Re: First Catcher Memories
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:51:20 +1000
> I was first assigned _Catcher_ as summer reading in the summer before my
> freshman year in high school. My first thought on looking at the cover
> was, "Why are they making us read a story about baseball?" Imagine my
> surprise.
I've heard some funny stories about what people believed Catcher to be
about when they first read it - one of my greatest joys in reading it was
that I knew absolutely nothing about it (the opposite is usually the case
when we read books, probably more than we realise). I had heard the title
of course and to me it sounded like a mystery/intrigue story - it had
something KGBish about it (: I could see people in (hmm ...coincidence?)
those furry Russian hats and espionage and beautiful women called Natasha.
I can't remember whether someone at bananafish told me thus or whether it
was another friend of mine, but someone told me that they had a vague idea
the book was about a murder commited on a bus (:
Sometimes I see books and I almost don't want to read them because the
title is so evocative that reading the book and having your perceptions of
it altered would seem so anticlimactic - lucky I pursued Catcher, tho
(besides I hate spy stories)
Camille
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