The Catcher in the Rye

I finished watching the hollow movie biography of J.D. Salinger Rebel in the Rye.  I decided to gave Salinger his due by reading The Catcher in the Rye again. This book pretty much started young adult fiction.  No one was really thinking of getting into a teenager's brain before that especially one that wasn't a go-getter. Holden's smart but he isn't going in any direction and he himself is very aware of this.  I really like his relationship with his sister Phoebe in this book.  The author himself was interesting as well as he quit publishing soon afterward and just became a hermit which made him more of a mysterious legend. A lot of the things Holden whines about were things I thought as a teenager as well, the questioning of society and how everyone seemed phony. A lot of books were influenced by this one the best of which was probably The Bell Jar. For a book written over forty years ago, it holds up rather well.