A wonderfully valid book, aesthetically speaking. Really= > a >minor masterpiece. >--- > >What do you think? Is Catcher an age-bound book? > I think it depends greatly on the ways in which age affects an individual...and actually, what you mean by age-bound. "Catcher" means very different things to me now, at a ripe old 20 than it did at sixteen--but it means more than it did then, not less. Your quoted author's assertation that "Catcher" is a Minor masterpiece provoked a defensiveness in me. I wonder what he means by "minor". Anyone shed some light on that for me...? the truant Brendan ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com