I remember being so impressed with this book when I was seventeen years old. I could identify with Holden - his sense of aimlessness, his sense of entitlement, his sense of alienation.
Fast forward 50 years. Holden Caulfield is still aimless, entitled and alienated. I can no longer identify. (This is the book that inspired Mark David Chapman to shoot John Lennon? How?) I'm not sorry I read it again - but I can wait another 50 years to pick it up for the third time.
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