Briggs's review
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
by J.D. Salinger
Briggs's review
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by J.D. Salinger
Briggs's review
rating:
recommended for: anyone trying to piece together the puzzle of The Glass Family
Oh, you hyper-precocious Glass children! Such a pleasure to get to know you. And attempt to keep up with your thread of thoughts. This book should be the fourth and final stop along the way for hardcore Salinger fans. The first part of this book has Buddy Glass (second oldest bro to Franny and Zooey) attending the botched wedding of Seymour Glass (oldest bro), who's suicide we witness in one of the Nine Stories.
The second part of this book is a first-person, discursive confessional from the point-of-view of Buddy, in which he attempts to describe his dear older deceased brother Seymour. "...Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((())))" Buddy writes. It's the kind of self-aware writing that boarders on obnoxious (yes, I did kind of lose interest at times towards the end) - and is in fact obnoxious in the thousands of imitators this kind of writing has had in the past 50 years.
What really astounds me is to think of Salinger...more
The second part of this book is a first-person, discursive confessional from the point-of-view of Buddy, in which he attempts to describe his dear older deceased brother Seymour. "...Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((())))" Buddy writes. It's the kind of self-aware writing that boarders on obnoxious (yes, I did kind of lose interest at times towards the end) - and is in fact obnoxious in the thousands of imitators this kind of writing has had in the past 50 years.
What really astounds me is to think of Salinger...more
