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Colt 45 and two zig zags, baby thats all we need. We can go to the park after dark and smoke that tumble weed. As the marijuana burn we can take our turn, singing them dirty rap songs. Stop and hit the bong like cheech and chong, and sell tapes from here to hong kong.

Or something like that.

I LOVE that book. I wrote a 1000+ word in-depth essay on it last year. If I get the time I might post it. Probably the most true-to-teenage-life concept in the book is that Holden is the protaganist AND the antagonist.

I urge anyone who hasn't read it already to go pick it up.

Second.. I did read it, and I thought it was an awesome book. I didn't read it for a class or anything, I just always heard about it and I thought what the hell. I can definitely say that teenagers today would like this book, I'm a teenager, and I liked it. From the minute Holden says Dammit, on like the first page, I had to keep reading it. It wasn't like any other book I've read. Salinger has such a weird ass writing style, it's real cool. Ok whatever.. go read George Orwell - 1984 while you are at it.

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"that's even better! hot lesbian witches.. think about it, it's fucking genius!" - charlie sheen

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Originally posted by chmod:
also, the guy who killed John Lennon claimed to have been motivated by this book to commit the murder...

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They've found this book in many famous assassin's posessions. There's a theory that the CIA was using it as part of a brainwashing tactic. I can't remember who else had the book, but once I find a book of mine, I'll throw the names up here.

Oh, also, John Steinbeck owns you. Plain and simple.

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Originally posted by Sithiee:
afro is a good newbie. he adds intelligent comments, and doesnt go flaming people that he shouldnt. well done.

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Originally posted by LiNeY:
Today, June 16th, 2001, it's been exactly 50 years that J.D. Salinger's first and only novel "The Catcher in the Rye", was first published.

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It wasn't his ONLY novel... he has written some others (at least one, I know). The only one I know the name of right now is "Franny and Zoey" which i never read. Or maybe it's Zooey, I'm not sure.

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Originally posted by TheTaxMan:
I never had to read it (assigned) in four years of high school and haven't read it on my own either. However, I did have to read Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, both of which I thought were really good. The majority of my classes, on the other hand, hated his writing style (long winded description, not advancing the plot for chapters...). In any case, I just wanted to see what people thought of Steinbeck w/o starting a new thread.

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Awesome author based on my opinion of The Grapes of Wrath. I absolutely loved his description of the cars that would go whizzing past them and referring to them as caskets on wheels. Symbolism has always been a great interest to me and that held a lot in and of itself.

yes, i think it still hold some value that kids can relate to in modern day, but not most kids. i think that holden was damned cynical and depressed, and kids today just arent. i think its because they use more pot.

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Originally posted by chmod:
It wasn't his ONLY novel... he has written some others (at least one, I know). The only one I know the name of right now is "Franny and Zoey" which i never read. Or maybe it's Zooey, I'm not sure.

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"Franny" and "Zooey" are two short stories. Salinger also wrote another short story collection "For Esme with Love and Squalor". However, "The Catcher in the Rye" is his only novel.