Subject: Re: So Why are you a Fish?
Akane574@cs.com
Date: Fri Jan 07 2000 - 20:39:36 EST
In a message dated 1/7/00 11:03:17 AM Central Standard Time,
cbaader@casecorp.com writes:
> I assume that by your very presence here on the list that you are a Salinger
> lover. Enough of a Salinger lover to want to read sometimes more than
fifty
> posts a day (presumably) based on the topic on the Old Man and his
Writings.
> Tim has mentioned before that we have hundreds of members on the list, and
> I'd love to hear some of our more silent members speak out. Why are you
> here, and what makes you love the man and his work? Is it his writing
> style, the honesty of his characters, the spirituality that pervades?
>
>
When I was a freshman, I was first introduced to Salinger when a friend of
mine insisted that I borrow his copy of CITR. Had he not pushed me to read
it, I probably wouldn't have. When I read it, i feel in love...it was the
first time that I didn't read a novel wthout being absolutely annoyed with it
and thinking it was terrible. It was the only thing I had ever read up until
that point that truly spoke to me--or at least the first time I let anything
do so. I ended up searching for whatever I could find that Salinger had
written and taking every opportunity to read it...so here I am.
-Lauren-
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