RIP JD Salinger

[JCJRSmith]

Author of "The Catcher in the Rye" dead of natural causes at age 91

http://www.comcast.net/articles/entertainment/20100128/US.Obit.Salinger/

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

I thought he had already died.

RIP.

 

[FireDancer]

I thought he had already died.

RIP.

Me too. I guess I have one more to add to that other thread about people who you thought were dead but weren't. Walter Cronkite move over, JD Salinger needs some room

 

[legalsea]

I kept meaning to read that book of his. Now that he is dead, I guess it's too late.

 

[ncmickeyluvr]

:rotfl

Me too. I guess I have one more to add to that other thread about people who you thought were dead but weren't. Walter Cronkite move over, JD Salinger needs some room

Beat me to it....I was just going to say that

 

[mrsv98]

I thought he had already died.

RIP.

Most people did, he was a recluse and a very strange man. He hasn't actually published anything in over 40 years, but Catcher in the Rye is such a seminal book he will always be an important person in literature.

 

[charming23]

I thought he had already died.

RIP.

Me too.

Catcher in the Rye has been one of my favorite books ever since we read it in high school. My copy of it is so well loved.

 

[Imzadi]

Me too. I guess I have one more to add to that other thread about people who you thought were dead but weren't. Walter Cronkite move over, JD Salinger needs some room

Me, too. But, I thought all the authors of nearly every book I was made to read in high school were dead. Like, that's what made them "classics." Long, dead authors.

Most people did, he was a recluse and a very strange man. He hasn't actually published anything in over 40 years, but Catcher in the Rye is such a seminal book he will always be an important person in literature.

Well, if your book is the number one preferred book to have in your back pocket by serial killers, (true accounts,) that would make you a strange recluse, too, who doesn't write anything else. Of course, he was a recluse long before Mark David Chapman and Robert Bardo purposely carried his book when they killed John Lennon and actress, Rebecca Shaeffer, respectively, and John Hinckley, Jr. had it when he tried to assasinate Pres. Reagan.

The poor book was used again in the fictional movie, Conspiracy Theory, with Mel Gibson & Julia Roberts. That was one loaded book.

Catcher in the Rye has been one of my favorite books ever since we read it in high school. My copy of it is so well loved.

Please don't carry it around in your back pocket. You could frighten a lot of people!

 

[PrincessKsMom]

Voice of dissention here, but I HATED that book. Now, in all fairness, I read it as an adult in my mid-late 30's and maybe that's why, but I utterly despised the character in the book. I've never felt that strongly about a book before and I took me my surprise. I guess, to each his own.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

Hi is such a hermit, I think most people think he is dead. Didn't he actually almost show up in court last month.

I just reread cather in the rye recently, thinking I would not enjoy(maybe not the best word) as much now that I was older. I was so wrong.

I wish he wrote a sequel jsut to find out how he winds up.

 

[PrincessKsMom]

Hi is such a hermit, I think most people think he is dead. Didn't he actually almost show up in court last month.

I just reread cather in the rye recently, thinking I would not enjoy(maybe not the best word) as much now that I was older. I was so wrong.

I wish he wrote a sequel jsut to find out how he winds up.

Through the entire book, I kept saying, this kid better end up dead or beat up, or I'm not gonna be happy. I work in a 60 story office building and I said that to a friend one day, and a stranger said "Would you happen to be reading Catcher in the Rye?"

 

[Briarmom]

Rip.

 

[bumbershoot]

Me, too. But, I thought all the authors of nearly every book I was made to read in high school were dead. Like, that's what made them "classics." Long, dead authors.


Me too. I've been realizing the last few years how contemporary, to that time, most of those authors were, and I just can't understand how those books were chosen. The one exception to the contemporary rule, but still gives me the "why?" question, is Romeo and Juliet....yay, give 15 year olds a book about 14/15 year olds killing themselves b/c they're so "in love" with each other...wooooo.

Well, if your book is the number one preferred book to have in your back pocket by serial killers, (true accounts,) that would make you a strange recluse, too, who doesn't write anything else. Of course, he was a recluse long before Mark David Chapman and Robert Bardo purposely carried his book when they killed John Lennon and actress, Rebecca Shaeffer, respectively, and John Hinckley, Jr. had it when he tried to assasinate Pres. Reagan.

Yikes!

Was so sad about Rebecca Shaeffer. (sad about all, but her murder really messed with my teenage, wannabeanactress, head)

 

[DancingBear]

Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.

 

[Muushka]

Technically, it should have been called The Meeter in the Rye

I loved that book.

RIP JD

 

[shrubber]

Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

 

[walden]

I read "Catcher in the Rye" way back in the early '70s. I was a teen. I guess it *should* have meant something to me then, but didn't. I was an over-protected child and not a US resident back then. Everything he said was just . . . alien.

It did seem to mean an important something to a generation of US kids. It certainly did to my DH. So, on behalf of my DH (who would rather die than post here but approved this message):

RIP, Salinger.

 

[PrincessKsMom]

Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

Holden is that you?

 

[DVCLiz]

I can't wait to see what, if anything, Joyce Maynard will have to say about his death. She was the teen who had the affair with him and then wrote a book about it - fascinating stuff.

 

[disneydreamingdebby]

I am wondering if the man who published a "sequel" - pseudonym John David California (J.D. California) will be able to now distribute his book. Salinger sued him last year, and I think prevented distribution.