Transition: J D Salinger

[gekkogecko]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100128/ap_on_en_ot/us_obit_salinger

Given his famous proclivity to live in obscurity, I wonder if he'll be buried in an unmarked grave.

[jseal]

Did anyone else have "The Catcher in the Rye" as required reading?

[Oldfart]

Did everyone else have "Catcher" as required reading?

[Scarecrow]

Twice

[Booger]

Nope wasn't required reading for me in school but I did read it and enjoy it years later.

[scotzoidman]

Somehow I missed out on the assigned reading of CITR, probably because my English teacher was busy assigning us Huck Finn, even tho it had just been banned from US schools; after she told about the ban by a colleague, she quickly begged the whole class to forget we'd ever heard of the book.

I could have read "Catcher" later on my own, but after some asswipe shot John Lennon & claimed that the book would explain it all, somehow the urge to read it was gone for me...