Well, one of the greatest American authors ever died on Wednesday. If you dont know, he wrote Catcher in the Rye, which is something most people have to read in highschool, but if you read it for your own enjoyment is actually fucking amazing.

Along with this he wrote a large amount of short fiction, including 9 Stories.

A lot of you probably wont know who is he is. A lot of you wont care, and I am sure someone will try to troll this thread. But this shit actually has me upset and I normally dont give a rats dick what famous person dies.

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Well, from what I have read he has some stuff set aside to be published a certain amount of years after he died. So we might see in time. But honestly my hopes arent up about it being great. He was a twisted up old man.


Samule: fuck off.

m0o: It happened on Wednesday. Today is Saturday. Also come at me with an opinion about the book that doesn't sound like something you heard someone else say and decided it would make a good opinion to adopt so you seem like you are smarter than the philistines who like it. In other words what make you say that?

Also if you didnt read my first post, I sort of inb4d all of your trolling...doesnt that work with you people?

but WHY? Im saying. Its a good read. seriously.

my brother read the book and told me this yesterday lol.... he said the book was terrible... with too much plot and nothing interesting happening.

lol, I wasnt mad. Maybe a tad bawy, but nothing too bad...at least I didnt get upset when Michal Jackson died

But yes, I really do "loved" that book. It is subtle, while you read it, you dont think of Holden as a character, but as a person. I like that the book doesnt really have any answers or resolution (in a sense) because to me that is pretty accurate when it comes to adolescences, it rarely seems make sense etc. Also yes, his other stuff is also great in my opinion and I may just be more fond of 9 stories than of Catcher. Plus you have to consider that the book was written and published during a rather sterile time in American art, right after and before pretty great times. It was subversive, angry, and held a mirror up to society. As for plot, it deals mostly with internal issues and moral conflicts, kind of a thing with Salinger. Also most of his work interconnects and stuff, and I always get a hard on for that sort of thing.

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lol, forgive me for trying to spark discussion. Maybe, just maybe, I was actually curios as to why m0o doesn't like it since I have seen her posts and consider her an intelligent person who could probably make some good points I might not have considered. Way to stick up for the girl though, even if she is more than capable of speaking for herself :P

Im a troll?..wut?..I dont follow...

And no, the topic was left open, I was saying I was sad, but didnt really set anything, and a little discussion about someones life normally come about when you talk about their death. Please get out of my thread.

Was that the Simpsons creator saying that?

In Field of Dreams, that 80s movie about a guy who hears voices and hallucinates about dead baseball players but in the end its ok because people will come from all over to see the baseball field he sunk the families money into so (in keeping with 80's values) its totally cool because as long as you sell out you will get ahead and be happy, the author character was based on J.D. Salinger, only he was huge and black and J.D. Salinger was regular sized and white. Also J.D. stands for Jerome David.

And right before he died I gues he sued someone in (I think) Australia for trying to right a sequel to Catcher call "Sixty years later" or some such shite. The book was published in europe, but banned in the U.S.