Re: First Catcher Memories
craig king (craig.king@cwcom.net)
Fri, 25 Sep 1998 12:46:48 +0100
ello,
i think most people's first salinger experience tends to be catcher.
mine was franny and zooey. i read catcher after i'd gone through all
of the other published stories. and to be honest, i'd never heard of
salinger before i came across f&z (naive, i know), which was a little
penguin paperback with a bright pink cover. the name zooey was
so odd i picked it up and had a browse. the first word i saw was
martini. <italic>martini, </italic>no less. i'd just discovered the joys of a dry martini
(not franny's favourite way) and smiled to myself and carried on
reading. read all of franny in the bookshop, bought it, fell in love
with the thing. theothers followed soon behind. and f&z is still my
favourite. so whenever i think of salinger, one of the first words that
springs to mind is martini.
and is still drink them bone dry. with an olive.
toodleloo,
craig
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