Salinger vs Pynchon

This person I used to do session work for, who had the honest to god surname of Salinger... I sat in while she auditioned a guitarist who, upon learning of our surnames made this sarcastic comment about "Hangin' out at the studio with J.D. and Upton..."

She hired him this comment. I walked out for the same reason. Sigh.

And Pynchon's books are more fun, and there is more Pynchon to read, which when the stuff is good should count for something.

Why am I the only one (okay, the only non-teenager) who really likes this book? Did everyone else sour on it after being forced to read it in high school or something?

the new yorker stylee dialogue I either try to get used to or ignore my negative reaction to.

Hey, but you wouldn't be watching Godzilla with Pynchon, you'd be watching King Kong over and over again!

The very first reply made me burst out laughing the first time I read it.

Well Salinger's back in the public eye, sorta:

In “The Catcher in the Rye,” the narrator Holden Caulfield warns his readers to beware of phonies, and his creator, J. D. Salinger, evidently still believes in that caution. On Monday, Mr. Salinger, the reclusive author, filed suit against the writer and the publisher of a planned book that claims to be a sequel to “The Catcher in the Rye,” Reuters reported. In an interview in The Telegraph, the author John David California said that his coming novel, called “60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye,” would feature a 76-year-old character called Mr. C, who wanders the streets of New York after he escapes his nursing home, in a manner similar to Holden Caulfield’s escape from an elite prep school. In The Telegraph, Mr. California said that Mr. Salinger was “a great writer who influenced the entire world with the words he made up” and said that his novel was “a tribute the way Holden would have said it.” In the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, lawyers for Mr. Salinger said, “The sequel is not a parody and it does not comment upon or criticize the original. It is a rip-off pure and simple,” according to Reuters.

J.D. OTM

yeah that's an odd thing to try

I'd read The Catcher In The Rye With Zombies.

who wouldn't?

"Anyway, it was December and all, and I was going to say it was cold as a witch's teat, especially on top of that stupid hill, but I'd just felt zombie teat for the first time..."

photoshop please?

something better than this:
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/2133/frannie.jpg

That John David California guy advances a counterargument:

According to a legal brief provided by his lawyers, Fredrik Colting, the author of the book “60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye,” says that his novel is not a sequel to “Catcher in the Rye,” but rather “a complex and undeniably transformative exposition about one of our nation’s most famous authors, J.D. Salinger, and his best known creation, Holden Caulfield.”

The book “explores the famously reclusive Salinger’s efforts to control both his own persona and the persona of the character he created,” according to the brief. “It also scrutinizes and criticizes the iconic stature of Salinger and his creation by comparing the precocious and self-satisfied 16-year-old Holden with a 76-year-old version of himself fraught with indecision and insecurity.”