Just gasping from bits on the AV Club from people far more articulate and aware than I'll ever be....

Ones I agreed with/loved:


"Now well into adulthood, I recently re-read Catcher and found to my surprise that Salinger is actually pretty merciless about Holden's jackassery. I think Sailnger mocks Holden's inability to adapt while also making him pitiable because of the massive trauma caused by the death of a sibling."
- (True dat. Over the years, my impression of Holden has grown with me. During our first encounter, I found him insufferable, without a single redeeming quality at first. I just think of him now as a disaffected, frightened, nostalgic boy. I never found him heroic, and I always found it somewhat disturbing that others would.)

- "i still want to know where the ducks go when the lake in central park freezes over.
- "In my sandwich, motherfucker."

Published about eight times to random comments under the username of Holden Caulfield:
"^what a phony"


Beautiful, beautiful link:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/new_terminator_movie_brings_j_d

"I like the part where Holden jumps out of the skyscraper as it explodes and grabs hold of the bottom of the helicopter. Then he turns around and pithily says "bunch of phonies"." - in response to a pitch to a Michael Bay adaptation of Catcher in the Rye

"all the great novels and short stories he's been writing in secret...they are being edited as we speak by Harper Lee."


"Catcher in the Rye is a great novel if only for how ell it prefigured the hipster douche bag archetype. But then, Hamlet was sorta one of them, too, and he was 30."


"I mentioned it above, but I was a whiny teenage boy when I read it and all I could do was whine about how fucking whiny Holden Caulfield was."


"I'll always wonder why the infinitely superior Glass stories weren't the ones studied in English class. " (Personally, I found it depressing that Catcher in the Rye resonated with so many more people than the grating, hopeful "Franny and Zooey".)