Subject: Re: It's War!
From: Graham Preston (gpreston@mail.com)
Date: Sat Sep 23 2000 - 20:00:33 GMT
B-Fish!
>My curiosity is this: If Catcher has lost our interest, is it
necessarily a failing, and is it necessarily HIS failing?<
An interesting question but one must think about if CITR was written for
someone to read over and over and never lose interest in it, or for each
succeeding generation to find some connection with Holden? Just the fact
that JDS is rich off his only novel answers that question well. CITR's
endearing popularuity with many different people proves that the novel is a
"success", and not a "failure".
I reread CITR this past summer while overseas (actually after seeing a copy
of it in chinese!), and at times I was wondering why I had obsessed about
this crimson paperback for so long. That was not what scared me the most,
but that i had read it at Xmas '99, and still loved it and now almost hated
it 8 months later. Had I changed that much? And have we all changed that
much, that we see JDS' actual legacy in the Glass (or Gladwaller) stories?
-Graham
(off and on member of B-Fish since '96)
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