Subject: Re: CATCHER age groups
From: Gene (pariah1980@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Nov 24 2000 - 19:52:48 GMT
For the record, I am a Korean American student living
in California. I was first introduced to J.D. Salinger
by my older cousin Joe(who also got me into stuff like
punk rock, indie rock, philosophy; he was a philosophy
major at UC Irvine and is now working on getting his
Ph.D. in philosophy and a professorship at UCLA). When
I first read "The Catcher in the Rye" I got so caught
up in the whole story and the characters. I'm a second
generation immigrant and my parents sent me to a
religious private school for K-6th grade. The first
book to really catch me by surprise was S.E. Hinton's
"The Outsiders" when I was making the transition from
private school to public jr. high school. We were
assigned that book to read in the 7th grade and I was
just stunned that books could be like that. Looking
back, of course, I don't consider "The Outsiders" to
be one of the greatest books ever written, but it
would set the tone for me to go on to read books by
J.D. Salinger, Lenny Bruce, Nietzsche, Plato/Socrates,
Dante Aligheri, Machiavelli, Hegel, Descartes,
Dostoyevsky (who I am just in awe of), Noam Chomsky,
Karl Marx, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Malcolm-X,
Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsburg,
Russell Banks("Affliction" "Rule of the Bone" "The
Sweet Hereafter" etc..) etc... I often look back at
"The Catcher in the Rye" as a book that came into my
life at a really important time for me to relate to. I
was a freshman in highschool when my cousin told me to
read that book. I went on to read all the other
mainstream publications of J.D. Salinger and fell in
love with it all. I went through many of the same
complexes illustrated in "Franny & Zooey", which
happens to be one of my favorite books by Salinger.
Anyway, that's my 3 cents lol:)
--- Bernd Wahlbrinck <Bernd.Wahlbrinck@t-online.de>
wrote:
> Will Hochman wrote:
> >In the 50s when it first came out, the book was hot
> among college
> >students but I think it has filtered down to
> students in 9th grade
> >(14-15 years old) these days...how old are your
> students?
>
> Well, my students are 18-19 years old.
> However, what they meant was, is it largely young
> people or adults
> that read Catcher?
> I have a hunch that is almost impossible to say,
> esp. since people
> like me read it when they were young and STILL read
> it..
> Bernie
>
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