I love it and always will. I love Holden, warts and all. He is delightfully human and most teens are every bit as annoying, self-pitying and self important as Holden is. But most teens are also just as sensitive, funny and capable of touching insight and tenderness.

Of course he’s an annoying little shit. I used to be one myself. Maybe I still am. My point is: Holden contains multitudes, just like all of us.