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To: stockman_scott who wrote (27529)	1/31/2010 8:34:22 PM
From: freelyhovering	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 51753

nice article. I loved Salinger's writing but not his reported curmugeonly behavior.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (27529)	2/1/2010 10:14:09 AM
From: Suma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51753

I saw the dirt road that he lived down in NH.. It had a warning sign... on a tree to stay out. Private. Was he married and did he have children ? I know very little about him as he wanted.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (27529)	2/1/2010 10:30:59 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 51753

Salinger's greatest trick: To disappear I've written about Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, its effect on me, in so many places over the last several days that I've lost track of just where. If I've done so here, my apologies. But it was quite profound. I read it during the summer between my junior and senior year of college at UT, working as an intern at the Y in NYC. Started it one afternoon and didn't quit reading until I finished it. No sleep, don't remember doing anything else. Then phoned everyone I knew and could afford to talk with. No internet and long distance calls back to Texas were expensive. My youngest brother still remembers me telling him about it, finding a copy (don't know just how), having the same experience though he was perhaps thirteen or fourteen. Shared it with his friends, who then made reading it mandatory for anyone who wished to become a part of their little club. Anytime Salinger published something after that, I was first in line. None of them lived up to Holden Caulfield.