To: tpaine
Sorry kid, 'Catcher' was after my day. Catcher in the Rye was published 52 years ago. You stopped reading before 1951??? This explains quite a lot.
To: jjbrouwer
Holden Caulfield would not have survived twenty minutes on my block and I suspect much the same for tpaine. Back then you didn't have to read it if you were in the Boy Scouts...for obvious reasons.
1,638 posted on
10/25/2003 4:50:39 PM PDT by
harrowup
(So perfect I'm naturally humble)
To: jjbrouwer
It wasn't the kind of fiction I read in those days, my boyo.
Science & historical fiction were pretty well it.
The twits in my class might have seen Holden as their hero.. - I wasn't even really aware of the books existence till maybe the 60's, and never have read it beyond a page or two..
You a JD fan?
1,643 posted on
10/25/2003 5:06:58 PM PDT by
tpaine
(I'm trying to be 'Mr Nice Guy', but Arnie won, & politics as usual lost. Yo!)
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