What books are you into?

[JHyde]

It's not even that. My sister is younger than I am and she loves it, and I've had several close friends who adored it too. So it's not that, I don't think - although for people in their fifties or older it may be so. It does seem to have a cross generational appeal that's based simply in the fact that sometimes being a teenager is a universal experience, no matter the time or the place.

I just never latched onto it the way some people I know did. It's a book that inspires really strong feelings one way or the other and for anyone going to a trivia quiz any time soon, it was also the book the dude who shot John Lennon was carrying when it happened. Very popular question that may well rear its ugly head again now that Salinger died.