J.D. Salinger RIP

[NoOneLikesUs]

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2010-01-28-salinger-obit_N.htm

NEW YORK — Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger has died at age 91 in New Hampshire.

The author's son, in a statement from the author's literary representative, says Salinger died of natural causes at his home. He had lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in the small, remote house in Cornish, N.H.

The Catcher in the Rye with its immortal teenage protagonist — the twisted, rebellious Holden Caulfield — came out in 1951 during the time of anxious, Cold War conformity.

Salinger wrote for adults, but teenagers all over the world identified with the novel's themes of alienation, innocence and fantasy.

In later years, Salinger become famous for not wanting to be famous, refusing interviews.

 

[imjustagirl]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/28/national/main6151160.shtml?tag=breakingnews

Little longer story.

He went out how he wanted to go out. Kudos, and RIP.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Just saw this. RIP to one of the most enigmatic personalities during my lifetime. Let's hope there are no phonies in heaven.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

R.I.P. J.D. Salinger

He was 91.

Salinger, Zinn and Zelda Rubenstien (the psychic from The Twilight Zone) all died today.

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

It will be interesting to see what becomes of his unpublished writings now that he's gone.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Salinger, Zinn and Zelda Rubenstien (the psychic from The Twilight Zone) all died today.

 

[spnited]

Re: R.I.P. J.D. Salinger

That's three Salinger threads.

Geez, can't people see what's right in front of them?

 

[finishthehat]

It will be interesting to see what becomes of his unpublished writings now that he's gone.

The big question.

Loved most everything he did with the exception of Catcher, which never clicked for me.

His son, btw, once starred in a terrible, terrible "Captain America" movie.

 

[WaylonJennings]

Heaven needed a litigious recluse.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Re: R.I.P. J.D. Salinger

That's three Salinger threads.

Geez, can't people see what's right in front of them?

There were none when I checked. Honest.

 

[imjustagirl]

Re: R.I.P. J.D. Salinger

That can't be possible. Both were started at 1:13 p.m.

 

[Steak Snabler]

WaPo has a rather lengthy obit up now as well:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/28/AR2010012803177.html

Read "Catcher in the Rye" once in my early 20s, just to say that I had done it. Didn't really resonate with me, either, but I'm sure it would have been different had I read it in 1951.

EDIT: To include this nugget from the story:

In 1999, New Hampshire neighbor Jerry Burt said the author had told him years earlier that he had written at least 15 unpublished books kept locked in a safe at his home.

Wonder if they'll ever see the light of day?

 

[YankeeFan]

Re: R.I.P. J.D. Salinger

That can't be possible. Both were started at 1:13 p.m.

Hey, it took him seven minutes to get his thoughts together and post than very moving tribute.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Re: R.I.P. J.D. Salinger

That can't be possible. Both were started at 1:13 p.m.

It is ... I looked at there were none. I posted it and then were three.
I tried to remove it but couldn't.

 

[93Devil]

This and three D_Bs, that has to be some kind of record.

 

[Oggiedoggie]

I think that this is almost big enough for the first 21-thread salute.

 

[Crash]

I read somewhere not that long ago (can't remember where) that he sold the movie rights to "Catcher in the Rye" a while back, but that it stipulated that a movie not be made until after his death.

Can anyone confirm that?

 

[Hackwilson191]

"What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while...What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."

-- Holden Caulfield

 

[YGBFKM]

I'd like to hear BYH's seventh-grade interpretation of J.D. Salinger's death.

 

[The Big Ragu]

I'd like to hear BYH's seventh-grade interpretation of J.D. Salinger's death.

Easy. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where Salinger was born and what his lousy childhood was like, and how his parents were occupied and all before they had him, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but BYH won't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.