FrannyGls8@aol.com wrote: << Altough "The Catcher In The Rye" is a really good book it IS NOT (in my opinion) Salinger's best book, it's just really well known. As well known as it is though i ave talk to people before who thought it was about baseball!!!!!!!!! >> Amen to that. Any book with a christ figure (even if it was written before JC in literature became vogue) loses points for cheap symbolism. There's a fine line between that and "bananafish" which has more ambiguous and "expensive" symbolism...so to speak. I can see your anger at the ignorance of others by your nine exclamation points. -MW