I read Catcher in College, and thought the main character was an obnoxious little prig. "Ok, so the world's 'phony,' you little snot, you want a sticker for fi

I read Catcher in College, and thought the main character was an obnoxious little prig. "Ok, so the world's 'phony,' you little snot, you want a sticker for figuring that out?" I think it's a book you have to read when you're sixteen, and you're just coming to realize that life isn't all sunshine and ice cream. Then it has a way of really speaking to the core of what you're feeling. But if you're not in that phrase of your life, the teenage self-righteousness of it grates too much.