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...also full of vitality and it is eventually bound to assert, for at least some of their children, the seductiveness of the forbidden. Lindsay Lohan is not going to save them. But some of them, someday are going to get hold of Huckleberry Finn or Catcher in the Rye - one of those books mom and pop are trying to get banned from the school library - and it's going to make all the difference to those kids. And maybe to the rest of us as well...
...Ellis was still in college when he wrote Less than Zero, a vivid, anhedonic portrait of wasted (in every sense) youth on the L.A. party circuit. Hemingway was only 27 when he published The Sun Also Rises. Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby at 28; Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 32. (Not that it really matters, but Goethe was just 25 when he published The Sorrows of Young Werther, one of the first voice-of-a-generation novels, in 1774. It's not really the done thing now, but back then throughout Europe it was very hip to dress...
...even elegantly constructed, and it trots along at a highly readable pace (good people at Viking, I would prefer it if you didn't quote that last sentence in an ad). One reader I respect, Stephen King, has even compared it to Catch-22 and The Catcher in the Rye. It's just that This Book Will Save Your Life is more densely packed with earnest twaddle, starting with the title, than any other book I've ever seen...
...RYE HUMOR The Pop Art toasters by LC Premiums ($25 to $45) come with removable steel plates that burn designs--such as flowers and cutesy phrases ("I'm Hot")--onto the bread. To be sold separately: edible-ink markers kids can color their slices with before eating them...
BRIAN J. ROSENBERG ’08 of Rye Brook, N.Y. and Lowell House Associate Editorial Chair...