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 . . .

[rose-starr.livejournal.com]

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

[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.