"He made a pot of dough in the undertaking business... He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me. I can just see the big phony bastard shifting into first gear and asking Jesus to send him a few more stiffs."
JD Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" became over publicized and Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" was way overrated, not to mention probably edited and rewritten by Truman Capote, but both should still be part of the secondary school reading lists as icons of our 20th Century culture. They should be read for what their now common references are all about. m/r
Catcher in the Rye dropped from US school curriculum - Telegraph
Book news 07 Dec 2012
Schools in America are to drop classic books such as Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye from their curriculum in favour of 'informational texts'.
American literature classics are to be replaced by insulation manuals and plant inventories in US classrooms by 2014.
A new school curriculum which will affect 46 out of 50 states will make it compulsory for at least 70 per cent of books studied to be non-fiction, in an effort to ready pupils for the workplace.
Books such as JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird will be replaced by "informational texts" approved by the Common Core State Standards.
Suggested non-fiction texts include Recommended Levels of Insulation by the the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the Invasive Plant Inventory, by California's Invasive Plant Council.
[Why not get it over with and just make "The Communist Manifesto" and Mao's "Little red Book" the core curricula?]
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