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]

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.