Comments on: Christen’s list

By: bj

bj — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:25:11 +0000

Catcher in the Rye was incredibly good, but it was NOT Salinger’s best book. Franny and Zooey was.

By: Lizzie

Lizzie — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:00:47 +0000

oh snap! I totally missed that a Patricia C. Wrede book was an option (#7)! Her Dealing with Dragons series was one of my favorites as a kid!!!

By: Christen

Christen — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:45:18 +0000

Okay, now I’m totally going to have to go read Catcher in the Rye! My interest is sparked!

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:02:46 +0000

It was actually a running joke in the movie Conspircay Theory, which is vastly underrated, IMO, that all sleeper agents had a copy of Catcher in the Rye on them as a result of a post-hypnotic suggestion by the gov’t trainees, and the gov’t tracked all sales of the book so they could keep tabs on their sleepers. (Which I think would be so hard considering how many people read it in school, but whatever.)

But yeah,a lot of famous assassins were known to carry copies of the book. I loved how the flick used that.

I *loved* A Separate Peace in high school, but I remember I couldn’t even get through 15 pages of CitR back then, so I don’t know if I agree with Molly.

By: Molly

Molly — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:09:49 +0000

We HE didn’t die from reading it - Mark David Chapman was obsessed with it and wanted to save John Lennon or something by killing him because he was becoming a phoney, right? Something like that. Or Lennon was coming through the rye and Chapman needed to catch him…okay, someone else give the details!!

Isn’t it supposed to be the book that gets stolen from prison libraries most frequently?

If you liked the book A Separate Peace, you’ll like Catcher in the Rye for sure.

By: robin

robin — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:30:10 +0000

Lizzie, I can tell I’m supposed to be ashamed, but I honestly never heard that before. As usual, you have far more information in your pie than I do in mine.

By: Lizzie

Lizzie — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:19:08 +0000

JOHNLENNON!OHMYGODAREYOUKIDDINGME!?

By: annette

annette — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:46:39 +0000

my head is EXPLODING!!!

By: Christen

Christen — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:06:55 +0000

Wow guys! I just got back from class and I am so happy with all of your homework help! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I’m going to print this out tomorrow and start hunting down the books I need! You all are fantabulous! =)

By: robin

robin — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:22:43 +0000

Shannon, welcome!

Lizzie, who died from reading Catcher in the Rye? What am I missing?