Re: my very first time


Subject: Re: my very first time
From: Graham Preston (ac109@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2000 - 22:50:28 EST


The first time I read any Salinger was way back in the fall of 1995. I
had just seen "Seven Degrees of Seperation" and was moderately interested
in what the book was all about. Some time passed until I saw the crimson
cover for the first time. It was in a French class, and I approached it
slowly (it was sitting on the chalk holder underneath the black board) and
took it back to my seat. I read the first paragraph, and that was it. I
had found something that bundled all my frustrations into one package (and
in one paragraph no less). I quickly and quietly put it in my bag.

I read the book in perhaps 2 or 3 days, and I was floored by it. It
talked to me as few things have before or since. I quickly ventured onto
the 'Net to find for any information on JDS or the book. I found the
Holden Server (!!!), and the instructions to join this very group. I
joined quickly and started to learn quickly. I read all of JDS' other
books and although they didn't speak to me as CiTR did then, they pack a
greater punch 5 years down the line as I reread them.

I had a period in which I kept the book inside my front left pocket to
read anytime. That has passed and I keep the book near me and in my bag
whenever I travel but rarely read it until Christmas. I have looked for
the uncollected stories and have found "Go See Eddie", JDS' first story,
and lots of others. But searches for Hapworth in original New Yorker ink
have been fruitless. In the UBC library every New Yorker from 1935 or so
is bound and kept in the basement of the Main Library (every one except
June-August 1965!).

That's about it.

Oh yeah, I'm a little late but here's the books I'm reading now and have
read...

Present Book - "The Sun Also Rises" Hemingway (because "You are a lost
generation" describes my generation perfectly)
last JDS - CiTR - At Christmas I read it as per usual Yuletide
celebration.
last books - "A Farewell to Arms" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" Hemingway
(because I had to find out after rereading CiTR why Holden hated it so
much!) Actually I liked Farewell way better and would rank it with CiTR
on my scale (with "Breakfast of..." and "Gravity's..."

Out.

"Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that
doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe." Kurt Vonnegut

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