Pencey Prepsters

I love how much people get inspired by the Catcher in the Rye.

If you really want to you can buy your very own Pencey Prep sweaters

I even saw a pair of customised shoes

Fan fiction

I read this interesting thing about the Catcher in The Rye recently. 


In 2009 author J D Salinger successfully sued to stop the U.S. publication of a novel that presents Holden Caulfield as an old man.


The novel's author, Fredrik Colting, commented, "call me an ignorant Swede, but the last thing I thought possible in the U.S. was that you banned books." 


The issue is complicated by the nature of Colting's book, 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye, which has been compared to fan fiction. Although commonly not authorized by writers, no legal action is usually taken against fan fiction since it is rarely published commercially and thus involves no profit. Colting, however, has published his book commercially. Unauthorized fan fiction on The Catcher in the Rye existed on the Internet for years without any legal action taken by Salinger before his death.

Next up!

So this morning I finished Orwell's 1984, but today is a quiet day, so rather than rest on my laurels, I  have rolled the dice and come up with J D Salinger's 'The Catcher In The Rye' for my next classic read from the list

I will start it this afternoon, I have not read it before so have no idea what to expect, although I feel I know a lot about it already as it is such an infamous novel.