Books

[digit]

[Cat Stevens]

Oh not another book thread!

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[Cat Stevens]

Anyhow, just got this:

www.amazon.com/The-Zeppelin-Combat-History-Division/dp/088740510X/ref=pd_sim_b_6

And just ordered this:

www.amazon.com/Walt-Disneys-Mickey-Mouse-Collectors/dp/1606994964

Well... that's it from me.

[digit]

ah sorry, slow day at work

[digit]

actually the significance of this book is that its the one that wilde was referring to in dorian gray

[digit]

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/biographyandmemoirreviews/10289384/Salinger-by-David-Shields-and-Shane-Salerno-review.html

looks like a doc coming out on JD. has anyone actually read his other stuff ....the glass family just doesnt sound appealing to me

[manho]

i know his stuff pretty well and i'd say that fundamentally it comes down to this: catcher is one of the greatest comic novels ever written and in no other book by salinger is there any trace of humour whatsoever. the other stuff is fine if you're young, idealistic and pretentious but if you're over 25 and haven't read it yet i'd say don't bother.

[digit]

great i had a hunch just by the titles of those novels, i think there's a short story sequel to catcher coming out. i have a few months more of free time for reading so dont wanna waste it reading shite....

[manho]

i'll tell you a funny story which might just be a parable. my eng lit teacher gave us catcher in the rye to read in the first year of sixth form (this is early mid 60s) and obviously everybody loved it, i think me particularly. i read it twice immediately and then again a couple of times during the year. i loved it so much i put my hand up in class once and asked the prof if salinger had written any other books and he said yeah he had written some other stuff but it wasn't up to the quality of catcher. so i forgot all about it.

then, late 60s, when i was young, idealistic and pretentious, i came across his other stuff in the local library and read it all and got my circle of young, idealistic and pretentious friends to read it all too. many long nights spent discussing the books while playing the white album backwards. oh, how i scoffed silently at the ignorance of my english lit prof. what a buffoon he was, like all teachers, right?

then years later when i was less young, less idealistic and less pretentious i realised that he was right.

[digit]

well I never got to do catcher because I was in a catholic priest run school (similar to belvedere where joyce went) so most of the classic novels were out of bounds.