Publication of Catcher in the Rye "sequel" banned in US

[Jacobtm]

A US judge has banned publication of a book promoted as a sequel to JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.

US District Judge Deborah Batts ruled that Swedish author Fredrik Colting's novel too closely mirrored Mr Salinger's 1951 classic.

Mr Salinger brought the lawsuit against Mr Colting, with his lawyers calling the book a "rip-off pure and simple".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8129782.stm

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Years-Later-John-David-California/dp/9185869546/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246512572&sr=1-1

[King]

Having read The Montagaren on the Knäckebröd. I can say it is nothing like The Catcher in the Rye.

[Zarn]

I hated having to read Catcher in the Rye in high school. Lets just ban that.

Save some teens some trouble.

[Landslide Lyndon]

I hated having to read Catcher in the Rye in high school. Lets just ban that.

Save some teens some trouble.

[Padfoot]

I hated having to read Catcher in the Rye in high school. Lets just ban that.

Save some teens some trouble.

That book definitely sucked along with everything else my school made me read Junior year.  I think the fact that English classes often require students to read such crappy books is partially responsible for the appalling lack of reading that occurs in this country.  If Catcher in the Rye, The Scarlet Letter, and The Great Gatsby had been the only books I read as a Junior in high school I might have never touched another book in my life.  Fortunately my mother exposed me to books that were actually entertaining and engaging thus preventing these so called "classics" from killing my passion for reading.  I honestly can't think of a classic American novel that I've found entertaining.  Classic British Lit. is so much better.

[Zarn]

I hated having to read Catcher in the Rye in high school. Lets just ban that.

Save some teens some trouble.

That book definitely sucked along with everything else my school made me read Junior year.  I think the fact that English classes often require students to read such crappy books is partially responsible for the appalling lack of reading that occurs in this country.  If Catcher in the Rye, The Scarlet Letter, and The Great Gatsby had been the only books I read as a Junior in high school I might have never touched another book in my life.  Fortunately my mother exposed me to books that were actually entertaining and engaging thus preventing these so called "classics" from killing my passion for reading.  I honestly can't think of a classic American novel that I've found entertaining.  Classic British Lit. is so much better.

Exactly.

BTW, px75 just invoked Godwin's Law. He loses the thread.

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I hated having to read Catcher in the Rye in high school. Lets just ban that.

Save some teens some trouble.

That book definitely sucked along with everything else my school made me read Junior year.  I think the fact that English classes often require students to read such crappy books is partially responsible for the appalling lack of reading that occurs in this country.  If Catcher in the Rye, The Scarlet Letter, and The Great Gatsby had been the only books I read as a Junior in high school I might have never touched another book in my life.  Fortunately my mother exposed me to books that were actually entertaining and engaging thus preventing these so called "classics" from killing my passion for reading.  I honestly can't think of a classic American novel that I've found entertaining.  Classic British Lit. is so much better.

Still it's less dry than the William Faulkner I had to read.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Exactly.

BTW, px75 just invoked Godwin's Law. He loses the thread.

Is that better?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Still it's less dry than the William Faulkner I had to read.

Tell me about it.  I was supposed to read The Sound and The Fury in AP English, and it convinced me that it was a tale told by an idiot (Faulkner), signifying nothing.

[King]

I only enjoyed one assigned book in my K-12 life and that was Johnny Tremain.

[Lief 🗽]

I hated having to read Catcher in the Rye in high school. Lets just ban that.

Save some teens some trouble.

Don't you pretend to be a libertarian?

[Alcon]

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[ilikeverin]

I hated having to read Catcher in the Rye in high school. Lets just ban that.

Save some teens some trouble.

Can we ban it from middle school too plz retroactively?

I had to say "woman of ill repute" in the presentation I had to make about it.  That's too scandalous for school

[Joe Republic]

Copyright violation: phony phony phony phony phony phony phony phony phony phony

[The Mikado]

I hated having to read Catcher in the Rye in high school. Lets just ban that.

Save some teens some trouble.

That book definitely sucked along with everything else my school made me read Junior year.  I think the fact that English classes often require students to read such crappy books is partially responsible for the appalling lack of reading that occurs in this country.  If Catcher in the Rye, The Scarlet Letter, and The Great Gatsby had been the only books I read as a Junior in high school I might have never touched another book in my life.  Fortunately my mother exposed me to books that were actually entertaining and engaging thus preventing these so called "classics" from killing my passion for reading.  I honestly can't think of a classic American novel that I've found entertaining.  Classic British Lit. is so much better.

100% agree about Scarlet Letter (I hate Hawthorne) and Catcher, but how can you pan Great Gatsby!?!

[Zarn]

Why do Lief and px75 actually think I want to ban the book?

Everyone else 'got it.'

[Associate Justice PiT]

I hated having to read Catcher in the Rye in high school. Lets just ban that.

Save some teens some trouble.

That book definitely sucked along with everything else my school made me read Junior year.  I think the fact that English classes often require students to read such crappy books is partially responsible for the appalling lack of reading that occurs in this country.  If Catcher in the Rye, The Scarlet Letter, and The Great Gatsby had been the only books I read as a Junior in high school I might have never touched another book in my life.  Fortunately my mother exposed me to books that were actually entertaining and engaging thus preventing these so called "classics" from killing my passion for reading.  I honestly can't think of a classic American novel that I've found entertaining.  Classic British Lit. is so much better.

100% agree about Scarlet Letter (I hate Hawthorne) and Catcher, but how can you pan Great Gatsby!?!

     That shocks me too. It was one of probably only half-a-dozen books in high school that I genuinely enjoyed reading.