J.D. Salinger is a famous author that a lot of people read and/or claimed to have read...
In school because they had to.
Or in school because they wanted to look smart.
He wrote some book called "The Catcher In The Rye."
Which might be about an entitled teenage baseball player standing in he middle of a wheat field?
Wait, no. I'm being told it's about a broody red hat wearing prep school reject named Holden Caulfield…okay sure.
Salinger wrote Holdme Caulfield Tiny Dancer as a total Gary Stu anyone over the age of fifteen should be able to see through.
Holden Cauliflower is literally the worst. Worse than the protagonist of "Clockwork Orange" because at least Anthony Burgess understood his main character was an ass not to be sympathized with.
Also there's a carousel for some reason?
Some people like Salinger better than Hemingway. We don't talk about those people.
Because Hemingway was a drunk that invented six-toed cats so obviously he was better, wait getting off topic.
Salinger also wrote other stuff? Maybe? No one seems to care about that part.
JD probably stood for something but Wikipedia is like three clicks away and ughhh effort.
He was a total hermit because being a famous author in the 1950s was just like being Lindsey Lohan today and Salinger just couldn't handle the public pressure.
But was also apparently pretty abrasive without the silver lining of being witty or cute.
Salinger was briefly a Scientologist before they were called Scientologists so that probably explains a lot.
