Covers With Character and Characters With Character by J.D Salinger
Yeah, I am really into the minimalist thing now :).
I am really loving white covers now and expect more in the future. Besides, who doesn’t love white? It is in everything that is good in the world such as Apple Technology, Google, Wikipedia, Bunnies, Eggs and the Pope.
Moving on, I want to celebrate J.D Salinger today. Beside having the same birthday (Jan 1). I remember Salinger’s works fondly because it was one of the first books I read with a real voice. His character Holden Caufield from his popular Catcher in the Rye novel really took me down a different path from the start. This is especially when our star says “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.” The lines just really stuck to my angsty core when I was fumbling towards “growing up”. In Caufield fashion, I read Catcher in the Rye because it was given to the other section and not mine. So, I ended reading Catcher instead of my required reading. I am really a nut!
Not enough incentive to pick up J.D? Well… According to Wikipedia, The word “goddamn” appears in the book 252 times. Aside from that, Catcher in the Rye according to Salinger will never be turned into a movie because Holden Caufield wouldn’t approve since it would be made by phony adults.
Do you have J.D Salinger moments? Share them here! I haven’t read all his books so I would be glad to learn more about him. Feel free to send links, quotes, and other bits of trivia in this post. Also, if you have other favorite authors who made characters with authentic voices. Shout them out here too.