[bookshare-discuss] Re: Replacement submitted
- From: "Cheryl Fogle" <cfogle@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 07:51:01 -0600
Dwayne, did you get the esther friesner Chicks and Chain mail from
bookshare? That scan is missing letters and words at the left margin making
it hard to read.
Cheryl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Iverson" <diverson@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 8:13 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Replacement submitted
> You read that book?
>
> In One of Esther Friesner's Chicks in Chain Male series, Harry
> Turtledove writes a hilarious sendup of Catcher in the Rye.
> That story almost got me to forgive J.D. for writing the book so
> I had to read it in the first place.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 10:38 PM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Replacement submitted
>
>
>> Replacement for
>> The Catcher in the Rye
>> by J.D. Salinger
>>
>> This is a revamped replacement copy for the one in the
> collection.
>>
>> The validator should note, that there is a new long synopsis,
> but the old
>> short one works, and that this book SHOULD not be marked adult
> as it is used
>> in many high school literature courses, and since high
> schoolers can't see
>> adult marked books, well you see my logic.
>>
>> From the Book Jacket:
>> Anyone who has read J. D. Salinger's New Yorker stories -
> particularly A
>> Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The
> Laughing Man,
>> and For Esme - With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by
> the fact that
>> his first novel is full of children.
>>
>> The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient
> child of sixteen,
>> a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through
> circumstances that tend
>> to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep
> school in
>> Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three
> days.
>>
>> The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us
> to make any
>> final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing
> we can say
>> about Holden is that he was born in the world not just
> strongly attracted to
>> beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it.
>>
>> There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult
> voices,
>> underground voices-but Holden's voice is the
>> most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet
> remaining
>> marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated
> cry of mixed
>> pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and
> poets of the
>> higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself.
> The pleasure
>> he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there
> for the reader
>> who can handle it to keep.
>>
>> J. D. Salinger was born in New York City in 1919 and attended
> Manhattan
>> public schools, a military academy in Pennsylvania and three
> colleges (no
>> degrees). "A happy tourist's year in Europe," he writes, "when
> I was
>> eighteen and nineteen. In the Army from '42 to '46, most of
> the time with
>> the Fourth Division.
>>
>> "I've been writing since I was fifteen or so. My short stones
> have appeared
>> in a number of magazines over me last ten years, mostly - and
> most happily -
>> in The New Yorker. I worked on THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, on and
> off, for ten
>> years."
>>
>> Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
>> juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
>> Graduate Advisory Council
>> www.guidedogs.com
>>
>> The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough
> to
>> stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
>>
>> -- Vance Havner
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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