I’ve never read the complete novel, but for some reason,the book ‘Catcher In The Rye” seems to be one of many favorites with sociopaths. The man who killed John Lennon was said to own this book. Of course, one could read any book and take from it lessons the author never intended. Some books are more obvious in their embrace of and submittal to negative or destructive tendencies found in most of us. Negative and destructive are idealized and interwoven into a fantasy with the works of Marquis de Sade.
Many people who are by nature peaceful and loving will study these works in order to understand the guiding principals of their enemies or of those who think differently than the reader does. One example is ‘Rules for Radicals’.
Some works have a frightening potential for misuse, but are often read by the curious amateur, with no intention to hurt anyone. I bought a book called ‘The Making of The Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes’. This book also covers much of the Philadelphia Experiment. It’s a good source of reference for people like me who are not very knowledgeable of or interested in engineering or navigation.
I’ve never read the complete novel, but for some reason,the book ‘Catcher In The Rye” seems to be one of many favorites with sociopaths.
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LOL.
My understanding is that sociopaths were never able to finish the book, as it cut too close to home.
I read “Catcher in the Rye” senior year of high school. It was dreck.
Then I wrote a paper about “Catcher in the Rye”. It was dreck, too.
Then I forgot most of it.
Because it was dreck.