BrianKaneOnline » “Catcher In The Rye” http://www.briankaneonline.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:36:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Truth Or Dare http://www.briankaneonline.com/2010/01/29/truth-or-dare/ http://www.briankaneonline.com/2010/01/29/truth-or-dare/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:45:30 +0000 Brian http://www.briankaneonline.com/?p=2945 Here’s my guilty confession of the day: I’ve never read “Catcher In The Rye”. My high school’s American literature syllabus was strictly 19th century except for “The Great Gatsby” (not even a little Hemingway!), and my personal reading inclinations as a teenager were more towards genre fiction than literary fiction. Plus, I wasn’t the rebellious, angsty, struggling teenage type, so I wouldn’t have been drawn to that sort of book organically. As I headed off to college, my reading shifted to non-fiction, where it has remained ever since, with only the occasional dip into reading a popular novel here and there, but never any genuine attempt to make up for my lack of literary depth. At middle-age, I occasionally have a pang of intellectual remorse for not being better read in literature, but it doesn’t ring very deeply. No one could ever accuse me of not being a reader, I was just never set on fire by made-up stories, no matter how gorgeous the writing.

Sorry, J.D.

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