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*quiet voice* I'm seventeen....
And I do resent these criticisms of people my age group. Just because you're young, it doesn't necessarily mean you're ignorant, illiterate and incapable of expressing yourself, even if I'm a poor example.
[edited for grammar purposes, lol. :D]
soo.... one flew over the cuckoo's nest??
True, fayefaye...but, I went to school with 950 other teenagers, and...most of 'em are. :p
OK, CUCKOO'S NEST, PEOPLE -- GO!
with my anylising or that I said 'bit' too much? :D
Just one more thing to add about teenagers, even though I'm not one anymore :(. My freshman year of College I peer-edited a paper that had "I be watching football." in it. But I sure as hell didn't write that way. Everybody's different and its perfectly logical for Holden to either sound like a stupid kid, or a poet and a prophet. Hell, I wrote a book when I was 16, and I like to think that it didn't sound like a stupid kid writing. BTW, I really did write a book. I don't talk about it much because either A) people don't believe me, B) people think I'm showing off, or C) people are awe inspired and think I'm some sort of God-creature and that's really uncomfortable. In case you fall under A, here's a link:
http://www.rhpa.org/newproducts/prod...sku=0828013381
I'd hardly have the gall to write about my own family.
i have to say, kik, that i am impressed.
if it were not for your impeccably bad taste in music and some genres of literature, i would elevate you to God status, and fall then into category C. as it is, i think that's pretty cool, and good for you.
*Smile*
I don't fall under any of those categories, but clicked on the link for the sake of it, wouldn't work. :confused:
ah, hell. this is too off-topic.
Kik, I'm most impressed by your perserverence. I can't think as well anymore cause of the meds, but I used to start writing the beginnings (or endings, or middles) of books all the time, but the longest I ever held out on one was about 5 months and 30 pages. (I guess I'm more of what you'd call an "idea woman.") I assure you, my respect continues to climb Mount Kik. :D (and I mean that in the most innuendo-free manner.)
lol. I'm tired of all this kik complementing, and not enough faye complementing. :D
Aww, Faye Faye... poor Faye Faye. :D *Much complimenting of Faye*
I liked Salinger with "The Cather in the rye". I liked Holden who hates almost every one and every thing. liked his poney language. First read it in my native language, then in English. listened broadcast performense version in Russian. The same thing that I feel was - enjoyment, nothing else.
What do you think happened to Holden after the novel?
I can't picture quite. Maybe he did something to be close to Jane.
All the same Jane and his little sister were the ones he loved.
I,ve read Salinger considered Hemingway and Steinbeck second rate writers but praised Melville. What d'you think about it?
Melville became popular in the 1920's just because no one knew about him, and it grew from an underground cult following into a mainstream movement. Critics are human, too, and jumped on the popularity bandwagon by reviewing it (Moby Dick) favorably, to say the least. Personally, I thought Melville could have used a good editor to cross off two thirds of the tangents he went on, just being self-indulgent and utterly losing track of the story. *thinks* A lot like Holden, actually. And half-page sentences are just bad writing, I'm sorry. I think Salinger was one of those people on the end of the spectrum opposing mass hysteria; instead of liking people because it was popular to like them, he hated people who were popular and liked things just because they happened to be part of "the underground," like Melville. You don't hear people nowadays praising Melville the way they did in Salinger's day. Unfortunately, the masses seem to have collectively willed him into the category with the greats.
Or, I could just be one who shares space at Salinger's end of the aforementioned spectrum. Probably a bit of both. :p
LOL...i started writing books several times... the first time I was 9 I think :D Well I've only finished a few (3 or 4) short stories, some of them were started one day and finished 2 or 3 years later... That sucks, I wish I had some pervseverance...or better, I wish that ideas could be put on paper through telepathy, without having to write (no way I'd use a computer, believe it or not I hate to type)... so I could just think and then see it done and edit by thinking... I guess I'm a desperate case of laziness :DQuote:
Originally posted by emily655321
Kik, I'm most impressed by your perserverence. I can't think as well anymore cause of the meds, but I used to start writing the beginnings (or endings, or middles) of books all the time, but the longest I ever held out on one was about 5 months and 30 pages. (I guess I'm more of what you'd call an "idea woman.") I assure you, my respect continues to climb Mount Kik. :D (and I mean that in the most innuendo-free manner.)
em, i read your post, and thought not of melville but hawthorne - and though it's morning could feel my brain falling back asleep... lol :D
LOL@amuse. I read over my post to see what you meant, and uh yah that's true hehe. I've already caught the proverbial second-wind awakeness-wise (how delightful) about three times since yesterday evening, and I'm starting to go dizzy. I'm afraid what happens when I'm this tired is the prefrontal and glazzballs get some swelling and I sit like a zombie while my fingers start flying and my thesaurus-brain just kinda spills out all over the keyboard. And I ramble like this :D Great for poetry, not so good for communication. Sorry.