Re: BANANAFISH Introduction...
MarvinSays@aol.com
Tue, 01 Jul 1997 19:54:13 -0400 (EDT)
Hi Kids!
I've been on this list for at least a month now but I haven't "post"ed yet.
I've been enjoying everybody else's posts though. But lately I've felt more
and more comfortable with expressing my opinions and more and more desire to
ask you guys questions.... so I thought I'd better do that intro thing now.
Ok, so I'm 19 years old and I live in Southern California. I first ran into
Salinger in college (last year I guess). I had like an hour and a half in
between two classes one day and I didn't want to go all the way home and them
come back so I went to waste time in the library. I happened to grab
"Catcher..." (which I had heard of before but never considered reading
because I didn't like the title or something) and read the first paragraph
and I knew I was going to have to read it. I loved the "and all that David
Copperfield kind of crap" attitude.
So anyway, I read it and of course loved it but I didn't really think about
reading any other Salinger stuff until I joined this list and saw all you
guys talking about "Franny and Zooey" etc. Now I've read all his books but
none of the "Uncollected" stories.
Well, I was gonna keep going talking about myself but I don't wanna bore
anyone. Keep up the good work, kids!
-David Alan