Rest In Peace, J.D. Salinger

I lay a bag of frozen Bird's Eye peas on your grave, Jerry.

RIP. One of the greatest American writers of all time.

His canon is small but just about as good as they come.

Thanks for posting that, Dennis. I'll add my thoughts later. I feel like I lost a member of my family right now. I really do.

I've always loved his dedication from  Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

If there is an amateur reader still left in the world--or anybody who just reads and runs--I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.

I recently read Seymour an introduction and really dug it. I didn't really understand it. But it has stuck with me.

Anyway, it sucks that he died but he seemed to have lived a full life on his own terms, which in these times, is a cause for celebration. And maybe there will be some posthumous releases?

What's up with this Easton Ellis Tweet?

Yeah!! Thank God he's finally dead. I've been waiting for this day for-fucking-ever. Party tonight!!!

What?? What an ass. I've lost all respect for him.

Adam, hell yeah, you're absolutely right; he did have a great long life, lived on his own terms. I still feel bereaved.

before i read "catcher," i thought i was alone. I guess all he did in his free time was write and there are tons of notebooks in his house. I'm sure it will take a few years, but there will be more material published by JDS.

Uncollected Sallinger

A Perfect Day for Bananafish is one of my favorite short stories ever.

And yeah that tweet was unnecessary. Hope he was being sarcastic.

RIP. Salinger was a great novelist.

The best article about JDS's death.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/bunch_of_phonies_mourn_j_d

Agreed, The Onion was brilliant with this one.

I liked the onion piece too, it was a fitting tribute.

The first time I read Catcher in the Rye, I was a senior in high school with my father, a Southern Baptist preacher, sick in the hospital. My mother had heard that through the church that this book was evil. When I got home from school, she had the book in her hand, led me to the backyard, and set it on fire. I remember standing there, watching it burn, her telling me that I had brought something evil into our house, something which caused my father's illness. I found another copy at the library, which I hid beneath my mattress. There was something redeeming about reading Salinger, some reassurance, and it gave me some initiative to question this world around me, question what the adults were telling me, and in many ways begin life as an adult--which meant leaving my family behind. Thank you, JDS.

Why is it such difficult to understand that it's obviously a passionnate reader's reaction, who hopes that Salinger's daughter gonna finally be able to publish all the material JD stocked selfishly in his safe?
I'm a Salinger big fan but yes, as Brett Easton Ellis, who never denied his total admiration and filiation to Salinger), I'm quite "glad" he died, for this simple reason.
(and please excuse my bad english, it's not my mother's tongue)

I took it hard.

I don't feel even a little compassion for his death.

This is the first I've heard of it.

sleepy wrote:

I don't feel even a little compassion for his death.

Well you're just a real stick in the mud then aren't you.

Wasn't Salinger, himself, like, the king of sticks in the mud? He seemed like it.

Yeah well sort of I guess. Still. I still wish upon "sleepy" a stick in the mud of the poo in her ass, because damnit I liked the guy's books .

I cried when I found out about this.

Ellis is a poor writer and a worse human being?

I'm glad someone finally said it. About him being a poor writer and all.

I've been saying it for some time.

IMHO and all.

^wowzers.

*shrug* Feel free to differ.

We are legion.

Dear Adelheid Instead of writing all kinds off crap concerning other people opinion, go and use your fingers for something more suitable for you . Like for example use the balls of yarn on your userpic and start knit yourself a hat because you definitely have a brainfreeze !!! And wile kniting go ached and help yourself to read one of that dorky useless idiot books . And if you for some reason ( brainfreeze for example) did not get to whom I was referring as a dorky useless idiot, it was J.D. Salinger because even the finger on the back leg of my cat is a better writer then what sucker was !!!!!

Hey xec8! Instead off calling sleepy a moran why don't you take th eskull guy in your avatar and make a musical abotu yarn and read one of does useless Saliger books too while your at it I can right better than him too.

I has Englishing!

Too soon?

Matt, you slay me.

In other news, I thought Huan was banned for spam months ago. Or is this a different Huan?

Huan 2: The Wrath of Huan.

Huan 2: More Better Than the First Huan

Huan 2: Huan More Time, We're Gonna Celebrate Low Price Air Line Tickets

You guise kill me.

Oi! These links are bad!

I knew I should've used a real link! I should've known you'd click on it, test me.