Comments on: Celebrating Insane Alienated Anti-Heroes

By: Zeke

Zeke — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:06:56 +0000

I never read Catcher in the Rye. I guess I had a somewhat unusual education and it just wasn't part of any reading list of mine.

I do admire somoneone who achieves fame rejecting it. I find that part of the authors life story compelling.

As for Howard Zinn, good riddance. When I first read People's History I thought it was clever and a sort of inside joke.

Well the joke was on my. It was the standard history text in the local public high school that both my daughters attended. I, of course, made them read other histoyr books, particularly Paul Johnson's excellent "History of the American People" as an alternative.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:34:49 +0000

My Irish Catholic mother raised holy hell in HIgh School, to keep me from reading either Golding's "Lord of the Flies" or Salinger's 'Catcher in the Rye.'

I know now, at 50+ years of age, why she did so. She knew back then the evil that Jewish cultural nihilism can do to a generation, or an easily co-opted impressionable young boy.

Thanks Mom. They can (and do) rot in hell.
- Fr. John

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:53:43 +0000

Id often heard of CitR as a must read book. However I never got to it until I was in my 20s. It had no real impact on me at all. I think its one of those books you have to read by a certain age or you just dont ‘get’ it. I’d left it too late!

By: Cannon's Canon

Cannon's Canon — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:32:43 +0000

hey brother, preferred this as an email, but in the absence of that privilege: please enjoy this article

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/michael-lewis-sends-memo-lloyd-blankfein-pure-unadulterated-comic-genius-ensues

mike lewis is all of the bad words i have ever heard… he is simply a specialized version of PAUL SHIRLEY… someone who can’t help but speak out against anti-white behavior…

why not?

By: pat

pat — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:44:44 +0000

I loved Catcher in the Rye when I read it at High School. It was a life changing book for me in that it deeply influenced my attitudes towards art and life in general.

I'm happy to say that I eventually recovered from that novel's (and the rest of his work's) psychological infection.

Looking back now, from a far removed distance, I find it hard to fathom the reasoning our board of education had for putting this book on our curriculum. I can only conclude that it wasn't in our best interest's which disturbs me even more, now, as much as the book did then.