The Catcher in the Rye

I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. 

[wnq-writers]

As a kid, love is just sweet. And maybe that’s the part about love that sucks now, as we grow, our innocence is lost, in not just us, but our ability to love.

itmustbelife (via wnq-writers)

[provocativeholden]

Oh sorry teacher, the ducks took my homework for the winter and I don't know where they went.

[provocativeholden]

me: *opens book*

me: *sees detailed map*

me: hell yes we've got some hardcore fantasy right here

[ubiquitea]

endless list of favorite books ➤ the catcher in the rye by j.d. salinger

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”

[stability]

[simply-quotes-deactivated202002]

I knew it wasn’t too important, but it made me sad anyway.

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via simply-quotes)

[provocativeholden]

Let's get to know each other

Hey guys! I would like to know what you think about "The Catcher in the Rye" Your thoughts, feelings, questions. Did Holden made the right choices? Is he a liberal and eccentric guy? Or just a brat?

[provocativeholden]

We all should move to the forest and pretend we are deaf-mutes so we can escape from this capitalist and communist system.

[laptopped]

do rude people know they’re rude

[greemuel]

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher n the Rye   |   (@greemuel)

[orsomethinglikethatreally-deact]

It was against my principles and all, but I was feeling so depressed I didn’t even think. That’s the whole trouble. When you’re feeling very depressed, you can’t even think.

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via orsomethinglikethatreally)

[rocespinet-deactivated20210523]

The Catcher in the rye

[harrys-wonderwall]

We can be heroes, just for one day

Heroes (via harrys-wonderwall)

[enoumen-t]

[wordsnquotes]

I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is.

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

CLASSIC OF THE DAY: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Amazon: 4.6/5

Goodreads: 4.1/5

While the setting of this brilliant novel is presumably Hinton’s native Tulsa or modeled closely on it, and the specific social circumstances of the teen milieu she depicts, with its sharp and often violent class conflict between the spoiled, nihilistic upper crust versus the angry, socially/economically circumscribed white underclass, may (or in some places, may not) have changed since the 60s, the themes she addresses here are absolutely universal and timeless: the universality of human feelings, needs, and worth regardless of artificial divisions; the need –and ability– that every human being has to make his/her own moral decisions and character, regardless of external social circumstances; the value of family ties and friendship; and the transcendent reality that some behaviors are innately right and others wrong, depending on how they treat other people. 

Through the utterly realistic characters she creates, and the perfectly crafted plot she constructs around them, Hinton conveys her message with an artistry not found among many authors in their 50s and 60s, let alone their teens. She writes thoroughly believable dialogue, and conjures the gritty atmosphere of a lower-class urban neighborhood, without resorting to profanity or cheapening her work with gratuitous sex. And while she conveys a keen consciousness of social injustice, she does not reduce her characters to puppets of social circumstances, nor reduce the personal to the political.

Though the publishing industry marketed (and still markets) this book to teens, there is nothing “juvenile” or “kiddish” about it that merits patronizing treatment by older readers or critics. On the contrary, while teen readers continue to embrace the book, it’s a work of serious fiction as appropriate for adults as well as any of the books marketed to them –and a better read with more constructive content than most of those, to boot. In short, this is descriptive fiction as it should be written.

guest reviewer by Werner

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[provocativeholden]

When someone asks me what's so great about reading.