Re: hapworth


Subject: Re: hapworth
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 14 2001 - 13:03:22 GMT


Nah, good lord though, this was supposed to be a seven year old kid writing
home from Camp and he's talking like a 20 year old philosophy major? I
don't buy it. Salinger got a bit self indulgent there.

Jim

Cecilia Baader wrote:
>
> --- allen beaman <abeaman@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
> > So I finally get through Hapworth, after three attempts in the past
> > year. I couldn't even focus on it as fiction, it came across as very
> > lecturing...preachy. Should have stopped at Seymour: An Introduction.
> > Anyway, I couldn't make it through War and Peace when I was seven. Too
> > busy with Chewbacca.
>
> Dear Chewy,
>
> Perhaps that's the point. Perhaps Seymour was lecturing and preachy and
> not at all the saint that his siblings deem him.
>
> It adds about a thousand new facets to all that has gone before, no?
>
> Regards,
> Cecilia.
>
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