The Catcher In The Rye...

[naomi24]

...by J D Salinger, a book somehow missed from my 'should do' list as a student and only recently read - and what an extraordinary little book it is. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone - it really isn't everyone's cup of tea - but for me it was a real page-turner. The language alone fascinated me. It has now been added to my collection of 'favourites'.

Does anyone have any thoughts about it?

[Mozz71]

//Nope, I knew carp then just as I know carp now when I read it.//

But he's very confused by trout.

[douglas9401]

I knew I should have been more specific.

[tonyav]

Wot !, theres a kraut in the Pacific.

[david small]

Read most of Dickens, liked it as I’m interested in nineteenth century social history. Like some Shakespeare. Not read Salinger, next time around maybe.

[emmie]

i haven't read it as yet, will see if my friend has a copy i can borrow. I love the Bronte sisters, Dickens who's books line my shelf. Jane Austen too, wonderful reads, not boring at all

[iluvmargie]

No, never read it, but wouldn't mind doing so now to see what I think of it.

00:27, no, you are not alone. Same here.

[Old_Geezer]

Long time since I read it. Can't recall much of it now, but I do recall wondering what the reason for it being such a reccomended book was.

(Mind you, I feel similarly regarding most of the reccomended ones. They're just works of fiction. No better nor worse than many others. I think arty types like to back each other up on things they've been told are great in order to be part of the arty clan. They can then debate the great, deep meanings they've imagined are there.)

[naomi24]

Ooo ... I worry that anyone might take this as a recommendation. It really is not. It's an odd book - like nothing I've ever read. It's not really a story as such - more like someone waffling on through a counselling session. I'm not sure those who like Jane Austen and the Brontes (and I'm one of those too) will like it at all.

[iluvmargie]

I know you're not recommending it naomi, I'm just intrigued now, that's all.

[Mexican18]

I love Dickens and Hardy but found Whuthering Heights the most awful book I have ever read!

[naomi24]

Give it a go then, Margie - but be warned - it's really 'different'. I'll be interested in your opinion of it.

[naomi24]

Mexican, it's said you need to read Wuthering Heights seven times in order to understand it. It's another of my favourites. I think Emily Bronte was a tormented soul - and she expressed that in her one and only novel.

[iluvmargie]

Another book that was very hard to read was 'There's Something about Kevin' (I think that's the exact title). The film was much easier to follow.

[Mexican18]

It annoyed me when she tried to write in Yorkshire dialect! Almost as much as people writing ' oop North'.

[naomi24]

It was set in Yorkshire and the characters were from Yorkshire - as was Emily Bronte.

[Mexican18]

Naomi, I was born just a few miles from Haworth.I know all about the Brontes. I am saying that her attempts at the dialect were pathetic.

[naomi24]

Oh right. It seemed okay to me.

[tiggerblue10]

There are 3 books that I have read more than one and they are The Da Vinci Code, Silence Of The Lambs, and Alison Weir's Elizabeth I.

A friend of mine recommended reading The Celestine Prophecy years ago. I got halfway through and got bored. Should I try reading again?

[naomi24]

Tigger, a friend bought me 'The Celestine Prophecy'. I struggled with it but because she'd bought it for me and thought it wonderful I felt obliged to finish it. The Da Vinci Code is fun. I haven't read The Silence of the Lambs.

[steg]

The only book I’ve read from start to finish in one sitting. I remember thinking it was the most amazing thing I’d ever read.
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