Also, why the hell are they still reading Catcher in the Rye in school? It was outdated when I read it in the '70s, and it represents a world as different from today's as Barrie's Peter Pan was back then (same span of years).
Plus, Catcher in the Rye is a terrible book. Just terrible. Unreadable. I love everything else Salinger wrote, and that one should never have seen print. It used to be said that high school students are assigned the books that were considered great and controversial when their teachers were in college. but I guess since Americans have stopped reading altogether, the list never got updated.
M.S. Bellows, Jr.
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