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The why of the Rye

CarolCarol
edited June 2009 in - Reading
As in The Cather in the Rye.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/default.stm

Comments

  • CarolCarol
    This relates to Catcher in the Rye- as the book came up on another thread.
  • collide-o-scopecollide-o-scope
    Interesting.

    But the reviewer who said

    "It's like reading a diary written by a spoilt, annoying, Emo teenager - self indulgent, repetitive and likely to leave you wanting to just slap the narrator while saying 'for God's sake, get over yourself'."

    is way off the mark with the Emo thing.
  • LizLiz
    Quite. My son loves this book, he was just doing it for GCSE... the last thing he is is spoilt, disaffected, emo or in any way emotionally disturbed -they may not be who it was written for, but teenagers of all sorts get a lot out of it.
  • HowardHoward
    I think the book is good. I've taught it as a GCSE text and most students have liked it and got something ot of it.
  • CarolCarol
    And those are the important things.
  • cekaceka
    Anyone ever read 'I never promised you a Rose Garden' about another teenager with problems? It haunted me for years, and I'd love to read it again, it must be somewhere Up There with the thousands of others in my collection!
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