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RIP: J.D. Salinger
It has been reported that the famous and reclusive author passed away this morning.
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01-28-2010, 12:10 PM | #2 |
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RIP
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01-28-2010, 12:12 PM | #3 |
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If there was ever an appropriate time to say 'We hardly knew ye' it was with him.
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You, you will regret what you have done this day. I will make you regret ever being born. Your going to wish you never left your mothers womb, where it was warm and safe... and wet. i am going to show you pain you never knew existed, you are going to see a whole new spectrum of pain, like a Rainboooow. But! This rainbow is not just like any other rainbow, its... Last edited by Mustang : 01-28-2010 at 12:27 PM. |
01-28-2010, 12:22 PM | #4 | |
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01-28-2010, 12:27 PM | #5 |
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NFW! That's awful.
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01-28-2010, 12:30 PM | #6 |
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Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey. Amazing stuff. At 15, the former made all the sense in the world.
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01-28-2010, 12:31 PM | #7 |
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The man wrote a hell of a book. RIP.
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01-28-2010, 12:34 PM | #8 |
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ahhh Catcher in the Rye - got it
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01-28-2010, 12:35 PM | #9 |
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As a note, my comment was related to the fact that he was a recluse, not because I didn't know who he was.
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You, you will regret what you have done this day. I will make you regret ever being born. Your going to wish you never left your mothers womb, where it was warm and safe... and wet. i am going to show you pain you never knew existed, you are going to see a whole new spectrum of pain, like a Rainboooow. But! This rainbow is not just like any other rainbow, its... |
01-28-2010, 12:39 PM | #10 |
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That sucks, but on the other hand, I wonder if we'll now get to see anything that he may have written over the past few decades.
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01-28-2010, 12:59 PM | #11 |
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A year to the day after John Updike died too, I think.
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01-28-2010, 01:01 PM | #12 |
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01-28-2010, 01:05 PM | #13 |
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Made a great cameo in "Shoeless Joe," too
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01-28-2010, 01:30 PM | #14 | |
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My first thought was “I hope they don’t just print everything they find lying around his place.” It always seems like such a breach of trust to publish things posthumously; if the author didn’t think it was fit to publish, it shouldn’t be published. |
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01-28-2010, 01:36 PM | #15 | |
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According to wikipedia:
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So it sounds like he had this sort of thing planned out. |
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01-28-2010, 01:41 PM | #16 |
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I was unawares, never mind.
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01-28-2010, 02:07 PM | #17 |
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That wiki article was interesting. "Hey baby, don't go to Yale. Come here with me." Those writing gifts must've been legendary.
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01-28-2010, 02:14 PM | #18 | |
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Really?
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01-28-2010, 02:40 PM | #19 |
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RIP
He lived about 5 miles away, and the ppl I know of Cornish/Plainfield NH have some great stories of sending JD's followers on some crazy goose chases. The whole community really took pleasure in protecting his privacy. |
01-28-2010, 03:43 PM | #20 |
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He was nothing but a phony.
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01-28-2010, 04:31 PM | #21 |
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01-28-2010, 05:10 PM | #22 | |
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Great article from The Onion
Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger | The Onion - America's Finest News Source Quote:
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01-28-2010, 05:36 PM | #23 |
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The whole world is a phony.
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01-28-2010, 05:37 PM | #24 |
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At least we still have James Earl Jones, and Sean Connery around.
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01-28-2010, 05:47 PM | #25 |
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Definitely knew his name but I can honestly say that if someone asked me on the spot what he wrote I would not have known.
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01-28-2010, 05:55 PM | #26 | |
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Hahaha! That's frickin' awesome. I read Catcher in the Rye for the first (and last) time at age 29... probably too old to really get the full effect. I didn't care much for it.
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01-28-2010, 09:27 PM | #27 | |
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I have never read it (but yes, I knew who he was despite my 'Pierre' joke in the FOBL lounge). Brian Williams tonight described the book as "sex, swearing, and rebellion"...none of which ever really factored into my adolescence.
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01-28-2010, 09:33 PM | #28 | |
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I probably could have gotten it but only after I realized we weren't talking about the former ABC News correspondent & press secretary to JFK & LBJ.
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01-28-2010, 10:20 PM | #29 | |
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Yeah, Catcher in the Rye really "spoke to me" when I was 16. When I read it at 30 I kinda thought Holden Caulfield was a whiny bitch who knew a helluva lot less than he thought.
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01-29-2010, 12:31 AM | #30 |
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You guys have to realize that Holden Caulfield was not supposed to be a hero. Salinger's point was that Holden could be really convincing and give off this feeling as if he knew what he was talking about, but he lied the whole book and was super whiny and just as phoney as everyone he ripped on. That was the whole point of the character.
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01-31-2010, 01:07 AM | #31 |
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Brian Williams is a douchenozzle. I'd go out on a limb as to say that, per word written, Salinger changed the face of literature (and pop culture for that matter) as much as Shakespeare did.
Salinger was the best pure writer I've ever read. His command of the english language was and is intimidating. He's the only writer that comes to mind that could write an itemized description of what was in the family medicine cabinet and make it work, the only writer that could make a page long sentence seem not only unpretentious, but completely necessary. It's a shame that he'll be best remembered for "Catcher." It was a helluva book, don't get me wrong, but it was written as Holden, who was supposed to be a teenager. It had a lot of great content, but it purposely lacked refinement. His other stuff is unreal. |
01-31-2010, 01:10 AM | #32 | |
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Yeah, except for "Blue Period." Meh. I'm going with Zooey. That's the best thing ever written. Three characters, one of which is in the tub half of the time...the rest is all writing. Last edited by DrAFTjunkie : 01-31-2010 at 01:12 AM. |
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01-31-2010, 01:12 PM | #33 | |
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He said the first part of what was in my post. There was more in the segment, but those were the words that summed up the book. The second part was mine.
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01-31-2010, 01:12 PM | #34 |
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dola - but yes, generally he IS a douchenozzle.
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