R.I.P. J.D.

[Franco]

'Catcher in the Rye' author J.D. Salinger dies

He was no phony.

[karlhenning]

Norman Mailer really wrote the work attributed to J.D. Salinger.

(j/k)

[Spotswood]

Excellent book, but anyone who thinks of Holden as some sort of philospher or model of behavior is, like Mark David Chapman, seriously deluded.

[Brian]

Rumor has it there are something like 19 completed manuscripts in his safe. I hope his will doesn't instruct them to be burned or something. Or, if it does, I hope his executor is the same kind of slimeball who published Kafka's stuff against his wishes. Salinger was a terrific writer, but he was Holden Caulfield--mature enough to recognize Holden's problems, but still hung up on the same things, afraid and unwilling to let anyone see into his soul.

Except, apparently, the younger woman who kept him company for the last 35 years (BBC).

[Scarpia]

Rumor has it there are something like 19 completed manuscripts in his safe. I hope his will doesn't instruct them to be burned or something.

Catcher in the Buckwheat, Catcher in the Corn, Catcher in the Soybeans, Catcher in the Triticale...

[Spotswood]

Who put the tribbles in the quadrotriticale? And what was in the grain that killed them?

[Scarpia]

Who put the tribbles in the quadrotriticale? And what was in the grain that killed them?

Catcher in the quadrotriticale, I guess that would be a futuristic science fiction story about phonys on Sherman's planet. 

[Brian]

According to one of his past lovers, the manuscripts in his safe are color-coded: "publish as is, publish with edits, etc."
I wonder if the destined-to-surface-soon lost Salinger novels are the ravings of a madman, or good literature. I'm gonna guess they started good and the more recent ones are totally loopy.

[KevinP]

Catcher in the Buckwheat, Catcher in the Corn, Catcher in the Soybeans, Catcher in the Triticale...

Or Shortstop in the Rye, Umpire in the Rye...

[Spotswood]

As always, The Onion sums it up.

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Yes, the Onion hit the nail on the head with this one. I must say that of all the books we read in high school, this was probably my least favorite.  zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Scarpia]

Yes, the Onion hit the nail on the head with this one. I must say that of all the books we read in high school, this was probably my least favorite.  zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Worse than "A Separate Peace?"

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Oh, you're right, that one sucked too, as did The Chocolate War. At least we got to some interesting stuff later--Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Steinbeck, et al.