Comments on: From Ali to Xena: 5 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/05/26/from-ali-to-xena-5/ Development site for Bronx Banter Blog's upcoming look and feel Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:42:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Mr OK Jazz Tokyo http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/05/26/from-ali-to-xena-5/#comment-81813 Mr OK Jazz Tokyo Fri, 27 May 2011 06:41:29 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=59440#comment-81813 [3] Chyll, I would have loved to seen your HS teachers face when you said I'm not reading CITR but I got this great book called "Soul on Ice" that I can report on! Btw, is it true Cleaver eventually became a Republican??! [3] Chyll, I would have loved to seen your HS teachers face when you said I’m not reading CITR but I got this great book called “Soul on Ice” that I can report on! Btw, is it true Cleaver eventually became a Republican??!

]]> By: Chyll Will http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/05/26/from-ali-to-xena-5/#comment-81812 Chyll Will Fri, 27 May 2011 05:57:18 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=59440#comment-81812 [2] Here, here. I never finished reading it in high school, where it was required reading. I was so disgusted by Holden Caulfield and bored with the rest of it that I stopped cold after a few chapters and told my English teacher I would just take an F for the assignment. I was more interested in Eldridge Cleaver and Ralph Ellison during my in-house suspension hours. I am curious if I would have a totally different perspective now having lived the life I have since high school, but I doubt it. I'm sure I've read through worse, but that was just a vividly bad experience for me. [2] Here, here. I never finished reading it in high school, where it was required reading. I was so disgusted by Holden Caulfield and bored with the rest of it that I stopped cold after a few chapters and told my English teacher I would just take an F for the assignment. I was more interested in Eldridge Cleaver and Ralph Ellison during my in-house suspension hours. I am curious if I would have a totally different perspective now having lived the life I have since high school, but I doubt it. I’m sure I’ve read through worse, but that was just a vividly bad experience for me.

]]> By: Mr OK Jazz Tokyo http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/05/26/from-ali-to-xena-5/#comment-81811 Mr OK Jazz Tokyo Fri, 27 May 2011 02:12:40 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=59440#comment-81811 [1] I havn't read Catcher since high school. Wonder how it reads as an adult? Mrs. Jazz, fluent in English but still not a native speaker, recently read it in English for the first time..she was most emphatically not impressed.. Can't place Miss Legs in the photo above..yowzers!!! [1] I havn’t read Catcher since high school. Wonder how it reads as an adult? Mrs. Jazz, fluent in English but still not a native speaker, recently read it in English for the first time..she was most emphatically not impressed..

Can’t place Miss Legs in the photo above..yowzers!!!

]]> By: Alex Belth http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/05/26/from-ali-to-xena-5/#comment-81810 Alex Belth Thu, 26 May 2011 17:25:56 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=59440#comment-81810 I remember reading "Catcher in the Rye" just after I turned 16. I was visiting my grandparents in Belgium and I recall lying on my bed in the afternoon reading the book. When I came home I gobbled up Salinger's three other books and loved them and then I forgot about him. He didn't stay present in my mind as a major influence. Which is funny because last year when Salinger died a friend of mine read him for the first time and he told me that my writing style owes a lot to Salinger. I'd never thought about that before but he's probably right. I remember reading “Catcher in the Rye” just after I turned 16. I was visiting my grandparents in Belgium and I recall lying on my bed in the afternoon reading the book. When I came home I gobbled up Salinger’s three other books and loved them and then I forgot about him. He didn’t stay present in my mind as a major influence.

Which is funny because last year when Salinger died a friend of mine read him for the first time and he told me that my writing style owes a lot to Salinger. I’d never thought about that before but he’s probably right.

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