in the shell

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100128/ap_ ... t_salinger

Thing was I thought he was gone years ago.

yeah...so did I. Well, he sure lived long enough to see the impact of his books on the world and how his themes are still relevant today. That is really something. I bet he must have heard about the Gits references and smirked.

I saw so many facebook status updates and twitter tweets saying what a great loss it was, almost all of them from people I doubt have ever read anything he's written.

Oh come on, don't be so hard. Besides, I think Catcher in the Rye is a mandatory read in english class in the US. I work here in Quebec (French-Canadian province) in a high school and the grade 11 advanced english teachers have it as a part of their curriculum. I wouldn't be surprised if most american with minimal college education have read it at some point.

Too bad he does publish more that 2 books...

RIP J.D.!

It's funny, I never got a chance to read Catcher in the Rye until I was in University, but then I heard that it's practically mandatory in the States.

Personally I found it to be an odd book.

I believe that it's easy to comprehend, but at the same time it's kind of like a double-edged sword and it can hurt ya as much as it can help ya.

I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

But even I had to look the quotation up.

I found the novels more interesting by the way.