60 Years Later, Coming though the Rye, the unauthorized sequal to JD Salingers classic has been halted perminantly as a US Judge rules that the book borrows too heavily on Catcher without offering parody or critique.

From the Guardian

Colting’s defence claimed the book was a parody, and a literary critique of the original, but US District Judge Deborah Batts yesterday rejected these arguments, issuing a 37-page written ruling which said the book’s narrative “largely mirrors that of Catcher”, and that it had “taken well more from Catcher, in both substance and style, than is necessary for the alleged transformative purpose of criticising Salinger and his attitudes and behaviour”. Mr C, meanwhile, “has similar or identical thoughts, memories, and personality traits to Caulfield, often using precisely the same or only slightly modified language”. She pointed to the fact that both characters love to use the words “goddam”, “phony”, “crumby”, “lousy”, “hell”, “bastard”, and the phrase “kills me”.

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