It actually worked out a bit better to finish this book after reading The Catcher in the Rye<\/em> as it gave me some insights regarding its meaning. It also gave me a great deal of insight regarding all of Salinger’s writings and thoughts. The biography was published a couple of years after Salinger’s death, so his memory was no doubt fresh in many individual’s minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I found this book to be interesting regarding Salinger’s life and philosophy, but it had one large drawback. The author dove into each of Salinger’s writings with a multi-page, blow-by-blow telling of each one. I finally resorted to skipping these pages until the book returned to Salinger’s life. The book, in my opinion, would have been much better if the author had offered only concise descriptions of Salinger’s writings rather than comprehensive retellings. This is especially the case when I might want to read a few of those works and I wouldn’t want the whole story revealed prior to reading it myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, the book gave me a lot of insight regarding Salinger and his works, but I certainly didn’t need the level of detail he included for each of those works. by Kenneth Slawenski, 2012, Random House eBook Edition While waiting to get my library copy of The Catcher in the Rye, which was the next book selection for our book club, I inadvertently borrowed this book thinking it was Catcher. …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17,16],"class_list":["post-2919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-biography","tag-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2922,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions\/2922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"2.5](\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-5.gif\")
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