Ann Margret Thatcher wrote:
Holden's problem is that he was a closet case, right? I'm only halfway kidding.
I've never felt passionately about it, but I liked it when I read it as a teen and liked it again when I read it in my early 20s. But something tells me I wouldn't like it now, so I'm gonna avoid the re-read.
If you enjoy the memory of reading it at all then definitely DO NOT re-read. I read it again in my 30s and almost broke something rolling my eyes. When you're young you don't realize how agonizingly stupid he really is or how ridiculous the whole novel is.
I had kind of the same experience re-reading "The Magus" as an adult, except that the literary quality held up over time.
