Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Love it or hate it, ‘Catcher’ lives on

Love it or hate it, ‘Catcher’ lives on
I remember reading “The Catcher in the Rye” as a high school sophomore, and at that time, it was the most shocking book I’d ever read. It’s funny thinking back to how innocent I was four years ago; I even remember closing the book when I got to the part when Holden Caulfield hires a prostitute, thinking, “OMG! Are we seriously even allowed to read this?”
Even though the racier bits of “The Catcher in the Rye” are nothing compared to the material in some books I’ve read since, and it has long ceased to be among my favorite books, it’s hard to deny the book’s power to resonate with teenagers experiencing all the pitfalls of growing up. For me, it really helped define what being an angst-filled teenager was about. I even loved how nonchalantly my classmates seemed to react to the book (many downright dismissed it as nonsense); but I knew some of them, like me, were secretly fascinated by it.

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