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Talking of Nicholas Hoult
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J. D. Salinger
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
Catcher in the Rye, is the best book I've read so far (and studying English and American Literature, that's the top of a very long list of books). Holden Caulfield, is a protagonist to whom, regardless of gender, a reader can relate entirely to; including it seems, several of Americas most notorious assassins.
I once had a vague idea of traveling to America for the sole purpose of asking Salinger about Holden and where he came from. I read in one obituary column that Salinger refused a film to be made of the book and said he himself would have to play Caulfield if ever there was a film to be made. I hope he mentioned something about the rights of his book not being allowed to be adapted for screen in his will. I couldn't stand to see someone like Nicholas Hoult, acting sullen and troubled, pretending to be the awkward and depressive Holden. Sallinger said on the original book jacket copy, "...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" and this is why I agree with Salinger that nobody could be successful in playing the role of Caulfield.
In reading other of Salinger's works, such as For Esme-with Love and Squalor and Franny and Zooey, I was so desperate in the attempt to find another protagonist to whom I could have a deep partisanship towards, that I lost all focus in enjoying the works that I dismissed them as lesser works of literature. I remember thinking, that the same vague repetitive structure that works for Malorie Blackman and Jacqueline Wilson could easily work for Salinger so why wasn't another Houlden, albeit with changes, jumping out at me in these stories. I've realised however, despite the non presence of another Holden , these stories are every bit as good as Catcher, but in a different way.
Catcher in the Rye, is the best book I've read so far (and studying English and American Literature, that's the top of a very long list of books). Holden Caulfield, is a protagonist to whom, regardless of gender, a reader can relate entirely to; including it seems, several of Americas most notorious assassins.
I once had a vague idea of traveling to America for the sole purpose of asking Salinger about Holden and where he came from. I read in one obituary column that Salinger refused a film to be made of the book and said he himself would have to play Caulfield if ever there was a film to be made. I hope he mentioned something about the rights of his book not being allowed to be adapted for screen in his will. I couldn't stand to see someone like Nicholas Hoult, acting sullen and troubled, pretending to be the awkward and depressive Holden. Sallinger said on the original book jacket copy, "...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" and this is why I agree with Salinger that nobody could be successful in playing the role of Caulfield.
In reading other of Salinger's works, such as For Esme-with Love and Squalor and Franny and Zooey, I was so desperate in the attempt to find another protagonist to whom I could have a deep partisanship towards, that I lost all focus in enjoying the works that I dismissed them as lesser works of literature. I remember thinking, that the same vague repetitive structure that works for Malorie Blackman and Jacqueline Wilson could easily work for Salinger so why wasn't another Houlden, albeit with changes, jumping out at me in these stories. I've realised however, despite the non presence of another Holden , these stories are every bit as good as Catcher, but in a different way.
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