June 24th, 2009
a list
According to the NY Times kids these days just don’t get Holden Caulfield.
“Today’s pop culture heroes, it seems, are the nerds who conquer the world — like Harry — not the beautiful losers who reject it.”
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Ms. Feinberg recalled one 15-year-old boy from Long Island who told her: “Oh, we all hated Holden in my class. We just wanted to tell him, ‘Shut up and take your Prozac.’ ”
I guess my kind is getting to be rather passé.
oh… I gave in and got a http://twitter.com/pitseleh_
June 24th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
How strange it is about Holden Caulfield… I read that book not too long ago in my high school comm. skills class, and everyone loved Holden, myself included. I kind of want to bring this up to all my friends who read Catcher in the Rye just to see their reactions.