Transition: J D Salinger
 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100128...s_obit_salinger

Given his famous proclivity to live in obscurity, I wonder if he'll be buried in an unmarked grave.

Did anyone else have "The Catcher in the Rye" as required reading?

Did everyone else have "Catcher" as required reading?

Twice

Nope wasn't required reading for me in school but I did read it and enjoy it years later.

Somehow I missed out on the assigned reading of CITR, probably because my English teacher was busy assigning us Huck Finn, even tho it had just been banned from US schools; after she told about the ban by a colleague, she quickly begged the whole class to forget we'd ever heard of the book.

I could have read "Catcher" later on my own, but after some asswipe shot John Lennon & claimed that the book would explain it all, somehow the urge to read it was gone for me...