the catcher in the rye

I read Catcher in the Rye last year, I can't really remember when, but I do remember borrowing it from my friend Emma. I never gave it back to her, so she just bought herself another copy at a yardsale for a quarter one day. I think I read it last spring break. And I just don't really see what's so great about Catcher in the Rye. To prepare for our Post Modernism project I've read most of it over again... and I think it's a good book, but I think all books are great. I'm just pleased to have my reading hunger appeased I suppose, which most books do except for few.

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is about a boy that goes to boarding school up north. The boy's name is Holden Caufield. Strangely enough, what interests me the most about this story is the conspiracies that surround the tangible books itself. The book itself has been challenged several times for it's language and other "dirty'' things that go on in it. Since copies of the book were found on Pres. Reagan's attempted assasin and the person who shot John Lennon, Mark Chapman, who actually went to Columbia High School here in DeKalb County. (It was very interesting to swim at the same high school this winter where this man attended.)

... All in all I find Holden strange. He won't call Jane Galager which is a bit annoying, and sad, but it is nice that he cares for his sister so. Now that I've revisted the book, I suppose I really do like it. I just kind of find it strange. The way it's written reminds me of Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and Flowers for Algernon. I just get this feeling that something is off with Holden, that he's just not in his right mind.