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I didn’t like “Catcher in the Rye” in high school, and after trying to re-read it as an adult (many books later), it is still one of the most badly written books in existence.
Yeah, I’ve heard not-good things about CitR too, but I will still have to read it someday just as part of my self-education. But it will have to be after I read “Canterbury Tales”, “Little Women”, “The DIvine Comedy”, “The Iliad”, and “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, so I figure it will be, oh, maybe 2016. (I’m now reading “Thus Spake Zarathustra”; I strongly recommend that nobody ever reads it ever.)
As a child, reading two or three books a week, I made time at least once or twice a year to re-read Little Women, because, mawkish sentimentality notwithstanding, I adored it so.
And in high school, Holden Caulfield spoke to me… Catcher in the Rye was a revelation… I don’t know how many times I read it… but at least a dozen.
I even loved the Canterbury Tales.
The rest of the books pschearer mentions, though, I can pretty much live without….
In fact, Nietzche, I’m afraid, was the undoing of my 17-year-old ambition to steep myself in existentialism… after falling with teen age abandon into the rather pretentious despair of more accessible proponents like Sartre, I just couldn’t slog through One. More. Page. of Zarathustra…. didn’t care whether he Spake or not. He spake not to ME.
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Alexikakos said, 3 months ago
I didn’t like “Catcher in the Rye” in high school, and after trying to re-read it as an adult (many books later), it is still one of the most badly written books in existence.
pschearer
said, 3 months ago
Yeah, I’ve heard not-good things about CitR too, but I will still have to read it someday just as part of my self-education. But it will have to be after I read “Canterbury Tales”, “Little Women”, “The DIvine Comedy”, “The Iliad”, and “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, so I figure it will be, oh, maybe 2016. (I’m now reading “Thus Spake Zarathustra”; I strongly recommend that nobody ever reads it ever.)
JohnnyDiego said, 3 months ago
I have read Catcher in the Rye four times and plan to read it at least four more. The third time I read it I read it in one sitting.
SusanSunshine
said, 3 months ago
Wow… what can I say….
different tastes….
As a child, reading two or three books a week, I made time at least once or twice a year to re-read Little Women, because, mawkish sentimentality notwithstanding, I adored it so.
And in high school, Holden Caulfield spoke to me… Catcher in the Rye was a revelation…
I don’t know how many times I read it… but at least a dozen.
I even loved the Canterbury Tales.
The rest of the books pschearer mentions, though, I can pretty much live without….
In fact, Nietzche, I’m afraid, was the undoing of my 17-year-old ambition to steep myself in existentialism…
after falling with teen age abandon into the rather pretentious despair of more accessible proponents like Sartre,
I just couldn’t slog through One. More. Page. of Zarathustra….
didn’t care whether he Spake or not.
He spake not to ME.
SusanSunshine
said, 3 months ago
Al that aside…
the “comedy” of today’s strip eludes me…
Is it just another slam at Hollywood ethics?
Dan?
Hope it has nothing to do with Guy and rOdd, who work in Hollywood.
vandda said, 3 months ago
@Alexikakos
Really? One of the most badly written books in existence…?
dbig 1oohh said, 3 months ago
I read CitR once,then turned it into kindling.
gene1969 said, 3 months ago
I never read it just for the fact that it was the book Mark David Chapman had with him when he killed John Lennon, I guess I’m blaming the book.
CoBass said, 3 months ago
@SusanSunshine
Re: “the comedy of today’s strip”
Yeah, that’s the way I took it. Everybody lies in Hollywood, so someone who lies all the time would fit right in.
thehag said, 3 months ago
@pschearer
The Iliad is a pain in the reader. The Odyssey much better.
bob fernandez said, 3 months ago
Isn’t CITR the book that they use in movies to Activate Sleeper agents? Mel Gibson was in one with Julia Roberts that used that book as a trigger.
information said, 3 months ago
@Alexikakos “it is still one of the most badly written books in existence.”
And that is the most hyperbolic statement in existence.
You are DAFT!princemikey said, 3 months ago
Why is this called “Brevity”? It took me longer to read it than it takes me to read all the comics I have in my Favorites.
StoicLion said, 3 months ago
@Alexikakos
I couldn’t get past the first 2 chapters. I don’t see what the hype is about the book.
information said, 3 months ago
@princemikey
Probably best that you stay away from any reading with multiple paragraphs and/or ideas that can’t be put into Cliff’s Notes.