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Reading some of these reviews, I am drawn to the reality of 21st Century America. Welcome to the new American brain. 50% of what it used to be. Knee-Jerk reactions for the emotional moment without the bother, the hassle of becoming involved in something new. It’s so much easier to view from a distance, opinionate, and pontificate on something you either know nothing about or fear experiencing the mental dexterity of becoming absorbed in something you think others don’t like. Letting others do our thinking for us is rapidly transmogrifying a democracy into a Taliban mentality.
Now, regarding the book. BUY IT. READ IT. YOU WILL ENJOY IT, as I have. JD (not Salinger, this time "who had ample opportunity to pen his own sequel and chose not to do so) but “California” or in reality--Fredrik Colting is nothing short of a sheer genius. That’s right, boneheads "READ THE BOOK! All of us can relate to Caulfield, now 76, imprisioned in a nursing home and walking out to escape into the wild blue yonder. All of us can relate to le professeur Caulfield, now retired, and encountering a former college coed student, a 26yo who just won’t let Caulfield out of her sight (“Mr. C., Mr. C.”), now that she’s found him again. And, if we are normal males, we can relate to the two scenes of cunnilingus, although the outcome makes us wonder where Caulfield’s brain is. And when the 26yo student brings back a younger male to Caulfield’s hotel room to make him jealous. And the constant suicide attempts of Caulfield, and other close-call related escapes from death as JD has one goal and only one goal "to kill Caulfield off. And Colting’s final sentence, is a fitting tribute to both books offering a lasting memory to readers, but leaving us wanting more. How about a sequel to the sequel?
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60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye by John David California
1Ronald, April 1, 2011
Reading some of these reviews, I am drawn to the reality of 21st Century America. Welcome to the new American brain. 50% of what it used to be. Knee-Jerk reactions for the emotional moment without the bother, the hassle of becoming involved in something new. It’s so much easier to view from a distance, opinionate, and pontificate on something you either know nothing about or fear experiencing the mental dexterity of becoming absorbed in something you think others don’t like. Letting others do our thinking for us is rapidly transmogrifying a democracy into a Taliban mentality.Now, regarding the book. BUY IT. READ IT. YOU WILL ENJOY IT, as I have. JD (not Salinger, this time "who had ample opportunity to pen his own sequel and chose not to do so) but “California” or in reality--Fredrik Colting is nothing short of a sheer genius. That’s right, boneheads "READ THE BOOK! All of us can relate to Caulfield, now 76, imprisioned in a nursing home and walking out to escape into the wild blue yonder. All of us can relate to le professeur Caulfield, now retired, and encountering a former college coed student, a 26yo who just won’t let Caulfield out of her sight (“Mr. C., Mr. C.”), now that she’s found him again. And, if we are normal males, we can relate to the two scenes of cunnilingus, although the outcome makes us wonder where Caulfield’s brain is. And when the 26yo student brings back a younger male to Caulfield’s hotel room to make him jealous. And the constant suicide attempts of Caulfield, and other close-call related escapes from death as JD has one goal and only one goal "to kill Caulfield off. And Colting’s final sentence, is a fitting tribute to both books offering a lasting memory to readers, but leaving us wanting more. How about a sequel to the sequel?
(2 of 4 readers found this comment helpful)