Do you read the book The Catcher in the Rye ?
By Amalia
@AmyRo18 (38)
Iasi, Romania
August 28, 2016 2:47am CST
I read a long time ago and I thought great! I recently learned that John Lennon 's killer shot him on it after reading this book.
For those who have read it , do you consider that the book is something hidden that induce such a thing, out of the blue to kill a man in the center of New York ??
For those who have read it , do you consider that the book is something hidden that induce such a thing, out of the blue to kill a man in the center of New York ??7 people like this
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@FourWalls (68121)
• United States
28 Aug 16
I have. I read it when I was 24, so I think I was too old to "get it," but I thought it was awful. It's like the movie Taxi Driver, I do not see the attraction.
As for Lennon's murder (and, speaking of Taxi Driver, John Hinkley, who shot President Reagan in 1981, he was enamored with Jodie Foster), mental illness can make someone see something that says "kill" in Mary Had a Little Lamb."
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@FourWalls (68121)
• United States
28 Aug 16
@ms1864 -- no, the storylines aren't similar at all. When someone is mentally ill they can take anything and interpret it as a message to do something. Charles Manson thought the Beatles' "Revolution #9" was a message to him personally.
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@ModernDayWriter (3318)
• New Delhi, India
28 Aug 16
@MALUSE thank you very much 
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@Bluedoll (16773)
• Canada
28 Aug 16
I don't think literature alone can be considered dangerous since it is the individual themselves that brings their own thoughts into action. Can people be influenced yes but I think it is the person that performs the act. The murder stated after sentencing, "I remember thinking if I killed him I might somehow acquire his fame".
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
28 Aug 16
I read this long time ago. Its about the teenage problems...it was a disturbing book.
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@CaseyRoss9966 (4056)
• United States
29 Aug 16
I love to read, but I have never read this book. I have not read a lot of the books that are considered to be great. I also don't care to ever read them considering most of them are boring to me.
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@cmoneyspinner (9219)
• Austin, Texas
13 Mar 17
The high school I attended was very strict about the type of reading material they allowed. “The Catcher in the Rye” was part of my school curriculum. I think if it had been considered to have that kind of impact on young impressionable minds, the nuns would have burned the book before our very eyes. Know what I remember about reading that book? Lemon coke!!
