Silly Sottile last seen in January ...
Joe Sottile was last seen reading his 50-year copy of The Catcher in the Rye again, after the death of his favorite author, J.D. Salinger. Joe read The Catcher in the Rye when he was the same age as Holden Claufield, and he fell in love with YA literature at that time. This week when Joe read "An Appraisal of J. D. Salinger" by Michiko Kakutani, Joe felt that Michiko's thoughts were exactly the same as his, and he wanted to share them with you...
January 29, 2010
AN APPRAISAL | J. D. SALINGER
By Michiko Kakutani
What really knocked readers out about The Catcher in the Rye was the wonderfully immediate voice that J. D. Salinger fashioned for Holden Caulfield — a voice that enabled him to channel an alienated 16-year-old's thoughts and anxieties and frustrations, a voice that skeptically appraised the world and denounced its phonies and hypocrites and bores.
Mr. Salinger had such unerring radar for the feelings of teenage angst and vulnerability and anger that Catcher, published in 1951, remains one of the books that adolescents first fall in love with — a book that intimately articulates what it is to be young and sensitive and precociously existential, a book that first awakens them to the possibilities of literature...
The whole article, which appeared in the New York Times can be read if you go to the following site: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/books/29appraisal.html.
