Re: The Worst
depressed@collegemail.com
Fri, 04 Jun 1999 07:35:25 +0000
Hi
the worst I've read from salinger are Hapworth (!!yes, I mean that)
and I don't like some of his short stories like _the young folks_
and I don't like _Seymour: an Introduction_ much either.
You probably think this is blasphemy, but I just think they're
pointless, self-indulgent stories from a writer who's become
way too obsessed with his main character. I like bananafish and
I like seymour's diary in _raise high the roofbeam, carpenters_.
I think that diary is the most interesting thing I've read about
Seymour.
And about _a boy in france_, I like that one. Perhaps I'm just
so simple that this 'emotional manipulation' (my god, how's that
for pretentious, sounds like oprah) manipulates me?
How can you really say what literature is good and what's bad?
You can only state your opinion. If millions of people like
_bridges of madison county_ then why isn't that a good book?
It's obviously a good book to some people and have you got the right
to say that your opinion is higher and better and that those people
are just stupid?
(I've never read it and don't intend to but that's just my personal taste)
God, I'm checking my mail for the first time in weeks and some of the stuff
that's written in this list sounds so snobbish and arrogant it drives
me crazy.
Anyway, didn't mean to offend anyone,
just stating my opinion.
-Grant-
P.S.
For those who've referred to me as 'the depressed guy' in their emails,
my name is Grant. My email address is just a joke, I'm not at all depressed,
so please call me by my name. I'm NOT one of those 90's "fashionably
depressed and cynical" people!
> ---Thor Cameron <my_colours@hotmail.com> wrote:
> How do you call it? What's the worst of him you've read
> & why?
> I really want to know.
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