If you are older than the 11-14 year old window for Catcher, then don't bother. But again, Stop Time is a superior book covering the same subject matter.
Also, Sun Also Rises has a favorite line:
"How did you go broke?"
"Two ways, at first slowly, then very quickly."
Over the years I have read about serial killers being caught with a copy of CITR either in their pocket or @ home. For this reason, I have avoided reading it, that way I can avoid "cracking."
Hehehe. Oh, yeah. Waaaaay older.
Wow----I haven't heard anyone mention Stop-Time in ages!
I read it just when it came out, when was that,in '67?
It got lots of attention, first because of its literary quality, and secondarily because of the (then) novelty of such a young (and completely unknown)writer breaking into literature with what was basically an AUTOBIOGRAPHY, as if he were already famous. Conroy was somewhere in his early 30s at the time and eventually as you no doubt know ran the Iowa Writers Workshop for many many years, I think he just announced his intention to resign a few months ago, and a successor has been chosen.(Marilynne Robinson, another writer who has written very little) I know he had a second book but I can't remember whether it was anovel or stories, and it didn't get that much attention (too long a wait between books will queer a critic's enthusiasm.)