Subject: Order please
From: Benjamin Samuels (madhava@sprynet.com)
Date: Thu Mar 23 2000 - 09:09:30 EST
I also have the joy of sharing Salinger with someone close to me, in this
case my 20 yr old sister. She just finished reading F+Z while we were in
the car on the way to NYC last weekend. I happened (coinicidentily or not-
you can decide) to have a copy of RHtRBC handy to hand over as soon as she
had finished F+Z. Her reaction to F+Z has this in common with my own
experience: the whole book has this uncomfortable yet hard to define
tension that keeps building and building throughout it. Not until near the
end, maybe around when Zooey calls up pretending to be Buddy does Salinger
start dropping those pearls whose bbrightness blinds us and makes us forget
the all that uncomfortableness. As for non-linear prose, I guesse either
you get used to it and learn to love, or not.
As to the order for reading- I would guesse that it's most easily approached
through F+Z, the RH.., then APDfBF. We had some discusion recently if I
remember right about some people who had read APfBF before the other marger
Glass works. Anybody out there read them in some other order and care to
comment?
----- Original Message -----
From: Gabe Brannan <gbrannan09@hotmail.com>
To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 11:56 PM
Subject: Order Me Around
> I'll start off by saying that I'm a newbie to the bananafish list, but not
> new to JDS. I'm 23yrs old, a Leo.... I'll skip the rest of the bio until
a
> later date.
>
> Anyways, I just gave my girlfriend a copy of FRANNY AND ZOOEY and she's
part
> way through Z. and she said something about the narrative rambling and
> talking in circles and I (of course) chuckled and said "That's just Buddy
> Glass" which I had to explain to her and she asked me what order she
should
> read the Glass stories in.
>
> *breath*
>
> (I, myself, write and ramble as well in long sentences, which anoys her to
> the full)
>
> Not wanting to poison you all to _my_ reasoning of the order I will ask
you
> in my first post: What order should the Glass stories be read in (for the
> sake of this question, limit it to F&Z, RHTRBC, S:I and Bananafish).
>
> Thank you for your support
>
> gabe brannan
> leo
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