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“Say. Who wants to grab a sandwich?”
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BECAUSE OF THE PASTRAMI
Not a whole lot of Salinger fans here, eh?
Or is it Rand you hate?
Sadly, my J.D. Salinger is about 25 years past its ‘best used by’ date. My guess is that many others are suffering a similar problem.
I despised Holden Caulfield, I really did.
John Galt, less so.
There’s not much left to add. You pretty much covered the whole gist of the book.
Sorry Jeff
It has been 20 years since I last read “Catcher”
But thanks to you , I have found my copy and have dusted it off and will relive those moments again…..
This book is about sandwiches?
Who knew?
About the only thing interesting I can think of regarding Salinger is that character that was based on him in Field of Dreams. As I recall, we were supposed to think he (Salinger) was good on account of he was a writer who was SO sensitive and tormented that he couldn’t write. Or something like that. I don’t think it works if you’re over 18. Same thing with Rand—you oughta read her novels before you’re 21.
Now, Kinsella, he’s good at pretty much any age up to my semi-superannuated condition.
TW= audience. as in, I’m not really sure who they audience for that joke was.
Salinger? Rand? Despise ‘em both.
John Knowles A Separate Peace Gene Forester:”Holden, you’re such a pussy….”
No doubt about it Jeff, if you’d written Catcher in the Rye, I would no longer feel the need to choke the living shit out of Holden.
TW “walked” Caufield should have walked out of that rye field, the whiny little loser.
shitpissfuckcuntcocksuckermotherfuckertits!
WooHoo! I still remember my Salinger!
No, no, that’s George Carlin. Or Blink 182, depending.
Dammit! And here I though I was going all intellectual on your ass and shit.
TW: way – No way.
If Catcher in the Rye was written in the manner you suggest, Jodie Foster would still be alive today.
Imagine!
I’m lost.
Although I like Libertarian principles, reading Atlas Shrugged was one of the hardest things I have ever done. God that woman sucks as a writer. I loved the Fountainhead movie but am afraid to read the book, lol. I didn’t read Catcher until I was old enough that it seemed fairly obvious, not really my cup of tea anyhoo.
Don’t say that, I just started “Atlas Shrugged.” I read “Fountainhead” a year or so ago, and enjoyed it. Well, “enjoyed” perhaps isn’t the right word.
I was thinking of doing a Conceptual Series: “Salinger’s ‘Catcher in the Rye’ Holden Caufield Meets Robert Heinlein’s Lazarus Long” …
but I decided it was too derivative.
Uncle Milty says if I had a voucher I could leave this crummy school and take it to a different crummy school. He kills me.
I haven’t liked that book since I was 14 and it was dirty. Now if Salinger had the talent to add a dancing armadillo with a taste for really hot young hurricane relief workers, like some of today’s great literary talents, he might be able to hold my attention.
The Pastrami on the Rye: Holden Mayo
and I’m spent…
Hmmm.
Frankly the Fountainhead was only slight less difficult to read than Moby Dick. And I must admit that my opinion of the lead character in the Fountainhead is: What a jackass.
Holden who’s that now?
Goldstein wept.
I’d kill for a sandwich right now. Pastrami? Rye? Dude, all we need is a little brown mustard and some sharp cheddar. Bring it!
Ah, yes, Holden Caufield. Now there was a character who really did embody the phrase “because of the hypocrisy”.
And Hugh Hewitt says he doesn’t understand you Jeff.
OMFG!
Goldstein Goes Global!
I think I deserve, oh, 5% of the accrued fame and fortune, eh? Unless Jeff LIKES having rabid ninja hampsters dropped on his house like teeny-tiny paratroopers…
you say so much with so little.
sadly, it’s the same thing, over and over again. a broken record you is.
I love you.
American Football
Hallelullah!
It works.
We blew the shit out of them.
We blew the shit right back up their own ass
And out their fucking ears.
It works.
We blew the shit out of them.
They suffocated in their own shit!
Hallelullah.
Praise the Lord for all good things.
We blew them into fucking shit.
They are eating it.
Praise the Lord for all good things.
We blew their balls into shards of dust,
Into shards of fucking dust.
We did it.
Now I want you to come over here and kiss me on the mouth.
A Non-Award Winning Poem In The Mileu of Harold Pinter
Pinter? That cunt.
Where’s my pie, bitch?
Holy crap. That’s what goldstein looks like? I totally had him pegged for something else. That’s always interesting.
You thought I was kidding about Oktoberfest and the clippers, didn’t you…?
Goy!
“Frankly the Fountainhead was only slight less difficult to read than Moby Dick. And I must admit that my opinion of the lead character in the Fountainhead is: What a jackass. “
Let’s not forget the lead female character. She must have been smoking the really good stuff.
I’d have to go with Atlas Shrugged over The Fountainhead any day. The characters actually have intelligible motivations for most of their actions.
Telemachus Sneezed
SB: lost
Hey! Get outta my DVR!
“Yeah I read Ayn Rand in high school. I thought it was stoopid and evil. I mean, are we all supposed to be greedy and shit?”
– Typical Pouser Who Never Read Ayn Rand
(see also Tolkien Haters Who Lied About Reading Tolkein)
And they say all the intellectuals are leftists…
Reading ‘Catcher in the Rye’ is the literary equivalent of going to grad school; your brain is soaked in ideology, but only the vulgar language seeps forth during fermentation.
Didn’t read Catcher in the Rye yet; I thought the best Ayn Rand I read was We the Living, where people are actually ambiguous and fail to do the things they should stuff.
I’m in the middle of HP Lovecraft and fantasizing about Dora the Explorer Beyond the Mountains of Madness. ”Mira! A Shoggoth!”