a little something on the Salinger Mailing List

[Tom Harberd]

> London Times, May 30, 1997

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I always find this sort of thing really offensive.  I 
remember when "The Name of the Rose" came out, I was about 
ten, and I read it without any problems.  It's not a 
difficult book.  But then later I read that people 
were supposedly buying it only to leave on their 
coffee-tables.  I find it hard to belive that people are 
really this a)dumb b)free with their cash.  #15 for 
coffee-table decoration?  Un-uh. 
And Pynchon isn't as difficult as this article suggests 
either.  Certainly not as "deep" as a "swamp."

Tom. H.
http://www.uea.ac.uk/~w9624759