[stylist] What are you Reading Right Now?

[Jacobson, Shawn D]

I just put "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclaire Lewis on my reading list.  It was recommended by the Editor of Analog Science Fiction magazine in an editorial he wrote about our current electoral mess.

Good reading everyone.

Shawn

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I first read 'Catcher in the Rye' in high school, when they forced us to, andI remember disliking it.

Fast forward  25 years, to when my own kids were in high school and I'd developed a much deeper appreciation for the written word. I read every book they had to read, plus most of the books on their summer lists.

So when I read 'Catcher' a second time, I could see that Salinger was painting a portrait of an angsty teenager. Holden doesn't come across that way accidentally--it is quite intentional. I immediately read it again, and studied Salinger's sentence and paragraph structure, and it's really quite brilliant. He creates paragraphs where Holden says or thinks something in the first sentence, then things get muddled and he completely contradicts himself in the last sentence of the paragraph. 

And after all, isn't that a large part of being a teenager, then and now?
Trying to figure out who you are and what you think, all while being confused much of the time.

Salinger took ten years to write that book, and in my opinion, it was well worth it.

Chris


    


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