Journal Entry 1 by JPix from Southampton, Hampshire United Kingdom on Friday, August 31, 2007

From Amazon.co.uk
Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent". Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his 16-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins:

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two haemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.

His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive), capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. 

Journal Entry 2 by JPix at Gatwick Airport Departures in London - Gatwick, -- Airports & Planes -- United Kingdom on Friday, August 31, 2007

Released 4 yrs ago (9/1/2007 UTC) at Gatwick Airport Departures in London - Gatwick, -- Airports & Planes -- United Kingdom

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Journal Entry 3 by addone from not specified, not specified not specified on Sunday, September 16, 2007

If you really want to here about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is that I found the book in the departures lounge at Gatwick Airport, and how lousy the flight was, and how I read this old favourite traveling around Spain, and all that Hemmingway kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth I left it in the departures lounge at Sevilla airport.