Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH

[tombogan03884]

I never read Catcher in the Rye, I always thought it was just how the Government kept track of it's brain washed assassins.

Don't get me started on Romeo and Juliet...........   
I helped my son do an "interpretive" essay on the subject. It was one of those things where the teacher asked, "What was on Shakespeare's mind when he wrote........" type things.

I was like, "How the hell should I know what was in Ol' Bill's mind when he wrote the story? For all I know he could have been high as a kite and wrote the thing sarcastically as an Elizabethan primer on how to deal with troublesome teens".........

 

Most likely he was thinking about nailing the little serving wench in the bar across from the Globe theater   

+ 10 on Heinlein

[blackwolfe]

Never read Catcher, faked it, and got a B on the paper I wrote on it in english class way back when.  Did the same thing with the Great Gatsby.  We read Romeo and Juliet aloud in class and I got stuck reading Romeo almost evry single day and none of the Juliets were cute or smart.  My english teacher didn't like me, probably for good reason, but that is another story.  Those books just aren't my kind of reading, but maybe I'll read Catcher now.

[tt11758]

Never read Catcher, faked it, and got a B on the paper I wrote on it in english class way back when.  Did the same thing with the Great Gatsby.  We read Romeo and Juliet aloud in class and I got stuck reading Romeo almost evry single day and none of the Juliets were cute or smart.  My english teacher didn't like me, probably for good reason, but that is another story.  Those books just aren't my kind of reading, but maybe I'll read Catcher now.

Me either.  No guns, bombs, bazookas, or anything else that can blow shit up.