I still feel kinda bad about still not having read this book. Even in highschool. I guess the title never caught me as being a book i'd like.
I, too, judge books by their covers.
No, I really do. This is why I'm such a picky reader. >_>
RIP, nice long life indeed. Sad I've never even heard of his book (blame my Spanish as a first language school system even though English and Spanish are both primary languages in the country). In school I was mostly given novels and literature in Spanish. I think we made it through a few poems in 10th grade and short stories in junior and senior year of high school. I can't even recall reading Shakespeare in school... I did on my own though 
I try to give books a chance by reading the first few pages or the summary and then looking at cover art 😛
This should be a required reading for any child going through the US. Along with Huck Finn, this is one of the greatest novels to come out of the US.
Lol, funny thing about JD is that after writing Catcher in the Rye, he became a complete social recluse... like, he hasn't published any of his works since 1965 
That's not a rare thing. What has Harper Lee done since To Kill a Mockingbird?
I've read the book and it was quite an interesting read.
Of course, there's the rumor that Truman Capote helped her write it and that's why she never wrote anything else buuut... 8D
Either he's dead, or he's just decided to go the extra mile and become extra reclusive. You know, I was going to write some more stuff, but I don't think anyone's captured the situation better than Garrison Keilor:
"The great author of my teenage years. He was one of those authors you felt intimately friends with and wished you could call him up on the phone and talk, which is why, I suppose, he spent all those years in New Hampshire not taking phone calls. There must have been millions of young people who wanted to talk to him."
"If you wanted to be cool you talked to the cool kids who told you to read Catcher in the Rye. Teachers didn't. The cool kids did. It was a grassroots literary movement."
"You wanted to be friends with Holden Caulfield You wanted to rescue him and take him home."
