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JD Salinger has passed away at the age of 91.

TCITR was a very formative book for me, when young (taught in school), and also a book I could pick up any time over the many years hence and find something new. And laugh. And learn.

Rest in peace JD.

CITR was "my" book when I was sixteen. Read it constantly. I think I started smoking because of Holden.



On a funny note Viz had a comic strip about the author in the last issue:

"J.D Salinger media tart", quite funny I thought.

that was my book when i was 15.
sleep well Mr Jerome.

Aw man.

As Holden might have said, death is for phonies.

RIP J.D.

Sad news ... however, 91 is a ripe old age, so congrats!

Aye, heard it on the news yesterday. R.I.P.

Great book. One of my first English books in highschool.
Might give it a read again.

Ozpat wrote:One of my first English books in highschool

Mrs Scott's English Literature class, Cockermouth School, 1989.

Never read it, never likely to. I don't remember doing any books at school, maybe the teachers were right about my limited attention span hehe.

Did he just write the one book then? Just wondering as that's the only one I've heard mentioned in the news.

didn't rate it, loved the sequel though-killer robots in space

Read this for the first time last year and thought it a decent enough book.
I guess it's the sort of thing that doesn't have quite the same impact in your late thirties than it would if you read it in your teens.

No. I read it when I was 13. I stopped 3/4 of the way through because I just thought it was total pants. I never hear it spoken of without the word "alienation" being mentioned... but alienation was my middle name when I was 13 and still, when I read it, I was thoroughly underwhelmed.

But I guess this is not a very good thread to say that in. Sorry! I am sad he's dead and everything...

boudicca wrote:No. I read it when I was 13. I stopped 3/4 of the way through because I just thought it was total pants. I never hear it spoken of without the word "alienation" being mentioned... but alienation was my middle name when I was 13 and still, when I read it, I was thoroughly underwhelmed.

But I guess this is not a very good thread to say that in. Sorry! I am sad he's dead and everything...

Voltaire wrote: One owes respect to the Living. To the Dead, one owes only Truth.

This is my standard excuse whenever I feel the urge to speak ill of the dead.

I would go along with that, but the thing is, I want everyone who's ever known me to throng the streets in paroxysms of grief, Diana-stylee, and ramble on about what a fantastic person I was and how I was never fully appreciated while I was alive, when I pop my clogs

It was a good book and very relevant when reading as a teenager.
There's better teen angst books out there, John Fante for one.

Hom_Corleone wrote:It was a good book and very relevant when reading as a teenager.
There's better teen angst books out there, John Fante for one.

Or Mayfair.

Norman Hunter wrote:

Hom_Corleone wrote:It was a good book and very relevant when reading as a teenager.
There's better teen angst books out there, John Fante for one.

Or Mayfair.

Or Andrew Eldritch's Postcards From Above The Chemist.

Norman Hunter wrote:

Hom_Corleone wrote:It was a good book and very relevant when reading as a teenager.
There's better teen angst books out there, John Fante for one.

Or Mayfair.

Bit softcore for my liking. I was on Whitehouse Quarterly when I was 16.

Hom_Corleone wrote:Bit softcore for my liking. I was on Whitehouse Quarterly when I was 16.

I think this conversation isn't necessarily required on this particular post

BTW, my eyesight perscription is -4.75

Norman Hunter wrote:

Hom_Corleone wrote:Bit softcore for my liking. I was on Whitehouse Quarterly when I was 16.

I think this conversation isn't necessarily required on this particular post

BTW, my eyesight perscription is -4.75

I forgot where I was for a minute.
I thought I was on my therapy group forum - www.clawhand.com

Hom_Corleone wrote:I thought I was on my therapy group forum - www.clawhand.com

I was so not going to open that link at work.

If you don't like Catcher and the Rye, I would be inclined to say that you are reading it in the wrong way. If you read books to 'relate' to the protagonist then more fool you.

Are we back on topic again?
Boo hiss.

the_inescapable_truth wrote:If you don't like Catcher and the Rye, I would be inclined to say that you are reading it in the wrong way. If you read books to 'relate' to the protagonist then more fool you.

I read it from start to finish, is there a technique to this that I'm unaware of?

weebleswobble wrote:

the_inescapable_truth wrote:If you don't like Catcher and the Rye, I would be inclined to say that you are reading it in the wrong way. If you read books to 'relate' to the protagonist then more fool you.

I read it from start to finish, is there a technique to this that I'm unaware of?

Did you read it starting at the top of the page and working your way down, turning over the page and continuing until you reached the end?