you know that damn "catcher in the rye" is still kids' favorite read in high school?

I recently read Holy Smoke-Religion and Roots-A Personal Memoir by Libby Purves. A book about her upbringing and Catholic education in schools around the world, her father being in the Foriegn Office.  Anyway she quotes extensively in one chapter from Salinger's Franny and Zooey .  A book I'd never heard of before.  I can't expand here because I rather flicked through that bit of the book.

I read Catcher in the Rye many years ago and I can now hardly remember anything about it.  Like with other books I've read, its sad that the essence of the book just slides away so completely over time (I wonder where it goes!).  I read of someone who waded though War and Peace and not so long after, I can't remember exactly how long, they'd completely forgotten most all about it.