoolfy 1 year ago
Did your book catch on fire?? haha this is so goood!!
JessyIsTheBestis 1 year ago
For ages I thought catcher in the rye was a porn book :/
I know better now :)
KingOSketchKomedy 1 year ago
Dude, what happened to your book?
RuralNler92 1 year ago
This made me teary eyed. Thank you John. And thank you Holden. Thank you J.D. :')
Number1ricky 1 year ago 194
That's my favorite part of the whole book.
weaner2004happyhour 1 year ago
I had read the Catcher in the Rye after watching this video, and as soon as I got to the part you're reading, it was like you were reading it to me. Which was pretty cool in a weird way.
iRobotify 1 year ago
I love your copy of the book! How did it get burned? LMAO. My copy is pretty beat up because I read it so goddamn much. I really do.
UpperCrustthe3rd 1 year ago
john... you saying that actually made me cry... tears and an actual sob...
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Loner sonouvabitch told the best stories. Really, he did. I mean, you shoulda' heard the kind of stories this guy could spin. It was like you were a little kid, right? And no one gave a damn, which is really sad, 'cause everybody deserves a damn, even aimless rubberneck jerks who hate everyone because their beautiful dead older brother never taught 'em how to live. Even them. But, boy, he knew how to bust barriers. Marvelous.
Maybe, if we read it together, we could keep the lake from freezing.
IndieSex 1 year ago
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IndieSex 1 year ago
RIP
That's my favorite part
moniquinnn 1 year ago
bananafish makes me cry everytime.
mypantsareTIGHTER 1 year ago
man.... i would have liked to have met J.D.
CheeseOnArainbow 1 year ago
I did my Junior Theme over The Catcher in the Rye this year. It's a good book.
animefreak02020 1 year ago
I really didn't like this book all that much....
just some kid that i can't relate to .....at alll
im really not sure why everyone loves it....
OR why it was baned...
i guess being a winy kid that cries a lot, is controversial
ShyGuy236 1 year ago
@ShyGuy236 now, John Steinbeck.....that guy can write
ShyGuy236 1 year ago
Thanks JD for writing a book that taught me that it's OKAY to be like Holden, who many may see as disturbed, psychotic, depressive....but in reality you were teaching me that it's okay to be human. Holden is forever a part of me and so many others. Thanks for putting all of our thoughts down on paper when we couldn't. RIP
SweetLkeCandy2MySoul 1 year ago
So, here in the book, Holden talks about a Robert Burns poem, and in the Catcher in the Rye, Part 1 video, John apologizes for splitting an infinitive at the beginning of the video: "...to BELATEDLY talk about...". Interestingly, Robert Burns is known as a good example of a writer who used split infinitives. How nerdy was that for me to notice, huh?
ScienceWinsEveryTime 1 year ago
I know that it is a tragic loss.
But JD Salinger was a very strange man
Medafets 1 year ago
Man, that part that you read just now, when i read it myself, i began to cry. IT was so sad :l
Cuz its true, it sounds amazing..
id love to do that.
ITs beautiful, that man had a mind like nobody even really knew to a full extent.
OhmawrFidely 1 year ago 2
@OhmawrFidely What page does that part start on?
DoctorFranknog 1 year ago
R I P JD salinger///
roendm 1 year ago
my computer lagged and you said "Robert" veeeery slowly. it was fun.
lukestur 1 year ago
RIP Salinger, moment of silence..... SM :)
Dendrizzle 1 year ago
We have a family friend, a German woman who, although she's been in the States for many years, still has some difficulty reading English. She owns only one English-language book: The Catcher in the Rye. This book redefines 'dog-eared'. It looks like she's read it a hundred times... which she denies.
