JD Salinger dies :(

[justallovertheplace]

So sad. 91 though, so a good innings

Franny and Zooey was one of my favourite books when I was a teenager - much better than Catcher imo.

Yes, sad news, hope our Franny is OK (assume she is big fan )

aw bless you for thinking that jules!
i just saw it myself and came here
golly i am sorry about it
but i mean he was an old man, it's just sad though isn't it?
i am going to reread all his stuff this year, i was planning a salinger binge anyway

dp says "oh well there'll be some new books of his coming out soon then" (he's assuming lots of the 'hoarded' material will be released now he is dead)

aaaaargh major mixed feelings!!

oh gosh i didn't mean major mixed feelings about his death

i mean, i have major mixed feelings about the possibility of being able to read more of his work one day
obviously it would be exciting and wonderful
but you know that he would hate it
so - a headshredder!

Franny, my immediate thought was about new material too. But I bet he has an absolutely watertight will that will prevent it.

wasn't he a recluse for at least half of his life? right, i want to see at lease two of his works made into films during the next year please

O god no. There is no way on earth that his stuff would hold up on screen. I think he knew that.

I re read The Catcher in The Rye recently, the first time I read it I was in my late teens.

I saw it so differently this time. I felt so attuned to HC the first time and time I felt sad for his family, and the teachers that tried to help him.

well, if they managed it with Maurice Sendak's (albeit with limited success)

That's very sad. Another one who heard the news and thought of F&Z .

I assume if he had written stuff he didn't want published posthumously, he would have destroyed it long ago. But I hope not, I would love to read some new stuff that has been long-hidden away in a vault somewhere in his house. I love the Glass family stories, much more so than CITR.

I think they did make a film out of "Uncle Wiggily in Conneticut" in the 50's, though I don't know if in the end it bore that much relation to the original story.

Ahh, glad to hear you're holding up, Franny, yes, I might have a bit of a Salinger binge...

oh i'd love a salinger binge. will reward myself once the essays are finished.
RIP JD

Salinger was GOD.I love that he shunned celebrity and was secretive.It points up so well the contrast between a life of little talent lived in the limelight, and a life spent producing great writing.
Even if no other work of his comes to public view,his body of work as it stands is up there as iconic literature.
So,R.I.P.

oh no films PLEASE
that would just be awful

justa how will he be able to stop it? i worry about it
i would find the temptation to read more Glass stories just too tormenting and yet it would feel so disloyal!

god imagine if you read them and it was terrible
i mean if franny became a porn star or something, and seymour was discovered to have been - oh i don't know - a daily mail writer