So how many people have read this book? Not me until today. For awhile I had all these preconceptions about it that kept me away from it.
1) it's high school curriculum
2)catcher in the rye is for boys, as the bell jar is for girls
3)the movie Chapter 27, which is about the guy who murdered John Lennon was heavily centered around this book... if you heard Jared Leto's voice reading some of it.. uhh I did not want to hear his voice when I read this.

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants live humbly for one." quoted from the "flitting" English teacher that rubbed Holden's head while he was sleeping. A good quote said by a creepy guy!

But it's fantastic. Franny and Zooey was also wonderful, as well as Raise high the roof beam & Seymour an introduction. I'm so mad at myself for holding off until his death notice to read this. Plenty of what Holden Caulfield thinks about is it... its relevant angst. Even as a 26 year old. Ouch....

R.I.P. J.D. Salinger