[stylist] What are you Reading Right Now?

[Vejas]

Hi Chris,
When you read Catcher as a freshman, what were your feelings on it? As a teenager, could you relate?
I could not. I was 15 at the time of  reading, could not relate to any of Holden's experiences, and just thought he was a "Negative Norman" so to speak.
Vejas 

> On Oct 13, 2016, at 15:47, Chris Kuell via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I first read 'Catcher in the Rye' in high school, when they forced us to,
> andI remember disliking it.
> 
> Fast forward  25 years, to when my own kids were in high school and I'd
> developed a much deeper appreciation for the written word. I read every book
> they had to read, plus most of the books on their summer lists.
> 
> So when I read 'Catcher' a second time, I could see that Salinger was
> painting a portrait of an angsty teenager. Holden doesn't come across that
> way accidentally--it is quite intentional. I immediately read it again, and
> studied Salinger's sentence and paragraph structure, and it's really quite
> brilliant. He creates paragraphs where Holden says or thinks something in
> the first sentence, then things get muddled and he completely contradicts
> himself in the last sentence of the paragraph. 
> 
> And after all, isn't that a large part of being a teenager, then and now?
> Trying to figure out who you are and what you think, all while being
> confused much of the time.
> 
> Salinger took ten years to write that book, and in my opinion, it was well
> worth it.
> 
> Chris
> 
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