A good book

I just finished re-reading 'The Catcher in the Rye'. It's so weird and really, really good. Holden is so crazy yet so easy to identify with, especially for us outcast types. I can see why it's Billie Joe's favorite book. I read somewhere that it also influenced Kurt Cobain. I think you can't help but feel affection towards Holden. You have to wonder if he would think you were a phony and whether he would like you or hate you. He's really messed up in a lot of ways although he tries to do what he thinks is right. I'd like to write a female version of the book someday. Or at least a short story from the point of view of a female Holden Caulfield. Someday.
Here's my favorite line from 'Catcher'. It's just after he has that weird encounter with his old teacher.

"I know more damn perverts, at school and all, than anybody
you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around."

HA! That's so funnily put and probably true for so many of us.