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JD Salinger wrote the one book that transformed my life, and to some degree still guides how I live my life today, even in my near-50s. That said, I tried read
by ping_pong 7y ago
JD Salinger wrote the one book that transformed my life, and to some degree still guides how I live my life today, even in my near-50s.
That said, I tried reading his other books and as far as I can tell, he was a one hit wonder, so the deep fascination with him is strange to me.
- tutuca 7y agoIf I had to guess I'd think you are talking about Catcher in the Rye. The thing is, the other books are a set of tales all about or written by someone of the Glass family. So all three other books work as a sort of programatic novela as a whole. Which is not only ingenious but revolutionary for the literature itself. The misticism about his (and his character's) unpublished work is a amazing too.
- jsdalton 7y agoWhich book?
- bj_reference 7y agoHSAC!WDTK?DTKT??LFO! perhaps?
- adenadel 7y agoFor me, The Catcher in the Rye was what led me to his other books. Franny and Zooey was my favorite book for a long time (although it's been nearly a decade since I read it) and I think The Catcher in the Rye is probably the weakest of his four books in my opinion (and very likely the most polarizing).
- psychometry 7y agoHow many copies do you own?
- shantly 7y agoHe's really only got three other books, and only one of them's a novel, the others being a short story collection and a pair of novellas/novellettes. I read Catcher first and found it just OK. Franny and Zooey was my gateway deeper into Salinger (and Stoicism) back in high school. Liked Nine stories quite a bit on my first visit, but didn't care for Raise High & Seymour at all until a re-read over a decade later, and now that might be my favorite of his books.