Name: The catcher in the rye
ISBN: 9780316769174

J. D. Salinger

The catcher in the rye

Srijita Sarkar 

Sex is something I just don't understand. I swear to God I don't.

Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.

Gertrud Sofie

Lucik

why did nobody tell me how fucking funny this book is? can't believe i had to discover this myself after years of procrastination 

avarni

It was the last game of the year, and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win

i'm not saying that this novel inspired the prose style of my immortal, but also.....

"Boy!" I said. I also say "Boy!" quite a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and party because I act quite young for my age sometimes. I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen. It's really ironical, because I'm six foot two and a half and I have gray hair. 

It was a very good book. I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

All I did was, I got up and went over and looked out the window. I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.

Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it.

Here's what he said: 'The mark of the inmmature man is that he wants to die nobly fora cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.'

“Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.”

“My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. He was left-handed. The thing that was descriptive about it, though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up at bat. He's dead now.”

The catcher in the rye

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