Subject: Re: Hello!
From: Mark Kuhar (mkuhar@mail.ohio.net)
Date: Wed Feb 12 1997 - 08:38:16 GMT
Jennifer -- Be prepared for antiSalinger sentiment as you go through
college as well (if you go through college). I was an English major, and I
had an advisor who constantly snubbed any questions/references to Salinger
in my work. He told me that jds had ben quiet for so long he was
irrelevant. I was ready to strangle him. I didn't. I just told him that I
thought Joseph Conrad was fairly irrelevant (the guy loved Joseph Conrad).
I didn't score any points. Besides, I enjoyed Heart of Darkness and
Nostromo, so I was only half serious. Anyway, just remember, Salinger isn't
for everybody. Thank God. I prefer to have our own little cheering section.
--m
>I um...don't know what to say. Well, I guess I will say that I read
>Catcher when I was a young teen, liked it, but didn't really think too
>much about it. Recently I was home and looking for something to read and
>checked out my younger brothers shelves to find 'Nine Stories' which he
>recommended because he had run a race in the park mentioned in one of the
>stories. I can't remember the name of the story but it was about the
>day-care guy and his kids who were Indians of some sort. Please forgive
>me for not remembering the name of the story and for giving such a flip
>description of the story itself. Anyway, since then I have
>read as much Salinger as I could get my grubby hands on. I am really
>excited for the 'new' release and would appreciate any info on getting my
>own copy.
>
>I'm just going to add one more thing. While I was reading some Salinger
>at one of my aforementioned brother's long-ass indoor track meets, a
>mother of one his friends, who also happens to be an English teacher at
>his HS, asked me what I was reading. So I showed her saying that I was
>just reading it for fun, go to sleep with a good book, kind of
>reading. She replied that if she were reading that it would definately
>be simply for her 'go to sleep' kind of reading. Can anyone understand how
>angry that made me?
>
>Like I said, not too much to say. I look forward to reading what you
>all have to say, I think.
>
>JK
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