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J. D. Salinger has just died, aged 91.

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  • #52
    John I am
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭John I am


    Iolar wrote: »
    Sad loss,RIP and to make matters worse for me the man(my english teacher) who introduced me to "catcher in the rye" committed suicide the other night :( RIP to Mr Canty too

    Sorry to hear that.


  • #53
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    man J.D,what a prince,to hear he died.....That killed me.


  • #54
    John I am
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭John I am


    “'Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.”


  • #55
    KonFusion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,588 ✭✭✭KonFusion


    RIP indeed

    For me, Holden Caulfield just died too :(


  • #56
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    was it made into a movie?? catcher in the rye


  • #57
    mossy1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭mossy1982


    "You're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behaviour. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them if you want to. Just as some day, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reiprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry."

    Definitely my favourite book.


  • #58
    mossy1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭mossy1982


    fryup wrote: »
    was it made into a movie?? catcher in the rye


    Salinger blocked any attempts to make it into a movie through legal challenges. He hated the movies. He talks about it in the book.


  • #59
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,405 ✭✭✭Dartz


    opinion guy wrote: »
    I remember really identifing with that book when our english teacher made us read it. That doens't seem like a healthy thing in retrospect.

    Anyhow. Sad to hear this news

    Healthier than identifying with Richard Bachmann's, Rage mind you..


  • #60
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    mossy1982 wrote: »
    Salinger blocked any attempts to make it into a movie through legal challenges. He hated the movies. He talks about it in the book.

    well now that he's passed away, maybe its time to get out the popcorn;)

    so who would you get to direct & star in it....


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  • #61
    John I am
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭John I am


    mossy1982 wrote: »
    Salinger blocked any attempts to make it into a movie through legal challenges. He hated the movies. He talks about it in the book.

    To right certain books should be left the literary classics they are, you think in the medium of words and certain books plug into your head, they are rare and when they come such as catcher in the rye they remain best sellers as this one has been since 1965. A movie would **** up this book.


  • #62
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    does he really deserve the adulation??

    ya i know catcher in the rye sold in its millions, but he did sweet f&ck all after that which is a waste don't you think


  • #63
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    DKZ wrote: »
    That's a god damn shame. :(
    To die at 91?


  • #64
    Red_Marauder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,175 ✭✭✭Red_Marauder


    Out of interest, what did you guys think Holden Caulfield looked like? I suppose it's because I was reading it at the time, but for some reason I always think of him as some long gone Home and Away character, that goth, Edward (his Mum was Judith the Principal)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJu09C5rBJs


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