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Xmas in the Rye

About the only thing I have that comes even close to a Christmas tradition is reading The Catcher in the Rye at some point during the season. It's not anything I make sure to do...it's just that this time of year always makes me want to revisit it.

Evidently some folks like to revisit the story a whole other way: physically. And cnn.com has this interesting feature today: a guide to The Catcher in the Rye’s New York locations.

I think I’m going to print this out and save it for my mid-life crisis.

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I read Catcher In The Rye every Chrimbo, too. Hooray!

By Michael Lacey
December 10, 2007 @ 6:50 pm

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I watch Scrooged ever Christmas.

I may be on a significantly different intellectual level...

By Andrew
December 11, 2007 @ 1:03 am

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I got 30+ pages out of Scrooged for my Novel Into Film course, so don't feel too bad, intellectually. There's enough in that film to justify an annual re-watch.

By Miguel Sanchez
December 11, 2007 @ 1:11 pm

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Plus it's great. Which helps.

By Andrew
December 11, 2007 @ 7:38 pm

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>I got 30+ pages out of Scrooged for my Novel Into Film course

*Wonders silently if anyone around here would read it if I posted it up...*

By Miguel Sanchez
December 11, 2007 @ 9:26 pm

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At least one person.

By Pete Martin
December 12, 2007 @ 10:58 am

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I'll dig it out and see if I can scan it and convert it to text without much hassle. (I wrote it at college and stored in on their servers...probably a bad idea, but the only negative consequence I had to face was that I didn't have a digital copy of my own.)

It's not 30 pages of Scrooged, though, be warned. It's an examination of Dickens' original, one of the early depression-era film versions of A Christmas Carol, and then Richard Donner's Scrooged. The point of the paper is to explore the needs and desires of different time periods reflected in what is always, essentially, the same story.

I'll dig this weekend.

By Miguel Sanchez
December 14, 2007 @ 12:51 pm

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happy christnad everybody!!

SINGS: mightly was the shone that night, on the frosty gruel, baders potter weild and sight, gathering winter fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuel.

By Lendmore Floss
December 24, 2007 @ 10:16 pm

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