The Catcher in the Rye

[yuvrajsingh]

hello friend keep in touch

[magzarelli]

I think it still might be copyrighted.

[AllyFizzle]

J.D. Salinger only died late January 2010. You can definitely find numerous copies at your local library and even in your school. Unless you live in an area that is still banning it.

[Chilly]

I would like to make a request for 'The Catcher in the Rye' by J. D. Salinger. Thank you.

I second that motion! I've been wanting to read that for ages, but it was just never conveniant. Also, I live in a small town and it's never in the bookstores. Thank you!

~Kris

OK, I have read Catcher. It is an amazing book. However, my English class (and millions of English classes around the world, I'm sure) have projects or reports to do on it, even if the book has already been taken away from them (i.e. another teacher may need it.) As is so for me. I would love to see Catcher posted on this site, a great resource as I already know, so that the many students, teachers, anyone worldwide may be able to read this magnificent novel. It is definitely worth it...

Please put J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye on this site!

-wassup1284 P

Can this one be added to the site puh-lease?

It's 2009. It's probably okay by now... not sure the date of his death though.

Can no one read? the Admin already explained everything.

[Dodo25]

I'm sure South Park produced a big hype for that book

[Technophile]

Chris, I believe you are mistaken on one point. From the Googling that I've done, it seems that copyright on literary works in the US is the same as in the UK; life of the author plus 70 years.

[Technophile]

Further to my post above, J.D. Salinger's works will not enter the Public Domain until 01/01/2081.

[Captain Pike]

Isn't it amazing, the great readers that we are, we don't even read the posts contributed by our compatriots in the very thread of our interest. My condolences to administration.

I am always on the lookout for a copy of this book. It has become a definite cult classic, and I suppose, required reading (it's ironic, the hypocrisy/reversal of social mores, it wasn't that long ago, the book was banned in many high schools) I buy, "The Catcher in the Rye", whenever I see it in a musty old book store. I like to be the grandfather who gives this, dogeared old paperback, as a gift to young teenagers -- they hate it -- it's not an iPod after all. But then, later, fairly occasionally, someone of my offspring is caught curled up with this book.

[Buh4Bee]

I second that motion! I've been wanting to read that for ages, but it was just never conveniant. Also, I live in a small town and it's never in the bookstores. Thank you!

~Kris

Try the library- you can request the book. But I am sure you know that,

When read at the young-ling's ripen time, this book will be a favorite book for a lifetime.

[G L Wilson]

The Catcher is not likely to be in the Public Domain in 70 years or any time after that period while you have companies like Disney in continual pursuit of extensions to their copyrights. Money buys everything, even trust.

[Logos]

According to http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/renewals.html and US copyright office records http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwe...cal&PAGE=First

... Salinger *himself* last renewed copyright in 1979. Maybe someone via his estate agent http://www.haroldober.com/ will renew again

Excellent obituary here btw
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/bo...linger.html?hp

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[Atehequa]

All I know there are those who fish for information regarding anyone who has that has that book.

[G L Wilson]

All I know there are those who fish for information regarding anyone who has that has that book.

Like the FBI, perhaps?

[Jack of Hearts]

Excellent obituary here btw
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/bo...linger.html?hp

Oddly superior in its way:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/bun...salinger,2901/

[Buh4Bee]

I haven't read Salinger in so long, but the article was hysterical. It reminded me why I continue to love Salinger. What a bitter SOB he was. On a top ten list of wishes, one of them would be to have an afternoon to talk to Salinger.