You're all a bunch of phonies

[ShoogarBear]

J. D. Salinger dead. (http://us.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/books/01/28/salinger.obit/index.html?hpt=T1)

[Sp Ginobili 20]

:( The Catcher in the Rye is one of my favorite novels. Condolences to his family.

[FalleNxWiZarDx]

who?

[duncan228]

One of the best. RIP.

[Fpoonsie]

Did a report on Catcher in high school. The only time I was ever allowed to use the word "fuck" in an academic essay (and get away with it).

RIP to a legend.

[Kermit]

Dude drank his own urine. Good times.

[leemajors]

A Perfect Day for Bananafish.

[I. Hustle]

CITR was/is an awesome book. We didn't read it in my school so I picked it up on my own.

[z0sa]

Mark David Chapman must be crushed.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

RIP JD.

That book made being a fucked up teenager easier to deal with. :toast

Anyone read any of Sallinger's other work?

[ChumpDumper]

I never really got the appeal. Guess I read it too late.

[MookieCrew]

ugh JD Salinger was awesome as an underground recluse but now that he's dead he's all mainstream on the front page of yahoo and he sucks.

he's always writing about

hailey my baby my baby hailey

spaghetti

macadamia

[ploto]

I never really got the appeal. Guess I read it too late.

Me, too. I read it when I was 30 and totally missed what the big deal was.

[grindmouse]

RIP JD.

That book made being a fucked up teenager easier to deal with. :toast

Anyone read any of Sallinger's other work?


I agree with Ruff and have his back on this issue! :tu

[leemajors]

I never really got the appeal. Guess I read it too late.

IMO his other books featuring the Glass family were much better.

[balli]

IMO his other books featuring the Glass family were much better.

I think that's generally the consensus. I've only read Catcher, but today and previously I've read a lot of critique that proclaims the Glass Family stories as Salinger's best work(s). I don't know if they're much better, because Catcher was pretty good, but from what I've heard, they're great.

[tp2021]

I don't know what it is about the book that endears it to me so much, but it does.

RIP

[mrsmaalox]

Gawd, I hated Holden Caulfield.

RIP JD

[slacker77]

i never really got the appeal. Guess i read it too late.

+1