Jan 28 2010 06:39 PM ET

Stephen King on J.D. Salinger: 'The last of the great post-WWII American writers'

I wasn’t a huge Salinger fan, but I’m sorry to hear of his passing — the way you’d feel if you heard an eccentric, short-tempered, Read the full post.

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  • james

    “What I like the best is a book that’s at least funny once in a while…What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”
    Holden Caufield, “The Catcher in the Rye”.

  • Franny

    Stephen King,

    If you don’t particularly care for Salinger, why are you writing his memoriam? He meant many things to many readers. Surely someone had something more to say than you. As one of America’s most prolific writers, for better or worse, please stop paraphrasing other obits written about Salinger. This article was a waste of time, as is most of your work.

  • WTF

    I would rather read The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs than The Catcher in the Rye.

  • sjasmin8w

    perfumy dla ciebie

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