IHATEU Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 J.D. Salinger, the elusive author has died, He was 91 and lived in Cornish, N.H Rest well... for those that dont know... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheoHuxtable.. Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elorock Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Wow... RIP to the catcher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thought_Monster Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Last time I read The Cathcher in the Rye I was in jail. R.I.P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crocodile Tears Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 i was suppose to read that book in grade school and never did. i picked it up about a 2 years ago just to make heads or tails, very good read. i was glad i read it later as opposed to then, having a different grasp of the world and reality. also the dude who killed john lennon asked him to sign a copy of it then blaow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Wallbanger Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Fuck. RIP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Orenthal Norton Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 wow. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dowmagik Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 much much respect RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visiting Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yinz n'at Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 damn.. rip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compton red Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Cather in the Rye is one of my favorite books. rip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 just read on BBC he was quite the ol codger. rest in solitude. Obituary: JD Salinger JD Salinger, a reclusive genius The son of a well-to-do Jewish businessman and Scots-Irish mother, Jerome David Salinger was born in New York in 1919 and grew up in uptown Manhattan. The relationship with his father was cold and his conflict about his being half-Jewish affected him deeply. He began writing stories when he was thrust into the harsh world of a military academy at Valley Forge in rural Pennsylvania. He had been sent there after dropping out of the exclusive McBurney School on Manhattan's Upper West Side. JD Salinger enjoyed early success in the 1940s with the publication of numerous short stories in magazines, among them the New Yorker. But when the United States entered World War II, Salinger, whose cynicism was a talking-point among his relatives, surprised them by his eagerness to join the Services. 'Catcher' He worked in army counter-intelligence and the bloody fighting he witnessed at close quarters during the Normandy landing and in the Battle of the Bulge was to have a great impact on his life. According to his daughter Peggy, he witnessed the horrors of the German concentration camps. He suffered something approaching a nervous breakdown and, while convalescing in France, he met and married a French doctor, but they were divorced after eight months. When The Catcher in the Rye first appeared in 1951, chronicling 48 hours in the life of a teenage rebel, Holden Caulfield, as he wanders the streets of New York in a state of mental collapse, it enjoyed early, but modest success. But within a few years, it had become a bible of teenage dissent in America and a staple of high school and freshman college English courses. The novel has sold more than 60 million copies A study of adolescence -- at once tender and harshly honest -- it spoke for millions of young people who didn't want to be "phoney" in a commercial, materialistic world. Caulfield became a cult figure comparable with James Dean, but it seems the novel also had an undesirable influence on Mark David Chapman, who said he killed John Lennon to promote Salinger's work, and the man who shot and wounded Ronald Reagan, John Hinckley. Almost immediately after "Catcher" was published, Salinger became disillusioned with publishing. He hated interviews and contact with the public and in 1953, increasingly fed up with publishing and the public, he bought a house at Cornish, New Hampshire, and retreated into a seclusion that was to last for the rest of his life. Court ruling His subsequent books - only three more were published - were all best-sellers. Perhaps the most interesting was Franny and Zooey, but critics felt they all lacked the freshness and drive of Catcher. No new Salinger fiction has appeared since 1965 and Salinger has done everything possible to try to thwart the efforts of biographers. In 1987, the US Supreme Court upheld a claim by Salinger that his copyright had been violated by a critic of the The Sunday Times who drew on unpublished letters from Salinger for an unauthorised biography he published of him. Salinger lretreated to his home in Cornish, New Hampshire Throughout his life, Salinger befriended women younger than himself. He married Claire Douglas, aged 19, when he was 35 in 1954. They had two children and then divorced in 1967. For nearly 30 years he lived with a woman called Colleen O'Neill (who may or may not have been his wife), leading an ascetic life. He called himself "a failed Zen Buddhist", walked about in a mechanic's blue uniform, and when he went to local restaurants, ate in the kitchen to avoid people. Although many years have passed since the publication of any work by Salinger, friends and visitors to his home have revealed that he has a large safe containing at least 15 completed manuscripts. It's thought they all feature the Glass family, about whom Salinger first wrote in Franny and Zooey. It was thought that at Salinger's death, they could be published posthumously, or destroyed. Some critics feel Salinger's attitude was best expressed in the opening lines of The Catcher in the Rye. "If you really want to hear about it the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born. What my lousy childhood was like. And how my parents were occupied and all before they had me. And all that David Copperfield kind of crap. But I don't feel like going into it, if you really want to know the truth". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decyferon Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 damn RIP, a loss of a great writer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allfreetime Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blood fart Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Today sucks for awesome people dying. Howard Zinn also died. R.I.P. to both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PITOFZOMBIES Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 RIP... holden was definitely an inspirational figure when i was a pissed off high school sophomore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ignition Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 ^Word...Rest In Peace 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allfreetime Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 "When a body meets a body...commin' through the rye" RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmm1075 Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 New York Times has a good obituary. RIP: JDS http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/books/29salinger.html?hp=&pagewanted=all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SukiSukiNow Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 on the merry go round you go... rip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volcom8811 Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 rest in peace. great author Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jukka Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 hmm..wonder if its true about the unwritten stories. Thatd be awesome to see a giant collection of his work come out. R.I.P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitchThe$nitch Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 rip for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allfreetime Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 hmm..wonder if its true about the unwritten stories. Thatd be awesome to see a giant collection of his work come out. R.I.P. Ya true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHATEU Posted January 28, 2010 Author Share Posted January 28, 2010 its very true. dude wrote every morning for several hours. now that he is dead im sure his estate will sadly sell the writings to the highest bidder... if he wanted his writings public he would have made them that way, i think they should go down with him. people are so desperate to read his work that when ex wifes and shit bag daughters print books with letters he wrote they sold well... he NEVER wanted "catcher" made into a movie either, even when Spielberg made the offer he happily declined. now that he has passed you will see that within the next 3-4 years im sure... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siege1222 Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 His Nine Short Stories were incredible and Franny and Zooey is very likely one of my favorite books. Rest Easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
injury Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Loved "A Perfect Day for Bananafish." rest in peace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viperface Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 I don't know, maybe he just didn't want to publish and deal with the press at old age...I'd sure like to read what he wrote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrasivesaint Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 senior year of highschool my english final was on cather in the rye. i didnt read it, woke up the morning it was due and did a full report in a hour, showed up a hour and a half late for school, turned it in last period of the day... got a A on the shit. best grade i ever got in that class haha. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ms.seyer Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 RIP Mr. Salinger.. One of my favorite authors, what a loss. "All morons hate it when you call them a moron." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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