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'Catcher in the Rye' author J.D. Salinger dies
• APSalinger died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday, the author's son said in a statement from Salinger's literary representative. He had lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in the small, remote house in Cornish, N.H.
2 Comments in Response to 'Catcher in the Rye' author J.D. Salinger dies
I hated Catcher in The Rye
Throughout my schoolyears - and I was pretty much a straight A student - I think I was required to read Catcher 2 or 3 times. I never got through it and my grades suffered. It took me close to 20 years to figure out why. Salinger. Hemingway too. The book sucked. Just that simple. The pseudo-intellectuals of the 50s and 60s or whenever praised it for g*d knows why. They had their reasons. The bottom line is as literature or as a book it just sucked, bottom line. I could not get through the book because it sucked. I read Atlas Shrugged in 3 days. I read the Hobbit in 3 days. I read Dune in 3 days. They did not suck. Most, but not all of Hemingway is unbearably sucky as well. Maybe it had an urban chic-y view of hardened frontier life back whenever. But it's BARELY tolerable literature. Tolstoy's stories about Cossaks kicks Hemingway's as* anyday of the week. Gatsby's author (forgot name because literature was so unmemorable) was barely tolerable such that I actually remember the story, but am completely neutral on it.