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Started by The Larch, January 28, 2010, 01:49:48 PM

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The Larch

January 28, 2010, 01:49:48 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8486169.stm

QuoteAmerican novelist JD Salinger, author of classic 20th Century book The Catcher in the Rye, has died aged 91.

The reclusive writer died of natural causes at his home in the state of New Hampshire, his son said.

Josephus

#1
January 28, 2010, 01:58:27 PM
Him I've heard of.  :cry:
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Razgovory

#2
January 28, 2010, 02:25:20 PM
 :( He was angsty before it was cool to be angsty.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

The Brain

#3
January 28, 2010, 03:57:01 PM
He let Yoko Ono live WTF
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

CountDeMoney

#4
January 28, 2010, 07:22:29 PM
By all accounts, he's been writing the entire time.
Let's hope so, and let's hope his family chooses to bring it all to the light of day.

jimmy olsen

#5
January 28, 2010, 11:59:26 PM
RIP

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/bunch_of_phonies_mourn_j_d
QuoteBunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger

January 28, 2010 | Issue 46•04
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CORNISH, NH—In this big dramatic production that didn't do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author J.D. Salinger, who was 91 years old for crying out loud. "He had a real impact on the literary world and on millions of readers," said hot-shot English professor David Clarke, who is just like the rest of them, and even works at one of those crumby schools that rich people send their kids to so they don't have to look at them for four years. "There will never be another voice like his." Which is exactly the lousy kind of goddamn thing that people say, because really it could mean lots of things, or nothing at all even, and it's just a perfect example of why you should never tell anybody anything.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

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Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
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Barrister

#6
January 29, 2010, 12:00:48 AM
Man how I hated Catcher In The Rye.

RIP you crazy old dude.
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jimmy olsen

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January 29, 2010, 12:03:16 AM
Quote from: Barrister on January 29, 2010, 12:00:48 AM
Man how I hated Catcher In The Rye.
:hug:
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Barrister

#8
January 29, 2010, 12:18:58 AM
I don't want to be negative in a RIP thread though.  I know many people found his work to be very good.

So RIP Salinger.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

barkdreg

#9
January 29, 2010, 07:26:27 AM
Catcher in the Rye must have been one of the worst books I've had the misfortune to read.
I can understand you'd like it if you are a an 11 year old fucktard, otherwise it's just a badly written nonsenscical piece of shit with way to much gay inuendo.

Brazen

#10
January 29, 2010, 08:17:16 AM
File under "people I thought were dead already".
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