Because its her opinion. Just as its your opinion that its a good book.
My opinion is thats it's shit.

do you REALLY loved that author, deady?
Dude i see you are in anger or something. chill out man, everyone knows life is a bitch.. but no one can do anything about this.. not even science, or god.

my brother read the book and told me this yesterday lol.... he said the book was terrible... with too much plot and nothing interesting happening.

My respect for you (if there ever was any) died just now. /hate

R.I.P Salinger

he lied.

he can't read.

You've inspired me to at least start reading this book out of curiosity. Will comment on it later. I'm a pretty fast reader.

lol, I wasnt mad. Maybe a tad bawy, but nothing too bad...at least I didnt get upset when Michal Jackson died

But yes, I really do "loved" that book. It is subtle, while you read it, you dont think of Holden as a character, but as a person. I like that the book doesnt really have any answers or resolution (in a sense) because to me that is pretty accurate when it comes to adolescences, it rarely seems make sense etc. Also yes, his other stuff is also great in my opinion and I may just be more fond of 9 stories than of Catcher. Plus you have to consider that the book was written and published during a rather sterile time in American art, right after and before pretty great times. It was subversive, angry, and held a mirror up to society. As for plot, it deals mostly with internal issues and moral conflicts, kind of a thing with Salinger. Also most of his work interconnects and stuff, and I always get a hard on for that sort of thing.

Lastly

lol, forgive me for trying to spark discussion. Maybe, just maybe, I was actually curios as to why m0o doesn't like it since I have seen her posts and consider her an intelligent person who could probably make some good points I might not have considered. Way to stick up for the girl though, even if she is more than capable of speaking for herself :P

Read: Troll
And anywho, wasn't the original topic of this thread that Salinger is dead? Not really much to discuss other than how butthurt you are over it.
Get over it. He's dead. He hasn't written anything meaningfull in the last 45 years. So nothing has really changed.

Im a troll?..wut?..I dont follow...

And no, the topic was left open, I was saying I was sad, but didnt really set anything, and a little discussion about someones life normally come about when you talk about their death. Please get out of my thread.

lolz. I turned on the tv and some simpsons special was on.
"Who would I like to see on the simpsons? Someone like JD Salinger I guess"