zooey and joyce maynard
depressed@collegemail.com
Sun, 05 Dec 1999 18:37:47 +0000
I've been reading Joyce Maynard's book about her year with Salinger.
Maybe you've all talked about this already on the list but I haven't
seen it. I think it's real interesting reading what she has to say.
His obsession with health food, how he loves the glass family more
than his own, and how he has written everything about them, their favorite
books, movies, they're like real characters in his eyes (according to the
book). Don't know if it was right of her to write the book, but I sure
enjoyed reading it.
Anyway, here's what I was thinking about Zooey. Salinger seems to be a lot like
the glass family, like how he judges people and stuff. Zooey was that way too,
he either liked people at first sight or hated them, but he hated the fact that
he was this way, called himself a freak, and wished he could be normal. could
that be true of salinger too? I mean, he wrote Zooey after all.
And one more thing about Joyce Maynard. After reading her book, and checking
out her website, I really don't know if I like her or not. I kinda like her
when she was young, but now... I don't know. I mean it's good for her that she
isn't as insecure as when she was 18 and all, but, I don't know, now she kinda
seems to me like the kind of person who would go on oprah to talk about her
book, how she had to tell everything about her goddamn parents so she could
be 'at home in the world', and Oprah would look at her with this really
*understanding* look on her face and talk about how all women should read it or
something, because it address the *important* issue of young women with low
self-esteem and anorexia and all. It depresses the hell out of me when I think
about it. It really does. Maybe I'm not making my point very well here, but she
just seems to me now like the kind of person who would think the goddamn Lunts
were 'angels'. I don't know. I just don't like her. I really don't.
-Grant-
"Teenage angst has paid off well
Now I'm bored and old"
(K. Cobain)
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