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     Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.48.52 |
I've just heard that he's died, aged 91. Like so many, I'll never forget reading The Catcher in the Rye as a teenager. On BBC World News they interviewed author Jay McInerney, 'author of Bright Light's, Big City'. I noticed him wincing - perhaps he noticed the apostrophe they'd added to the title of his novel. | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
I'd describe what the person responsible for that Grocer's Apostrophe in typical style of the narrator of The Catcher in the Rye, but there are ladies present. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Holden Caulfield was a whinger. | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
For the first few chapters I was with Weber and couldn't see what all the fuss was about but now Holden's deeper voice has kicked in and I'm hooked... the amount of detail and sheer depth in the characterisation is very powerful. | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.78.35.185 |
I liked Catcher in the rye when I ready it several years ago, but I actually preferred some of his short stories, especially "For Esmé, with love and squalor" and "A perfect day for bananafish". Now it's more than 20 years ago when I read his books - I am curious if my taste has evolved since. |