Thursday, January 28, 2010

J.D. Salinger Has Died


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

29 comments:

  1. May he rest in peace.

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  2. Such an enigma, that one.
    Thank you for your writing, J.D.
    RIP.

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  3. Sad, though I honestly didn't realize he was still alive. Love his works!

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  4. What Clanger said.

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  5. wow, 91. to paraphrase jonathan swift, i hope he lived all the days of his life.

    rip.

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  6. and Howard Zinn. A bad day for thinking Americans.

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  7. farmgirl, i was just thinking the same thing.

    Chomsky better not die right now too. :(

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  9. This was one mysterious cat.

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  10. Ditto what Julie said.

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  11. Any word on all those post-Catcher novels he reputedly kept in a safe to be published after he died?

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  12. PERSONALLY I THOUGHT HE WOULD LIVE FOREVER...JUST SO HE COULD KEEP ON SUING OTHER AUTHORS AND FAMILY MEMBERS....LET THE BIOGRAPHIES BEGIN....THESE SHOULD BE JUICY ...
    HE WAS ONE WEIRD GUY...

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  13. Oh no!! And he just had his 91st birthday recently. :(

    Gosh, I love the way he writes.

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  14. I'm sure Harvey Wienstein is drooling over getting his paws to the rights of Catcher in the Rye.

    Now he will finally have a way to get Blake Lively into Bed.

    Holden Caufield has a sex change!

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  15. I'm so sad.
    Catcher in the Rye is my favorite book.

    =(

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  16. Great author, but crazies really resonated with his work. He was smart he keep out of the limelight and had the life he wanted.

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  17. Another hero gone...I started writing after reading "Catcher in the Rye"...why don't people write like that anymore?

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  18. Sorry to hear that he's gone, but I'm sure I'll be alone on this site when I say I wasn't a big fan of 'that book'.

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  19. RIP. Goodbye Holden. You certainly left your mark.

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  20. Only read Catcher in the Rye recently when I picked the book up for a dime at a rummage sale. Best dime I spent - I loved that book.

    91 seems like a ripe old age yet my grandma is 90 and now it seems too soon.

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  21. Babs,

    I was not a fan of the book either. Even when I was younger and rebellious, it just didn't "click" for me.

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  22. You guys should read the book by his ex-girlfriend. I can't remember the name of the book but her name was Joyce Maynard. This guy was a pedophile. Loved his work but he was f'n creepy.

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  23. You mean I'm not the only person who read Catcher in the Rye as a teenager & thought Holden Caufield was a jackass? ;-) Not to speak ill of the dead, but that & A Confederacy of Dunces are 2 novels I've never been able to get through (in the latter's case, I barely got through the first chapter or 2), just because the protagonists worked my nerves so badly. *sigh*

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  24. Thank you farmgirl, I agree.

    I love Salinger. I admit I cried a little when I heard. I thought his writing was exquisite. I am a writer, and when I first read Nine Stories, I laughed because there is no way in hell I would EVER write that well. Ever. Such genius.

    RIP J.D.

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  25. RIP JD

    Catcher in the Rye was one of my favorites in high school.

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  26. RIP, J.D.

    I hope you find peace.

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