I pick JD Salinger, I have the book and haven't gotten to it yet. That was the book Mark David Chapman had in his pocket when he killed John Lennon in front of the Dakota building in NYC...

I'm fairly sure almost everyone's read it already though? And supposedly if you're over the age of like 22 you will no longer appreciate it.

who makes up blanket statements like that? I've always wondered . . .

Well..it was my history teacher who told me that only because he had been told a million times what an amazing novel it was so he read it (he was over 20 at the time) and was not impressed and I co...

Sometimes one can be TOO smart though, as far as overanalyzing such things . . . sometimes one must revert to a simpler mind to understand that which does not require an amazing intellect . . .

But the problem is, when you're a teenager and the whole world is against you that book, when read, is speaking right to you. You read it and you say, "Wow..I could BE Holden!" So, once you're pas...