Quote Originally Posted by theGinsue View Post
... I'm reading J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.

<snip> Just 2/3 of the way through Catcher and I'm still waiting for a plot to emerge. Particularly odd story so far.
I graduated from an Eastern college, where the English Lit. profs revered Salinger. Watching rust would be more interesting than reading his work, IMO. I never understood their fascination with a lot of the so-called "classic" writers: Salinger, Doctorow, Steinbeck, O'Connor, etc. (I think hell must have mandatory reading of Steinbeck's garbage.)