Re: second opinion
Brendan McKennedy (suburbantourist@hotmail.com)
Wed, 29 Apr 1998 14:41:08 -0700 (PDT)
> '...The book I think should most bear a warning label would
> be JD Salinger's _A Catcher in the Rye_. I read this for
> the first time when I was twelve and I thought Holden Caulfield
> was a prat. As this is the favourite novel of so many of my
> friends, I read it at least four more times over the years and
> my opinion has changed: I later thought him a git and now
> I believe him to be a wanker. This character is worse than
> Fanny Price [of Mansfiedl Park] in his holy innoscence and
> wisdom act, at least Fanny WONDERS if she could possibly
> be acting wrongly and Holden never does...'
>
> What do you think of that, then ?
>
> Scottie B.
Sometimes, Scottie, I wonder if it wasn't you who fired the first shot
in the American Revolution. It didn't matter what side you fired on;
you just enjoyed the subsequent carnage.
My first response to this is that there's one thing that separates
Catcher fans from Catcher...er, non-fans--and that's good taste versus
bad taste, plain and simple. On the other hand I wish it were that
simple, being that Austen fans are, of course, readers of impeccable
taste. Right?
Brendan
I'm curious, Scottie, what *your* response to that post was, knowing you
to be a great Catcher fan and also to never shrink from a fight.
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