Meghan wrote:
>I agree also. What gets me about "Catcher" is that (this may be selfish)it's
>not Salinger's best work, yet it's taught in high schools, which gets it a
>lot of exposure. Then you have kids full of real or imagined angst who are
>like, man that book is me! I can relate! And they then credit Salinger as
>their favorite author.. without ever reading any of his other (better) work.
>It's just given too much credit. The selfish part comes in because I first
>read Catcher when I was 13, I had seen it in a bookstore and made my mom buy
>it. Fast forward three years, it's being taught in english and there's 100
>kids or however many in my class saying how much they love it.. when they
>probably never would have read it on their own. I guess I should hope that
>someone reads Catcher in english class, and then reads Salinger's other work
>and falls in love with it like I did, and then I can thank Catcher for that.
It just struck me that the above statement might have come from Holden himself
with all those phonys who dont really appreciate Salinger and the bit of
exaggeration with the other "100" kids in your class. Made me smile.
-Levi
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