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[sartorias]

When I was a kid, Catcher in the Rye was still forbidden in schools, though not with the intensity of the previous generation. I remember checking it out and taking it to the beach as my afternoon read when I was 13. I don't know what I expected, but it wasn't a long-winded, whiny, incredibly boring egomaniac, and I was so disappointed I finally

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[gillpolack]

We had it as a school text (1970s). I hated it. I still hate it. I haven't given my copy away because it has memories attached, but I could be tempted if someone really wanted one.

[giffydoll]

Perhaps they are trying to tell them that Emo isn't a new thing?

[fourjacks]

We had it assigned when I was in High School--1967, in New Jersey. I'm surprised to hear it was forbidden where you were. Must have been a regional thing?

[sartorias]

My high school, in a mostly Republican working-class area, was very, very conservative. Things radically changed within a very few years, but when I was 13 (1965) this was the case.

[wldhrsjen3]

::laughs:: Catcher in the Rye was forced upon me in sophomore AP English - and I hated every word. I remember my teacher telling us, quite proudly, that the book had been banned. Class consensus was that the book had been banned for being insufferably boring and tedious.

[sartorias]

LOL!!!!

[leahbobet]

Hah! We decided that too!

And then we made a list of books that should be banned for sucking...

[sartorias]

Oh, so did we, but not surprisingly it turned out to be most of the required reading list.

In later years, I amended a lot of those, thinking that what should be banned is the crap way the books were taught. I mean really, who is going to enjoy a book, knowing there's a damned multiple choice test at the end?

[asakiyume]

That book nearly put me off all J. D. Salinger forever--and yet, later, I discovered that I liked some of his other stuff quite a bit. Funny that the thing that he's the most famous for is the one thing I really didn't like.