Subject: Re: hello hello(how'd you discover Salinger?)
From: Gene (pariah1980@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 22:31:27 EST
--- Clumsy9irl@aol.com wrote:
> > i dont know..depends on the child...im sure you
can
> tell if he/she is ready
> for it...and would appreciate it.....my father had
> perfect timing...but
> see..ive carried the whole thing father than he ever
> did....but...i caught
> him reading those stories..on my
> computer.....that..well...shhhhhhh...i dont
> have...=) thats all....for now...oh..and im
> excited...i aced my honors
> english research project on jane eyre =) yippe
> skipee =)
> ~Meredith
Congratulations on the honors English project:) I
agree that a child has to be open to Salinger and that
not everyone will enjoy him. But I've always loved
reading; from comic books and cheesy "young adult"
novels to academic literature, but it wasn't until
Salinger came to me that I realized there was a whole
world out there of literature that is not taught in
school(at least in most schools) and that, in turn,
led me to discover some of the greatest writers. I
don't know if I'll ever have kids(my fiancee is sort
of against the idea of it, lol.), but if I did, I've
always had this fantasy of waiting till my son(not to
be sexist) came home from school suspended, depressed,
or beat up from a fight and I'd hand him a copy of
"Catcher in the Rye";)
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