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Hey, What Ya Reading??? A book???
Kerry:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on January 01, 2009, 07:43:12 pm ---Speaking of Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger is 90 today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/books/31sali.html?_r=2
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Gosh, J. D. Salinger was already 50, when I first read The Catcher in the Rye, back in the 1960s.
Thanks for the link, Leslie. I hadn't realised he was a recluse. Interesting article. :)
Kerry:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on January 01, 2009, 07:46:38 pm ---That sounds very good.
I enjoyed DVC and I did like 'that old chestnut' because so many people had not heard of it and it made for good social commentary. Sadly, Dan Brown follows a formula in his stories. The repeating plot pieces are very blatant if you read more than one Langdon novel.
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I enjoyed the DVC book, but loathed the movie. How could such an exciting book be turned into such a booooring movie? Haven't read any other books by Brown. Have heard the formula claims before. Once was enough for me. :)
southendmd:
Catcher in the Rye has a BBM connection: Jake's character Holden in The Good Girl.
For the record, I thought the prose in The DaVinci Code was appalingly bad.
ifyoucantfixit:
Beetle the Bard, the new novella by J.K. Rowling. I like heavy intellectual reading material the best.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: southendmd on January 01, 2009, 09:19:09 pm ---
For the record, I thought the prose in The DaVinci Code was appalingly bad.
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Dan Brown is a hack writer for sure, but he sure can write a page turner.
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