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Tag Archives: The Catcher In the Rye
The Books: “The Catcher In the Rye” (J.D. Salinger)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger Like most people, I had to read the book in high school. I read it in 10th grade – the formative year, one of the best classes … Continue reading
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Jessa Crispin has an interesting interview with Peter Boxall, editor of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. I loved what Boxall said at the end: Having benefited from an extraordinary number of emails and letters as well as … Continue reading
Posted in Books, James Joyce
Tagged 1984, A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Tale of Two Cities, A.S. Byatt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alice in Wonderland, Amongst Women, Animal Farm, Annie Proulx, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, At Swim-Two-Birds, Atonement, Cat's Eye, Catch-22, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, D.H. Lawrence, Don DeLillo, E.M. Forster, Edgar Allan Poe, Edna O'Brien, Emily Bronte, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Finnegans Wake, Flann O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Frankenstein, Franny and Zooey, George Eliot, George Orwell, Great Expectations, Gulliver's Travels, Handmaid's Tale, Herman Melville, House of Leaves, Hunter S. Thompson, Ian McEwan, In Cold Blood, J.D. Salinger, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Ellroy, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Jeanette Winterson, John Irving, John McGahern, John Steinbeck, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Heller, Kazuo Ishiguro, Leo Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll, Lord of the Rings, Margaret Atwood, Mark Danielewski, Mary Shelley, Master and Margarita, Middlemarch, Mikhail Bulgakov, Moby Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Notes From the Underground, Possession, Pride and Prejudice, Primo Levi, Sexing the Cherry, Stephen King, The Catcher In the Rye, The Country Girls, The Great Gatsby, The Hobbit, The Passion, The Shipping News, The Things They Carried, Thomas Mann, Tim O'Brien, Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Ulysses, Underworld, Vladimir Nabokov, Wuthering Heights
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Favorite Fictional Characters
A revised list, from a post I did a while back. My favorite characters from fiction. I am limiting my choices to just novels – and leaving out such amazing characters as Hamlet, or Stanley Kowalski. Here is how I … Continue reading
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Tagged A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Tale of Two Cities, Alice in Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables, Catch-22, Charlotte's Web, Crime and Punishment, East of Eden, Emily of New Moon, Geek Love, Great Expectations, Huckleberry Finn, Jane Eyre, L.A. Confidential, Little Women, Moby Dick, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Pride and Prejudice, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Brothers Karamazov, The Catcher In the Rye, The Passion, The Shipping News, Ulysses
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In praise of Catcher In the Rye
A really cool post about the plain maroon cover of The Catcher in the Rye. An excerpt here – but definitely go read the whole post: The dustjacket on the original 1951 edition, designed by Michael Mitchell, had a Ben … Continue reading
Happy birthday to The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye,was published today in 1951. To this date, it has sold over 60 million copies. This book, along with all its other associations, always makes me think of a couple of things. It makes me think … Continue reading
Re-reading Catcher In the Rye
During my Bloomsday extravaganza this past year – which a ton of people seemed to really enjoy, actually – I got a couple of comments in emails, and also a couple of cowards posted stuff about me on OTHER people’s … Continue reading
Recommended Reading: Fiction
And now for the Fiction recommendations. (See the Non-Fiction ones below) Choosing books out of all the books I love is rather torturous for me. So this is an impulsive, scanning-the-bookshelves-with-mine-eyes and writing titles down spur-of-the-moment kind of list. Here … Continue reading
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, Atonement, Charlotte Bronte, Crime and Punishment, England, fiction, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Going After Cacciato, Harriet the Spy, Herman Melville, Ian McEwan, Ireland, J.D. Salinger, Jane Eyre, Louise Fitzhugh, Michael Chabon, Moby Dick, Possession, Russia, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Catcher In the Rye, The Dead, The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien, Vietnam
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Quote of the day
This is from one of my favorite books of all time: The Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caulfield is out by himself at a nightclub with a band, and he hooks up with three touristy girls, out for a night … Continue reading