Re: Who wrote Holden Caulfield
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sun, 01 Nov 1998 14:17:20 +1100
> >I haven't heard it, but I don't think that I would want to.
> -Liz Friedman
Why on earth not ??? This reminds me of an argument I had last year with
Marion Potts, the head of education at Sydney Theatre Company and her Ned
boyfriend, who is also a drama teacher. We were talking about Romeo+Juliet,
the then-recent movie. Marion said `It's ridiculous, it's not Shakespeare,
kids are coming out of it saying `Why did everyone talk so funny?' Ned and
I were quite to the contrary: we had both personally observed fifteen year
old girls putting down their Baby Sitters Club books and taking the
Complete Shakespeare with them to read in bed!
My point is - *anything* that can enlighten, lead a path into or otherwise
entice anyone to read a fine piece of literature and enjoy it - even a
really bad cable adaptation, even the Classics Illustrated comic book
version - is worth it. There's absolutely no reason to be snobbish about
it. Apart from anything, it actually is a good song and in a lot of ways
the spirit of Punk is more close to the spirit of Holden than anything
else. The guys from Green Day loved the book and loved Holden - why
shouldn't they proclaim this and even make one kid read the book when they
otherwise wouldn't have?
Camille
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