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Tired of hearing about how great or how overrated "Catcher in the Rye" was?
Well, note that old Mr. Salinger failed to follow the example of his great master, Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra, who, rather than griping to a judge when a scrub writer wrote a sequel to his immensely popular work ("Don Quixote", namely), got busy and wrote a sequel himself, in which he mocked the pirate sequel writer.
Readers, get hold of
60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye
by Frederik Colting,
or David California,
or whatever his name is, and let old Mr. Salinger write his own sequel. Or maybe hire another writer to do it, since most 90-year olds don't have the energy for this sort of thing (Sophocles is the only exception I can think of). And THEN we can ALL complain about the quality of Mr. Salinger's ghost writer's sequel, and write our OWN sequels, which incorporate Mr. Salinger's ghost writer's sequel, which incoroporates Mr. Colting's sequel, and maybe we can just KEEP getting incorporated by new sequels ...
You're not going to surpass Cervantes in any other way.
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60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye by John David California
Yink, August 5, 2009
Tired of hearing about how great or how overrated "Catcher in the Rye" was?Well, note that old Mr. Salinger failed to follow the example of his great master, Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra, who, rather than griping to a judge when a scrub writer wrote a sequel to his immensely popular work ("Don Quixote", namely), got busy and wrote a sequel himself, in which he mocked the pirate sequel writer.
Readers, get hold of
60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye
by Frederik Colting,
or David California,
or whatever his name is, and let old Mr. Salinger write his own sequel. Or maybe hire another writer to do it, since most 90-year olds don't have the energy for this sort of thing (Sophocles is the only exception I can think of). And THEN we can ALL complain about the quality of Mr. Salinger's ghost writer's sequel, and write our OWN sequels, which incorporate Mr. Salinger's ghost writer's sequel, which incoroporates Mr. Colting's sequel, and maybe we can just KEEP getting incorporated by new sequels ...
You're not going to surpass Cervantes in any other way.
(6 of 24 readers found this comment helpful)