In a message dated 1/23/98 3:40:57 PM EST, darjr@shore.net writes: << Matt-- I managed to get through both high school and college with TCITR being assigned to me. I ended up reading it on my own during college, anyway, as well as the rest of Salinger's work. Go figure. Cheers! D. (with an incredible headache today) >> oh, man, me too :) I didn't read Catcher until AFTER I graduated college, and I was an English Major. Eeesh (WARNING--Don't Run a Spell Check on the Previous Word). I only read the opening page of Catcher in a writing class once, that was it... I read F and Z only because a friend of mine let me borrow it, a year before I started college...can you believe it? I didn't think you could go to High School in American without having been made to read it... Jim