Writer J.D. Salinger dies

[The Village Idiot]

JD Salinger has died.

[bijou]

"Catcher in the Rye" author J.D. Salinger has died at age 91 in New Hampshire. ...

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118014411.html?categoryId=21&cs=1

FGL posted this news in the Howard Zinn thread, I thought it deserved its own thread.

[The Village Idiot]

Another one bites the dust. What leftist writer will die next? Always comes in 3's.

[Splashdown]

JD Salinger has died.

I hate Holden Caulfield with the passion of 1,000 suns.

[Chris]

I hate Holden Caulfield with the passion of 1,000 suns.

My freshman HS English teacher made me read that book.  Hated it... it was horrible.

[Splashdown]

My freshman HS English teacher made me read that book.  Hated it... it was horrible.

Ok. I'm thread-jacking.

I thought the book was very, very well written--so much so that the main character is a whiny, ungrateful little a-hole. He comes from a super-wealthy family. He goes to the finest school in the country. He's depressed because adults are "phonies." Quit yer crying. Get a job. WORK for a living. Then you get to be depressed. Not when everything is handed to you.

I give Salinger a ton of credit for creating such a realistic character to make me hate him sooooo much.

Sorry. Back to your regularly scheduled thread.   

[Chris]

I didn't even make it that far.  Maybe it was the whining that put me off from reading it, but I could just not do it.  When I was in high school, I read nearly a book a week, anything I could get my hands on.  My favorite part of high school was the first day of the year when we got a new literature book.  I would read the entire book in the first couple months of school.  I was never good at book reports (franksolich looks like he enjoys writing them), I just enjoyed reading just for reading's sake.  But I hated Catcher In The Rye.

[bijou]

There is a Salinger thread here in the Book Club: http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,39914.0.html

[Chris]

I knew that

[Aaron Burr]

Hold up. I just heard Salinger doesn't want a service. Therefore, according to DU logic. He's not dead. I guess he wont be buried next to Tangerine La Bamba who is also not dead and is not posting on the DU pretending to be her sister.

But yeah, I can't even remember anything the guy wrote.

[NHSparky]

J.D. Salinger, portrayed teen angst in ‘The Catcher in the Rye,’ dies at 91

January 28, 2010 04:50 PM
By Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

(c) Boston Globe

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(excerpt)

J.D. Salinger, the famously reclusive author whose novel, “The Catcher in the Rye,” was one of the best-selling books of the 20th century, died Wednesday at his Cornish, N.H., home. He was 91.

In a statement announcing his death, Mr. Salinger's literary agency, Harold Ober Associates, said he died of natural causes. "Despite having broken his hip in May," Mr. Salinger's "health had been excellent until a rather sudden decline after the new year.''

“Catcher” is estimated to have sold more than 60 million copies worldwide since being first published in 1951. It continues to sell some 200,000 copies annually.

A staple of student reading lists, the novel boasts one of the most celebrated characters in postwar American fiction, its narrator, Holden Caulfield.

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RIP, Mr. Salinger.