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.