FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for January 25, 2012

I guess that was one advantage of going through high school at the time of ‘sputnik’. We never had to read this pointless junk in school — that we were behind in science was the big panic then!

He’d better not send him too far away. He’s gonna need him to wake up the computer.

I think you guys missed the fact that through his characters Bill Amend is actually saying that The Catcher in the Rye is a great novel. Jason’s “Yeesh” is because the great novel was inside Quincy, trying to get out (like most everything that gets inside Quincy).

I dunno, eating Catcher in the Rye sounds like a better idea than reading it. All I wanted to do to Holden Caufield was slap the little egotist.

Ugh, “Catcher in the Rye”?I thought he said a “great” novel!I see others on this thread were also underwhelmed by that book? Come and sit by me!

I’ve not read that book. Now I’ve got to — just to see what y’all didn’t like.

Good grief, I loved it as a teen. Didn’t mind having to read it twice. Maybe because unlike most assigned novels, it had a narrator with a personality.

In my day, Catcher in the Rye wasn’t assigned, it was banned! As a result many of my classmates read it avidly!

While it is easy for me to write a positive review, I can have more fun by ripping apart something bad.On another note, I like Catcher in the Rye, but I felt bad reading it because of how it was tied to the death of John Lennon.

That’s just wrong—on several levels—but it’s darn funny, too!

Catcher in the Rye was a picnic compared to As I Lay Dying. But then I had to the read the later and the former was optional. Funny thing, I like books when I’m not MADE to read them.