How ironic you mentioned that! I thought it was a great book...until my teacher made us make a reading journal about it. For every chapter a detailed summary, plot, character evaluation, etc., had to be made for Cathcer In the Rye. I now can't even stand to look at the cover. Someday I hope to read it again, but in the near future it will be too tragic.
The first time I read it, I remember thinking Holden was a lot like myself. I saw a lot of similarities. But tearing the book apart like he wanted to really just took the fun out of the story. It sort of became like a boring lab experiment instead of reading something for pleasure and using your imagination. Sorry for the rant. Six years later that assignment stil raises the hair on the back of my head.
EDIT: I forgot to add what I am reading...
For Pleasure:
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Feynman's Lectures on Physics
For school:
Biochemistry: Voet
MCB: Lodish
Organic Chemistry: Ege (and McMurry's to supplement that horrible text)