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To: JohnM who wrote (33924)	1/27/2012 3:10:47 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 51752

Responding to those high schoolers: Yes, Holden's a dork. But to me, reading Catcher in the Rye in the late sixties when I was not yet his age, he was very cool. I was a troubled kid, too. I could identify. Even then, the social morays and constrictions of the prior decade seemed strange and old-fashioned to me. I can understand that today they must seem ridiculous. What I got off on was the writing. Salinger's dialogue is musical and natural at the same time. His characters are stunningly real, at once comic and tragic, with great humanity. So yeah, call Holden Caulfield a dork. By today's standards, and without any meaningful frame of reference for understanding what it was like to be a teenager in the 1950s. But don't try to tell me that isn't a really cool book.