A great writer has to be a nice guy? The book was a bestseller upon release years before it became school reading.
Why are you taking other people’s opinions so personally?
It is as if you think you can convince them that their opinion is wrong.
Some of us thought the book sucked. Period.
Not sure why JD gets to be called a great writer, regardless of whether he was a creep or not. His dark view of life was held out to young people who knew no better from farm country to suburbia to the big cities. CAtcher in the Rye meant nothing to me - I guess I am one of the lucky ones who was just too dense and naive to get it....if only 16 year olds were still as innocent.