Oh, I don't think it's anything great to claim for most people, since so many high school English teachers choose it as required reading.
I feel that way about A Separate Peace, which I feel like everyone raves on (and even compares me to characters from), but I've never gotten around to it.
He's a few weeks older than my grandfather. Strange thought.
Is it terrible that I'm really, really interested in what's going to happen when Salinger passes? I'm rabid to know if he's been writing all this time, or what. I figure there's a 50/50 chance that he either 1) has a sizable body of work that he intends to be published posthumously so he won't have to worry about the critical reaction, or 2) he either has or has not been writing, but in any case has specified that all his unpublished works be destroyed.
In any case, I'm curious! Of course I'd much rather read new work by him, though.
I know, me too! I really totally respect his desire for privacy and control over his work, but I still want to read and poke around in journals and whatever. Literary estate!
Hoorah, new GR friend! According to the compare books button, we seem to have freakishly similar tastes. Or, you know, we're representations of our generation.
i just think of the part in the movie the good girl where jake gylenhaal's character says that he named himself after the book the catcher in the rye. and jennifer aniston's character is like "so... your name is catcher?"
i read catcher in the rye every few years, but i haven't gotten around to reading any of his other books. i'd like to read more "classics" this year, so i really need to get ahold of some of those.
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I feel that way about A Separate Peace, which I feel like everyone raves on (and even compares me to characters from), but I've never gotten around to it.
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Is it terrible that I'm really, really interested in what's going to happen when Salinger passes? I'm rabid to know if he's been writing all this time, or what. I figure there's a 50/50 chance that he either 1) has a sizable body of work that he intends to be published posthumously so he won't have to worry about the critical reaction, or 2) he either has or has not been writing, but in any case has specified that all his unpublished works be destroyed.
In any case, I'm curious! Of course I'd much rather read new work by him, though.
Adding you on Good Reads, btw.
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Hoorah, new GR friend! According to the compare books button, we seem to have freakishly similar tastes. Or, you know, we're representations of our generation.
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i read catcher in the rye every few years, but i haven't gotten around to reading any of his other books. i'd like to read more "classics" this year, so i really need to get ahold of some of those.
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