“60 Years Later”… Don’t Bother
Slate’s Juliet Lapidos reads J.D. California’s book so you don’t have to:
California’s allusions contain little charm, but his original material is far worse. To reinforce the idea that Salinger’s teenager is now an old man, California gifts him a urological problem: References to his full bladder are many and close between, and C’s continence fails him on more than one occasion. Not wishing to completely unman C, California drops in a revolting sexual tussle with a voracious young woman: “I roll harder and faster and I feel my erection roll with me, but still the animal is there, pushing into my mouth,” C tells us. (Impressive stamina for a trouser-soaking geriatric.) But the single most repellent line is a reference to the female reproductive system, not the male one. Salinger says of C: “Every day since I created him, every day since I pushed him through the uterus of my mind, I have thought of him.”
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July 15th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
I saw this earlier today. Just a I suspected — a total piece of crap.
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