This is the book that blew my little literary world wide-open. Martin (below) has got it right on when he speaks about Salinger's fantastic characterization. Franny, Zooey, the whole Glass family, and their ghosts and memories of Glass-passed... they were in the room with me. And when Zooey talks about Christianity and the difference between that and Christ, that conversation is one a person...
more This is the book that blew my little literary world wide-open. Martin (below) has got it right on when he speaks about Salinger's fantastic characterization. Franny, Zooey, the whole Glass family, and their ghosts and memories of Glass-passed... they were in the room with me. And when Zooey talks about Christianity and the difference between that and Christ, that conversation is one a person has wordlessly in their own soul, if they're lucky. And Salinger gets it! This book is more than a novel, it's an understandble, real-life, disection, debate, and unanswerable question about religion and philosophy.
Did I mention that I enjoyed it?
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