She claims she's only read it twenty times :)
unrulyrascal 1 year ago 2
RIP JD Salinger...you may have passed on but Holden lives on in every reader whose life has changed reading TCINTR..
hiimceceful 1 year ago 2
Holden wants desperately to come home...to the rye field where he can catch the falling kids. It doesnt matter that his dream is based on the lyrics of a childhood song he remembers imperfectly. Holdens rye field is...like my sense of home: an imagined place that brings together the comforting elements of childhood. For Holden, these elements are the remembered song, the dreamlike images of other children, and an urge to love and protect them."
"Polite Lies" by Kyoko Mori.
~Chapter 12 "Home"
applejuicejadedear 1 year ago
just finished this book today. favorite quote in the book
mazurchris 1 year ago
Rest in peace Salinger I will never forget that book.
HugoManz1 1 year ago
R.I.P Salinger.
One thing I cant stand is all these goddamn phonies pretending to know life and whom are completely unaware of how good they have it.
msRawrness69 1 year ago 2
Es increible como hablas, mas increible como te entiendo. Soy Alan, de México, gracias por la explicación de los simbolismos en la obra "El guardián entre el centeno" (Sí pierde toda el significado en español) Si gustas te puedo recomentar libros en español, también tenemos grandes escritores ¡con grandes simbolismos!
Hope you know how ti speak in Spanish. :D
champychandler 1 year ago
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I read that book and thought it sucked. I never read anything else he wrote though.
pinksmoke25123 1 year ago
Mark David Chapman read the same passage at his trial after he was convicted of John Lennon's murder.
greggersh 1 year ago
he was also arrested while reading it with holden's same type hat on
noodles1fan 1 year ago
Thank you for this video. J.D. Salinger has been the brunt of many jokes in the past month and so many petty remarks by those who would be blessed to have one tenth the talent that he had. My favorite Salinger book is The Nine Stories. RIP Mr. Salinger.
lordcoyote2000 1 year ago
I <3 that book...
OddmentTweak 1 year ago
stop acting so goddamn depressed, you phonies
bleemerpoop 1 year ago 4
I was bummed when Salinger died. I read "The Catcher In The Rye" when I was 15 and to this day it's still one of my favourite novels.
BloggerMusicMan 1 year ago
Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules. JDS RIP
kdixon7783B 1 year ago 2
that was beautiful... : ( R.I.P.
i actually remember that part even though i read the book a few years ago
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ephedradiet 1 year ago
I love "Catcher in the Rye" but I hate audio books .
I hate even the idea of it. It ruins all the way you have to imagine what's going on in the book. It's how you read it and how you imagine it and not how's somebody's reading it makes an impression on you.
My Holden would never speak the way John does. He's a dreamer and he's lost. His Holden knows exactly what he wants to do. For those who's still haven't read the book: Create your own Holden, read the book don't listen to audio version
zarifization 1 year ago
: ( RIP JD I really loved your book, at sometimes "it killed me" and made me realize I'm surrounded by phony bastards... I hope you left us some more novels that will be published upon your death : P
addictedtoH2O 2 years ago
I hope you are enjoying your made-of-awesome baby! One day you will once again know sleep. :)
nerdra 2 years ago
I miss you John.
jhorst24 2 years ago
Damn, no Idea he died
LemonLimeLaughter 2 years ago
I wish some one would of told me that i would get depressed when i read the god damn book
xElm00wnzx 2 years ago
I haven't read that god-damn book.
Thank you for letting me know I'm going to be depressed when I read that god-damn book.
myalteredself 2 years ago
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i can't believe i was forced to read this crap in high school.
Flerg3 2 years ago
trollin'
myalteredself 2 years ago
poor top right corner of front cover...
Pie4246 2 years ago
Rest in Piece, Salinger...you killed me with that crazy book of yours and now I am different. Thank you.
misterbasketcase 2 years ago 185
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okelohunter 2 years ago
almost memorized this!
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cledus27030 2 years ago
have that same book cover :D
luanluan2006 2 years ago
lol
q8q8505 2 years ago
lol
q8q8505 2 years ago
J.D. Salinger was a genius.
