I'm guessing on the earlier three dates I read this, but I know I'd read every volume of JD Salinger's works in my library by 11th grade and wrote a paper about him for English. I remember reading "Catcher" again before I graduated high school, then in my early 20s, and finally again in my early 40s!

As a teen, I identified with narrator Holden Caulfield and his angst about all the "phoniness" involved with growing up to be an adult. As an adult, I saw the novel in a totally new way, and I laughed a lot more. Not a lot happens in the book in terms of plot, but it is a portrait of teenage angst from a certain time and place, and it mostly stands the test of time.