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J.D. Salinger RIP

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by NoOneLikesUs, Jan 28, 2010.

  1. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    That anecdote about the Salingers handing out pencils at Halloween was fantastic.
     
  2. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Spnited does that too. And his pencils have razor blades buried in them.
     
  3. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    I think what made the book remarkable was that in its time - it was a rare book that expressed a view of the teenage years that was very un-Beaver Cleaver, maybe the first that used a kid from an upper middle-class background. Reading it decades later, when other authors like a Judy Blume have come along may have diminished it's "greatness."
    A couple of other things, apparently Salinger was involved with Elaine Joyce in the 80's and his son Matthew was also in Revenge of the Nerds.
     
  4. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    Holy shit, is that ever funny.
     
  5. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    Substitute "hot lead" for "pencils" and I'd have dug it more.
     
  6. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

     
  7. Baltimoreguy

    Baltimoreguy Member

    I like the contrast between the Valley News piece and the NY Times piece. Locals wouldn't talk to NY Times, and so the story becomes "Locals keep code of silence after Salinger's death." But they would talk to the local paper, and the result was a much better, richer story. Seemed like the only good stuff in the NY Times story was kind of .... suggested by the earlier, better story: the church suppers and the local store owner who gave out bogus directions, in particular.
     
  8. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    You hear a lot of similar stories about Harper Lee (known as "Nell" to the locals), who still lives in Monroeville, Ala., the town in which "To Kill a Mockingbird" was set (although it was called Maycomb in the book). She's anything but a recluse, and is a regular figure in the market, at church and at various other town functions. She just doesn't grant interviews, and refuses to allow herself to be photographed.
     
  9. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Valley News wrote a pretty good story.

    http://www.vnews.com/01292010/6354574.htm
     
  10. finishthehat

    finishthehat Active Member

    Abort, Xan, abort!!!!!
     
  11. CentralIllinoisan

    CentralIllinoisan Active Member

    D_B not only in the same thread, but only about 12 posts after .... you're better than that, Xan! :D
     
  12. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    I posted that while thinking of the red-headed girl with big boobs, Christina Hendricks. I was really was.
     
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