The death of J.D Salinger has just been announced.
Oh my god. My husband will go into mourning at this news. Holden Caulfield is one of his heroes. :(
Does the rule of threes count for authors?
(And what does it say of me that one of my first thoughts -- after being sad he'll never actually produce anything and sorry for his family -- is to snarkily think that he'll probably have a closed casket?)
Socially inappropriate :lol:
Sometimes if feels as if I am the only person in the world who didn't like Catcher in the Rye.
You're not. I couldn't identify with it at all.
I'm glad it's not just me then. I also didn't like The Corrections which everyone swoons over. I could not relate to anyone in that book or CitR.
Sometimes if feels as if I am the only person in the world who didn't like Catcher in the Rye.
I felt it had been hyped like the iPad, and was let down when it wasn't the GREATEST THING EVAR!!!
Perhaps it's because by the time I read it, the stylistic choices that were so much of a breakthrough in 1951 had become cliche.
Perhaps that's it. I just thought that Holden was a spoiled little prick. Maybe I've just known too many prep school boys to have any sympathy for his angst.
Sometimes if feels as if I am the only person in the world who didn't like Catcher in the Rye.
I wouldn't know -- I never finished reading it.
The Catcher in the Rye was the first contemporary American Lit. I read in Japanese, and the first paperback I read all the way through in English.
It seems so long time ago...
RIP D. J. Salinger.
I loved that book and even more, the Glass family stories. I even hunted down the pea green clothbound book and read that. It was very good as I remember. That was when I was about 13 and they spoke to me very deeply, although I knew the protagonist was flawed, I felt for him. But I've never reread them, so who knows what my adult self would think. RIP JDS
ETA: Oh and I loved that Onion piece a lot. Well played, sirs.
That could very much be the problem for me - I read the books first as an adult and an old jaded one at that. ;-)
From the world of one hit wonders,
Pauly Fuemana, who recorded "How Bizarre" as OMC has died.
(I can't say I liked the song, but dang if it didn't earworm itself into my head as soon as I heard the title. )
