Life is a game, boy.

January 28, 2010 10:34 AM

J.D. Salinger passed away today.
posted by dnesan (32 comments total)

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posted by roll truck roll at 10:35 AM on January 28, 2010

You keep posting 'em, I'll keep flagging 'em.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 10:35 AM on January 28, 2010 [2 favorites]

[shakes head sadly]
posted by Joe Beese at 10:35 AM on January 28, 2010

This post was deleted for the following reason: let's have a do-over and a proper obit.
posted by gman at 10:35 AM on January 28, 2010

Sorry to hear that.

I'm sure people will be in to spout about the crazy and weird history of the man, but I enjoyed his writing. And now maybe someone (his estate) will let the movie get made, which I'm not sure how I feel about.
posted by empyrean at 10:35 AM on January 28, 2010

Third time will be the charm, I'm sure of it.
posted by fixedgear at 10:35 AM on January 28, 2010

Seconded.
posted by Webbster at 10:35 AM on January 28, 2010

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posted by elmono at 10:35 AM on January 28, 2010

How many Michael Jackson obit threads got deleted before the mods gave up?
posted by Joe Beese at 10:35 AM on January 28, 2010

J.D. Salinger probably wouldn't want this posted.
posted by found missing at 10:35 AM on January 28, 2010

yes proper, please.
posted by elmono at 10:36 AM on January 28, 2010

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posted by JohnnyGunn at 10:36 AM on January 28, 2010

Double.
posted by Slack-a-gogo at 10:36 AM on January 28, 2010 [1 favorite]

This post is a phony!
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:36 AM on January 28, 2010 [1 favorite]

Coming Through The Rye.
Chorus.
O Jenny is all wet, poor body,
Jenny is seldom dry:
She draggled all her petticoats,
Coming through the rye!

Coming through the rye, poor body,
Coming through the rye,
She draggled all her petticoats,
Coming through the rye!

Should a body meet a body
Coming through the rye,
Should a body kiss a body,
Need a body cry?

Should a body meet a body
Coming through the glen,
Should a body kiss a body,
Need the world know?

Should a body meet a body
Coming through the grain,
Should a body kiss a body,
The thing is a body's own.
posted by Skygazer at 10:36 AM on January 28, 2010

maybe I can comment in all these threads and then later hire a prostitute and talk to her about how bad I fell about it.
posted by GuyZero at 10:37 AM on January 28, 2010

Come on. Someone please put more effort into a proper obit. Make one that Holden can catch and not let flung over the cliff.
posted by ericb at 10:37 AM on January 28, 2010

Let's make like Salinger and not just write the nearest thing at hand. And then disappear forever.

That can be done in either order.
posted by Elmore at 10:38 AM on January 28, 2010

maybe I can comment in all these threads and then later hire a prostitute and talk to her about how bad I fell about it.

Just be sure to pay here more or Maurice will give you a beatin'.
posted by ericb at 10:38 AM on January 28, 2010

*pay her*
posted by ericb at 10:39 AM on January 28, 2010

Zombie Salinger is gonna raise high your brain plate.
posted by Elmore at 10:39 AM on January 28, 2010

This FPP, noting his 90th birthday a little over a year ago, has links to three interviews with him as well as some background on his reclusiveness.
posted by Jaltcoh at 10:39 AM on January 28, 2010 [1 favorite]

Sorry, I assumed this obit was gonna get its own obit. no offence meant with the Zombie talk.

Raise high your standards, carpenters, etc.
posted by Elmore at 10:40 AM on January 28, 2010

The Catcher in the Rye was the first book that blew my mind and opened me up to reading. And they just don't make authors with such integrity anymore.

Um... I have to call you on that one. By the time Catcher in the Rye caught up to my generation (I'm 30) I think I can truly say it was eclipsed by some other very good books that were adopted by teens from adult reading lists. For me, the cataclysm was Basketball Diaries, which I read when I was 11. When I read Catcher, I was struck by how top-drawer it was and how alien Holden Caulfield.
posted by parmanparman at 10:40 AM on January 28, 2010

“I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetary. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.” [JDS]
posted by rinosaur at 10:41 AM on January 28, 2010

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posted by dunkadunc at 10:42 AM on January 28, 2010

1st of many posts!
posted by blue_beetle at 10:42 AM on January 28, 2010

RIP. For those of you who have only read Catcher in the Rye need to head down to your local library and grab the Glass stories (especially Franny and Zooey). They're the dry-aged steak to Catcher's Big Mac.
posted by youcancallmeal at 10:42 AM on January 28, 2010

2nd of many.
posted by yhbc at 10:42 AM on January 28, 2010

What now? 5 trys so far?
posted by ericb at 10:43 AM on January 28, 2010

I am withholding my dot until this mess is sorted out and we have a single, proper obit thread.
posted by JeffK at 10:44 AM on January 28, 2010

Those other threads are the phonies.
posted by mosk at 10:44 AM on January 28, 2010 [1 favorite]