Salinger writing from real life experience

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Thor, you bring up a good point about salinger.  I have never had a suicide 
in my family, but there is a different subject I would like to address.  In 
Catcher In the Rye, this guy starts "making the moves" on Holden while he's 
sleeping.  I had a similar thing happen to me.  No...I had the EXACT same 
thing happen to me.  Exactly!  Either the dude read Catcher in the Rye and 
then started "keepin' it real" while I was sleeping, or Salinger had someone 
do this to him.  It's definitely not fictional.  It's absolutely too accurate 
to be made up.

 - Adam

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I've read every story except Seymour: Intro.  I'm still 20 pages away from 
it.  In Bananafish, Am I the only one who is disturbed by Seymour?  The 
first time reading, I felt the nausea in my gut long before the surprise 
ending.  There is something fundamentally WRONG here.  The same is true of 
Catcher, BTW.  It is disturbing to me.  My brother committed suicide, & I'm 
telling you, the intriguing thing about Salinger's suicide families is that 
they are REAL.  There must have been such asn incident close to him or there 
is no way that he could know how people react & change.
What I'm saying is: Salinger is good because he writes the truth.  Rambling, 
sorry.

Thor

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