Happy Birthday, "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger is 50 years old. Here's Holden's 2 cents.



I never read the Catcher in the Rye until 3 years ago when I met this person and got to know her better. I discovered that she always carried a copy of the Salinger book with her and that it had this unbelievable impact on her. I read the book and was very impressesed. I took away a few things, but mainly that everyone is fake and a phony. Maybe that's scepticle of me but for some reason I inherently distrust people at first. My favourite quote came from the Catcher in the Rye. It goes something like this, "you just can't go anywhere these days without someone writing Fuck You".