I recently read an article about that book, and apparently several high profile loonies, including the guy who killed John Lennon, were obssesed with that book. There was another guy who shot Ronald Reagan (he didnt kill him, fortunately), and other who shot a politician in Alabama.
So I guess that's a bit curious, perhaps it's just a coincidence?
I was 17 when I first read The Catcher in the Rye and really connected with the protagonist. I guess it's normal when you are a teen, that "fuck everything" attitude, a bit nihilistic.
I read it again as an adult, and that book gives me a feeling of nostalgia, like if I missed New York, and Central Park, and that museum, and the puddles on the sidewalk, which are always different, and the kids eating icecreams, and the nuns, and the clubs, and the metro, and all those pictures one "remembers", and that's the incredible thing, because I havent ever been to New York, but you have the feeling you've been there all your life.
So if you add the fact that the author was a bit of a loonie himself and spent 50 years locked in his house isolated from society, and didnt write anything else, you got the perfect ingredients for a mystery.
Is there something hidden in The Catcher in the Rye that makes unbalanced people go on a killing rampage? It's just a coincidence? Did you feel anything peculiar when you read it?
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Did you feel peculiar reading The Catcher in the Rye?
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I re-read it recently, right after Salinger's death, and have yet to shoot anyone!
You can’t truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful. You’re harmless.
Fantastic book....
I think that the people you may class as 'nutcases' (or potential 'nutcases') have or will become 'obsessed' with this book because, I should imagine, they can relate to it in some way. There's a lot of depression, confusion, loneliness etc in that book....I'm sure most people can relate to it in some way - when I read and studied it I related to it greatly...but, like Sprite, I am yet to shoot anybody. Least of all John Lennon resting peacefully in his grave
I think that the people you may class as 'nutcases' (or potential 'nutcases') have or will become 'obsessed' with this book because, I should imagine, they can relate to it in some way. There's a lot of depression, confusion, loneliness etc in that book....I'm sure most people can relate to it in some way - when I read and studied it I related to it greatly...but, like Sprite, I am yet to shoot anybody. Least of all John Lennon resting peacefully in his grave
I read this American Classic when I was in 8th grade 1979-1980. It makes you think and dream all at the same time. Guess the so called "book natzi" will get their hands on this novella like they have with past books ... Latest book Huck Finn.
Now me I am like everyone else here, I haven't done any bodily harm to no one.
Now me I am like everyone else here, I haven't done any bodily harm to no one.
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omg, suddenly i'm feeling it... the urge to take out my arsenal and go apeshit crazy - strange thing is, it was right after reading the Wizard of Oz... omg, who would have thought!
You can’t truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful. You’re harmless.
) All I can say that the only affect this book had on me was to admire the amazing writing style of J D Salinger....a fantastic book!
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So, maybe there is something to that theory...
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I re-read it recently, right after Salinger's death, and have yet to shoot anyone!
Sprite, I heard about the recent threats you made to a certain member who's not here anymore. Perhaps that was right after you read this book?
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I re-read it recently, right after Salinger's death, and have yet to shoot anyone!
Sprite, I heard about the recent threats you made to a certain member who's not here anymore. Perhaps that was right after you read this book?
I think we can all agree that it's time that Sprite's reign of psychotic terror ended for all of us who have been victimized. Take away her Salinger books at once!
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I re-read it recently, right after Salinger's death, and have yet to shoot anyone!
Sprite, I heard about the recent threats you made to a certain member who's not here anymore. Perhaps that was right after you read this book?
I think we can all agree that it's time that Sprite's reign of psychotic terror ended for all of us who have been victimized. Take away her Salinger books at once!
That's it. Nothing but Erica Jong books for Sprite from now on...
..because of the specific archetypal responses engendered by the book (javier, you said yrself it makes you feel wistful and nostalgic--perfect emotional triggers), the book has often been used as an implement of mind control (oswald loved it too, as did manson and sirhan sirhan)
..on a side-note, did you know Hinckley's family was very close to the Bushes..? (daddy Hinckley was scheduled to have dinner with daddy Bush that very weekend--im assumin it got rain-checked;))
..on a side-note, did you know Hinckley's family was very close to the Bushes..? (daddy Hinckley was scheduled to have dinner with daddy Bush that very weekend--im assumin it got rain-checked;))