tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781586185594177386.post2742787284097266421..comments2023-07-30T11:59:47.999-04:00Comments on Cheesehead Displacement Syndrome: The SPITWAD Chronicles - I'm not as well-read as you might thinkElliotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13623810021177960310noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781586185594177386.post-32271445592407288992010-02-03T22:11:44.382-05:002010-02-03T22:11:44.382-05:00So Elliott,
I think you'll still be able to ga...So Elliott,<br />I think you'll still be able to gain something by reading Salinger even this late in life, maybe just from a different time perspective in your life. I really enjoyed some of the same books you have mentioned so when it comes to reading we may have some commonality. I have no rules though about what I read, I read anything and everything but some of my favorite authors include, Heinlein,Clarke,Irving,Updike,Maugham,Kerovac,Franzen Roth, Palahniuk,McMurtry, and yes Joyce Carol Oates!gaf85https://www.blogger.com/profile/07366611063698368921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781586185594177386.post-29633764671194526392010-02-03T00:48:39.717-05:002010-02-03T00:48:39.717-05:00Good point on Rushdie - not an American. But I thi...Good point on Rushdie - not an American. But I think all great authors are American, in some sense - because they all aspire to our high ideals.<br /><br />I think we have to give them at least some credit on that. We can afford to be at least a little magnanimous.<br /><br />I've also been thinking of checking out <i>Catcher In The Rye</i>. I have never read it either.dogimohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781586185594177386.post-56857591985585507352010-02-02T17:29:24.217-05:002010-02-02T17:29:24.217-05:00i realize my writing in that last comment would in...i realize my writing in that last comment would indicate i am completely illiterate, but i am typing without my glasses & hopped up on cold medicine. sorry.traceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03483051524125079220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781586185594177386.post-16858056432503333702010-02-02T17:27:51.223-05:002010-02-02T17:27:51.223-05:00I've read a lot of American Lit - prescribed i...I've read a lot of American Lit - prescribed in college & picked up as i randomly choose from "hot picks" at our local library. i've never touched a nicholas sparks - i'd rather read steinbeck - most chick lit makes me itch. <br />i read peyton place last year - one of those "everybody references" books but i'd never read it before.<br />i've never read 'catcher' but it's on my list.<br />right now, i'm re-reading my favorite book by a canadian author - 'who has seen the wind' by wo mitchell. add it to your list - you won't be sorry.traceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03483051524125079220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781586185594177386.post-64862005206735568752010-02-02T13:56:46.895-05:002010-02-02T13:56:46.895-05:00I thought Salinger was already dead...until I read...I thought Salinger was already dead...until I read about his death recently. I've never read "The Rye"...but it's on my list. I need to start reading a classic now and again. We weren't forced to do it nearly at all in high school. Although, in high school, I probably wouldn't have gotten much out of it.Nejhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00982042722943000994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781586185594177386.post-17479812619498374912010-02-02T13:51:14.848-05:002010-02-02T13:51:14.848-05:00I didn't tread on chick-lit, I just don't ...I didn't tread on chick-lit, I just don't read it. And I simply never picked up King, though there's no shortage of it in our home.<br /><br />And now I have to go figure out why Joyce Carol Oates would offend the chick-lit set.Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13623810021177960310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781586185594177386.post-18259352808825216372010-02-02T13:41:11.671-05:002010-02-02T13:41:11.671-05:00Ahem, tread lightly on Chick lit, my friend! LOL!...Ahem, tread lightly on Chick lit, my friend! LOL! "Catcher" is a good book, though I've always thought the bru ha ha over it has always been overrated. It's a book, it's got words it in. <br /><br />BTW, Stephen King, alive, still American, and writing some of the very best work in his life! Forget "Fire Starter" and pick up "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon."<br /><br />And, Joyce Carol Oates (I'm ducking for cover from my chick lit friends) also alive, also American, and some of her work is nothing short of brilliant. "We were the Mulvaneys" "Them," "Bellefluer." <br /><br />Just my two cents! (And Elliott...your unfinished novel rocks the PANTS OFF any of the titles I mentioned, so please, please, please finish it!Sarah the Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06406741644108533794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781586185594177386.post-74302806598737251982010-02-02T11:35:23.868-05:002010-02-02T11:35:23.868-05:00Heinlein is dead too. :( And I'm afraid Geor...Heinlein is dead too. :( And I'm afraid George RR Martin is heading south. He needs to finish before he croaks!<br /><br />My two cents.calicobebophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00276066197431903215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781586185594177386.post-45553865380364444432010-02-02T10:32:42.628-05:002010-02-02T10:32:42.628-05:00Catcher in the Rye remains one of my favorite book...<i>Catcher in the Rye</i> remains one of my favorite books of all time, and I read it before I knew there even was hype about it. My husband loves it so much that he teaches it year after year to the same brand of bored high school students that inspired the character of Holden Caulfield in the first place. Despite certain changes in our vernacular, it still really holds up today. <br /><br />Enjoy.<br /><br />Favorite line: "All morons hate it when you call them a moron."Bevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18275839554554036296noreply@blogger.com