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60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye

ISBN13: 9789185869541
ISBN10: 9185869546
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A 76-year-old man wakes up in a nursing home in upstate New York. This seemingly normal day brings with it an unnerving compulsion to flee his present situation and embark on a curious journey through the streets of New York City. Powerless to resist these strange new urges, Holden Caulfield, like a decrepit marionette, finds himself in the midst of bizarre and occasionally depraved escapades. Is senility finally closing in or is some higher power controlling the chaos? 60 years after his debut as the great American anti-hero, Holden Caulfield is yanked back onto the page without a goddamn clue why. Our favorite character Holden Caulfield return for more New York adventures.

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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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: Honeyboy, June 19, 2009 (view all comments by Honeyboy)
I understand the negative reactions in previous comments. Loving something so passionately and seeing that object cheapened by an inferior talent can be very disturbing. Too bad you won't get around to reading it so that you can make an informed comment. It might just be a good read.

I too love Holden as well as the rest of the characters in Salingers writings. "Catcher" was a transformative book for me, taking a me from a non-reader to a lover of books. I also had a gifted English teacher to thank for the transformation. And being a lover of books and an ardent supporter of criticism from those who have actually seen, or read, or experienced, I will refrain from critically commenting on the quality of this book.

I do, however, look forward to reading it as soon as I can get my hands on a copy, primarily because I have found delightful reading in "continued tales" of other authors' works. I thoroughly enjoyed "March", the parallel story of the father in "Little Women", and "Finn", a fleshing-out of the relationship between Huckleberry Finn and his father. They were, of course, beautifully executed books and did absolutely no harm to the originals I love and read time and again. "60 Years Later", may be a happy surprise but, no matter, because it couldn't in a million years take away my love of the original.
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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

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