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Re: Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH
« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2010, 07:20:19 AM »
Quote from: tombogan03884 on January 28, 2010, 11:04:07 PM
Kurt Saxon  ;D


Kurt Saxon...a name from the past.....He still around?
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Re: Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH
« Reply #11 on: January 29, 2010, 10:27:24 AM »
 I don't know if Saxon is still alive, but the Poor man's James Bond is doing fine  ;D
Salinger wasn't "isolated" he was just more of a loner, he was at Dartmouth for 2 basketball games just last week.
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Re: Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH
« Reply #12 on: January 29, 2010, 11:43:41 AM »
Quote from: tombogan03884 on January 29, 2010, 10:27:24 AM
I don't know if Saxon is still alive, but the Poor man's James Bond is doing fine  ;D
Salinger wasn't "isolated" he was just more of a loner, he was at Dartmouth for 2 basketball games just last week.

I used to have the set of PMJB and his Survivor series plus the smaller publications but they have gotten away from me over the years.  I found a site that seems to over the whole thing on CD... not sure if having Survival reference works on CD makes sense.

Yeah, about Salinger.  To the News Media, if you had fame and now don't choose to show up at every media event possible and spout your opinion on everything from Global Warming to the fate of blind cave fish, you are a recluse.

Of course, he wrote Catcher when he was about 30 and his own "coming of age drama" was still a fresh memory.  It may be that he demanded his picture be taken off further publications of the book because, at an advance age, he didn't feel quite the tolerance for all that Teenage Angst anymore.
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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
—Patrick Henry

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
— Daniel Webster

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Re: Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH
« Reply #13 on: January 29, 2010, 12:35:33 PM »
 Read a comment somewhere that having Catcher in the Rye on high school reading lists was stupid, teens would learn more from Romeo and Juliet, It reinforces the value of learning things.
Like how to take a pulse  ;D
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Re: Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH
« Reply #14 on: January 29, 2010, 02:36:27 PM »
Quote from: tombogan03884 on January 29, 2010, 12:35:33 PM
Read a comment somewhere that having Catcher in the Rye on high school reading lists was stupid, teens would learn more from Romeo and Juliet, It reinforces the value of learning things.
Like how to take a pulse  ;D


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".........

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Re: Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH
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Re: Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH
« Reply #15 on: January 29, 2010, 03:25:13 PM »
Quote from: tombogan03884 on January 29, 2010, 12:35:33 PM
Read a comment somewhere that having Catcher in the Rye on high school reading lists was stupid, teens would learn more from Romeo and Juliet, It reinforces the value of learning things.
Like how to take a pulse  ;D

I must preface my statement by saying that I was NOT an English major in college, nor do I consider myself an expert.  That being said, with the emphasis now placed on writing, it should be required reading, if not for literary value, then as an example of character development in composition.  I didn't think much of it story wise, but,  it is THE perfect example of a painstakingly cultivated character.  "Catcher" was the only uneventful book that I was unable to put down.

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Re: Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH
« Reply #16 on: January 29, 2010, 03:32:08 PM »
I'd also say that the level of 'required reading' is nowhere near what it was 30 years ago. Ask a teenager who Charles Dickens was and you'll get a blank stare.
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Re: Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH
« Reply #17 on: January 29, 2010, 03:47:17 PM »
Quote from: tombogan03884 on January 29, 2010, 12:35:33 PM
Read a comment somewhere that having Catcher in the Rye on high school reading lists was stupid, teens would learn more from Romeo and Juliet, It reinforces the value of learning things.
Like how to take a pulse  ;D

The little bastards would learn more from Orwell, or even Heinlein.  I let, my little brothers borrow from my expanding library, most of the books I've got I haven't read, but they tear through them so I buy 'em.

I did read Catcher in the Rye a few years back in high school though, didn't care for it much, but it did display excellent character development, which I learned from.
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Re: Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH
« Reply #18 on: January 29, 2010, 03:50:38 PM »
Dante............... now there's a rip snorter.........   ;D  ;D  ;D
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"I expect perdition, I always have. I keep this building at my back, and several guns handy, in case perdition arrives in a form that's susceptible to bullets. I expect it will come in the disease form, though. I'm susceptible to diseases, and you can't shoot a damned disease." ~ Judge Roy Bean, Streets of Laredo

For the Patriots of this country, the Constitution is second only to the Bible for most. For those who love this country, but do not share my personal beliefs, it is their Bible. To them nothing comes before the Constitution of these United States of America. For this we are all labeled potential terrorists. ~ Dean Garrison

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Re: Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH
« Reply #19 on: January 29, 2010, 03:51:47 PM »
Quote from: PegLeg45 on January 29, 2010, 03:50:38 PM
Dante............... now there's a rip snorter.........   ;D  ;D  ;D

The most pompous of them all he is.
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