60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye

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1Ronald, April 1, 2011 (view all comments by 1Ronald)
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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Yink, August 5, 2009 (view all comments by Yink)
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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chrisdeb1, June 21, 2009 (view all comments by chrisdeb1)
I just finished reading 60 Years Later...so I feel that unlike the other reviewers, I have a basis to comment on.
Salinger should not be suing due to copyright infringement, rather he should be suing John David California for having such little talent, and WindUpBird Publishing for trying to cash in on the controversy this book was sure to stir up.
After 60 years of waiting for a follow-up we all knew would never come, to say the book is a let down is an understatement. Mr. California shows absolutely no talent for writing, story telling, nor for any imagination what so ever. If he only published this book for a quick buck, he succeeded. If he thought that he had a real story to tell, he is a dillusioned fool.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9789185869541

Subtitle:

Coming Through the Rye

Publisher:

Nicotext

Author:

California, John David

Subject:

General

Publication Date:

September 2009

Binding:

Paperback

Language:

English

Pages:

250