Comments on: What, we don’t like Catcher in the Rye any more? http://www.yanewyork.com/2009/06/what-we-dont-like-catcher-in-the-rye-any-more/ Young adult fiction news and reviews Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:10:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Nina http://www.yanewyork.com/2009/06/what-we-dont-like-catcher-in-the-rye-any-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1620 Nina Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:21:30 +0000 http://www.yanewyork.com/?p=355#comment-1620 I read Catcher a few years ago and remembered liking it but barely connecting with Holden. What you're saying totally makes sense: at that point, I had already read a lot of YA, so Holden's situation wasn't shockingly new literature for me, the way that it was for an older generation. I didn't relate to Holden because I had other characters better suited for that job. As for today's Holdens... no one really sticks out as THE character that clicks with everyone. There are so many books out there that everyone can find something different that specifically relates to them. I read Catcher a few years ago and remembered liking it but barely connecting with Holden. What you’re saying totally makes sense: at that point, I had already read a lot of YA, so Holden’s situation wasn’t shockingly new literature for me, the way that it was for an older generation. I didn’t relate to Holden because I had other characters better suited for that job.

As for today’s Holdens… no one really sticks out as THE character that clicks with everyone. There are so many books out there that everyone can find something different that specifically relates to them.

]]> By: brina http://www.yanewyork.com/2009/06/what-we-dont-like-catcher-in-the-rye-any-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1615 brina Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:49:55 +0000 http://www.yanewyork.com/?p=355#comment-1615 Lauren, sweetie, if you're old then so am I. And, having gone to see Gloria Steinem speak a few weeks ago -- she is looking better at 75 than I did at 18 -- I think I'm going to take a feminist stance on aging and say that women in their late twenties or early thirties are just beginning their lives. Lauren, sweetie, if you’re old then so am I. And, having gone to see Gloria Steinem speak a few weeks ago — she is looking better at 75 than I did at 18 — I think I’m going to take a feminist stance on aging and say that women in their late twenties or early thirties are just beginning their lives.

]]> By: lauren http://www.yanewyork.com/2009/06/what-we-dont-like-catcher-in-the-rye-any-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1614 lauren Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:38:33 +0000 http://www.yanewyork.com/?p=355#comment-1614 your post makes me feel so woefully old--when i was in jr high and high school i was so obsessed with catcher i figured out a way to write an essay on it every single year (lamest one: an exploration of the theme of falling, 1991). . . today's holden? thats hard. he's so grumpy and psycho--isnt everyone required to be sweet nowadays (im thinking of michael cera and every fictional variation of him)? your post makes me feel so woefully old–when i was in jr high and high school i was so obsessed with catcher i figured out a way to write an essay on it every single year (lamest one: an exploration of the theme of falling, 1991). . . today’s holden? thats hard. he’s so grumpy and psycho–isnt everyone required to be sweet nowadays (im thinking of michael cera and every fictional variation of him)?

]]> By: mal http://www.yanewyork.com/2009/06/what-we-dont-like-catcher-in-the-rye-any-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1604 mal Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:50:39 +0000 http://www.yanewyork.com/?p=355#comment-1604 ...for me to relate to and like him\her, I mean. …for me to relate to and like him\her, I mean.

]]> By: mal http://www.yanewyork.com/2009/06/what-we-dont-like-catcher-in-the-rye-any-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1603 mal Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:49:53 +0000 http://www.yanewyork.com/?p=355#comment-1603 I read "catcher in the rye" a few months ago, and I found it very boring...I found Holden really annoying and whiny, so I guess you can count me in on one of the teenagers who just doesn`t like the book. I agree with there now being more interesting books that tackle Big Issues. I can`t come up with any suggestions for characters, but I do feel like a character has to be a lot less passive than what Holden is... I read “catcher in the rye” a few months ago, and I found it very boring…I found Holden really annoying and whiny, so I guess you can count me in on one of the teenagers who just doesn`t like the book.

I agree with there now being more interesting books that tackle Big Issues. I can`t come up with any suggestions for characters, but I do feel like a character has to be a lot less passive than what Holden is…

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