RIP JD Salinger

[BoSoxGrl]

91 years is a long run and with Catcher in the Rye being a required read in most High schools, you'll be remembered for more years to come!

[JVides]

I thought he was already dead!  Cathcer in the Rye was one of the few required reading books I enjoyed as much when I was a student as when I read it on my own.  I find that I despised most books I was forced to read as a kid but enjoyed them as an adult.  Probably because I was reading them in my own time, at my own pace, without need to dissect them for letter grades.

[YoFuggedaboutit]

^^^^^

I agree.  There were a lot of "required reading" books in my high school English classes.  I can honestly say I enjoyed two.  The Godfather, and Catcher In The Rye.

RIP J.D. Salinger.  May your literary achievements speak for themselves.  You will not be forgotten.

[Buddhagirl]

I never read Catcher in the Rye. Wasn't on my required reading list. Maybe I'll read it this year.

[BoSoxGrl]

It's a great read, Cic...It's one of the few books I have read more than once.

[Buddhagirl]

Adding it to my queue.

[Dave Gray]

I never had to read the Catcher in the Rye in school, but I read it on my own when I was in college.  I don't really understand all the fuss.  It was a decent book, but I don't see how it's so different than other books.

[MaineDolFan]

^My two cents -

A piece of art like this one, in order to be fully appreciated, needed to be consumed within a certain age limit.  An adult can watch a cartoon like "Dore the Explorer" and think it's cute, but unless you are five it won't tickle your senses. 

Catcher in the Rye is a book that you can enjoy as an adult, but it won't really hit home for you if you didn't read it during more formative years (just as a teenager reading "Tuesdays with Morrie" might enjoy it, but the theme won't really sink in until you're older and have more life experience). 

I believe this is a book you really need to read prior to age 22-23 in order to fully "get it."  My two cents, anyway.  Combine it with a $1.98 and you've got $1.98.

[Brian Fein]

I feel like I need to go read Catcher in the Rye just so I can know what everyone else is talking about.

[CF DolFan]

I feel like I need to go read Catcher in the Rye just so I can know what everyone else is talking about.

Me too but after Maine's post I don't know if it will be worth it.

[MaineDolFan]

Still a very good read.  Go check it out.

[Buddhagirl]

Me too but after Maine's post I don't know if it will be worth it.

Me too, but I'll give it a shot anyway. Doesn't look like it's a hard read, either.

[Sunstroke]

I think the point Maine made about age and appreciation is a fair one, but I don't really agree with it. I was in my mid-20's when I read Catcher in the Rye for the first time, and I enjoyed it immensely. I actually went through a "phase" about that time where I went back and caught up on most of the classics of literature that had somehow slipped through the cracks when I was younger.