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Originally Posted by afterthefact
I like Salinger. He takes an extremely long timeline, breaks off one seemingly insignificant, albeit an interesting, portion and writes a book on it. You get the feeling that a better story could have been written about things that happened before or after the book's story. I know that makes it sound bad, but I actually like a lackluster story, as long as it was meant to be so.
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Yeah, I've only read
Catcher but I think you could say that about that book. For example what happens after the end, he's clearly had a break down but how does it turn out for him, like school etc. Of course I know it's better not to know and the point of the book would be lost and true writers don't write books as if they could tell you what happened afterwards.