R.I.P

[tjs_whatnot]

J.D. Salinger

You might not have given any of your lovely words in decades, but you will be missed.

"What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse."

--Catcher in the Rye

Comments

[aigooism.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. I had no idea he passed away.

I haven't read Catcher in the Rye, (well I started it and couldn't really get into it), but I do know what a literary legacy that book is . . .

[wolfiekins.livejournal.com]

One of the few books we were assigned in high school that I ACTUALLY read...and enjoyed.

*sigh*

[aigooism.livejournal.com]

I ended up reading Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, and that's the book i really enjoyed and forever changed my life. XD

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

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VONNEGUT!! Man! Was there ever a more fucked up GENIUS!?!

[aigooism.livejournal.com]

Indeed! He was a genius! I LOVE HIM. I was incredibly sad when he passed away several years before :(

[wolfiekins.livejournal.com]

Sadly, Vonnegut was not on my HS reading list, but I DID manage to read "Slaughterhouse" while at uni, and yeah, it was awesome...

[aigooism.livejournal.com]

I love it. And I read his other book's too, and they were just as all bizarre and wacky. I just love his black humour.

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I totally think there is a exact perfect time to read Catcher in the Rye and if you don't read it then, it won't really do anything for you.

I'd suggest some of his other stories. I particularly love the ones that deal with his Glass family. I.E. "Raise High the Roofbeams and Seymour an Introduction" and "Franny and Zooey"

Those are my faves.

[aigooism.livejournal.com]

Well.

I did try to read it whether in my senior year of high school or my first year of college. O_O;;

It didn't grab me.

But maybe, just maybe if I read it now, I'll like it since I do like The Beats from the similar era.

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

Or try his short stories, it could be that just his writing style isn't your thing...

Who cares when you got the BEATS! *sigh* I sorta going through a whole new Beat phase!

[aigooism.livejournal.com]

LOL. Well, I did . . . plod through Jack Kerouac's On the Road somehow, which I ended up feeling "meh" about it, but I mostly like The Beats for their poetry and their off-the-wall lifestyles, haha.

[rose-starr.livejournal.com]

This made me incredibly sad. Catcher in the Rye is one of my all-time favorite books!

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

I know! It is so sad! I ♥ all of his stuff, especially Catcher and anything that had the Glass family in it.

I heard that he had been working on stuff all this time, but wasn't going to publish it until after his death... horrible as this sounds, I can't wait to find out if that is true.

[coldclarity.livejournal.com]

I have so much love for Catcher in the Rye. I picked it up in my high school library when I was 15 or so and depressed and the first page spoke to me. I devoured it and loved it before I even knew what a classic it was. I'll be rereading it this weekend.

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

Right? That book just affected me so much. The one of his that just GETS me the very most though is Franny and Zooey... anything with the Glass family in it, just happys me...which is odd as they're such an angsty family.