[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

It is highly over-rated.

The left is trying to tie the novel and Salinger to the beatnik and population-gap group of writers.

The truth is, for anyone who actually studies literature, he didn’t do anything all that original or great.

He was a good writer. He wrote a good rejecting-coming-of-age novel. That’s about the extent of it.

[Borges]

Salinger had a huge effect on the architecture of the modern short story. They're very subtle and are can hinge on something as little as a single italized word.

[Ronin]

That’s what you call it? I read a boring book about a whining spoiled brat little rich prick who liked to hit on older women, get drunk and make an idiot out of himself.

LOL, I guess that my extreme lower income, foster homes and juvenile hall childhood left me under-equipped to deal with that guy’s profound angst.

I wanted to kick his a$$ and make him join the Army.

[liberty or death]

That is why he became a recluse. He wrote something from his heart and a bunch of nutjobs tried to turn a normal private man into an icon of the SF 60’s spoiled left.

The guy was just a quiet writer wanting to be left alone.