a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PddQ8xLinAc/Sk1zcrzTE9I/AAAAAAAAG6c/dFxSaQrK26s/s1600-h/catcher+in+the+rye.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PddQ8xLinAc/Sk1zcrzTE9I/AAAAAAAAG6c/dFxSaQrK26s/s200/catcher+in+the+rye.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354062468644803538" border="0" //aWe've seen before that a href="http://thebookaholic.blogspot.com/2005/05/prequels-sequels-and-more-quels.html"some authors chose to write a sequel based on an older classic/a, picking up the characters and taking them off on a new journey.br /br /A Swedish author, Fredrik Colting (writing under the pen name John David California) has written a sequel to J.D. Salinger's 1951 classic a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye"span style="font-style: italic;"The Catcher in the Rye/span/a. But it isn't going to be seeing light of day after a judge ruled in favour of Salinger who sued to block publication of span style="font-style: italic;"60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye/span. Judge Deborah Batts ruled that the main character in was "an infringement" on Salinger's main character, Holden Caulfield.br /br /According to Jennifer Schuessler in span style="font-style: italic;"The New York Times/span the book features:br /span style="font-style: italic;"/spanblockquotespan style="font-style: italic;"... the ultimate alienated teenager, as a lonely old codger who escapes from a retirement home and his beloved younger sister, Phoebe, as a drug addict sinking into dementia./span/blockquotespan style="font-style: italic;"The Catcher in the Rye/span has been a staple of the American high school curriculum over the decades although now it seems the younger generation are finding it harder to relate to Caulfield:br /blockquotespan style="font-style: italic;"What once seemed like courageous truth-telling now strikes many of them as “weird,” “whiny” and “immature.” /span /blockquoteI remember reading it decades back and liking it very much, but can't recall much else about it. I am though at the moment reading Salinger's a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Stories_%28Salinger%29"span style="font-style: italic;"Nine Stories/span/a (a copy of which I inherited from Dina Zaman) and am enjoying it thoroughly. (You can read span style="font-style: italic;"A Perfect Day for Bananafish/span a href="http://www.freeweb.hu/tchl/salinger/perfectday.html"here/a - and lazier so and so's can watch the video a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMSAL4IXjMk"here/a. The story blew me away. )br /br /Salinger is now a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/301077.stm"one of the world's more famous recluses/a, although he is reportedly still writing every day. a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2219768/pagenum/all"Maybe one day .../adiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7912730-2824820942280369293?l=thebookaholic.blogspot.com'//div
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