Only just noticed that I didn't give this a review.

Read this a few years back now, around the time I started reading grown up books. I hated it, it takes a very talented writer to create a character that is so horrible you actually want to go into the book and pulverise him. Everything he does is annoying, everybody he meets is annoying and everywhere he goes is annoying. For the whole story I was cheering on anything that might have the slightest chance of blowing up in his face.

Salinger is a genius for managing to get these emotions out of readers, especially when you consider that this isn't a long book, he gets a lot done in a short time. The book itself is well written and deserves 4 stars.