sucking issues: catcher in the rye

thank you. it might be some comfort to you that j.d. salinger - a grotesque fuckhead - is not as good a novelist as everyone choruses that he is. you know, taking down someone like salinger is one of life's simple pleasures. first off, no one is as good as people think salinger is. second, saying he sucks hurts no one, since he's already full up with fawning claptrap. at any rate, i know that generations of quasi-literate american adolescents have found their experiences vividly mirrored in the catcher in  the rye. let me just say that i'm not one of them, and i emerged from my 15-year-old reading of the thing wanting to pistol-whip holden caulfield.