(September 4, 2013 at 5:35 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: This is an american thing isn't it!
I have only heard of Catcher in the rye in relation to the inspiration for various murders.
I'm not surprised, really. It's a novel about a pretty fucked up kid, it's no surprised that people who are fucked up(*) might identify with the protagonist.
(*) Please don't read this as intending insult, but rather in a more self-deprecating manner.