He was one of the best.
erikeg9 2 years ago 3
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This is a good goddamn book. It really killed me. It really did. I hate how a bunch of phonies read it though. You know, those kids that sit in the back of a classroom or some shit. Trying to look cool because they're reading a book with curse words in it. I can't stand those goddamn people. They make me want to paint the damn walls with my brains. They really do.
IHaveNoNameRawr 2 years ago 141
I may have enjoyed your comment more than I should have... oh well.
Suckfailurebitch 2 years ago 3
Best goddamn comment.
OhYeah729 2 years ago 3
I liked your comment and all.
AventuraLuver 1 year ago
@IHaveNoNameRawr
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ajira815 1 year ago
i completely goddamn agree. There is a time and place to read this book, and it is not meant for everybody, especially those classic novel mongers who sit around reading all the classics when theyre fucking 13 years old and don't know what to make of them. This book changes lives.
petepete7887 1 year ago
@IHaveNoNameRawr lol your starting to sound like Holden, your a bit too into the book my friend
drgstrife 1 year ago
@drgstrife it is very obvious 'iHaveNoNameRawr' was doing that on purpose. it was clever.
wilzy92 1 year ago
@IHaveNoNameRawr that sounds a LOT like Holden
thedarkenedwanderer 1 year ago
@IHaveNoNameRawr I hate dumb fucks that try to imitate the way a "cool" character talks. You are the exact kid in the back of the classroom trying to look cool. Even if this was intentional, fuck you.
ins0mnia1000 1 year ago
I'd love to listen to you read books. May be a bit odd but get over it.
Shinzenrie 2 years ago
this is the only book that i have read over 20 times. RIP Salinger
dr12thfret 2 years ago
R.I.P. J.D. Salinger
PaulinoAuyon 2 years ago
Man, I love that book!
PaulinoAuyon 2 years ago
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fuck books lol
felixcruzazul 2 years ago
my favorite book,had to read it in high school.
bromanlaca 2 years ago
catcher in the rye. one of my favourite books.
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TheCpmastr 2 years ago
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You guys are phony
FoxHound212 2 years ago
@FoxHound212, the people who gave you thumbs down clearly did not read from Salinger
littleplump 2 years ago 2
yeah they really are phonies lol
FoxHound212 2 years ago
That made me want to cry, John Green. Thanks so much for that.
Rest in peace, J.D. May you forever be the catcher in the rye.
ShadowsOffending 2 years ago 3
Still need to read it. :3
Graycloak 2 years ago
RIP JD Salinger, you are one of the finest American authors!
paolosilv 2 years ago 3
RIP you awesome dood
renatadevin 2 years ago
I couldln't think of anything to write in my facebook status the other day so I offered other's to write their own comments. My cousin wrote the exact quote you read because Catcher in the Rye was my favorite book. It was the book that was required in highschool that I actualy was interested in reading. Thus began the reading frenzy that never stopped. Thanks JD Salinger.
sjcgrad2008 2 years ago 2
Great book and protagonist. So simple yet so effective!
Ashurst 2 years ago
Marcus Valerius Martialis places a little hard turd on the grave of Salinger, & completes the ceremony by a urinary libation. "I offer this food & drink to the divinity of today's youth, clothed in rags & sackcloth".... In truth, what is this "Catcher"? It is the personal confession of man-boy full of resentment & disappointment, suffering from the indifference & selfishness of others, including himself. No savior, no heroes: only cheap solace in nostalgia, indolent compassion, & self pity.
rabmunch 2 years ago
Obviously JDS thought of himself as the "Catcher" & his book is meant to be something like a 'portable catcher' in literary form for unhappy young persons. The analogy, however, fails. The book cant supply us with a profound source of self interpretation. The serious & great conflicts of life are obscured by 'symbolism' & consoled with easy pity.The popular response to the book reveals genuine needs in the soul; but its message is degrading & shallow. "Imitatio Christi" for the Last Man, or Boy.
rabmunch 2 years ago