My mate recently watched a programme on telly about some sort of mind controlling devices.
I can't remember much of what he told me but apparently these devices where used/implanted on factoryworkers in certain factories.
All the people identified as experimentees all read Catcher In the Rye many times.
And apparently John Lennon's killer had Catcher In The Rye in his possession when he killed him. There was also something about the author of CITR. I think he was involved in carrying out the experiment and CITR is an allegory of it. But I don't know - I've not read it.
I kind of get the feeling that this may be be old news and a lot of you may be yawning at this post but if anyone does know anything about this I'd appreciate a reply.

what you're talking about is all in the plot of a Mel Gibson Julia Roberts Movie called Conspiracy theory. Are you sure that isn't what your friend saw?

I've read somewhere that another JD Salinger book actually caused Lennon and Regan's shooters to go crazy, "Franny and somehting." My english teacher said it's all a crock though. Is he in on it, or telling the truth?

i was 11 when reagan was shot, and i remember hinkley saying he did it to impress jodi foster, a then young and pretty much unknown actress.

catcher in the rye is cool for the line:

"i dont know....maybe he was gay..or maybe he just liked patting young men's head in the dark"

something along that...that was cool...

you could take nearly any book and warp it in someway so it could be like CITR

You dudes said exactly what my english teacher said. You in on it too?????

I'm one of the people that KNOW and I have a copy of catcher in my room. But THEY (the horde of eccentric yodlers) don't want you to know that it's our secret way to identify each other.

I dont know if thats true but I know JD Salinger the author is crazy. He is protective of his book. He did not allow movies to be made of it. When a website devoted to it was made, his lawyers shut down the website. The author lives in suclusion and not many people know his whereabouts. Hes a fucking nut.

Okay. I read the Catcher In The Rye a few years back, and ever since I read it I've carried it everywhere with me and read it a million times. I just keep reading it over and over and if I forget it somewhere I get this sick feeling in my stomach.

Then I saw Conspiracy Theory a while back and it kind of freaked me out. I mean... I'm not too superticious of anything, and I definitely don't remember being experiemented on, but I have those characteristics.

Just weird, I guess.

RIGHT ON- I never come to this board but I like this topic. JD's daughter just did a rare interview where she spilled a few of the family beans and told of her dads bizarre behavior -including drinking his own urine- there have been other assassins that were caught with a copy of rye on them. I believe Sir-han Sir-han had one when they caught him. National Geographic magazine (wich has a world wide distribution) used to write coded messages to US agents oversees. Maybe JD's books had those same type of messages?????

you know, charles manson thought the beatles wrote the white album for him, to tell him what to do.

that fuckers nuts, and so are you people if you think catcher in the rye is a conspiracy.

Great judgement, lostmind. How do you do your clinical evaluations with such little infromation on the patient? It really is amazing...