New Posts For Thread: JD Salinger RIPhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23457050/jd-salinger-ripyepRead it in 1988......wasn't that impressed.......was written in 1951.........alot has happened since then in history.........must be slightly irrelevant....American novelist JD Salinger, author of classic 20th Century book The Catcher in the Rye, hashttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23457050/jd-salinger-rip?post_id=418921454#418921454Read it in 1988......wasn't that impressed.......was written in 1951.........alot has happened since then in history.........must be slightly irrelevant....American novelist JD Salinger, author of classic 20th Century book The Catcher in the Rye, hasThu, 28 Jan 2010 12:26:36 -0600read it as teen and thought holden was rather pampered and spoilt little rich kidhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23457050/jd-salinger-rip?post_id=418921446#418921446read it as teen and thought holden was rather pampered and spoilt little rich kidThu, 28 Jan 2010 12:22:01 -0600It probably isn't as good as it's cracked up to be Desmond. I think it probably helps if you read it in your angst-ridden teens as opposed to in your 30s though. RIP, of course.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23457050/jd-salinger-rip?post_id=418921410#418921410It probably isn't as good as it's cracked up to be Desmond. I think it probably helps if you read it in your angst-ridden teens as opposed to in your 30s though. RIP, of course.Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:15:16 -0600Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut?https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23457050/jd-salinger-rip?post_id=418921390#418921390Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut?Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:04:55 -0600He was my unclehttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23457050/jd-salinger-rip?post_id=418921274#418921274He was my uncleThu, 28 Jan 2010 11:42:25 -0600Aah, so a one hit wonder. Like I said, I never read it, I think more because of its notoriety, I just assumed that it wouldn't be as good as it was said to be. FWIW, in my eyes literary giant requires a body of work. Think Archer ;)https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23457050/jd-salinger-rip?post_id=418921270#418921270Aah, so a one hit wonder. Like I said, I never read it, I think more because of its notoriety, I just assumed that it wouldn't be as good as it was said to be. FWIW, in my eyes literary giant requires a body of work. Think Archer ;)Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:41:48 -0600Errr.. both actuallyhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23457050/jd-salinger-rip?post_id=418921262#418921262Errr.. both actuallyThu, 28 Jan 2010 11:37:20 -0600Don't know much about him and never read CITR, was he a literary giant or a Heller-esque one hit wonder?https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23457050/jd-salinger-rip?post_id=418921258#418921258Don't know much about him and never read CITR, was he a literary giant or a Heller-esque one hit wonder?Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:36:08 -0600will we have anouther notorious shooting soon?https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23457050/jd-salinger-rip?post_id=418921254#418921254will we have anouther notorious shooting soon?Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:35:52 -060091https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23457050/jd-salinger-rip?post_id=418921250#41892125091Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:35:07 -0600