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Post by Lt. Dan on Feb 8, 2007 12:36:53 GMT -5
I'm curious.
This was almost a required reading when I was a teenager. Every teenager I knew from different High Schools around the area had to read it for class. I thought it was a good book.
Is it still a popular book for High School English, or has our conservative leaning society pretty much banned this from the classroom?
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Post by appacatbus on Feb 8, 2007 14:27:48 GMT -5
Is it still a popular book for High School English, or has our conservative leaning society pretty much banned this from the classroom? Its less contraversial now than it used to be. He rarely uses anything worse than d@mn, @$$, or hell. And he didnt even sleep with the prostitute.
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Post by Lt. Dan on Feb 8, 2007 14:34:31 GMT -5
So was it a required book for one of your English classes ?
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Post by appacatbus on Feb 8, 2007 14:42:54 GMT -5
8th grade English.
It was a very good book, but i dont remember it too well.
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historyman12
Fugitive Iroh
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Post by historyman12 on Feb 8, 2007 17:40:50 GMT -5
8th grade English. It was a very good book, but i dont remember it too well. didn't read it yet, but planning to.
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Frizz.
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ever so evil; ever so gone.
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Post by Frizz. on Feb 8, 2007 17:47:16 GMT -5
i read this book this year in 10th grade.. liked it alot, one of the few books i enjoyed reading in school...
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Post by Lt. Dan on Feb 8, 2007 22:42:40 GMT -5
Holy Crap, Kaneda, 8th grade? We read it as sophomores. Good to see the book is still being used. I remember it addressed a lot of the emotions and thoughts I was going through at the time, it was a great story.
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Post by catalyst283 on Feb 9, 2007 23:47:19 GMT -5
I'm reading this book right now. It's very...umm...interesting; and funny sometimes. xD (I'm a sophomore, btw; and it's required reading)
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Post by Earth King Sunny on Feb 14, 2007 16:58:19 GMT -5
I found the book unbearingly boring, it put me to sleep
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Post by appacatbus on Feb 15, 2007 0:49:04 GMT -5
Holy Crap, Kaneda, 8th grade? We read it as sophomores. My 7th and 8th grades were really hardcore. 10th grade chemisttry in 7th. Ugh, I was not ready for that.
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Post by Zukosfire5 on Feb 15, 2007 18:44:38 GMT -5
I just finished reading that for ninth grade English. I thought it was okay, but Holden complained way to much. And he contradicted himself too, saying he hated phonies yet also saying he was a good liar.
I seriously wanted to punch his face in in some parts.
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ephemeraldraven
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Post by ephemeraldraven on May 13, 2007 18:32:20 GMT -5
One of my favorite all-time books. The informal, conversational style of the narrative worked extremely well, and was used many a time after this.
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Post by appacatbus on May 13, 2007 20:12:54 GMT -5
I just finished reading that for ninth grade English. I thought it was okay, but Holden complained way to much. And he contradicted himself too, saying he hated phonies yet also saying he was a good liar. Thats intentional
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Post by demonofthewest on May 26, 2007 18:31:34 GMT -5
I like it, but I think it's vastly overrated and that J.D. Salinger is given more credit that he deserves. One point that's brought up in the book is that when a person is really good at something, sometimes he gets too good, and then he gets all showy about it and it just isn't fun anymore. That's kind of what I felt about Salinger's writing style. He's good at writing that conversational narrative, but then he overdoes it and it starts to get pretty boring. It was thrilling for the first ten chapters or so, but once I got to Chap. 18 I was sick of it. It has some really good parts in it, however.
I should also mention that I haven't finished it; I have thirty pages to go. I don't think that they will change my mind.
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Post by Chevalier Vi Liberté on Jul 19, 2007 1:02:39 GMT -5
I greatly enjoyed this book. I read it in 10th grade English this past year. I am happy I read it this year instead of grades before. I seemed to make more connections with the story being more mature than I was in previous years. When I read Romeo and Juliet in 7th grade, I could not fully understand it besides it being a simple story of a boy and girl in love. I could not understand all of the actions going on behind that love. In essence, I did not appreciate the play at first.
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