R.I.P. J.D. Salinger
 

JD salinger has died, age 91
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/book...ex.html?hpt=T2

*zing*

Well one day you may need to sew on a button

I am not the biggest fan, but props nonetheless

Oh man. That really really sucks. Salinger is possibly my favourite author ever. At the very least, Franny and Zooey will I think always be tied as my favourite book ever. Here's hoping whatever he's been writing in the last 40 years will now surface....

i HATE "catcher in the rye" (had to read that shit three times in high school), but some of his short stories are pretty good.

RIP.

I seriously suggest you read Franny and Zooey if you haven't already, because it's a very different, much more mature book, closer to the style of his short stuff. I ADORE it

Did you hate the book or just hate Holden? I thought it was written beautifully, and I can see why people don't like Holden.

I thought it was a pretty good book. I think I am going to have to pull it out and read it.

To relate to Samuel's question,
I found that I hated Holden for some parts of me that I hate. Especially since he was a teenager, and yet there are still some aspects of that mentality that I carry that I wish I didnt, in my 20s.

But for that reason, I respect the book. With many novels, you lend yourself out to relate to a character, instead of them poking and jabbing from the inside out while you read.

yeah, i'm not completely opposed to salinger, just that book in general. i will check out franny and zooey, though. thanks!

i just don't get the appeal of catcher in the rye. i read it at ages 14, 16, and 17, and each time it came across as "BAWWWWWWWWW PHONYPHONYPHONY GODDAMNIT PHONY BAWWWW WHINE!" as far as "coming-of-age" novels go, i'll take ham on rye over that piece of shit any day of the week.

he drank his own piss haha.

wonder what yoko thinks?

it's all over the cover of today's papers.

well apart from The Sport, which chose to lead with 'Soap Star Sue's Sex Vid Secret'.

It's a very sad day for the world indeed. Poor Sue won't be able to show her face in public again. I can't imagine they'll keep her on after that scandal.

It's Suzanne Shaw from HearSay who's now in Emmerdale, apparently.

Rip JD. but truthfully I'm more interested in what's happening with Sue. Any pointers to articles about her troubles?

It's on the cover of the Daily Star but they aren't linking it as a story to ensure people buy the paper - which of course they won't.

Yeah RIP. What did they write about her antics on the video?