The Catcher In The Rye : Rule Of Three invoked

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Actually - on checking - its about the rule of seven as it has been mentioned in loads of threads, and even slashed a bit in places. So let us start a thread about it which will instantly mutate into something else.

So Catcher In The Rye? Plotless, self-indulgent, murderers favourite book or peerless work of art? You decide (but note the FBI are watching).

― Pete, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pete you dumbass. You have completely misundertood the rule of three.

― N., Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ILE Search is rubbish. You'd think if you searched for Catcher In The Rye it would - like - come up with the Catcher In The Rye thread.

Sheesh.

Anyway, I cannot misunderstand the Rule OF Three as I invented it.

Can we turn this into a To Kill A Mockingbird thread then cos I always get the two mixed up.

― Pete, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Me too. Well, not exactly mixed up but I always used to think of them together, partly because they were supposedly classic set texts that I never actually read at school.

ILE Search (the freefind one) has stopped indexing threads for free cause we reached 2500 and google does a patchy job at best.

― N., Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

if i want to find an old thread i just go to uncategorized and then use the find function on the edit toolbar

― gareth, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I always hated the book as my English teacher in 4th year, when I was 16 or so, used to call me Holden at various points during class. Then Ethan did it here and the nightmare had returned.

Also it's kind of a crap boring book. The ending is stupid. In fact it's all pretty stupid, like every "classic" fiction novel I've ever been forced to read.

― Ronan, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, but that relies on you a) knowing part of the title of the thread and some of those are rather less than descriptive or memorable and anyway things mutate and b) being happy to sit for 5 minutes while the fucking behemoth loads.

― N., Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How about "Catcher in the Rye fans: Search and Destroy"?

People who come to mind who apparently like(d) it: Sylvia Plath (wanted to interview Salinger during the New York trip that served as the basis for Bell Jar, failed for obvious reasons), Mark Chapman, John Hinckley, Robert Bardo (though he was just imitating the other two), Richey Manic, Winona Ryder, Bill Gates, and er, me.

I've also heard it was George Bush's favorite book but I'm sure that's just conspiracy rubbish.

― Justyn Dillingham, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

George Bush once said that his favorite book was (is?) "The Very Hungry Caterpillar".

Um.

― geeta, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ha! I bet he never knew it off by heart like wot I did. Including dedication.

For my sister Christa. One day, a caterpillar was sitting on a leaf...

― Sam, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nine months pass...

I just finished rereading the novel after many years. It's still good, though maybe not quite as good as I really want it to be. Has anyone else had a revisionary return to this book?

― the pinefox, Friday, 20 December 2002 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

my dad.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 20 December 2002 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

i like it and ronan is *so* holden caulfield if he'd discovered pills and dancing it hurts.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 20 December 2002 16:41 (twenty-three years ago)

: (

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 20 December 2002 17:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Did you know Disney really wanted to make a CitR cartoon back in the 80s? An all-animal version, a la "Oliver and Company," starring Holden Collie-field. (and presumably, dog prostitutes and pimps and pervy teachers...) They were genuinely surprised when Salinger said no.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 20 December 2002 20:38 (twenty-three years ago)

salinger hates fun

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 21 December 2002 00:28 (twenty-three years ago)

he said no to Jerry Lewis too!

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 21 December 2002 07:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Ronan hates my ideas of fun

― the pinefox, Saturday, 21 December 2002 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)

it was quite good.

I don't remember the last time I'd read.

― RJG's dad, Sunday, 22 December 2002 01:38 (twenty-three years ago)

It might be a two way thing I suspect Pinefox.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 22 December 2002 19:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Was that really RJG's dad?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)

i have Never Got this book, and I'm usually gullible sucker #1 for snotty disaffected narrators but I just don't see it. Speaking of psycho bibles, I just wrote about 10,000 words on ILE about how 'Videodrome' contains the answers to just about everything, then the computer didn't let me submit it and the page expired so it's lost to history but maybe there'll be one less celebrity who gets sucked into a vaginal TV set

― dave q, Tuesday, 24 December 2002 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

actually, that George Bush very hungry caterpillar thing was funny because he was asked what his favourite book as a child was, and vhc was written when he was like, 25.

― nellskies (minna), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)

How did this get back into new answers anyway?

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 27 December 2002 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

The database crashed Mark. People had posted to this in the last few days but those messages are temporarily lost. Or did you mean what did they post? Something about their dad rereading it I think.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 27 December 2002 15:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Got yer.

Question: if the threads are eventually going to be completely restored, then why are we repopulating them with cached material?

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 27 December 2002 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know. Maybe Graham isn't confident that the restoration will work or maybe it's just as a temporary solution. Anyway, I realised that all the threads in my cache from the last few days were pretty rubbish so I gave up on the copy paste thing.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 27 December 2002 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

my dad read this book again recently.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 27 December 2002 18:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, this is an interesting discussion.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 27 December 2002 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I read this book again recently. That's why it was in New Answers. One day I might try and say more about it.

Don't know what your technical talk means.

― the pinefox, Friday, 27 December 2002 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Have I confused the pinefox with someone's dad?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 28 December 2002 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

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